ET5 day one

Yikes, they've really loaded the afternoon session full of what looks to me like the better set of seeds. If I order the players in question in terms of yearly points per turn, we get the following order:

DvD (evening)

Nijman (afternoon)

Heta (evening)

Cullen (evening)

Cross (afternoon)

Ratajski (afternoon)

Doets (afternoon)

Zonneveld (afternoon)

Gilding (afternoon)

Gurney (evening)

O'Connor (evening)

Sedlacek (afternoon)

Springer (evening)

Menzies (evening)

Chisnall (afternoon)

Wright (evening)

So yeah, the evening session gets three of the top four, but then there's a run of five afternoon session players, with 5/7 of the bottom being in the evening. Blimey. I mean we can't blame them for putting Wright and Springer there, but even so... we have insufficent (or no) data on Melderis, Hurtz, Krivka and Masino, only long data on Unterbuchner and no short data on Krohne, so let's get into what we can get into:

Nijman/White - 86/86/84/85

Zonneveld/Barry - 58/66/68/64

Doets/van der Velde - 83/79/78/80

Gilding/Krohne - 77/72/75

Cross/Mansell - 52/48/63/54

O'Connor/Unterbuchner - 63

Cullen/Kuivenhoven - 65/55/58/59

Wright/de Zwaan - 31/36/46/38

Menzies/van Barneveld - 58/63/57/59

Heta/Razma - 76/63/70/70

van Duijvenbode/Huybrechts - 55/66/70/64

Gurney/Lukasiak - 83/82/83/83

As always, it's the newest data first. Shows some trends we might expect to see - Barry is playing real good stuff right now, Cross not so much, Cullen's picked things up a touch, as has Huybrechts. Let's see how this goes, anyone punting on the "wants it less" derby between Menzies and RvB does so at their own risk.