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#1 ·
Does anyone have any ideas on how to improve upon the game for the new year?

The only thing that I would like people to think about would be the tie-breaker rule of games lost. This rule makes sense if there are more then one person to get all the picks right, but when everyone loses early it makes no sense to take games lost. For example lets say there are 2 people left and they both lose on day 5. They had all the same picks for the first 4 days, but picked different people on day 5 who both lost. This is where the problem lies, if player A picked Anna K to win and she loses 6-3 4-6 4-6 and player B picks Jen C to win and she loses 0-6 0-6 Player B would win because that player has fewer games lost.
Player A Games lost (4,4,4,4,15)
Player B Games lost (4,4,4,4,12) Player B wins with fewer games lost

This doesn't make sense to me as Anna at least won a set and came closer to winning then Jen did.

I hope this all made sense.
 
#3 ·
I think for the most part no changes need to be made. Certainly not to the basic format of picking one person per day.

I would like to see byes eliminated but I'm probably in the miniority on that.

I like your suggestion for the tiebreak rule.
 
#7 ·
I think your idea is good, and also one of the bad rule is when we have the same Points for 2 or more Player and the first Player that made the pick is the Winner, but I don't find any other different rule to apply in this case. :sad:
We can give the exequo Win, but it's not a good solution for me... so any other idea is appreciate.

So, adding the Rule of sets won can avoid this situation.
 
#8 ·
So of coarse this situation had to come up in an event that I ran again :p
So what happened was there were 3 people left, 2 lost on day 6 and one made it to day 7. The player to make it to day 7 wins but to figure out the finalist im going to do game lost without counting the games lost on day 6.
 
#9 ·
I think we should have a Race to the YEC.
That way, the YEC isn't included in the rankings. As well, it rewards the loyal to the game.
I'd be happy to run it and with Ivanovic Fan's rankings, it'd be easy to tabulate up until now and join in progress based on 2007's results. All I would have to do would
 
#13 ·
I was thinking maybe we should try to add a doubles version of the game. Basically it would be the same game except you play with a partner. You each make your picks for singles and it would also count for dubs. If one of the partners gets a pick wrong your team losses. You could each pick the same player on the same day. You don`t have to worry about not picking players that your parnter picked, as that rule only applies to your picks.
Anyways, what do you guys think?
 
#21 · (Edited)
US Open Series Challenge.

Since me and Sjoerd are running all the US Open Series tournament [ and Matt the US Open ], I figured we could have our own series with the top 3 winning rewards, privileges, etc. We could use the same scoreboard/standings as the real US Open Series. But what would the prizes, rewards be? A 1R bye at the US Open has been discussed but the rewards need to come in three -- with the top prize being more lucrative than the second, and the second more than the third.

Any ideas? :angel:
 
#37 ·
Based on Budapest, where the winner was determined by who posted first because the other two tiebreakers were tied, we have been trying to think of a new tiebreaker.

I have thought of this: the backups. The person who has the LEAST amount of backup LOSSES can be determined winner. If they both have the same number, then use the games lost. Now, this way, backup choices are more important and as well, more circumstances for a tie to be fairly decided and less likely to occur.
 
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