World Cup predictions - first round

[Robert]

Paul, it was Sagacious Dolphin who told you about the rank formula

[Asmodean]

Okay...I know I am like ridiculously late. But Paul: If you'll accept me, here are my predictions:

The world champion: Argentina

Group A: N/A
Group B: N/A
Group C: Brazil
Group D: Poland
Group E: N/A
Group F: N/A
Gruop G: Italy
Group H: Belgium

The top scorer: Vincenzo Montella (Italy)

A France - Senegal (Seoul) N/A
A Uruguay - Denmark (Ulsan) N/A
B Paraguay - South Africa (Busan) N/A
B Spain - Slovenia (Gwangju) N/A
C Brazil - Turkey (Ulsan) 3-0
C China PR - Costa Rica (Gwangju) 0-2
D Korea Republic - Poland (Busan) 1-2
D USA - Portugal (Suwon) 0-4
E Republic of Ireland - Cameroon (Niigata) N/A
E Germany - Saudi Arabia (Sapporo) N/A
F England - Sweden (Saitama) N/A
F Argentina - Nigeria (Ibaraki) N/A
G Croatia - Mexico (Niigata) 2-2
G Italy - Ecuador (Sapporo) 3-0
H Japan - Belgium (Saitama) 0-2
H Russia - Tunisia (Kobe) 2-1


Good luck to everybody...

Asmodean

[JohnIII]

Originally posted by Fiera No one stole Slovenia anything. Now, the penalty conceded to Spain was a sweet surprise... Spain would have won without it anyway.

You have a bit of trouble against Slovenia, don't you?

[Eli]

Originally posted by Asmodean
Okay...I know I am like ridiculously late. But Paul: If you'll accept me, here are my predictions:

The world champion: Argentina

Group A: N/A
Group B: N/A
Group C: Brazil
Group D: Poland
Group E: N/A
Group F: N/A
Gruop G: Italy
Group H: Belgium

The top scorer: Vincenzo Montella (Italy)

A France - Senegal (Seoul) N/A
A Uruguay - Denmark (Ulsan) N/A
B Paraguay - South Africa (Busan) N/A
B Spain - Slovenia (Gwangju) N/A
C Brazil - Turkey (Ulsan) 3-0
C China PR - Costa Rica (Gwangju) 0-2
D Korea Republic - Poland (Busan) 1-2
D USA - Portugal (Suwon) 0-4
E Republic of Ireland - Cameroon (Niigata) N/A
E Germany - Saudi Arabia (Sapporo) N/A
F England - Sweden (Saitama) N/A
F Argentina - Nigeria (Ibaraki) N/A
G Croatia - Mexico (Niigata) 2-2
G Italy - Ecuador (Sapporo) 3-0
H Japan - Belgium (Saitama) 0-2
H Russia - Tunisia (Kobe) 2-1


Good luck to everybody...

Asmodean

You cant predict World Champion and Top Scorer after the competition had started.

[JohnIII]

Why not? Montella hasn't even played yet.

[Cairo_East]

21st place... About as good as my ranking in the Apolyton NHL playoff pool.

I slept through all of the day's games, I couldn't stand another night of 2 hours of sleep, five hours awake, and another 2 hours asleep. Have to prep for the Gorup D games. Still, I feel like I missed out on a lot.

[Eli]

Originally posted by JohnIII
Why not? Montella hasn't even played yet.

But others played.

Someone could have chosen player X to be the top scorer, and player X played really bad today and now it's 100% sure that he wont be the top scorer.
So if you pick one now, it wont be X(because he sucks or injured or whatever) and therefore you have an advantage over the other players. And this is not fair.

[Dr. Nick]

Can we still throw predictions in to the hat then?

[Dauphin]

Paul, the spreadsheet doesn't sort by rank automatically, so I've made a few tweaks (to the latest version you posted) so that it does. Makes it a bit easier.

[Fiera]

Originally posted by JohnIII
You have a bit of trouble against Slovenia, don't you?

No. In fact, I am happy that they didn't play any better against Spain.

[Paul]

Originally posted by Juggernaut
Paul: if I edit the predictions from my initial post, will you check them or should I make a new post?

Make a new post. There are already over 300 posts in this thread and I am not going to go through all of them to see if people changed their predictions.

Also, if I made any typos when I put the predictions in the spreadsheet, you can use your original post as proof that I made a mistake. But that doesn't work if you have edited it after some of the matches have already been made.

[Paul]

Originally posted by Eli
What's up with this Gopher guy? He made no predictions at all.

He posted his predictions for world champion, top scorer and group winners. He said that he would predict the match results later when he has more time, but apparently he hasn't had time yet. It's his loss, because he won't get any points for the matches he misses.

[Paul]

Originally posted by CyberShy
Paul, it was Sagacious Dolphin who told you about the rank formula

Sorry about that. Thanks SD. I downloaded your new version and I will look at it later.

[Eli]

Originally posted by El Awrence
Can we still throw predictions in to the hat then?

Yes, but you cant predict :

Winners of groups which already had games.
World Cup Winner.
Top Scorer.
And of course, past games.

I hope I didnt miss something. Paul?

[Asmodean]

So I can count myself in, then...eh??

Asmodean