[Football] Euro2004 prediction league

[Knight Theamion]

have you got any intresting stories to tell us Dace?


I have one, but it already was on the telly last night.

it is called


AUF WIEDER SEHEN!

[Dace]

My sincere apologies to all those who hoped i was not going to turn up

[Dace]

No stories.

My comp is ****ed and my friend aint around to fix it until tomorrow.

Hopefully i shall be back "properly" by Monday.

[1-X]

glad to see you made it, Dace. (the police can only hold you so long without charge?)

I have the eight sets of predictions for the finalists... those that don't make the semis next wednesday can take their points and join the losers in the other league if they wish.

Only 7 people have entered the erm... let's call it the Championship so far, so I hope everyone is aware that prediction does continue for those who didn't make the first 8.

(at0mic.c0w, Zharkov, Apothos, 1-X, roadrunner, SYMM, Non.Human) so far, 5 hours to go

[roadrunner_0]

just to annoy dace the library where i work has a 1meg connection

[JonnyBGood]

A poor performance by me (although I did miss two matches due to heavy drinking!)



PS England 2-3 Portugal

[Lupin]

Originally Posted by Knight Theamion

AUF WIEDER SEHEN!

..|.. you ****.

from an objective point of view, i have to admit that you deserve it to be in the quarter finals.

[KoeN]

tschuss lupin, tschuss!!!!

[at0mic.c0w]

Originally Posted by Lupin

from an objective point of view, i have to admit that you deserve it to be in the quarter finals.

i guess u haven't seen the way they scored the first 2 goals against latvia...

Originally Posted by KoeN

tschuss lupin, tschuss!!!!

let me lend you an ü ...there u go.

[1-X]

quarter-finalists

     	      Por-Eng
Leshy		1-2
LHC		1-2

Koen		2-1
MrL_JaKiri	1-3

Dace		2-1
Stew		1-2

JC		1-3 [J]
Ragnarak	1-3

"championship" league

at0mic.c0w	3-1
Zharkov		1-2
Apothos		1-3
1-X		2-3
roadrunner	2-3
SYMM		1-2
Non.Human	1-2
JonnyBGood	3-2

So, as no-one said 2-2 (the AET score, or any other draw), everyone in both competitions scores 0 for the first match 1-2 to England was the score of justice anyway

[Zharkov]

Originally Posted by 1-X

1-2 to England was the score of justice anyway

can i get a point for that?

it would cheer me up somewhat!

[JonnyBGood]

Surely I get partial credit for 3-2 to portugal?

[1-X]

sorry I didn't even notice you entered , and no, a draw is the result we use and 3-2 is not a draw

[KoeN]

Arghhhhhhhhhh I Said 2-1 ((((

[1-X]

we used the AET system in the cups last season without problem. I can appreciate that it might be fairer to award a general point to people who forecast the eventual winner, and possibly an almost point for goal difference based on the result of the penalties...

BUT those aren't the rules, at least for the current round.

[Lupin]

Originally Posted by at0mic.c0w

i guess u haven't seen the way they scored the first 2 goals against latvia..

doesnt matter tbh. (i doubt the goal of RvN was offside). holland clearly played better than we did in this tounrament.

[Dace]

THE JOY of England getting knocked out and my each way bet on Portugal to make it to the finals still being on.

THE DESPAIR of having initially put 2-2 and then deciding a couple of minutes later "Nah there's gotta be a winner so i'll change it to 2-1"

That'll teach me for ****ing with my original predictions.

[Dace]

BTW i cant really believe that only me and that dutch fag Koen thought Portugal would beat England.

There was alot of optimism in the predictions yesterday from English type people (Leshy was just being silly)

So even all round except JC who is now a bit screwed having used his Joker etc.

[JC]

Thats how confident i was about the game .

[1-X]

Some people will find that their opponents have almost totally identical predictions including joker. Obviously I'm not telling which, so if your bottle goes, pm your changes

[Dace]

What happens if you finish on even points with your competitor*?









*does it go back to "Round 1" points to determine a winner?

[1-X]

dunno, really should have a think about that as it's quite likely to happen

I might make the first tiebreaker in favour of people who picked the right (after pens) winner in matches that we scored as draws (like last night)

[Dace]

That sounds good too :)

[Leshy]

I'm always silly

[Dace]

Typical Dutchie :rolleyes:*











*:)

[1-X]

FRANCE VS GREECE

   Leshy 3-2 vs 2-0 LHC [J]

    Koen 2-0 vs 2-1 MrL_JaKiri 

[J] Dace 3-1 vs 3-1 Stew [J]

      JC 2-0 vs 2-0 Ragnarak [J]

"championship"

at0mic.c0w	1-2
Zharkov		2-0
Apothos 	2-0
1-X		3-1
roadrunner	2-1
SYMM		3-1
Non.Human	2-1

[at0mic.c0w]

WHO DA MAN \o/

[Zharkov]

lol france lol

[Ragnarak]

Heh god we suck, 1 point between the lot of us

[MrL_JaKiri]

That was truly excellent.

[1-X]

2 points* for at0mic.c0w in the championship...

in the "real" quarter-finals, 0 for all again

*correct goal difference = almost right

[Ragnarak]

What does happen when we all end up with 2 points in total?

[1-X]

Originally Posted by Ragnarak

What does happen when we all end up with 2 points in total?

undecided... I really thought 4 games with "almost" scoring + joker would be enough to separate people

No-one has entirely identical predictions for the remaining games so I hope it works out as it is

[at0mic.c0w]

Originally Posted by 1-X

2 points* for at0mic.c0w in the championship...

PS: can we can a ranking please

[1-X]

Originally Posted by at0mic.c0w

PS: can we can a ranking please

not sure what you mean

		X A G  Pts
at0mic.c0w	0 1 0   2 
Zharkov         0 0 0   0
Apothos         0 0 0   0 
1-X             0 0 0   0                  
roadrunner      0 0 0   0 
SYMM            0 0 0   0                
Non.Human       0 0 0   0

[Zharkov]

yes!

[at0mic.c0w]

Originally Posted by 1-X

not sure what you mean

		X A G  Pts
at0mic.c0w	0 1 0   2 
Zharkov         0 0 0   0
Apothos         0 0 0   0 
1-X             0 0 0   0                  
roadrunner      0 0 0   0 
SYMM            0 0 0   0                
Non.Human       0 0 0   0

woohoo \o/

(i know i'll finish last)

[Stew]

So either me and Dace or JC & Rag have v. similar predictions!!

[1-X]

Originally Posted by Stew

So either me and Dace or JC & Rag have v. similar predictions!!

I don't know how you think you deduced that, obviously I won't confirm or deny it. One detail I've always got to fall back on in the event of a tie is your earlier suggestion about the total number of goals scored in the round - in each pairing the totals are different. Or we could use the number of times you have a team's goals right without being generally right (So far that's Leshy=1, LHC=1, Koen=1, Jakiri=1, Dace=2, Stew=2, JC=0, Ragnarak=0...damn, they all match in pairs!)

[Leshy]

Clearly we're keeping the suspense for the last few matches

[1-X]

it gives you an edge to see your opponent waste his joker... that's five of them gone for 0 score now, not what I had in mind but when you can't trust the French to beat the Greeks....

[Stew]

Originally Posted by 1-X

I don't know how you think you deduced that, obviously I won't confirm or deny it.

I'm sure you said before that one set had equal predictions (ish) - and lookin at Greece - France, these 2 quarters in question fit the bill!

[roadrunner_0]

i hope dace wins, just to annoy everyone else

[Stew]

Originally Posted by roadrunner_0

i hope dace wins, just to annoy everyone else

Thanks

[1-X]

SWEDEN v HOLLAND

quarter-finalists

Leshy 1-2 v 1-2 LHC
Koen  1-3 v 1-2 MrL_JaKiri
Dace  2-1 v 1-1 Stew
JC    2-1 v 1-2 Ragnarak

"championship"

at0mic.c0w 3-2
Zharkov    0-1
Apothos    1-2
1-X        1-2
roadrunner 2-2
SYMM       1-0
Non.Human  1-1 [J]

[Kurashima]

Im backing Dace!

[1-X]

In the quarter-finals, Stew scores 2 points.
Everyone else goes into the last game on 0.

Considering 5 of you have gone for the same score for Czech-Denmark, that could leave us with a problem. Maybe we can arrange some sort of online penalty shootout?

"championship"
		X A G J Pts
Non.Human	  1   2  4
at0mic.c0w        1      2
roadrunner        1      2
Zharkov                  0
Apothos                  0
1-X                      0
SYMM                     0

[LHC]

If I have the same score as Leshy, presumably he goes through, as I don't recall him having used his Bonus multiplier yet.

[1-X]

if you have the same score, and it actually scores some points, which would be a novel thing, then yes, he'd go through because he'd score 2x you

You only have to look at past results to know Leshy, Koen and MrL haven't used their joker yet.

[Nondescript Human]

I'm winning the group of losers. Confusing.