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From: milivella on 10 Jun 2010 14:50 milivella: > To a void ng-pollution, I'll update all the results of the 4 WC-related > games here. To kick off, here is the list of the games, so if you've > missed some you can join. > > All the games: > - take less than 1 minute to play > - are open until the kick-off of the first match 8. UPC on red cards Thread: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.sport.soccer/browse_thread/thread/b45e2705c1604270/ -- Cheers milivella
From: milivella on 11 Jun 2010 07:55 milivella: > > To avoid ng-pollution, I'll update all the results of the 4 WC-related > > games here. To kick off, here is the list of the games, so if you've > > missed some you can join. > > > All the games: > > - take less than 1 minute to play > > - are open until the kick-off of the first match > > 6. *Very* unsophisticated prediction contest In case you're wondering why I've gone from #4 to #6: when I added the very unsophisticated game I thought #5 was Divine or Decline; but I had not really added it to the list, since DoD started before the WC and needs independent threads anyway. So I guess that #5 is the ghost of DoD. Or that it was retired to honor Beckenbauer. -- Cheers milivella
From: milivella on 11 Jun 2010 10:29 milivella: > All the games: > - take less than 1 minute to play > - are open until the kick-off of the first match OK, you can't join anymore. Time for some stats! :) --- 3. Unsophisticated Prediction Contest In the following table, where each NT is placed in between two stages... WINNING FINAL SEMI-FINALS /\ Brazil England Netherlands Spain \/ QUARTER-FINALS /\ Argentina France Germany Italy Ivory Coast Paraguay Portugal Uruguay USA \/ 2ND ROUND /\ Algeria Australia Cameroon Chile Denmark Ghana Greece Honduras Japan Mexico New Zealand Nigeria North Korea Serbia Slovakia Slovenia South Africa South Korea Switzerland \/ GROUP STAGE ....RSS collective mind thinks that the most underrated teams are: 10 GER 8 SRB 7 ARG, ESP 6 CHI, DEN, ITA, MEX Closest: Clément an Juan Vazquez picked GER, SER, ARG and ESP. Farthest: Google Beta User, Futbolmetrix, Jesus Petry and Real Mardin didn't pick neither GER nor SER. --- 4. Unsophisticated Overrated Team Spotting Contest In the following table, where each NT is predicted to go out at a given stage... WINNING FINAL SEMI-FINALS QUARTER-FINALS: - Brazil - England - Netherlands - Spain 2ND ROUND: - Argentina - France - Germany - Italy - Ivory Coast - Paraguay - Portugal - Uruguay - USA ....RSS collective mind thinks that the most overrated teams are: 5 CIV 4 URU, USA 2 ENG 1 PAR, POR Closest: Elko and MH picked CIV, URU, USA and ENG. Further: well, everybody picked CIV! Futbolmetrix didn't pick USA, milivella didn't pick URU. --- 6. *Very* unsophisticated prediction contest RSS collective mind picks the teams in the right column in the following match-ups (the NT that goes further wins the match-up): BRA 12-7 ESP ENG 11-8 ARG [lowest difference, tied] NED 11-7 GER ITA 13-6 FRA POR 15-4 CIV SRB 15-4 CHI MEX 13-6 USA PAR 14-4 URU CMR 13-5 GHA RSA 11-8 NGA [lowest difference, tied] DEN 15-4 AUS SWI 16-2 GRE [highest difference] KOR 13-5 JPN SVK 13-5 SVN ALG 12-6 HON PRK 11-8 NZL [lowest difference, tied] (the sum is not always 19 because not every RSSer predicted about every match-up) Closest: DK picked 14 teams that are in the right column (from the left column he picked USA and NZL). Furthest: El Kot picked just 5 teams that are in the right column; he skipped 5 predictions, though. Jesper Lauridsen picked just 8 teams that are in the right column, predicting about every match-up. -- Cheers milivella
From: milivella on 27 Jun 2010 08:28 milivella: What the Simulation Collective (see their sophisticated entry) would have done in the unsophisticated games (using their prediction before the beginning of the WC, of course): > 1. Bet: who will win the WC? Brazil+Spain vs. the rest of the world Rest of the world. > 2. Bet: what will be the last stage reached by some major national > teams? > Brazil wins They predicted round of 16. > Spain round of 16 > England round of 16 > Argentina round of 16 > Germany round of 16 > France group > Italy round of 16 > Portugal group > Serbia group > Côte d'Ivoire group > Chile group > Cameroon group > Ghana group They agreed with me in all the above predictions (after all, I used Voros McCracken's prediction), so they would have not accepted the bet. > 3. Unsophisticated Prediction Contest: what teams are underrated? They would have picked: Mexico Serbia Chile Denmark Argentina South Korea Australia Spain Italy Germany After the group stage, they would be tied 10th, with - 6 points. > 4. Unsophisticated Overrated Team Spotting Contest They would have picked: Cote d'Ivoire Portugal After the group stage, they would have 1 point, like everybody but Elko and Michael. > 6. *Very* unsophisticated prediction contest They would have picked: ESP > BRA ENG > ARG NED > GER ITA > FRA POR > CIV SRB > CHI USA > MEX PAR > URU CMR > GHA NGA > RSA DEN > AUS GRE > SWI KOR > JPN SVK > SVN HON > ALG NZL > PRK After the group stage, they would be tied 7th, with 3 points. -- Cheers milivella
From: milivella on 27 Jun 2010 08:41
> What the Simulation Collective (see their sophisticated entry) would > have done in the unsophisticated games (using their prediction before > the beginning of the WC, of course): > > 3. Unsophisticated Prediction Contest: what teams are underrated? > > They would have picked: > Mexico > Serbia > Chile > Denmark > Argentina > South Korea > Australia > Spain > Italy > Germany On the other hand, if they would have been the gamemaster, they would have made slightly different base predictions: they would have put Ivory Coast between group and round of 16, not between round of 16 and quarters. -- Cheers milivella |