Unsophisticated Prediction League - [R] November 15,16 (week 4)

The following results...

Hull City 2-2 Manchester City
West Ham United 0-0 FC Portsmouth
Getafe CF 0-2 Sevilla FC
Atalanta Bergamo 3-1 SSC Napoli
Cagliari Calcio 1-0 Fiorentina
Hertha BSC Berlin 2-1 Hamburger SV
FC Energie Cottbus 1-0 Karlsruher SC

....produce the following results...

Mark V. (Portsmouth) 2-2 (West Ham) Futbolmetrix
7h@ch (no prediction) 1-2 (Hull City) Juan Vazquez
Enzo (Hull City) 2-2 (Manchester City) Elko
milivella (Napoli) 0-2 (Portsmouth) Jesus Petry
MH (Sevilla) 3-0 (Fiorentina) JK
Sid (Man City) 2-2 (West Ham) James Farrar
ruud (no prediction) 1-2 (West Ham) Miguel
[Enzo 2-1 Aggie]
[ENzo 2-0 (Fiorentina) Randie]

....and so the tables are:

P GF
1. Jesus Petry 8 8
2. Miguel 8 5
3. Juan Vazquez 8 3
4. MH 7 9
5. Mark V. 6 11
6. JK 5 5
6. Sid 5 5
8. Enzo 4 8
Aggie 4 4
9. James Farrar 4 3
9. milivella 4 3
Randie 4 3
11. Futbolmetrix 4 2
12. ruud 3 4
13. Elko 2 2
14. 7h@ch 1 1

Table 2 = Points in the best lossless streak (current streak between
brackets):
8 Jesus Petry (8), Juan Vazquez (8), Miguel (8)

7
6 Mark V. (6), MH (6)
5 JK (0)
4 Agnostic (0), Enzo (4), Futbolmetrix (4), milivella (0), Sid (1)
3 James Farrar (1), ruud (0)
2
1 7h@ch (0), Elko (1)
0

If I have made any error, please tell me.

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Cheers
milivella

milivella:


2 draws in 7 matches: it seems that FF won't bet real money after all...


I stink, but kudos to the RSSer who tops the table!

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Cheers
milivella

milivella wrote:

Indeed. :-) Looks like everybody scored 2 in this round. Until now it
only happened once, and it almost went unnoticed. :-)

Enzo <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in news:e808df59-e19f-4fb2-9ff3-
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At least your posts don't get cancelled. How unlucky is it to have your
post cancelled and then for your opponent to pick the same team you did
AFTER you'd already picked it then had your post cancelled. I'd say that's
fairly unlucky.

On Nov 17, 12:21*am, ruud <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote:

When did that happen?
My sympathies, anyway.

ruud wrote:

Hmm, ruud, are you really sure that your post went through to begin
with? I'm asking, because there's no evidence anywhere on the net that
it ever existed. Not that I doubt you, but could it be that you only
/thought/ that you had posted, while for whatever reasons (e.g.
technical), posting failed? I'm asking because currently more and more
news servers ignore cancellation requests, and you can't kill a post
even if you want to. In particular, Google Groups ignores cancellations,
as I discovered recently when I wanted to cancel a post that I sent in
error. It got canceled on the originating server and on a couple of
other well-behaved ones, but remained on GG and on several others. The
fact that your post is not found on GG, suggests very strongly that it
never existed, or that it was canceled on the originating server the
very second it landed there - something not impossible, but very
improbable. If so, you really got very unlucky.

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No, no, you can't e-mail me with the nono.

Enzo:


I've never said that it was fair... The rules are supposed to bring fun,
and - in the case of table #2 - hope for everyone to win the league until
the last rounds. (Really, it's something like the cup format in real
football: the winner team isn't always the best team, but every match has
pathos.)

Anyway, nothing prevent us to award the RSS with the best predictive
ability at the end of the game.

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Cheers
milivella

El Kot:


I'm very sorry of this incident. Ruud's word should have been enough to me!
OTOH, I asked him whether he was sure to have sent the prediction, and he
didn't reply: I didn't know how to treat such a situation. I hope that we
can find an agreement with Miguel: eventually a draw (the match being West
Ham vs. West Ham)?

(I could say that everyone should check, after posting, that his post is
received by Google Groups, but, come on, who wants to do it every time?)

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Cheers
milivella

milivella wrote:

More precisely, you explicitly said it wasn't. ;-)


You mean, like most goals scored (irrespective of goals conceded) ?
That would be more or less what I suggested, running the race all at
the same time, instead of as a tournament.

I forgot: maybe you'd be better off after all to permit picking the
same team. Either let people mail their pick directly to you, or just
allow it. I don't think anybody will play just to duplicate his
opponent's choice.