you're the boss of this one bsball

i think they're probably sandbagging us. i'm not sure if we can get 12, but want to give it a try and if they counter 13 we maybe give up?

in the interest of making this fun for DZ (who i'm sure wanted this to be half trivia and half game/auction theory)

Bid 12

Bump

What do you think AE? I really want to have a go at this category, but think 13 could be tough. Wish I could ask where [redacted] falls on the list, cos if they’re like 8th then I feel good about a lot of my question marks, but could easily be 20th and then I’m drawing lots of blanks

I’ve got about 8 I’m fairly confident of, and then a bunch that I don’t really know how to differentiate.

I’m leaning towards going for it just cos I want to try, but depends how you feel as would defo need your help. All my comments in thread have been honest thoughts so if you also have a reasonable list of potentials, let’s try? 100% not going any higher after this though unless you tell me you’re super confident of nailing it, I think at this point there’s no need to play games on that.

I'm in about the same spot and could throw out about 20-25 candidates but not sure who would be correct exactly, fine to go for it if you wanna - think they'd struggle as well so cool with either one you wanna bold between 13 and pass

13 more fun to go for it

i think we should pass, unless you got this

Go for it

Is that a pass?

ya

Popcorn

gl!

Ok, I'll bold the very obvious ones and put down more names in a vague order to start discussion. Will give it more thought and certainly come up with more names later AE, but interested to see your list of first thoughts too before we decide on an order.

I'm assuming its very biased to more recent players when prize money will have been highest, and partially biased towards men as aside from the slams, i think a lot of their prize pools have remained higher, perhaps until very recently. But since the slams have had equal pay for a while, there's probably a handful of women on the list too.

Federer
Nadal
Djokovic
Serena Williams


must all be there.

Other women I have in vague order (I'm certain I'm missing a few here, but very few women have won multiple slams that I can think of in recent years aside from Serena):
Osaka
Sharapova
Venus
Halep
Li Na?
Kvitova?
Wozniacki?
Kuznetsova?

And for men:
Murray
Wawrinka
Berdych
Sampras
Roddick
Del Potro
Hewitt
Cilic
Nalbandian
Ferrer
Ferrero

At first I was bolding a few more but taken some out just to be extra cautious. I'm 90%+ sure down to Berdych and Osaka, so happy for you to bold those if you agree, and any others you can think of that you feel are in that category.

Federer- yes, number 2 £98m
Nadal- yes, number 3 £92m
Djokovic- yes, number 1 £108m
Serena Williams- yes, number 4 £70m

i've never heard of djokivic

yea those are obv 4 to start and agree with your assessment that's it's probably more recent players - I don't want to guess any McEnroes or Conners here

not sure about Women's - AFAIK the prize money wasn't *that* different so crushers like Serena should be in there but maybe like 70% prize of men's generally?

Sampras I can't imagine not being in there, Agassi probably too unless it was much lower then

More recents I'd imagine Murray is in, Wawrinka seems like a decent choice but I'm starting to get really unsure

Osaka I don't know about cause she's pretty young and not sure how much she's accumulated - Venus seems like a good pick though

Murray
Wawrinka
Sampras
Venus

We're gonna need all these to be right anyway to get to 13 I think.

Osaka has won a few slams already, Sharapova won multiple too.

Agassi we should get an idea when we see where Sampras is...if he's like 6th then we know that era still ok, but if he's way down then I think we steer clear of Agassi

I might have to pick up in the morning now, but if I had to pick 5 to finish it off at this point I might go:

Berdych
Roddick
Sharapova
Osaka
and either Agassi or Hewitt? But this is subject to change when we see where Venus and Sampras are in the list

if Sampras is like #5-8 think I wanna guess Agassi too

Roddick I don't feel too bad guessing

has Berdych made that much money already? I don't recall him winning that much but has he been top4'ing for years or something?

Osaka I don't feel comfortable guessing cause she just has the US Open win right...and like a few more events but she seems too young to be on the all-time list already - think we're missing like some super famous woman, maybe it's Graf I'm thinking of but let's see where Venus is before firing more

Bump

waiting for some reveals from you good Doctor....

Ha woops.

Murray- 5th! £46.4m
Wawrinka- 11th! £25m
Sampras- 6th! £32.7
Venus- 7th! £31m

Ok then I feel a lot better about Agassi and others from that generation.

Btw I think Osaka has at least 3 slams, maybe won Aus twice and US once?

Other names from a few years back could be:
Hingis
Henin(-Hardenne)
Capriati

Don’t think Marat Safin necessarily did enough outside the one slam he won. Gaudio definitely didn’t

Not sure why I’m so sure of Berdych, don’t think he’s ever won a slam but def made finals and been around quite a few years. Same story with Cilic though, but think Berdych has been generally higher in the rankings.

Trying to think of other slam winners..Ivanisevic? Did philippousis win any? Pat Rafter maybe too long ago?

Are you happy to go Agassi and Sharapova (def won at least 4 slams)? And Roddick?