Filipe #4; Sally Fitz drops from first to fourth!
Shortly after the Lowers contest, which Filipe Toledo won with a madness not seen since the routine pleasures of Kelly Slater in the nineteen-nineties, I did a rough calculation and determined that Filipe was now top five, and therefore in a position to surge to the world title.
A bounce to the WSL website ratings, however, revealed Filipe to still be seventh, despite winning J-Bay and Trestles.
Seventh?
Of course. The adjusted-non-adjusted ratings conundrum.
Does it strike you as odd, as it does me, that on a tour that only has eleven events, only the best nine results are counted? And that the ratings, as the WSL posts ’em after each event, are misleading?
Drop the two worst events and Julian Wilson drops from third to fifth, Owen fifth to sixth, Adriano sixth to seventh, Wilko jumps from fourth to third and Filipe…Filipe… seventh to fourth.
The women’s ratings are more dramatic. Tour leader Sally Fitzgibbons drops from first to fourth.
Of course, the decision to drop two shitty results was made to allow for a bad event, lulls, conditions, whatever that don’t go a surfer’s way.
And the WSL posts the cumulative results until the men get through their tenth event (dropping their worst result) and the women through their ninth.
If the tour were to finish suddenly, as it did in 2001 when troublemakers from Saudi Arabia belted America in the face, Courtney Conlogue would be the gal’s champ, and Jordy the men by a minuscule 200 points from John John.
Prediction: Filipe semi’s or betters in France and Portugal. Finishes third at Pipe. Wins title.
And I win a thousand bucks (Sportsbet is paying $21 for a Filipe title).
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(And thanks to Balyn McDonald from SurfStats for the adjusted ratings.)
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Drop two worst results its Jordy 40,100; JJF 39,900; Wilko 35,450; Toledo 34,450; Julian 33,700; Owen 33,600; ADS 31,350; Medina 28,500.
Ok, besides kelly, jack, russell, the hobgoods, zietz,otton, kealoha,gomes,irons,irons,jjf,carroll,owen,flores,ho ho ho,butch,gerry I think I have a valid point.
I´ll take the liberty of upvoting this on the Postie’s behalf.
Resistance is futile. Team Ju > Team JJ = Team F > Team Jo
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Did you get that app loaded into the system that automatically turns on The People’s ™ cameras when they log on yet?
Yes and my eyes will never be able to unsee. For humanity’s sake I flicked the kill switch.
Our top priority must be to target a different readership.
try the “my little pony club ” for Derek’s sake , and even Longtom is now referencing them also…..”the peoples pony club” now on BG!
Erm, for some reason this whole thread was set as “premoderated”. I assume this was an accident and have changed it back to normal. Apologies if I have just unleashed a terrifying Discus beast.
He won’t make no heats at Pipe if there’s waves
dude advertising gambling websites..no barrel
Chas only responds to the toughest love!
Ye Gads! Everyone ranked 1-7 has won an event this year. That must be pretty fucked up for you gambling men. I’ll stick to hiding my money under my mattress and buying tulip bulbs.
Don’t forget to buy some Bitcoin!
Can it be used to buy beer?
Buy drugs an sell em. Apparently the mark up is way better
My fear of jail will keep me in the bulb business. Plus, the clientele are of a much higher class.
I never said it was a good idea. But if anyone wants to take random advice from an unknown on a surf website then you go little doggy you go..
So I saw the movie captain underpants with my kids to today and as the credits rolled at the end of the movie I saw one of the main characters professor poopypants was played by non other than Mr Nick Kroll, any relation?
No, but I’m sincerely touched in the bum that you’re thinking of me while watching a kids film.
My barber hid some cash under his waterbed mattress and the heater element caught it on fire. He lost about $5,000.
Waterbeds have always been the work of the devil.
The winner of the men’s world title has a first name that starts with J.
Jaddy surely
No. Joey Buran.
…jelipe? …jabriel?
Til he gets proper Pipe shacks he is no ones fav. And even then he has to step up to Chopes.
Just like any 21 year old pro ever. And Ive been watching for awhile. Brown or white. Just cut him the same slack you cut mick
Wise counsel.
I took your tip though, $20 in with two beach break events back to back, so good! And for the record, I believe he has some serious mongrel in him after his penalties served and he will be charging Pipe. Just tell me this though, did I steer you to Sportsbet? It’s a hard road before you start winning, think of a small algorithm that can keep you in the game.
Google’s search engine took me to Sportsbet. But, I’m thrilled you took the bet.
Don’t they cotton on to the fact that you’re playing the system after a while though? Not that I have personal experience, but have been told by people who like to play that the big sites tend to be on the look out.
I’m not laying out big sums of cash. I’ll do that later.
I believe he has the gumption and am begging for him to show it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch…
Urrahhh!!!
Way to go!!!
I want a piece of this action
Come and dive into the betting pool with me!
Just had sly drop on Medina at $61!!!
Them’s some odds!
I have a fiendish plan …..
If Filipe gets to the semi’s at Pipe, you deserve a thousand bucks for simply believing in him like that.
Filipe’s jaw has been adjusted. He’ll take your breath away.