RWC Competition 2019

First topic message reminder :

All the pool games now added so please continue to post your predictions prior to all kick offs or you won't score in that match.

Just checking if there is an appetite to have a RWC competition similar to our normal 6Ns one? Same rules which I copy below. I am happy to run this, but if someone else who has done it before has a desire to run it I will happily stand aside??

Your predictions must be posted prior to the matches starting.

1 Friday, Sept. 20 A Japan vs. Russia 19:45 Tokyo Stadium
2 Saturday, Sept. 21 D Australia vs. Fiji 13:45 Sapporo Dome
3 Saturday, Sept. 21 C France vs. Argentina 16:15 Tokyo Stadium
4 Saturday, Sept. 21 B New Zealand vs. South Africa 18:45 International Stadium Yokohama
5 Sunday, Sept. 22 B Italy vs. Namibia 14:15 Hanazono Rugby Stadium
6 Sunday, Sept. 22 A Ireland vs. Scotland 16:45 International Stadium Yokohama
7 Sunday, Sept. 22 C England vs. Tonga 19:15 Sapporo Dome
8 Monday, Sept. 23 D Wales vs. Georgia 19:15 City of Toyota Stadium

and the next bunch of matches before they start please!!

Tue, 24 Sep Russia v Samoa Kumagaya Rugby Stadium Watch Live 19:15
Wed, 25 Sep Fiji v Uruguay Kamaishi Recovery Memorial Stadium Watch Live 14:15
Thu, 26 Sep Italy v Canada Fukuoka Hakatanomori Stadium Watch Live 16:45
Thu, 26 Sep England v USA Kobe Misaki Stadium Watch Live 19:45
Sat, 28 Sep Argentina v Tonga Hanazono Rugby Stadium Watch Live 13:45
Sat, 28 Sep Japan v Ireland Shizuoka Stadium Ecopa Watch Live 16:15
Sat, 28 Sep South Africa v Namibia City of Toyota Stadium Watch Live 18:45
Sun, 29 Sep Georgia v Uruguay Kumagaya Rugby Stadium Watch Live 14:15
Sun, 29 Sep Australia v Wales Tokyo Stadium, Tokyo Watch Live 16:45
Mon, 30 Sep Scotland v Samoa Kobe Misaki Stadium Watch Live 19:15
Oct 2 France vs USA Pool C, Fukuoka 8.45am
Oct 2 New Zealand vs Canada Pool B, Oita 11.15am
Oct 3 Georgia vs Fiji Pool D, Higashiosaka 6.15am
Oct 3 Ireland vs Russia Pool A, Kobe 11.15am
Oct 4 South Africa vs Italy Pool B, Shizuoka 10.45am
Oct 5 Australia vs Uruguay Pool D, Oita 6.15am
Oct 5 England vs Argentina Pool C, Tokyo 9am
Oct 5 Japan vs Samoa Pool A, Toyota City 11.30am
Oct 6 New Zealand vs Namibia Pool B, Tokyo 5.45am
Oct 6 France vs Tonga Pool C, Kumamoto 8.45am
Oct 8 South Africa vs Canada Pool B, Kobe 11.15am
Oct 9 Argentina vs USA Pool C, Kumagaya 5.45am
Oct 9 Scotland vs Russia Pool A, Shizuoka 8.15am
Oct 9 Wales vs Fiji Pool D, Oita 10.45am
Oct 11 Australia vs Georgia Pool D, Shizuoka 11.15am
Oct 12 New Zealand vs Italy Pool B, Toyota City 5.45am
Oct 12 England vs France Pool C, Yokohama 9.15am
Oct 12 Ireland vs Samoa Pool A, Fukuoka 11.45am
Oct 13 Namibia vs Canada Pool B, Kamaishi 4.15am
Oct 13 USA vs Tonga Pool C, Higashiosaka 6.45am
Oct 13 Wales vs Uruguay Pool D, Kumamoto 9.15am
Oct 13 Japan vs Scotland Pool A, Yokohama 11.45am

1) Each week you will be asked to predict the scores from that weekend's games. All predictions must be made before the start of the games.

2) You will be get points depending on how close you are to the actual score. Points will be awarded in the following way:-
- You will get 20 points for getting the correct match outcome.
- You will get 10 points for getting a teams score correct.
- You will lose one of those 10 points for every point you are away from a teams score. Therefore you must be with 10 points of a teams score to gain points.
- If you get a match score spot on you will be awarded with double points. So if the correctly predict a match's score you will receive a maximum 80 points.

Example:-
Your prediction - Ireland 17-31 Wales
Actual result - Ireland 25-31 Wales
Your score 32 points

You would receive 20 points for correctly predicting Wales to win. As you were 8 points off Ireland's score you get 2 points for that and another 10 points for getting Wales' score spot on.

Ok Ladies and Gents....the business end of the tournament. Here are the semi-final results!

Rinsure.....marvellous effort!

Rinsure 59
7&1/2 50
majesticimperialman 49
hugehandoff 49
robbo227 45
RDW 45
whatahitson 39
sensiball 38
Wiglaf 35
bsando 32
Irishhoneymonster 30
London Tiger 25
TightHEAD 24
miaow 24
ebop 22
maestegmafia 18
Taylorman 17
Afro 15
Tattie Scones RRN 14
No9 11
BamBam 9
Pal Joey 5
alive555 4

Blimey, that went well.

Let's see how these look, then:

SA 3 - 27 Eng
Wal 10 - 28 NZ

Total scores for the comp to date.

Robbo227........you are now uncatchable.....incredible performance....what is your secret?.....mathematical formula and stats crunching or just your own expertise?





robbo227 1200
London Tiger 1098
BamBam 1093
Wiglaf 1083
ebop 1066
Irishhoneymonster 1060
Tattie Scones RRN 1059
7&1/2 1054
hugehandoff 1035
No9 1034
alive555 1028
Afro 1012
RDW 1005
miaow 985
TightHEAD 954
Pal Joey 950
bsando 935
sportform 927
Rinsure 911
maestegmafia 894
LordDowlais 835

It was all going so well

Should have gone heart over head on the England game

Wales 14 - 35 NZ
SA 18 - 25 England

Wanted to wait until teams were announced, but f it, get it done:

Wales 19 - 44 NZ
England 16 - 17 SA

Wales 12 NZ 40

SA 14 ENG 30

Wales 14 - 33 NZ
SA 17 - 23 England

Wales 28 - 23 New Zealand

England 28 - 30 South Africa

Trying to gain a few points on the leader board.

In all honesty I think England and NZ will win both and comfortably but not happy being so low on the leader board.

Wales 20 - 30 NZ
England 20 - 10 SA

Wales 19 - 31 New Zealand
England 21 - 17 South Africa

New Zealand 35 - 13 Wales
England 26 - 16 South Africa

Hugehandoff

On my phone so can't quote, but not sure I am uncatachable? A maximum of 80 points per game, so an exact score would still catch?

I think it's mostly luck. I go for the margin first, and then try to build the scores in my head - e.g. are we talking about attacking teams or defensive teams, so would a 10 point win be more likely to be 16-26 or 26-36 etc. I dont think I've got many scores right, but think I've picked up points quite regularly for being close.

Plus not forgetting a game always helps, as I did with the cricket one.

Wales 17 V New Zealand 32

England 27 V South Africa 15

robbo277 wrote:Hugehandoff

On my phone so can't quote, but not sure I am uncatachable? A maximum of 80 points per game, so an exact score would still catch?

I think it's mostly luck. I go for the margin first, and then try to build the scores in my head - e.g. are we talking about attacking teams or defensive teams, so would a 10 point win be more likely to be 16-26 or 26-36 etc. I dont think I've got many scores right, but think I've picked up points quite regularly for being close.

Plus not forgetting a game always helps, as I did with the cricket one.

Robbo....in all my excitement re England I totally forgot the Bronze medal match

It ain't over yet!

Wales 11 V New Zealand 44

England 18 V South Africa 24

Wales 10 37 New Zealand
England 32 17 South Africa.

England 28 - 15 South Africa
New Zealand 40 Wales 11

Doh.. think I forgot to post my predictions.... which would have been.. 

New Zealand 28 - 24 Wales  (after the game.. doh!!!!)

But this is still BEFORE Final kick off, so should count... 

England 18 - 23 South Africa

Too late for NZ v Wales.

England 23 - 15 South Africa

Apologies all for the late final round up and final results. 22 hrs back from Tokyo on Monday via Taipei, Honk Kong into Heathrow arriving 0500 on Tuesday all at the back of the plane with other large rugby fans. Brutal experience especially as very hung over. Still recovering to be honest. And we did not even show up in the final, but at least I still enjoyed the craic!

The medal match results. Looks like the cat got the cream here!

miaow 60
Taylorman 56
bsando 54
majesticimperialman 35
London Tiger 34
hugehandoff 32
Tattie Scones RRN 32
robbo227 31
BamBam 30
Pal Joey 30
7&1/2 30
Wiglaf 30
Afro 29
ebop 29
TightHEAD 28
maestegmafia 28
No9 25
Rinsure 23
Irishhoneymonster 0

And the final full results at the end of RWC 2019. Thanks to all for taking part. Luckily sport and rugby are not entirely predictable otherwise it would be boring. A long tournament and soneone else can run this next time

Robbo finally confirmed as the grand champione!!! Respect and very well done.

And Maesteg you are not last, just the bottom of the leaders! I left out several who ran out of puff and missed a round or two out completely.

robbo227 1231
London Tiger 1132
BamBam 1123
Wiglaf 1113
ebop 1095
Tattie Scones RRN 1091
7&1/2 1084
hugehandoff 1067
Irishhoneymonster 1060
No9 1059
miaow 1045
Afro 1041
bsando 989
TightHEAD 982
Pal Joey 980
Rinsure 934
maestegmafia 922

Well done Huge....thanks for doing this....can't have been easy.

Congrats to Robbo - good effort Sir

Late consolation for this cat.

Cheers everyone, congrats to robbo and everyone else.

Started average and faded!

Massive thanks Hugehandoff, Big undertaking performed admirably. A fine audition for all future competitions on the forum

hugehandoff wrote:And the final full results at the end of RWC 2019. Thanks to all for taking part. Luckily sport and rugby are not entirely predictable otherwise it would be boring. A long tournament and soneone else can run this next time  

Robbo finally confirmed as the grand champione!!! Respect and very well done.  

And Maesteg you are not last, just the bottom of the leaders! I left out several who ran out of puff and missed a round or two out completely.

robbo227    1231      
London Tiger  1132
BamBam  1123
Wiglaf   1113
ebop   1095
Tattie Scones RRN   1091
7&1/2   1084
hugehandoff  1067
Irishhoneymonster   1060
No9   1059
miaow   1045
Afro  1041
bsando  989
TightHEAD  982
Pal Joey  980
Rinsure  934
maestegmafia  922

Yes, missed out a few matches...

Thanks HH, it’s not an easy task scraping text from irregular places into meaningful data, a lot of hours needed for all that. Much appreciated.

You are all welcome, but it proved to take many more hours than I expected! We need an automated system for sure......founder??!!

Great work hugehandoff

Thanks huge... that was a mighty effort. (one more for you!)
I really enjoyed participating despite messing up most of the big game results. Well done Robbo!

Thanks for doing this!

I'd like to explain me not making the cut as having forgotten about a few games, but in truth I was just really bad at predictions.