What’s the MV Game 2006 ?

 

The MV Game 2006 is a fantasy tennis managing game, based on the ATP level tournaments of 2006. It starts with the tournaments of Adelaide, Chennai and Doha (January 2th-8th, 2006), and ends with the Tennis Masters Cup Final in Shanghai on the 19th of November 2006.

 

What’s the objective ?

 

The objective of the MV Game is to score as much Champions Race points as possible, during the tennis season. The competitor who earns the highest amount of points during the season wins the MV Game 2006.

 

What are the means ?

 

Every week you have a certain amount of (fictional) money to spend, to buy players from the ATP Entry List top 100. A player costs as many as the tennis player possesses points on the ATP Entry List. The Entry List can be found at http://www.atptennis.com/en/players/entrysystem/.

 

Submitting your team.

 

The deadline for submitting your team is weekly at Tuesday evenening 23.00 CET. (Click here for your time).

 

In weeks without ATP level events, there is no deadline for the MV Game. Naturally, this is also the case for the final week of Grand Slams or Miami.

 

For your team, all players in the ATP Entry List top 100 are available. Players outside the top 100 cannot be chosen.

 

There is no limit to the amount of players you can choose, as long as you stay within your budget.

 

You can submit your team until the deadline. You can change as many times as you want, your last entry before the deadline will count.

 

You can submit your team by email, by sending the Excel-form to Elikian@hetnet.nl. If you do not have Excel, you can just mail in text format to the abovementioned address.

In case you’ve used too much money (more than your budget allows), the cheapest player in your team will be removed (repeatedly) until the budget suffices. If you have money left to spend however, no players will be added. Hopefully, the Excel form will prevent this from happening though.

 

If you do not enter a team for a certain week, you will receive 80% of the points scored by the worst scoring competitor who did enter a team that week.

 

Scoring points.

 

For you, all players in your team of the week will receive the ATP Champions Race tournament points they achieve in that week. Even if it can be so that the player will not receive Champions Race points for his ATP ranking, because it doesn’t count toward his best 5 non-mandatory events, you will still receive the points for the MV Game.

The one who scores the most points throughout the season will be the champion, naturally.

 

However, there are also subrankings where you can claim your honours. The season has been divided into 10 periods, all containing 3 or 4 playing weeks. These periodes are divided such that each of them is equally important, as far as possible.

At the same time there are subrankings for the 3 different surfaces played on. One for outdoor hard court tournaments, one for clay tournaments, and one for the ‘other events’, which are on grass, carpet and indoor. Click here for a summary on the different periods and surfaces.

 

Budget.

 

The budget you have to spend during a tournament week to buy players from exists out of two separate parts.

 

The first part is the tournament specific part:

For every ATP level event being played you will receive a basic amount of money, an amount dependent on the category of the tournament

 

Category

Tourney type

Prize

money

Points Winner

Tourney specific budget

1

Grand Slam

A lot

200

12.500

2

Masters Series

A lot

100

11.000

3

Champ. Series

1.000.000

60

8.000

4

Champ. Series

800.000

50

6.000

4

World Series

1.000.000

50

6.000

5

World Series

800.000

45

5.000

6

World Series

600.000

40

4.000

7

World Series

400.000

35

3.000

 

When there is more than one tournament in a week, the tournament specific budget will be the total sum of the individual tournament budgets. However, the total tournament specific budget can never be larger than 11.000 euro (in non-Grand Slam weeks). When there are more tournaments, you’re free in dividing the total sum over the tournament, so it’s allowed to use all the money in one tournament, while spending nothing on the others.

For the Masters Cup in Shanghai, a tournament budget of 8.000 will be used.

 

The second part of the budget is the money gained:

 

The players you have bought at the ATP Entry List value will be sold at the end of the week at their new Entry List value. This value can be different from the one when buying, due to the players success in the tournament. This difference will be your money gained, and will be added to the budget which have for the weeks to come.

However, as the past has shown that this part of the budget may get very large, you will have to pay interest over your total money gained in the past, at the end of each week. Even if you enter no team. The interest rate will increase with the amount of budget you have.

 

Your weekly budget is the total of the tournament specific budget of that week and the money gained. For an example explaining all budget related issues, click here.

 

I hope all is clear, and if not, please ask your questions on the MV Game board, or send me an e-mail at Elikian@hetnet.nl. I wish everyone lots of success, but even more pleasure in this game.

Your organiser,

Michiel Vestjens (Elikian)