Choose Your Band!
Welcome to "Choose Your Band!"! It's a simple game and you need just a minute to play it. All you have to do is choosing one player from each bracket. Players are divided into brackets by their ranking, but sometimes a player might be bumped to balance the brackets(only in extreme cases like players coming back from retirement or injuries).
Scoring
The formula used to determine a score of a player is: RESULT = ACHIEVED RESULT - EXPECTED RESULT, where RESULT>=0, so you can't lose points by picking someone.
Expected result is a result based on player's position on entry list:
1 to 4 - semifinal
5 to 8 - quarterfinal
9 to 16 - Last 16
17 to 32 - Last 32
(...)
Points are based on WTA's points schelude made for certain type of tournament, so in Stanford we'll use Premier points(470/320/200/120/60/0). Please note that I will assign 0 points for first round.
Qualifiers and Wild Cards are assigned in order they appear in draw and their points will be doubled.
(note: if there will be 5 Q/LL's in the draw of Stanford, we will use only first four ones)
Withdrawals
When a player withdraws, a random player from same bracket will be chosen.
Everyone who had the player chosen will have her replaced by same player.
The deadline is the SCHELUDED time of start of first match of tournament's main draw.
STANFORD
Bracket 1 (expected points 200)
1. Serena Williams
2. Venus Williams
3. Elena Dementieva
4. Jelena Jankovic
1- Elena Dementieva
2- Agnieszka Radwanska
3- Sabine Lisicki
4- Aleksandra Wozniak
adner
Jul 20th, 2009, 07:31 PM
so If i choose serena for 200, but she turns out winning 470, so i got zero point :eek:?
then:
1. Dementieva
2. A. Radwanska
3. Hantuchova
4. Mattek Sands
<facepalm>
Sorry, I have messed the formula :p, of course you'd get 270 points. I have changed it now and you can edit the pick if you want, of course.
Jose.
Jul 20th, 2009, 08:52 PM
I like the idea :)
1. Serena Williams
2. Dominika Cibulkova
3. Sabine Lisicki
4. Aleksandra Wozniak
FORZA SARITA
Jul 20th, 2009, 08:54 PM
this is really similar to a game i play on an italian site ;)
i will post my picks tomorrow:)
watchdogfish
Jul 20th, 2009, 09:35 PM
This sounds cool! :cool:
Bracket 1 (expected points 200)
1. Serena Williams
Bracket 2 (expected points 120)
5. Nadia Petrova
Bracket 3 (expected points 60)
24. Maria Sharapova
Bracket 4 (expected points 0)
19. Maria Kirilenko
steph1982
Jul 21st, 2009, 01:24 AM
Bracket 1
Elena Dementieva
Bracket 2
Agnieszka Radwańska
Bracket 3
Maria Sharapova
Bracket 4
Aleksandra Wozniak
adner
Jul 21st, 2009, 01:04 PM
My picks:
Bracket 1 (expected points 200)
1. Serena Williams
I'm not sure what it means to pick a player from each bracket... are they the 4 picks to win the tournament?
Well, they are the players you pick to do the best in the tournament. However, if a player underachieves(for example a top 4 seed falls in quarterfinal), you will get no points. The less expected player's run is, the more points you get:
Picked Top 4 player wins tournament - you get 270 points(470 for a win - 200 expected)
Picked 5-8 player wins tournament - you get 350 points
Picked 9-16 player wins tournament - you get 410 points
Picked 17-32 player wins tournament - you get 470 points
Same goes with every round :)
Thanks everyone for posting your picks, please go on! :)
Joe.
Jul 23rd, 2009, 09:21 AM
Bracket 1
Serena Williams
Bracket 2
Nadia Petrova
Bracket 3
Maria Sharapova
Bracket 4
Anne Keothavong
:)
Joe.
Jul 23rd, 2009, 09:22 AM
I'm not sure what it means to pick a player from each bracket... are they the 4 picks to win the tournament?
what you do is look at the 4 different lists (brackets) and pick one player from each one so you will end up with 4 players; one from each bracket:)
DiscoStick
Jul 23rd, 2009, 12:48 PM
1. Elena Dementieva
2. Dominika Cibulkova
3. Sabine Lisicki
4. Aleksandra Wozniak
TheFifthAvocado
Jul 23rd, 2009, 01:46 PM
1. Elena Dementieva
2. Nadia Petrova
3. Maria Sharapova
4. Shuai Peng
Craig.
Jul 23rd, 2009, 05:32 PM
Well, they are the players you pick to do the best in the tournament. However, if a player underachieves(for example a top 4 seed falls in quarterfinal), you will get no points. The less expected player's run is, the more points you get:
Picked Top 4 player wins tournament - you get 270 points(470 for a win - 200 expected)
Picked 5-8 player wins tournament - you get 350 points
Picked 9-16 player wins tournament - you get 410 points
Picked 17-32 player wins tournament - you get 470 points
Same goes with every round :)
Thanks everyone for posting your picks, please go on! :)
Thanks! :yeah:
Craig.
Jul 23rd, 2009, 05:34 PM
1. Serena Williams
2. Nadia Petrova
3. Maria Sharapova
4. Aleksandra Wozniak
Bracket 4 (expected points 0)
18. Anna Chakvetadze
Drake1980
Jul 26th, 2009, 03:07 PM
Venus
Aga
Sam
Beth
Koon
Jul 26th, 2009, 03:43 PM
:p IMO ,you should not let people edit their posts and you should let they choose their bands after the draw is out :confused: because it could make them avoid changing picks a lot :p
And if they want to change they should copy the old draws :confused:
1. Serena Williams
8. Marion Bartoli
24. Sharapova
18. Chakvetadze
adner
Jul 26th, 2009, 08:08 PM
:p IMO ,you should not let people edit their posts and you should let they choose their bands after the draw is out :confused: because it could make them avoid changing picks a lot :p
And if they want to change they should copy the old draws :confused:
Thanks for comment, I really appreciate any feedback. I'll update the rules when we'll play Los Angeles as I think there will be enough players playing every week :bounce:
Daszmarelli
Jul 26th, 2009, 10:09 PM
Bracket 1 (expected points 200)
3. Elena Dementieva
Bracket 2 (expected points 120)
8. Marion Bartoli
Bracket 3 (expected points 60)
24. Maria Sharapova
Bracket 4 (expected points 0)
18. Anna Chakvetadze
Marco-Nicole
Jul 26th, 2009, 11:45 PM
B1: Serena Williams
B2: Agnieszka Radwanska
B3: Sabine Lisicki
B4: Alexandra Wozniak
Wedgie619
Jul 27th, 2009, 03:25 AM
B1: V. Williams
B2: Bartoli
B3: Lisicki
B4: Wozniak
P.S. really good idea for a game!!!
vamos israel
Jul 27th, 2009, 09:18 AM
1.Serena Williams
2.Marion Bartoli
3.Maria Sharapova
4.Q (that will play against Barte)
smokovec
Jul 27th, 2009, 10:58 AM
Bracket 1
Serena Williams
Bracket 2
Marion Bartoli
Bracket 3
Maria Sharapova
Bracket 4
Anna Chakvetadze
DAVAJ MKirilenko
Jul 27th, 2009, 11:17 AM
1. Serena Williams
8. Marion Bartoli
24. Maria Sharapova
18. Anna Chakvetadze
adner
Jul 27th, 2009, 01:01 PM
You can join until the start of Niculescu - Shaughnessy match. It will start after Oudin-Chan, not earlier than in 5 hours from now.
adner
Jul 28th, 2009, 09:20 AM
Withdrawal
As Shuai Peng from Bracket 4 has withdrawn, everyone who picked her will have her replaced by a random player from Bracket 4. This time, Shuai Peng will be replaced by Aleksandra Wozniak.
Definite Scores
There are already several players out of the tournament and they all have scored 0.
Bracket 3
Sorana Cirstea - 0
Alisa Kleybanova - 0
Bracket 4
Ai Sugiyama - 0
Anne Keothavong - 0
Bethanie Mattek-Sands - 0
Best Pick Board
This table, during the tournament, will show which player was the best pick.
1. Melinda Czink - 60
All other players have 0 so far.
I'm not on the list :confused::wavey:
Ouch! I have overlooked you, sorry :help::hug:I will update the whole list later and then I will put you there :angel:
Congratulations to winner of the first ever Choose Your Band event, lover of myskina! He was one of two people to get two finalists in their team and the only one among them to get the crucial points from Bracket 4. His team is: V. Williams / Bartoli / Cirstea / Czink. Congratulations again!
lover_of_myskina
Aug 2nd, 2009, 10:57 AM
Fantastic ! :bounce:
Now... i think i will read the rules of the game :lol: