AUTUMN INTERNATIONALS - INHOUSE PREDICTION GAME

First topic message reminder :

It seems the prediction games this year have been quite a hit with some, so on popular demand I have put together the Autumn International prediction game.

I have tweaked the way of scoring points a bit as the points difference one doesn't provide an accurate enough method due to - and + predictions as well as the penalty points weren't working out well. If you forgot to perdict a game you could still gain as a 50 point penalty could actually be the score difference.

So this time round it doesn't penalise you if you don't predict, but you gain no points if you forget to predict.

NB! if you are worried you might forget, predict them all in the beginning.

How it will work this time:

You predict a Home Team Name win or Away Team Name win or Draw.
Then you predict more than seven- Yes or No

For a correct (win) prediction you earn 2 points - home TEAM NAME, away TEAM NAME or Draw.
For a correct (margin) prediction you earn 0.5 points - more than 7 - Yes or No.

Fixtures.

November

Sat 10

Italy v Tonga, Brescia
England v Fiji, Twickenham
Wales v Argentina, Millennium Stadium
Ireland v South Africa, Lansdowne Road
France v Australia, Stade de France
Scotland v New Zealand, Murrayfield

Fri 16

Wales v Samoa, Millennium Stadium

Sat 17

Italy v New Zealand, Rome
England v Australia, Twickenham
Scotland v South Africa, Murrayfield
France v Argentina, Lille

Sat 24

Ireland v Argentina, Lansdowne Road
Italy v Australia, Firenze
England v South Africa, Twickenham
Scotland v Tonga, Aberdeen
France v Samoa, Stade de France
Wales v New Zealand, Millennium Stadium

December 2012

Sat 1

England v New Zealand, Twickenham
Wales v Australia, Millennium Stadium

Important points, if you decide to change your prediction, please make sure you head your post with "CHANGING PREDICTION" as it will make my job slightly easier.

Good luck and enjoy.

Biltong wrote:

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:Remember lads and lassies, you're all playing for second place, so don't be too disappointed

First the worst, second the best ASBO. Ok technically that was Taylorman and 3rd place makes me the golden princess but you still have to bow to royalty.

Sat 10
Italy v Tonga, Brescia / TON/ NO
England v Fiji, Twickenham / ENG / YES
Wales v Argentina, Millennium Stadium / ARG/ NO
Ireland v South Africa, Lansdowne Road / SA / YES
France v Australia, Stade de France / AUS / YES
Scotland v New Zealand, Murrayfield / NZ / YES

November Sat 10

Italy v Tonga, Brescia - Tonga - No
England v Fiji, Twickenham - England - Yes
Wales v Argentina, Millennium Stadium - Argentina - No
Ireland v South Africa, Lansdowne Road - South Africa - No
France v Australia, Stade de France - France - Yes
Scotland v New Zealand, Murrayfield - New Zealand - Yes

WEEKEND 1

Italy v Tonga, Brescia - ITALY/NO

England v Fiji, Twickenham - ENGLAND/YES

Wales v Argentina, Millennium Stadium - WALES/NO

Ireland v South Africa, Lansdowne Road - SOUTH AFRICA/YES

France v Australia, Stade de France - FRANCE/YES

Scotland v New Zealand, Murrayfield - NEW ZEALAND/YES

Italy-Tonga, Italy-Y
Eng-Fifi, Eng-Y
Wales-Arg, Wales-Y
Ireland-Saffers, SA-N
France-Ockers, Wallabies-Y
Scotland-NZ, NZ-Y

Sat 10th November

Italy v Tonga, Brescia - ITALY - NO
England v Fiji, Twickenham - ENGLAND - YES
Wales v Argentina, Millennium Stadium - ARGENTINA - NO
Ireland v South Africa, Lansdowne Road - IRELAND - NO
France v Australia, Stade de France - FRANCE - NO
Scotland v New Zealand, Murrayfield - NEW ZEALAND - YES

Sat 10 November.

Italy v Tonga, Brescia - ITALY - NO
England v Fiji, Twickenham - ENGLAND - YES
Wales v Argentina, Millennium Stadium - ARGENTINA - NO
Ireland v South Africa, Lansdowne Road - SA - NO
France v Australia, Stade de France - FRANCE - NO
Scotland v New Zealand, Murrayfield - NEW ZEALAND - YES

Sat 10

Italy v Tonga, Brescia / ITALY YES
England v Fiji, Twickenham / ENGLAND YES
Wales v Argentina, Millennium Stadium / WALES YES
Ireland v South Africa, Lansdowne Road / IRELAND NO
France v Australia, Stade de France / AUSTRALIA NO
Scotland v New Zealand, Murrayfield / NEW ZEALAND YES

Well since I won the last one I suppose I should defend my title!

Italy v Tonga, ITALY / NO
England v Fiji, ENGLAND / YES
Wales v Argentina, WALES / NO
Ireland v South Africa, SOUTH AFRICA / NO
France v Australia, AUSTRALIA / NO
Scotland v New Zealand, NZ / YES

you missed one.

You have been usurped by ASBO.

And 2nd and 3rd place as well at least RDW!

kiakahaaotearoa wrote:And 2nd and 3rd place as well at least RDW!

Oh, stop bragging about your top three spot.

I am the champion due to my consistent performances.

Anyone can be consistently poor mate. Unfortunately these people only get rewarded... with the 10 Springbok jersey. At least that's how it used to be. Maybe we're making a welcome return to recognising excellence.

If you'd seen my Super 15 picks you'd realise why I'm milking this so much!

I'll have you know that in the two competitions of the year so far, I placed 2nd and 9th.

Biltong wrote:you missed one.

You have been usurped by ASBO.

Eh??

I was referring to the summer tour one - I retired after that one having done so well!

You never took part in the rugby championship.

RDW_Scotland wrote:I was referring to the summer tour one - I retired after that one having done so well!

Agh, you wimp.

Too afraid to defend your title....?

To be honest I was going to but totally forgot!

So it wasn't really a retirement, just temporary amnesia.

I get that a lot...

Or do I?

You remind me f this saying (can't remember who said it)

Of all the things in life I lost, I miss my mind the most.

That should be the motto of a lot of people on here!

Italy v Tonga, Italy - No

England v Fiji, England - Yes

Wales v Argentina, Wales - No

Ireland v South Africa, South Africa - No

France v Australia, Austrailia - No

Scotland v New Zealand, New Zealand - No (Dont think NZ gonna have a easy time with the Scot's)

Good Luck to all the home nation's do us fans proud boy's

Sat 10

Italy v Tonga, ITALY - YES
England v Fiji, ENGLAND - YES
Wales v Argentina, WALES - YES
Ireland v South Africa, IRELAND - NO
France v Australia, FRANCE - NO
Scotland v New Zealand, NEW ZEALAND - YES

Italy v Tonga, ITALY/YES
England v Fiji, ENGLAND/YES
Wales v Argentina, WALES/YES
Ireland v South Africa, IRELAND/NO
France v Australia, FRANCE/YES
Scotland v New Zealand, NEW ZEALAND/YES

Italy v Tonga, Brescia / ITALY NO
England v Fiji, Twickenham / ENGLAND YES
Wales v Argentina, Millennium Stadium / WALES NO
Ireland v South Africa, Lansdowne Road / SOUTH AFRICA NO
France v Australia, Stade de France / AUSTRALIA YES
Scotland v New Zealand, Murrayfield / NEW ZEALAND YES

Italy v Tonga, Brescia / ITALY NO
England v Fiji, Twickenham / ENGLAND YES
Wales v Argentina, Millennium Stadium / Argentina NO
Ireland v South Africa, Lansdowne Road / SOUTH AFRICA NO
France v Australia, Stade de France / France No
Scotland v New Zealand, Murrayfield / NEW ZEALAND YES

Italy v Tonga, Brescia / ITALY YES
England v Fiji, Twickenham / ENGLAND YES
Wales v Argentina, Millennium Stadium / ARGENTINA YES
Ireland v South Africa, Lansdowne Road / SOUTH AFRICA YES
France v Australia, Stade de France / AUSTRALIA YES
Scotland v New Zealand, Murrayfield / NEW ZEALAND YES

Italy v Tonga, Italy No
England v Fiji, England Yes
Wales v Argentina, Wales No
Ireland v South Africa, South Africa Yes
France v Australia, Australia Yes
Scotland v New Zealand, NZ Yes

November Sat 10

Italy v Tonga, Brescia - Italy - No
England v Fiji, Twickenham - England - Yes
Wales v Argentina, Millennium Stadium - Wales - No
Ireland v South Africa, Lansdowne Road - Ireland - No
France v Australia, Stade de France - Australia - Yes
Scotland v New Zealand, Murrayfield - New Zealand - Yes

geez only rodders nobbled and I got the argie- yes result...surprising.

jeepers- oz getting beaten badly. Deans will not be having a good time on this tour...

Taylorman wrote:geez only rodders nobbled and I got the argie- yes result...surprising.

Not looking so flash on your France v Oz pick though Tman

You must have the sky rugby channel? Guttered they're only showing the ABs games on regular sky channels, will miss all other games. Sounds like things didn't go to plan last night.

Yeah I just booked it in for the AI's. Only 8 or so bucks a month. You can take it off again after the AI's so I figure 12 or so bucks for about 30 live matches of Rugby and replays adnauseum...not a bad deal.

I had rugby channel for a couple of years and knock it off when theres not a lot of Internationals on. Don't watch as much as I seemed to pre- world cup.

Good call that Tman, will have to look into it. I had the rugby channel but the missus took it off to save costs after discovering having kids ain't cheap.

Yeah I know its the one luxury I have. To get my own rugby I had to fork out Mysky+, multi room for the kids (and even then I have to watch via ISky sometimes!) and non rugbyers, movies for all. Its a lot alright and it'll be the first to go when things go south. Hopefully just not too soon.

Taylorman wrote:geez only rodders nobbled and I got the argie- yes result...surprising.

Great minds sir....great minds...

PREDICTIONS

Samoa - Not much
Wales - A little bit more

Australia - Quite a lot
Wales - Not much

New Zealand - Effing loads
Wales - Sod all

rodders wrote:

Taylorman wrote:geez only rodders nobbled and I got the argie- yes result...surprising.

Great minds sir....great minds...

Should have got them all, but can't rely on the bloody french to do anything right...

Biltong wrote:Sat 10 November.

Italy v Tonga, Brescia - ITALY - NO
England v Fiji, Twickenham - ENGLAND - YES
Wales v Argentina, Millennium Stadium - ARGENTINA - NO
Ireland v South Africa, Lansdowne Road - SA - NO
France v Australia, Stade de France - FRANCE - NO
Scotland v New Zealand, Murrayfield - NEW ZEALAND - YES

I got all the wins correct, just missed out on two bonus points with the Bloody French and Argentinians.

Biltong, I'd like to complain. Someone has clearly messed with my post. There is absolutely no way I was picking Wales to win that match on Saturday.

... he's a loser but he still keeps on tryin'....

That's me.

anotherworldofpain wrote:Biltong, I'd like to complain. Someone has clearly messed with my post. There is absolutely no way I was picking Wales to win that match on Saturday.

Are you yanking my chain or are you serious?

Biltong wrote:

anotherworldofpain wrote:Biltong, I'd like to complain. Someone has clearly messed with my post. There is absolutely no way I was picking Wales to win that match on Saturday.

Are you yanking my chain or are you serious?

Yes. I've noticed a few of my posts wording gets changed from time to time, but actual results flipping is a new one. I swear I picked Argentina by more than 7. I did give my password to various members of the moderator team in the past to investigate my various episodes of hate mail, but i thought if the post got changed then it always had an "edited:" suffix added on?

Either that or I was wrong. And we know that is not very likely, right?

Yes it is supposed to show "edited"

I'll see what I can do.

In the meantime, I suggest you get yourself a forum representatve, we will have open court and you will need a few character witnesses that can vouch for you.

All the participants in the Prediction game will vote on whether they beleive you or not. Therefor those character witnesses are very important.

I remember specifically saying to me mate AWOP that we were both going to vote for Argentina and lo and behold our posts proving that have gone and our votes have changed.

It's a blimmin conspiracy!

You too?

kiakahaaotearoa wrote:I remember specifically saying to me mate AWOP that we were both going to vote for Argentina and lo and behold our posts proving that have gone and our votes have changed.

It's a blimmin conspiracy!

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