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Dan · Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 8:23 pm Post subject: Athens (7/4) Start Lists

http://www.tsiklitiria.org/startlists/index.htm

Nothing posted yet, but it looks like that's where it'll be...

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Dan · Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 8:06 am Post subject:

Provisional entry lists are posted, but only as a PDF file...

http://www.tsiklitiria.org/index.htm

I've got Thomas and Zakari in the 100 and Ngeny in the 1500. Wow, I hope that's a very incomplete list of entries, otherwise I'm going to be slipping a few spots in the standings...

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Pavvka · Water Boy Joined: 28 Jun 2003 Posts: 48

I would guess most people won't score too many points... To start with, there's no men's or women's 5000, as well as women's 400, 1500 and HJ - that only leaves 5 events out of 10. The other events don't have the same quality of the field as Golden League meets, either... It looks like I won't do much better than you... But then, last year I scored a big fat zero for this meet, so I'm set to improve Very Happy

Dan · Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 8:42 am Post subject:

True, you set a pretty high standard for futility in this meet last year. Smile

A lot of rosters will look a whole lot better when the US Trials are over...

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Guest · Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2004 11:15 am Post subject: results up

the results are up...

Dan · Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2004 11:30 am Post subject:

Just finished posting and scoring them. Smile

http://run-down.com/fantasy/index.php?go=full_results

Not much movement overall, but we've got a new leader. I actually managed to move up 6 spots with only 3 so-so scorers. Those who did manage to score significant points this meet jumped several spots.

My big regret so far is not sticking with Yiampoy in the 800. I had him in and out of my roster and finally decided to go with Krummenacker and a few other switches. Sad

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Dan · Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2004 11:35 am Post subject:

Interesting how much the long shots are dominating the score/cost ratio so far this year. Only two athletes in the top-20 with a cost over 1,000, and they're just barely over, considering the scale goes up over 10,000.

I imagine that'll change a bit when we get into the bigger meets...

At any rate, I finally met the goal of making the favorites a not so obvious choice. Smile

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Conway · Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2004 4:25 pm Post subject:

Well I moved up 20 places !!!! And I'm really liking my choice of Yampoi in the 800... Wink

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I think things are going to get real good here once everyone is in Europe ...
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Dan · Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2004 4:35 pm Post subject:

I think I moved Yiampoy in and out of my roster 3 or 4 times. I put him back in after seeing how he did at the Kenyan trials, but after getting burned in the 800 last year, I thought twice for some reason. Oh well, I just need to sweep the 100 one of these meets and all will be cool. Smile

I'd be stoked if I moved up 20 spots one of these meets...

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Conway · Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2004 5:03 pm Post subject:

Yeah, well I moved from 97 to 77 ... Still need a lot of movement to get in real contention ... I just need for the Trials to end ... Sad

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Dan · Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2004 5:08 pm Post subject:

In hindsight, it would've added an interesting twist to the competition to have one of the meets be the US Trials.

a) It would guarantee that each event would be contested.

b) The sprints would be the highest level competition of any meet, the distances the worst.

c) US athletes only ... duh.

That combination of factors would require some extra care in assembling rosters, as you wouldn't want to tip too heavily to one extreme (domestic or Europe) or the other.

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Pavvka · Water Boy Joined: 28 Jun 2003 Posts: 48

If you include the US Trials, why not the Kenyan, Russian, German etc. national championships ? Razz

Re Athens: as I expected, few people scored big points for this meet. I think I did OK to slip down by only 2 places. Lausanne should be better...

Dan · Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 7:23 am Post subject:

General contestant familiarity and depth of overall competition. Plus, the US Trials' timing seems to affect the European circuit participation more than that of other countries.

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Conway · Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 11:26 am Post subject:

Hmmm ... Adding the Trials would definitley been interesting ... I'm not sure it would have affected too many rosters though as everyone tends to carry quite a few American sprinters and hurdlers anyway ...

I do think, though, that the scoring will change appreciably once the Trials have come and gone ...
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Dan · Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 8:37 pm Post subject: Only if...

I decided to plug in scores for my athletes competing in the US Trials, just to see what sort of total I would've amassed. 1,000 - 1,200 is usually a pretty darn solid score...

100m:
Maurice Greene - 186.41
Shawn Crawford - 144.17

200m:
Shawn Crawford - 164.90
John Capel - 59.23

800m:
David Krummenacker - 110.38

1500m:
Alan Webb - 159.00

100m:
Lauryn Williams - 120.77
Gail Devers - 109.65

400m:
Sanya Richards - 156.58
DeeDee Trotter - 128.21
Monique Henderson - 98.30

Total = 1437.60

Ugh.

You too can play along...

http://run-down.com/fantasy/score.php

Dan
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