Tennisopolis : Tennis Social Network2024-03-29T05:55:14ZJazz Burkshttp://tennisopolis.com/profile/JazzBurkshttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3138968867?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://tennisopolis.com/group/bracketologists/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=0gn0onf9024rh&feed=yes&xn_auth=noTennisTeacher.com and Play Like the Prostag:tennisopolis.com,2017-02-19:1869403:Topic:12423092017-02-19T01:16:22.031ZJazz Burkshttp://tennisopolis.com/profile/JazzBurks
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<p>Hey everyone,</p>
<p></p>
<p>So, as some of you may know, BOTB is not running until further notice. But, not to worry! I'm running a replacement BOTB competition in its absence. The rules are the same with a few minor differences, a few extras and a few things missing (for now).</p>
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<p>The entry form will be available at <strong><a href="http://T3nnisStats.webs.com/" target="_blank">T3nnisStats</a></strong> shortly after the draw ceremony takes place on Friday at…</p>
<p>Hey everyone,</p>
<p></p>
<p>So, as some of you may know, BOTB is not running until further notice. But, not to worry! I'm running a replacement BOTB competition in its absence. The rules are the same with a few minor differences, a few extras and a few things missing (for now).</p>
<p></p>
<p>The entry form will be available at <strong><a href="http://T3nnisStats.webs.com/" target="_blank">T3nnisStats</a></strong> shortly after the draw ceremony takes place on Friday at 11:30AM.</p>
<p></p>
<p>I hope you'll participate! The more the merrier!</p>
<p></p>
<p>Cheers!</p>
<p></p>
<p>T3nnisFan :)</p> Halle Pick'em Competitiontag:tennisopolis.com,2013-06-09:1869403:Topic:10491862013-06-09T19:30:33.714ZJazz Burkshttp://tennisopolis.com/profile/JazzBurks
<p>Anyone interested in participating? I need a few people to make a trial run before Wimbledon.</p>
<p>If I get a few interested people, I'll do the finishing touches on the entry form, setup the site, etc....</p>
<p>More info here: <a href="http://t3nnisstats.webs.com/">http://t3nnisstats.webs.com/</a></p>
<p>Anyone interested in participating? I need a few people to make a trial run before Wimbledon.</p>
<p>If I get a few interested people, I'll do the finishing touches on the entry form, setup the site, etc....</p>
<p>More info here: <a href="http://t3nnisstats.webs.com/">http://t3nnisstats.webs.com/</a></p> BOTB for RG 2013 no more but anyone interested in a replacement comp?tag:tennisopolis.com,2013-05-25:1869403:Topic:10446852013-05-25T22:07:20.197ZJazz Burkshttp://tennisopolis.com/profile/JazzBurks
<p>Sad news; BOTB will be discontinuing its comp for the rest of the year...</p>
<p></p>
<p>But, I'm trying to get one going myself to fill the void for (mostly myself and) anyone who still needs their fix.</p>
<p></p>
<p>Again, it's all for fun! So, if you're interested, the form will show up at the following link, if not a link will be put there;</p>
<p><a href="http://t3nnisstats.webs.com/roland-garros-entry-form">http://t3nnisstats.webs.com/roland-garros-entry-form</a></p>
<p></p>
<p>If I'm…</p>
<p>Sad news; BOTB will be discontinuing its comp for the rest of the year...</p>
<p></p>
<p>But, I'm trying to get one going myself to fill the void for (mostly myself and) anyone who still needs their fix.</p>
<p></p>
<p>Again, it's all for fun! So, if you're interested, the form will show up at the following link, if not a link will be put there;</p>
<p><a href="http://t3nnisstats.webs.com/roland-garros-entry-form">http://t3nnisstats.webs.com/roland-garros-entry-form</a></p>
<p></p>
<p>If I'm not able to get a certain service, it may be via direct email in which case, it may call upon your default email client, which may be a bit unorthodox and old-fashioned and if that doesn't jive with you for whatever reason, no worries!</p>
<p></p>
<p>Either way, when it's ready, I will post again.</p> Make your picks for the 2013 Australian Open 'Battle of the Boards' pick 'emtag:tennisopolis.com,2013-01-12:1869403:Topic:9967932013-01-12T08:57:03.596ZJazz Burkshttp://tennisopolis.com/profile/JazzBurks
<p>Hey everyone!</p>
<p></p>
<p>I see that we haven't posted about this in a while. If anyone's interested, there's still time!</p>
<p></p>
<p>From <a href="https://twitter.com/botb1">https://twitter.com/botb1</a>;</p>
<blockquote><p><span>Entries close on Sunday at 23.59 GMT - that's Sunday 11.59 pm UK / 6.59 pm US Eastern and Monday 00.59 CET / 10.59 Melbourne time</span></p>
</blockquote>
<p></p>
<p><span>Qualifiers have also now been entered.</span></p>
<p></p>
<p><span>You can enter at the…</span></p>
<p>Hey everyone!</p>
<p></p>
<p>I see that we haven't posted about this in a while. If anyone's interested, there's still time!</p>
<p></p>
<p>From <a href="https://twitter.com/botb1">https://twitter.com/botb1</a>;</p>
<blockquote><p><span>Entries close on Sunday at 23.59 GMT - that's Sunday 11.59 pm UK / 6.59 pm US Eastern and Monday 00.59 CET / 10.59 Melbourne time</span></p>
</blockquote>
<p></p>
<p><span>Qualifiers have also now been entered.</span></p>
<p></p>
<p><span>You can enter at the following link: <a href="http://t.co/VkQbYjst" class="twitter-timeline-link" target="_blank" title="http://bit.ly/18Sbr5" dir="ltr"><span class="js-display-url">bit.ly/18Sbr5</span></a></span></p>
<p></p>
<p>Hope to see some entrants from TN by Monday!!!</p> Fantasy Tennis Game - looking for some feedbacktag:tennisopolis.com,2012-03-09:1869403:Topic:8623152012-03-09T20:54:06.064ZJazz Burkshttp://tennisopolis.com/profile/JazzBurks
<p>edit: sorry, I originally sent this as an email to the group - I meant to post it here as a discussion.</p>
<p>First of all, thank you to Mark for pointing me to this group as a good place to start this discussion.</p>
<p>A little background - I am both a software/web/database developer and a tennis fanatic. I own the domain GoldenSlam.com and am planning on building a fantasy tennis game (among other things) there. But, before I set out to build the game there, I wanted to figure out and…</p>
<p>edit: sorry, I originally sent this as an email to the group - I meant to post it here as a discussion.</p>
<p>First of all, thank you to Mark for pointing me to this group as a good place to start this discussion.</p>
<p>A little background - I am both a software/web/database developer and a tennis fanatic. I own the domain GoldenSlam.com and am planning on building a fantasy tennis game (among other things) there. But, before I set out to build the game there, I wanted to figure out and *define* the rules and structure of the game. Right now I have 2 competing ideas, which I'll share here to get your feedback on.</p>
<p>1. The first model is what I call the "prize money" game. Each player would have a roster with 8 singles slots and 4 doubles slots. Each "tournament week" (2 weeks for majors, 7-10 days for ATP 250-1000 events) you would be able to fill your roster with your singles and doubles picks. You (or technically, your team) would collectively earn the prize money won by your picks for that tournament week. So over the course of a ATP 250 event, you might increase your team's total earnings by 600k or so - while a major might see you increase it by more like $4 to 5 million depending on how good your picks where. The rule that would introduce a little strategy into this game is that you would be limited to choosing any one singles player or any one doubles team a certain number of times per year. Perhaps about 6 times. So for players like Roger, Rafa, Nole, etc. you would want to put them on your roster only during the majors and a few of the ATP 1000 events to maximize your 6 plays of them.</p>
<p>2. The second model is what I call the "fantasy football" type game. Those of you with FF experience this style of game will sound familiar. In this game, each player gets a singles and doubles roster, but all ATP singles and doubles players are exclusive to only one roster per league (leagues would have to be limited to probably 6-8 teams due to the number of available ATP Pro's playing week-to-week). In this game, you get your players by holding a draft where you would randomly set the draft order and then let each person draft players for their team/roster. You would still start only 8 singles players and 4 doubles teams each week, but you would not be limited to starting your players only a certain number of times per year. Just like in fantasy football, you would be able to trade players between teams in the same league and drop players to and/or pick up players from an undrafted pool of players. In this game, you would not earn prize money - instead your team would earn points - based on the performance of your players during the tournament week. There would also be a schedule for each league where teams go head to head against each other during tournaments - your players and their points vs. another teams players and their points. You would earn different amounts of points for stuff like aces, winners, match wins, games won, sets won, 1st serve percentage, etc.</p>
<p>Anyway, I think that's enough to get the conversation started. Please feel free to respond with questions, holes you see in the game rules, a different structure that you think is better than the 2 mentioned above...anything really. Getting this defined is probably the most important pre-cursor to actually begin building the game and the website, so I really need to make sure I get it right. I also want to make sure the game is fair and everyone stands an equal chance at winning, while, at the same time making the game strategic and making people have to think about they're playing.</p>
<p>Thanks,<br/>--Jason<br/>jason@goldenslam.com (but let's keep the discussion here as much as possible)</p> 2011 Aussie Open Bracket Challengetag:tennisopolis.com,2011-01-16:1869403:Topic:4979432011-01-16T15:18:52.445ZJazz Burkshttp://tennisopolis.com/profile/JazzBurks
<p>The deadline is today, so fill out your bracket now!</p>
<p><a href="http://tennisopolis.com/profiles/blogs/australian-open-bracket">http://tennisopolis.com/profiles/blogs/australian-open-bracket</a></p>
<p>The deadline is today, so fill out your bracket now!</p>
<p><a href="http://tennisopolis.com/profiles/blogs/australian-open-bracket">http://tennisopolis.com/profiles/blogs/australian-open-bracket</a></p> 2010 Wimbledon 'Battle of the Boards' pick 'emtag:tennisopolis.com,2010-06-18:1869403:Topic:4116812010-06-18T15:03:51.751ZJazz Burkshttp://tennisopolis.com/profile/JazzBurks
<p><strong>The Wimbledon 'Battle of the Boards' pick 'em contest is now open for entries at <a href="http://www.freewebs.com/britishtennis/Competitions.html">http://www.freewebs.com/britishtennis/Competitions.html</a></strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Qualifiers have already been placed, since qualifying finished yesterday, and hopefully the fact that Nalbandian, Gasquet (yes, sadly no Numpty or Dammit to mess our picks around), Radek, Big Ivo and Ancic have all announced their withdrawals already means…</p>
<p><strong>The Wimbledon 'Battle of the Boards' pick 'em contest is now open for entries at <a href="http://www.freewebs.com/britishtennis/Competitions.html">http://www.freewebs.com/britishtennis/Competitions.html</a></strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Qualifiers have already been placed, since qualifying finished yesterday, and hopefully the fact that Nalbandian, Gasquet (yes, sadly no Numpty or Dammit to mess our picks around), Radek, Big Ivo and Ancic have all announced their withdrawals already means we aren't in for too many nasty surprises over the weekend. (I seem to remember that at this time last year, we still didn't even know whether Rafa was playing or not)</p>
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<p>Having almost hit the 500 entrant limit at the AO, there is a chance that we might break it this time, though given that the AO tends to have the most entrants (everyone's always very keen after the end of season break!), I'll be surprised if we do.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>If we do, anyone in the top 250 of the overall rankings after RG (see <a href="http://www.freewebs.com/britishtennis/pickem/ranking.htm?n=1">http://www.freewebs.com/britishtennis/pickem/ranking.htm?n=1</a> or the list sorted by team at <a href="http://www.freewebs.com/britishtennis/pickem/rankingt.htm?n=1">http://www.freewebs.com/britishtennis/pickem/rankingt.htm?n=1</a>) will get in as long as they enter before the deadline, but other places will be filled on a first-come first-served basis. So, if you are not in the top 250, I would suggest not leaving it until the very last minute to enter, though if for some reason you can't enter until the last minute and the list of entrants at that time shows less than 500 entrants, you'll probably still be ok.</p>
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<p><strong>Entries close at 11 GMT / noon UK time / 13.00 CET / 7 am US EDT on Monday, or when play starts (on any court) if the start is delayed by rain.</strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p>I am lucky enough to have tickets for the first Monday, so that and the need to catch up on work the next day means that realistically the first full results are unlikely to appear until after the scheduled end of R1 on Tuesday evening. However, we'll probably be able to get a provisional list of pick %s up on Monday evening.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>When I asked whether people would prefer a Sunday entry deadline or the results appearing late, there was virtually unanimous support for the latter option and although I realise that it will be frustrating not being able to see where you are in the table for the first couple of days, there will be frequent intra-day updates from Wednesday onwards.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Important</strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Please take note of the new, more detailed bit on the page that comes up after you have submitted your entry that talks about checking that your name appears on the list of entrants before the deadline and making sure one way or another (by re-entering and/or emailing your picks to us) that <strong>if something appears to have gone wrong, we know exactly what your picks are before entries close</strong>. Remember though that the list of entries is only updated about twice a day, so <em>please don't panic if your entry hasn't appeared without checking whether it says the last update time was after you entered or not!</em></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Obviously you can't check your entry has been received before the deadline if you submit it after the last pre-deadline update (which is likely to be before Bethan goes to work on Monday morning, I think), but if you enter that late, you're taking a very small risk anyway.</p>
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<p>Don't worry though, this isn't a big problem - less than 0.5% of entries go astray between the entry server and us if you get the thank you for entering page (and it may be a lot less than that if some reports are from people who forgot to hit the submit button, for example), but obviously it can be very frustrating if it happens to you. That is why we publish the list of entrants to help you make sure you get an entry in on time even in the unlikely event that something goes wrong.</p> 2010 Roland Garros 'Battle of the Boards' pick 'emtag:tennisopolis.com,2010-05-21:1869403:Topic:4040512010-05-21T21:06:38.716ZJazz Burkshttp://tennisopolis.com/profile/JazzBurks
<p>Entries for the BritishTennis Roland Garros 'Battle of the Boards' pick 'em are now open at <a href="http://www.freewebs.com/britishtennis/competitions.html">http://www.freewebs.com/britishtennis/competitions.html</a> - qualifiers have already been placed and entries will close in just under 36 hours at 09.00 GMT / 10 am UK / 5 am US EDT / 10.00 CET on Sunday.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Good luck! </p>
<p>Entries for the BritishTennis Roland Garros 'Battle of the Boards' pick 'em are now open at <a href="http://www.freewebs.com/britishtennis/competitions.html">http://www.freewebs.com/britishtennis/competitions.html</a> - qualifiers have already been placed and entries will close in just under 36 hours at 09.00 GMT / 10 am UK / 5 am US EDT / 10.00 CET on Sunday.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Good luck! </p> 2010 Rome Masters 'Battle of the Boards' pick 'emtag:tennisopolis.com,2010-04-24:1869403:Topic:3993812010-04-24T14:16:34.922ZJazz Burkshttp://tennisopolis.com/profile/JazzBurks
<p>Entries are now open for the third <strong>'Battle of the Boards' pick 'em</strong> of 2010 at at <a href="http://www.freewebs.com/britishtennis/competitions.html">http://www.freewebs.com/britishtennis/competitions.html</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Entries will close at 11.00 GMT (noon UK / 13.00 CET / 7 am US EDT) tomorrow, Sunday 25 April, so there are less than 24 hours to enter.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Because Rome is copying the French and starting the main draw before qualifying finishes, we will all…</p>
<p>Entries are now open for the third <strong>'Battle of the Boards' pick 'em</strong> of 2010 at at <a href="http://www.freewebs.com/britishtennis/competitions.html">http://www.freewebs.com/britishtennis/competitions.html</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Entries will close at 11.00 GMT (noon UK / 13.00 CET / 7 am US EDT) tomorrow, Sunday 25 April, so there are less than 24 hours to enter.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Because Rome is copying the French and starting the main draw before qualifying finishes, we will all have to pick R1 matches involving qualifiers without knowing who the qualifiers are.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>