2017 Fantasy World Snooker

[Surprised]

I think both these semi finals could be very close

[Shaggy365]

Erm.....your spreadsheet has me down for Marco Fu. My PM to you has John Higgins not Fu.

Whilst this will undoubtedly balls the cup results up, my league points are completely wrong as well.

Can't do anything about the cup, but I've corrected your league position.

[Sport Billy]

Oh...ok

[Shaggy365]

1. polarbear - 3989
8. murf - 5176

4. Gilchrist1983 - 6275
12. Sport Billy - 7207

2. nevblake - 8632
7. Kris_fiso - 1998

14. bluenosey - 6275
11. Moist von Lipwig - 6275 * Wins on earlier entry

Semi=final line-up :
8. murf (* 4 * * *)
4. Sport Billy (1 * 6 * *)

2. nevblake (1 4 7 * *)
11. Moist von Lipwig (1 * * * *)

Had a pang of guilt.

Rats. You do your best to run things smoothly, and then 1 little error comes to light. Must be losing my touch. 10 years of running this competition & something like 35 competitions in all. Need to focus. Sorry chaps. I'm just going for a walk in the forest with my trusty revolver.

[murf]

It looks like I'd have lost the semi anyway. So we can both put our revolvers away.

[blahblah]

Rats. You do your best to run things smoothly, and then 1 little error comes to light. Must be losing my touch. 10 years of running this competition & something like 35 competitions in all. Need to focus. Sorry chaps. I'm just going for a walk in the forest with my trusty revolver.

Nah, people are responsible for checking?

Btw you seem to have mine wrong: I have Selby, Ding, Hawkins and Higgins

[Surprised]

15 years wih 250 entrants a year I'd have made more mistakes than than that!
Without this comp I'd have far less interest in the world championships

[Shaggy365]

Rats. You do your best to run things smoothly, and then 1 little error comes to light. Must be losing my touch. 10 years of running this competition & something like 35 competitions in all. Need to focus. Sorry chaps. I'm just going for a walk in the forest with my trusty revolver.

Marvellous, you get all set up, determined you're going to go through with things. You get to a nice quiet wooded area, have a stiff drink and then realised you've picked up the water pistol by mistake. Should have gone to Specsavers.

[murf]

Without this comp I'd have far less interest in the world championships

Very true. I used to watch a lot of snooker back in the day (80s) but had barely paid it any attention til this comp grabbed my attention a few years back.

[Shaggy365]

Thus endeth the semi-finals, and here is the FISO table.

8. murf - 2856
4. Sport Billy - 7821

2. nevblake - 7104
11. Moist von Lipwig - 4335

So rather unsurprisingly it's Sport Billy v nevblake in the final, and unless John Higgins gets thrashed, Sport Billy will win the knockout cup.

[Sport Billy]

Can I still win the league with a Higgins win?

[Shaggy365]

Can I still win the league with a Higgins win?

Nope. SamD has Higgins as well.

[Shaggy365]

Almost forgot. Total number of points in the first frame of the final was 110, for those people that the tie-break will affect.

14:22 Selby takes the opener
Frame 1: Selby 1-0 Higgins (76-34, Selby break of 76)

[Shaggy365]

If Selby can win 7 or more frames, Lewis takes the title. 6 frames or less and Michael takes it.

[Shaggy365]

And that's it for another year. Final FISO league positions :
1 SamD 36175
2 Sport Billy 31687
3 nevblake 31618
4 Surprised 29316
5 Gilchrist1983 26305
6 owenclass 25791
7 yorkshiredragon 25281
8 Spencer4 24863
9 Moist von Lipwig 24447
10 wilbert 23473
11 bluenosey 23399
12 polarbear 22791
13 murf 21854
14 Shaggy365 21586
15 toffeelover 21168
16 blahblah 21168
17 morganb 20821
18 Brightwater 20821
19 Rick Spangle 19147
20 Grant 16833
21 Kris_fiso 13744
22 Darbyand 13689
23 The Bear 9663

... and the cup winner was Sport Billy who beat nevblake into 2nd place, winning the final 7263 v 4455.

See you next year?

[Surprised]

Thanks for running this Shaggy

[SamD]

Many thanks for the competition, Shaggy365.

Entered for first time and, after decades of indifference to the World Championship, followed the event closely on TV this time.

And to do well in the Fiso league certainly came as a bonus...

[blahblah]

Top Comp, as ever

Eurovision next?

[polarbear]

My thanks as well Shaggy, looking forward to next year.

managed to reach the dizzy heights of 7th overall until my usual decline

[Shaggy365]

Top Comp, as ever

Eurovision next?

Just set it up now. Thanks for reminding me.

[Darbyand]

It's April, Blah's getting ready to watch every pot of the Chinese Open, so it can't be very far away....


World Champs odds:

Ronnie O'Sullivan 2/1
Mark Selby 13/2
Judd Trump 8/1
John Higgins 12/1
Ding Junhui 14/1

Same old names.

[Darbyand]

Selby beat the Hawk to retain the China Open. Saw a start that he's won his last 13 games involving more than 1 session, dating back to 2016.

[blahblah]

It's April, Blah's getting ready to watch every pot of the Chinese Open, so it can't be very far away....


World Champs odds:

Ronnie O'Sullivan 2/1
Mark Selby 13/2
Judd Trump 8/1
John Higgins 12/1
Ding Junhui 14/1

Same old names.

I have really got into Snooker and have a 44 break in a match, having taken it up just over a yer ago, and have Eurosport which means I have watched loads.

I blame my pants finish last year due to "too much knowledge": Trump was really good through the year then tanked......

Selby has been woeful all sea

[SamD]

I blame my pants finish last year due to "too much knowledge": Trump was really good through the year then tanked......

And I think my finish last year was down to too little knowledge
(aka beginner's luck)...

[blahblah]

Well, I used to be really good at this

I was thinking of doing a Preview, which would read like a papers Grand National preview with all mentioned as potential winners yet having no chance