Tennis Dream Team 2011: final results

[SamD]

Tennis For Free announces the return of its Dream Team game for the Australian Open.

(The French, Wimbledon and US Open competitions will follow later in the year)

Summary

- first event at Melbourne runs from Mon 17 to Sun 30 January 2011

- to play, select ten men and ten women from a budget of £50m for each category

- team can be modified endlessly before Monday 17th

- game is free but voluntary donations of £3 or more will enter you into the Prize Draw

- donations of £5 or more puts you in the Champions Race (covering all four Grand Slam events in 2011)

- prizes are available for best placed Dream Teams in each Grand Slam and the season-long Champions Race

- deadline is 00.01GMT on Monday 17 January

- to register a team, visit http://www.tffdreamteam.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

- FISO mini-league is being set up; details will be posted below.


edits to change event titles and dates

[Shaggy365]

Excellent stuff.

To those that have never played the Tennis for free game I can highly recommend it. Only ever played at Wimbledon before now (did they do any others?), but 2 years ago I was leading up to the semi-finals, and I believe we had a FISO winner last year at Wimbledon. (Well done bagpuss - winner of the women's tournament and the overall champion)

Scoring is very up-to-date and each matches points are usually put up on the web-site within a couple of minutes of each match finishing.

+1

[SamD]

If you're joining the FISO league, please post team-name below; thanks.
Own team: Forever Changes

Mini-league name: FISO Formation
Entry password is (wait for it...): 9c253a5e68ae29dc6cc61393a9ca0264

Deadline is 00.01GMT, Monday 17 January. Good luck.

[Two left feet]

I'll enter this for fun.

'Good for one set' entered.

Is it just me or is choosing the male players a lot more difficult than the female players?
Best of luck everybody

[GM]

I have joined, thanks


Team - Chat's Noir

[Surprised]

i will put a team in over the weekend.
I know little about tennis though.
Is Connors still Wimbledon mens champion?

[Knulpuk]

You get points for games won - I had Isner in the Wimbledon game

[Surprised]

Kickers XI in

[SamD]

League now holds five registrations:

Shaggy365
Cirage (GM)
SamD
Bandana (Two left feet)
Surprised

Men's Singles draw: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/6229638.stm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Women's: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/6229650.stm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

And for match and tournament betting, see: http://odds.bestbetting.com/tennis/australian-open/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[GM]

The Home Aussie Open site is pretty good


http://www.australianopen.com/en_AU/sco ... index.html

[Spencer4]

Winning team is in

[kizkiz]

Kiz hitters is in

[Ashers]

Where do you do to join the mini league?

[SamD]

To join mini-league:

- log in to account
- click on "My Group" tab
- enter password

[GM]

Where do you do to join the mini league?

Go to My Group above your team, if I remember well Ashers

[SamD]

For a free Australian Open game that accepts multiple entries see thread set up by quizking:

australian-open-fantasy-tennis-2011-t82355.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[eagle224]

Joined.

Team Name: What a racket!

[SamD]

With midnight deadline imminent, mini-league currently holds nine entries:

Shaggy365
Cirage
SamD
Bandana
Surprised
kizkiz
ashers23281
Spencer4
eagle224

[Ashers]

I know nothing about Tennis so went with:

Nadal and Federer & 8 random people

Henin and Williams & 8 random people

[bagpuss]

Im in: Come on sweet Caroline!

[foreverengland]

Forever England in the hat.

11 members in total now.

[Spencer4]

Not a bad start for me, 5 - 1 winners over losers so far, though the scores in the Site are not being updated as quickly as usual.

[SamD]

FISO Formation attracted 11 teams in all.

Standings after first day/night's play in Melbourne:
Points - Team - Manager
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
330 What a racket! - eagle224 (7th overall)
277 Good for one set - Bandana
272 Come on sweet Caroline! - dave_the_rave
256 Forever Changes - SamD
252 Chat's Noir - Cirage
239 Forever England - foreverengland
230 Bloodaxe United - Shaggy365
224 Kiz Hitters - kizkiz
193 Kickers XI - Surprised
168 Spencer4 - Spencer4
141 No Hope - ashers23281

Average = 234.7 = 10th of 44 leagues
Top league's average = 254.3
Overall leader's points = 422

Thirteen days to go.

[Surprised]

2 men out and 2 through
2 women out and 4 through

[SamD]

New joint leaders after second day's play:

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                           Australian Open 2011
<  -  RANKING  -  >      FISO Formation Mini-League           <  -  - POINTS  -  -  >
Day2  Day1  Overall    Team                   Manager         Overall   Men's Women's
-  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  
01    02       08   Good for one set        Bandana               491     280     211
01    06       08   Forever England         foreverengland        491     262     229
03    04       22   Forever Changes         SamD                  481     267     214
04    03       41   Come on sweet Caroline! dave_the_rave         469     253     216
05    01       72   What a racket!          eagle224              460     251     209
06    07      107   Bloodaxe United         Shaggy365             453     253     200
07    08      113   Kiz Hitters             kizkiz                452     252     200
08    05      172   Chat's Noir             Cirage                441     241     200
09    09      370   Kickers XI              Surprised             406     233     173
10    10      435   Spencer4                Spencer4              390     210     180
11    11      448   No Hope                 ashers23281           385     205     180

                   * Leader of 493 entries  chipie100             507
                      Top League & average  Paperview Punters   458.5
                                       4th  FISO Formation      447.2

[Two left feet]

What a great start - up to 8th overall and all 20 of my players won
Don't have Federer though which will probably cost me in the end.

I think if I still have 15 players in the third round, I might have a chance...

[SamD]

Day Three of 14:

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     RANKING           FISO Formation mini-league                   POINTS
Day3  Day2 Overall*  Team                   Manager           Overall     Men   Women
-  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
01    01       04   Good for one set        Bandana               748     444     304
02    03       34   Forever Changes         SamD                  679     372     307
03    04       43   Come on sweet Caroline! dave_the_rave         669     373     296
04    05       65   What a racket!          eagle224              657     350     307
05    01       86   Forever England         foreverengland        644     329     315
06    08      167   Chat's Noir             Cirage                607     317     290
07    07      182   Kiz Hitters             kizkiz                601     347     254
08    06      188   Bloodaxe United         Shaggy365             599     353     246
09    10      440   Spencer4                Spencer4              508     285     223
10    09      451   Kickers XI              Surprised             498     273     225
11    11      454   No Hope                 ashers23281           493     246     247

                  * Leader of 493 entries:  Aussie Open Assassins 781
                    Top League and average: VAMOS RAFA          641.3
                                      10th: FISO Formation      609.4

So, most FISOns head south in the overall standings while Two left feet builds a huge mini-league lead and closes in on the main prize. Nice going...

[eagle224]

There is still a way to go yet and I think the overall leader table may change a bit by the end of round 4.

The main Inter Mini-league Table seems a little bit bias towards smaller leagues when using an average across the whole league - fewer players to lower the average. Many of the top 20 contain only 3 or 4 players. If you took the top-3 players from each of the mini-leagues in the current top 10, FISO Formation (699) would be second behind MTL Rules (706) - figures rounded down to nearest whole number.

[Two left feet]

I think if I still have 15 players in the third round, I might have a chance...

Unfortunately, down to 13 players now in the third round and looks unlikely I can get the top position. I'm in 2nd overall but other teams have more players now. If I can get 10 players into the fourth round, I may have a good chance to finish top 10.

Thanks Sam for posting the link - really happy with my score so far, hope my luck continues.

[SamD]

Dreamteam Day 4 (after Thursday's play) - top five overall:

1. Backyarders 913 pts
2. Good for one set 904
3. fdringo 903
4. Last Week's Lettuce 889
5. Svenne 888