Bitcointalk English Premier League pool betting Discussion Thread

[tokeweed]

^ Lol.  That's me and Here4Trades' side bet on who's gonna be the highest goal scorer in the EPL for this season.  He picked Lukaku and I got Aguero.  And since nobody was willing to do the escrow then we decided to do it on the honor system.  But the guy who doesn't pay gets a shiny red negative trust from hilariousandco (if he agrees).    Fun.

The bet is only for .01 BTC.  You wanna join?  Morata is still available and is looking good with 6 goals on top with co-leaders Lukaku and Aguero.

Aaaand just checked my score.  I'm still not doing good.    Consider my entry a donation.

I'm ok with doing it without escrow if we do a pledge that if one of us doesn't pay, we allow hilariousandco to put red negative trust in our BCT account.  What do you think?

Count me in bro, we already got this up and running   now I hope Lukaku makes it two years in a row.
Normally I would think that is purely unluck  but not been familiar with the Premier at all has gotten me at the bottom of the table.

Aguero - 6 goals
Lukaku - 6 goals

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/premier-league/top-scorers

[ajaxmoor]

Hate the fact that I missed putting in my predictions this week, except for yesterdays game allowing people to overtake me

[BitcoinSupremo]

Hate the fact that I missed putting in my predictions this week, except for yesterdays game allowing people to overtake me

Honestly I thought you played a lot of bluffs this week as I have a firm conviction you have played bluffs previous weeks that allowed you to be on top of the leaderboards . Still I think you have the highest chances of winning if you continue playing bluffs, this week was the best for me because I played all games like predicted and they all come this way .

[Wendigo]

What the heck is playing bluffs?

[hilariousetc]

Probably publicly posting different scores here to the ones he actually submits to the BBC site, but I doubt he's doing that. People could just copy the scores of the best players to try get an advantage. It happens in some fantasy leagues because if you always copy the best players you can catch up points pretty easily or maintain your lead without them catching you.

We also have another player joined.

[buwaytress]

@ajax are you sure you just didn't have a bad week like I did?
@toke come on, there are 32 games left and plenty of upsets and surprises, don't throw in the towel yet.
@unyil man you got some balls to come in and play after missing 6 weeks, but welcome to the BCT league!

And hey, there's still tonight's final game of the week to throw up 40 points. Maybe tonight's the night overtake you, hilarious. 

[BitcoinSupremo]

What the heck is playing bluffs?

Playing bluffs means playing a game that has A 1.30 B. 5.00 C. 12.00 and choosing a nil nil draw or nil to one for the weaker team with odd 12. I am sure ajax has done so because he got 200+ points in the week where all games ended badly for the favorites, last week or before 2 weeks don't remember correctly now.

[unyil]

@unyil man you got some balls to come in and play after missing 6 weeks, but welcome to the BCT league!

Ya thanks, I just want to see my ability to predict in a tournament.
God bless and good luck all.

[Wendigo]

What the heck is playing bluffs?

Playing bluffs means playing a game that has A 1.30 B. 5.00 C. 12.00 and choosing a nil nil draw or nil to one for the weaker team with odd 12. I am sure ajax has done so because he got 200+ points in the week where all games ended badly for the favorites, last week or before 2 weeks don't remember correctly now.

Dude the odds have nothing to do here at all. People can get 0, 10 or 40 points for correct outcome plus score. I don't understand what you are trying to get at sorry.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Only 60 points for me this weekend (before Arsenal vs WBA). I'm disappointed with my performance
I've moved down to 3rd in the table.

[ralle14]

The last couple matches after saturday helped me gained more points than I was expecting got 50pts after getting a correct score on sunday's match and almost hitting another one if the Arsenal match ended 3-0. That bumped me up to 4.5 now from rank 9 last week.
This week is a nice week I must say. 

[Here4Trades]

I think all soccer games have the same system in every country and I know English premier league is the most popular league, what makes you unfamiliar with English premier league?
BTW, are you not doing predictions for round 6? I also did not make predictions in round 5

Yeah, what makes me unfamiliar with the league is that If I'm not following it I don't feel like doing good at predictions, once at the gym I won a pol for the last world cup, I do watch every game on the series. Also I do watch fútbol from my country which is not fútbol at all, Copa Libertadores and others from Latin America.

[BetAdviser]

Welcom Unyil, 6 round later but thats doesnt metter, i also late for first 3 round, and got from this round 150 points, hope so that i will continue in that direction. Good luck and welcome once again

[ajaxmoor]

@ajax are you sure you just didn't have a bad week like I did?

https://i.imgur.com/hwgv1rn.png

Haha, Nah. I was close to the cyclone zone. Got busy there. Will need to make a comeback next week. I think you are doing really well too

[hilariousetc]

Welcom Unyil, 6 round later but thats doesnt metter, i also late for first 3 round, and got from this round 150 points, hope so that i will continue in that direction. Good luck and welcome once again

Seems he got the correct score on his first pick. I also got last nights game correct (the only one of last week). Current table:

Only 60 points for me this weekend (before Arsenal vs WBA). I'm disappointed with my performance
I've moved down to 3rd in the table.

Same, but looks like we both got the Arsenal game right. Still pretty close at the top.

[buwaytress]

https://talkimg.com/images/2023/11/16/FmYv2.png

Haha, Nah. I was close to the cyclone zone. Got busy there. Will need to make a comeback next week. I think you are doing really well too

Just keep safe, buddy, I'm sure you can do it next week. And yeah! 2 correct scores and it hauled me back up to 100. I think more than half of us took the right score on Arsenal, though I was sure it was all over when Jay Rodriguez was chopped down in the box. No penalty and shot saved by Cech, and we all got our 2-0 win. These are the margins of football, eh?

Anyway guys, a reminder that BBC Week 7 is up, so enter all your picks now to save heartache. I still got Liverpool on a 3-0 win away at good old Rafa's Newcastle!

[LFC_Bitcoin]

It's really close at the top, so many of us in real contention for the pay positions. I just spent about 10 minutes doing my predictions for the next round of fixtures

[BitcoinSupremo]

Well I am glad that at least one week , this last one, I am the best tipster , I have marked week 6 with Green in my text documents . Nothings beat such feeling, 3 correct outcomes for me, Man.City, Everton and Arsenal this week made go up in rankings once again. Only 100 points distance between the top 9 so really close at the top.

[cicciobtc]

Well I am glad that at least one week , this last one, I am the best tipster , I have marked week 6 with Green in my text documents . Nothings beat such feeling, 3 correct outcomes for me, Man.City, Everton and Arsenal this week made go up in rankings once again. Only 100 points distance between the top 9 so really close at the top.

Congratulations BitcoinSupremo, 170 points is a great score!
the 9th has only 100 points  of the first in the standings and just make the best score of the day to climb the rankings

here is the average of the top 5:

1)StephenCurry 96,67 (580 points)
2)AJaxmoor       93,33  (560    "     )
3)LFC_bitcoin    88,33   (530   "     )
4)Cicciobtc        85,00  (510   "      )
5)Carlespuyol   83,33   (500  "      )
5)Hilarious        83,33  (500    "     )

[tokeweed]

Is anybody open to another side bet?  Let's lay odds on the participants' chances of winning and let's make a bet on them if some of you are open to it.  It would be fun.  It doesn't have to be the exact odds.  Maybe something like 'my .007 for your .01 says that Carles wins the betting pool' or something of that sort.

What do you guys think?