TSF Super Rugby Tipping 2018 http://bit.do/tsf18
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Yes we're rolling this out one again - this is your first warning as the pre-season friendlies are on and the comp starts in less than 2 weeks. However that is some South African limbering up that we're going to ignore so the first game you need to top is on Friday 23 February.
I'll post the first tipping form soon and completing it will be your formal entry for the whole season.
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Time to make your first picks of the new season - that is your way of registering.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1uDMcBy_0h88bcRBpbjPZtUAlGNl0p5_StM77zOY6qVM/edit?usp=sharing
I'll sort the other stuff out as we go.
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The Google Drive folder is at http://bit.do/tsf18
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So far we have the tipping form, the responses so far, and the Squads. The squads are the same teams as last year with names in red that have already tipped. 4 new people who are marked as Others for now while we see how many are in before Friday's first game.
Do your best to spread the word, especially to the regular tippers.
If you don't already belong to the Facebook group it is https://www.facebook.com/groups/590271681147113/ - I'll post reminders in the group and on this thread.
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OK tipsters, time to get your entries in if you haven't already. I'm just about to tip - not tipped yet from last season are the list below - if you have a good way to contact any of them, can you give them a reminder please.
Midge
Tim
JK
FarNthHayden
Pauncefote
Smudge
ACT Crusader
Skudderstep
KiwiMurph
Chaz's Raiders
Winger
Paj
Higgins
Victor
Waynes World
Rico#1 -
@kiwipie said in TSF Super Rugby Tipping 2018 http://bit.do/tsf18:
OK tipsters, time to get your entries in if you haven't already. I'm just about to tip - not tipped yet from last season are the list below - if you have a good way to contact any of them, can you give them a reminder please.
Midge
Tim done
JK done
FarNthHayden done
Pauncefote done
Smudge done
ACT Crusader
Skudderstep done
KiwiMurph
Chaz's Raiders
Winger done
Paj done
Higgins
Victor
Waynes World done
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Great stuff, only 2 tippers from last year failed to turn up and we had some new people to fill the gaps. I've sorted into teams in the Squads document with these changes.
MIkedogz from the SunJags into the BOP Chiefs to replace Midge.
No changes to Blues A.
No changes to Blues B.
No changes to South Island.
No Quarter into Hurricanes Gold to replace Chaz.
No changes to Hurricanes Black.
No changes to Barbarians.
Handsome Ray and Bruce Kenyon into the Sunjags to replace Mikedogz and fill the vacant spot.Tipping as individuals (for now) are mikeasda34234r4r3 and Winfreux. You can miss one week and not be dropped from a team, miss 2 weeks in a row and you are goneburger.
The reigning champions are Hurricanes Gold and here is a reminder of last season's Top 10
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And here's some scores so far - plenty went for the Highlanders 1-8, nobody for the Rebels 25+.
BOP Chiefs 12 - 10 Hurricanes Gold
Blues A 11 - 14 Hurricanes Black
Blues B 8 - 11 Barbarians
South Island 13 - 14 SunJagsThese people have 15 and all share the lead.
KP Unite Tim Justin77 Smudge Corkscrew ACT Crusader Plastered Peni Hydro11 Hurrycanes Cactus Jack Bones Langakali GT12 Barbarian Handsome Ray Richie Winfreux
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The results are in for Week 1, nobody bagged 7/7 results even though 7 backed the Bulls to win. Plenty picked 6/7. Leading at the moment is, ahem, me - lucky to pick up 10 for Lions as top and Reds as bottom for scoring. Mikedogz the best for margin picks, 4/7 for him.
Big wins for the SunJags and BOP Chiefs, Blues A scraped home and Blues B and the Barbarian drew. Go to http://bit.do/tsf18 for all the details.
BOP Chiefs 48 - 42 Hurricanes Gold
Blues A 44 - 43 Hurricanes Black
Blues B 42 - 42 Barbarians
South Island 41 - 51 SunJagsKP 57
Cactus Jack 54
GT12 54
Smudge 53
Barbarian 52
Richie 52
Unite 51
DK 51
Antipodean 51
Bruce Kenyon 51 -
If you go to the URL in the subject line of the topic you will always be able to find the latest tipping form, plus the leaderboard etc etc.
Direct link to this week's form is
If anyone knows some of the newbies who tipped last week, can you give them a prod please?
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@kiwipie said in TSF Super Rugby Tipping 2018 http://bit.do/tsf18:
If you go to the URL in the subject line of the topic you will always be able to find the latest tipping form, plus the leaderboard etc etc.
Direct link to this week's form is
If anyone knows some of the newbies who tipped last week, can you give them a prod please?
Cheers mate.
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Amazingly when a team hardly ever beats NZ opposition, the Blues were heavily backed with only 4 of 43 going for the Chiefs. Similarly only 7/43 picked the Reds. Consequently nobody at all has 2/2 so far and many have 0/2. Best on 12 points are Mikedogz, Virgil, Phooey, Winger, Paj, Bones and Richie.
BOP Chiefs 7 - 7 Hurricanes Black
Blues A 5 - 6 Barbarians
Blues B 3 - 4 SunJags
South Island 4 - 6 Hurricanes GoldDisappointingly all the new tippers failed to tip in the 2nd week. If you know who they are, can you drop them a line as I can't find a matching user on TSF.
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Well this is getting embarrassing. I top scored again and my lead is now 22 - what are the rest of you doing?
With the draw in South Africa, there were only 6 counting games and only myself, No Quarter, Winger and Bones picked 5 of them. A fair few only managed 3 and margins were hard to come by.
BOP Chiefs 31 - 37 Hurricanes Black
Blues A 32 - 33 Barbarians
Blues B 30 - 22 SunJags
South Island 26 - 35 Hurricanes GoldKP 47
No Quarter 45
Hydro11 41
Waynes World 41
FarNthHayden 40
Winger 39
Stockcar86 39
Fiamacho 37
Bones 36
JK 36
Buck 36
Paj 36
Phooey 34
Victor 33
Hurrycanes 33
Plastered Peni 32
Rico#1 32
DK 31
TaniwhaRugby 31
Higgins 31
Virgil 31
Donsteppa 31
Triple T 30
Smudge 29
Langakali 29
Dogmeat 29
Cactus Jack 27
GT12 27
Sportboy 27
Barbarian 26
ACT Crusader 26
Broughie 26
Unite 25
Hooroo 24
Mikedogz 24
Justin77 23
Joan and Mary 23
Crucial 23
Richie 22
Tim 22
Gunner 22
Corkscrew 21
Skudderstep 20
Antipodean 19
Bruce Kenyon 14
Winfreux 14
Pauncefote 14
mikeasda34234r4r3 14
Handsome Ray 14
KiwiMurph 14 -
@kiwipie said in TSF Super Rugby Tipping 2018 http://bit.do/tsf18:
Well this is getting embarrassing. I top scored again and my lead is now 22 - what are the rest of you doing?
Picking the Blues and not picking the Rebels...
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A few missing tippers this week, Broughie, Cactus Jack and Bones - I've sent them messages here.
2/2 results not a problem for most but generally conservative on the margins so not many 10 point scores. Leading on 15/20 so far this week are KP, Tim, JK, No Quarter, Winger and Hydro11.
BOP Chiefs 10 - 11 Barbarians
Blues A 14 - 10 SunJags
Blues B 12 - 11 South Island
Hurricanes Gold 12 - 9 Hurricanes Black -
Well Bones and Broughie came through with late tips, Bones to reach respectability - Broughie not so much but still not the lowest of the weekend. Leading all scorers this week was TR with 54, 3 ahead of Hurrycanes with Bruce Kenyon the only other to reach 50 - he is the only one with 2 scores of 50 or more despite not tipping Week 2! Joining these 3 with 6/7 results picked were Paj and ACT Crusader who were not so successful with the margins. Outstandingly poor tipping from Unite with only 14 points, only the Highlanders and Sharks picked correctly and no margins. Joan and Mary made even worse picks but avoided the week's wooden spoon by getting the Sharks as top scorers.
3 games went against the TSF choice (Hurricanes, Blues & Jaguares) and if you missed all 3, this week was a struggle.
On the category picks, the majority picked the Sharks to top score but Phooey was the only one to pick the Brumbies and get the maximum 10.
I'm still leading overall, by 17 from TR who is 6 ahead of No Quarter with another 4 players tied for 4th, 5 points behind him.
The Barbarians remain the only undefeated team after squeezing past the BOP Chiefs, consistency the key as the Chiefs had to take Hooroo's 30 and Mikedogz's 31 because of Unite's disaster. Blues A thrashed the SunJags on the back of TR's star turn and solidity from the rest - the SunJags team let down Bruce Kenyon and Barbarian badly.
South Island had their first win, downing Blue B with Corkscrew and ACT Crusader their best - only DK passed 40 for Blues B. Finally their was a high-scoring draw between the 2 Canes sides, No Quarter the best for Gold and Hurrycanes and Paj for Black.
The ladder is still very tight, every team has won at least 1 game and Blues A lead on points scored.
TaniwhaRugby 54
Hurrycanes 51
Bruce Kenyon 50
Sportboy 49
KP 47
No Quarter 47
Paj 46
Corkscrew 46
Higgins 44
Rico#1 44
Hydro11 42
Plastered Peni 42
Tim 42
Crucial 42
DK 41
Barbarian 41
ACT Crusader 41
Fiamacho 41
Winger 40
JK 40
Justin77 39
FarNthHayden 37
Langakali 37
Stockcar86 36
Waynes World 36
Phooey 36
Triple T 36
Donsteppa 35
Virgil 34
Antipodean 34
Richie 33
Buck 32
Gunner 32
Skudderstep 32
Bones 31
Mikedogz 31
Pauncefote 31
Victor 30
Hooroo 30
Dogmeat 26
KiwiMurph 26
Smudge 22
GT12 20
Broughie 19
Joan and Mary 17
Unite 14
Cactus Jack 9
Winfreux 9
mikeasda34234r4r3 9
Handsome Ray 9 -
picking top and bottom scorers helps alot!
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seems the BLues managed to fool quite a few of us...or was it the Lions that have everyone fooled?
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Apologies, was processing the scores and accidentally set a narrow away win as a narrow home win meaning we all scored way too many! Will have to revisit and start again tonight.
From an initial look, Chiefs picks were good, a few missed out by going for the Crusaders, more by going for the Sharks and even more by going for the Blues. Nobody picked the closeness of the Lions win, only Donsteppa and Waynes World went for the Reds and a lot bombed out by picking the Rebels. Pretty poor picking of top and lowest scorers as well - it's a low scoring week!
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Right scoring all sorted so here we go.
Gunner led all scoring this week picking 6/7 for a total of 45 points. Rico was the only other to 6/7 and he was level with Smudge 3 points behind with Skudderstep the only other player to reach 40.
Fiamacho is the new leader of the "lowest score while tipping every game" list with just 12 points - he only picked the Highlanders and Lions to win. Victor went low with 16 and there were a fair few under 25.
Overall, I'm still out in front, 22 ahead of TR who is 10 ahead of Rico in 3rd. Paj moved into the top 10 and Smudge, Virgil and Gunner rose into the top 20.
Close matches all round with wins for the unbeaten Barbarians, South Island, Blues B and BOP Chiefs. The Canes teams both lost to tumble out of the top 4.
Only 6 matches next weekend so 2 more of those terrible category picks - closest game and team to kick most penalties.
Gunner 45
Rico#1 42
Smudge 42
Skudderstep 40
KP 37
Virgil 37
Crucial 35
FarNthHayden 34
Paj 34
Antipodean 34
Mikedogz 34
Broughie 34
TaniwhaRugby 32
Higgins 32
Winger 32
Barbarian 32
Tim 32
Unite 32
Waynes World 31
Hooroo 31
Corkscrew 29
Langakali 29
Bruce Kenyon 27
JK 27
Bones 27
Cactus Jack 27
Joan and Mary 27
Pauncefote 27
ACT Crusader 26
Donsteppa 26
GT12 26
DK 24
Hurrycanes 24
Richie 24
Sportboy 24
Buck 23
Hydro11 21
Justin77 21
No Quarter 19
Plastered Peni 19
Stockcar86 19
Phooey 19
Triple T 19
Dogmeat 19
Victor 16
Fiamacho 12
KiwiMurph 7
Handsome Ray 7 -
c'mon tippers, not many have tipped yet this week!!
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There's some guessing shit in there; most penalties kicked?
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@antipodean so you aren't guessing who wins the games too?
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@taniwharugby said in TSF Super Rugby Tipping 2018 http://bit.do/tsf18:
@antipodean so you aren't guessing who wins the games too?
Obviously. But more guesses lessens my score!
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@antipodean said in TSF Super Rugby Tipping 2018 http://bit.do/tsf18:
There's some guessing shit in there; most penalties kicked?
I'm open to creative ideas of what to ask when there aren't 7 games in the weekend. Most brainfarts would be a good one although a little subjective in the measuring! -
It's been an easy week for picking the winner so far with just one game left. The game with the largest percentage of losers was Canes v Highlanders where 15% picked the men from the south. So being 5/5 is unremarkable as most of us are. Those with the best margin picks are
Winger 42
Fiamacho 39
No Quarter 39
Stockcar86 39
Victor 39The scores could change a lot on the category picks and the Chiefs were a popular choice for top scorers and a few combined this with the Sunwolves for lowest scorers.
Blues A, Canes Gold and Canes Black have all 5 scoring players with 5/5 so far.
BOP Chiefs 31 - 25 South Island
Blues A 35 - 32 Blues B
Hurricanes Black 35 - 35 Barbarians
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And the final game is the upset, and of the 9 who tipped the Jaguares nobody picked the margin. Registering 6/6 were TR, Rico, FarNthHayden, Hooroo, Antipodean, Stockcar86 and Justin77. But the top scorer was Dogmeat, by virtue of picking Chiefs as top scorers, Sunwolves as low scorers and Stormers v Reds as the closest game. (Jaguares kicked the most penalties with 3 - picked only by Rico and Gunner.).
Hooroo was 1 behind Dogmeat on 51 with Winger, Barbarian and Hurrycanes on 47.
Not much change at the top, I lead TR by 20 who is 10 ahead of Rico. Virgil moves into the top 10, Hooroo jumps 16 spots to 13th and Dogmeat 11 places to 32nd. Lowest scorer was Richie with just 20 with Phooey on 22.
2 draws in the league, Barbarians with Canes Black and the also the Blues derby. Comfortable bonus point wins for the high scorers Canes Gold and BOP Chiefs.
Dogmeat 52
Hooroo 51
Winger 47
Barbarian 47
Hurrycanes 47
Stockcar86 46
TaniwhaRugby 44
Rico#1 44
No Quarter 44
Antipodean 44
Victor 44
Broughie 44
KP 42
Higgins 42
Virgil 42
Buck 42
Plastered Peni 41
Justin77 41
Hydro11 40
Bruce Kenyon 40
Mikedogz 40
Gunner 39
JK 39
Fiamacho 39
FarNthHayden 37
Tim 37
Langakali 37
Crucial 37
Paj 34
Bones 34
GT12 34
Triple T 34
DK 32
Waynes World 32
Donsteppa 32
Cactus Jack 32
Unite 30
Sportboy 29
Skudderstep 29
Joan and Mary 29
Corkscrew 27
Pauncefote 27
ACT Crusader 25
Smudge 24
Phooey 22
Richie 20
KiwiMurph 15
Handsome Ray 15 -
Stat time ...
Rico#1 leads in results picked - winner selected correctly in 27 of 33 games.
Bruce Kenyon still the only one with 2 x 50+ scores.
Barbarians still unbeaten after 5 weeks but 2 draws and no bonus points is preventing them leading. (A team gets a bonus point when they are 3 or more margin picks ahead of their opposition)
It is the TSF Cup this weekend, the ties are as below (based on your score for the previous round). Winners go through plus 8 best losers - a draw means both players go into the losers pot to compete with their total.
Dogmeat 0 v 0 KiwiMurph
Hooroo 0 v 0 Handsome Ray
Winger 0 v 0 Richie
Barbarian 0 v 0 Phooey
Hurrycanes 0 v 0 Smudge
Stockcar86 0 v 0 ACT Crusader
TaniwhaRugby 0 v 0 Corkscrew
Rico#1 0 v 0 Pauncefote
No Quarter 0 v 0 Sportboy
Antipodean 0 v 0 Skudderstep
Victor 0 v 0 Joan and Mary
Broughie 0 v 0 Unite
KP 0 v 0 DK
Higgins 0 v 0 Waynes World
Virgil 0 v 0 Donsteppa
Buck 0 v 0 Cactus Jack
Plastered Peni 0 v 0 Paj
Justin77 0 v 0 Bones
Hydro11 0 v 0 GT12
Bruce Kenyon 0 v 0 Triple T
Mikedogz 0 v 0 FarNthHayden
Gunner 0 v 0 Tim
JK 0 v 0 Langakali
Fiamacho 0 v 0 Crucial
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