Jop Tournament Round 1, FITE 5

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I have a day off today, which is grebt, but I forgot to note down the various FITEs for today's poll. So no poll. EXCEPT! I can remember the very next one - because it is an MONSTER.

So this is the televised centre court pick-of-the-round tie, if you like.


[Poll #917645]


Crikey! Maybe this afternoon I will do the rules for the League Of Pop. Or maybe I will go and get a haircut.

Comments

Re: Always happy to talk methodology!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Of course, the seeding system throws up the occasional anomaly - being a strong track in a crappy P&J poll can inflate your percentage hugely. But I guess the tennis analogy holds (the Lex can help me out here): aren't there players who are only good on clay who end up seeded on grass events because of their world ranking, and then go out in the first round?

"Wannabe" is the lowest-ranked song still in the tournament, by the way. The Utah Saints are second-lowest.

Re: Always happy to talk methodology!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Yes - Wimbledon actively tries to rearrange the seeds to prevent this but this is 'controversial' and it can hardly drop a top 10 player out of the top 30.

There are also players with artificially high rankings because they play lots of weak events and clean up in them, but whenever they face a true elite player tend to lose heavily. I see this analogy holds up - 'Common People' is the Anna Smashnova or Anabel Medina Garrigues of the pop world.

And 'Get Ur Freak On' is Serena Williams :)

Re: Always happy to talk methodology!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Although this is still not that cut and dried - I guess this is a rusty, struggling Serena, but she's led all the way and hopefully when this is over I can say the result was never in doubt, as valiantly as her overmatched opponent fought.