FIFA World Cup Predictor Game

[deacvision7]

Yeah, I'll do that after today's matches.

 

[HailToTheDeacons]

Will there be periodic standing updates?

 

[RJKarl]

I predict there will be rampant flopping and whining.

 

[deacvision7]

Will there be periodic standing updates?

Forgot to email the spreadsheet to myself from my work computer. :doh: So update will just have to wait until Monday, unfortunately.

 

[DeacMan]

No World Cup has even been held in South America since the 70s. (1986 it was held in Mexico, if you want to count that.)

So, I'm not sure that history has any rational judgment on how European teams will do in 2014 Brazil.

What is interesting is just how much of a home field advantage both Chile and Colombia had in their games. And Argentina should be even more so since they play all their group games in Southern Brazil. Doubt that was necessarily the case at Argentina 1978 - i.e. S. American teams with huge traveling support.

 

[DeaconSlim2.0]

I predict there will be rampant flopping and whining.

Only if you keep posting in all the WC threads

 

[VaDeac]

whining.

Irony.

 

[DeacMan]

So I was invited by a Brit at work to participate in a world wide prediction contest. Pick every game in the group stage before they begin. At the end of day 3 I was first in the world - all alone out of thousands. Alas, I'm quite certain it won't last, but it was fun while it did.

 

[deacvision7]

Points through the Germany win:

Spot the Wonder	18
sd3	18
gsterp	17
Fayet	17
timdunk	17
VaDeac	17
HTTD	17
BiffTannen	15
JuiceCrew	15
stonz	15
cville	14
ATLDeac	14
leftcoast	14
siff	14
TeethDeac	14
Neurodeac	14
BBDeac	14
DeacMan	14
tejas	14
sailordeac	14
timthedeac	14
iodeacs	14
cide	13
dv7	11
jdawg	11
townie	11
DeaconSlim	11
TWMD	11
bdz	11
Deacon	10
justicebork	10
bernbp	8
dieseldeac	7
BadgerDeacon	7

 

[Neurodeac]

At least I'm beating DV7.

 

[deacvision7]

dv7, can you update the point totals for all the teams in the OP?

right now it's:

Brazil: 4
Cameroon: ?
Croatia: 0
Mexico: ?

OP updated

 

[Spot the Wonder]

The fact that I'm tied for first shows that to this point, this exercise requires little to no football knowledge.

 

[HailToTheDeacons]

Nigeria was a poor 7th pick.

 

[deacvision7]

Nigeria was a poor 7th pick.

24/34 (71%) picked Nigeria as their 7th tier team.



I'll update the standings after the matches today for all Matchday 1 results. (So I'll ignore the Brazil/Mexico result until tomorrow)

 

[HailToTheDeacons]

They had one job: get three points from Iran :rulz:

Whomever took the Ticos is in great shape. And Ghana still might steal points.

 

[deacvision7]

Whomever took the Ticos is in great shape.

Townie, Spot, Biff, stonz, and sd3

 

[BadgerDeacon]

I think I should have 11 with Nigeria, Brazil, USA and Ivory Coast unless I'm missing something about the rules.

 

[bigdoublezero]

He hasn't updated since Brazil netted that sweet, sweet point from the 0-0 draw.

 

[deacvision7]

I think I should have 11 with Nigeria, Brazil, USA and Ivory Coast unless I'm missing something about the rules.

Didn't want to do an update until after RUS-KOR, so I'll show the standings after Group Stage 1 later this morning -- that will not reflect the 0-0 Brazil/Mexico match. I'll then do one at the end of today since 1/4 of the groups in Group Stage 2 will be complete by then.

 

[deacvision7]

Standings after every team's first group game (so this does not include the draw for Mexico v Brazil from yesterday)


Average points gained so far is 16.11.

sd3	21
stonz	20
BiffTannen	19
siff	19
HTTD	19
BBDeac	19
cville	18
gsterp	18
Spot the Wonder	18
timdunk	18
VaDeac	18
Neurodeac	18
tejas	18
timthedeac	18
iodeacs	18
Fayet	17
TeethDeac	17
jdawg	16
ATLDeac	16
DeacMan	16
dv7	15
DeaconSlim	15
leftcoast	15
JuiceCrew	15
TWMD	15
sailordeac	15
bdz	15
townie	14
justicebork	14
BadgerDeacon	14
bernbp	13
cide	13
Deacon	12
dieseldeac	12