Sportsbet.io's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread

[BitSat19]

April 30th is supposed to be when we could resume but I think it’ll be longer than that. Obviously as a big Liverpool fan I’m desperate for the season to restart. I think possibly late May we could restart.

There is no way how season can resume om April 30th. Just look at things in China. They had to start in February, but now they are planning to start on April 18th. It's 2.5 month. So, end of May or start of June is most optimistic scenario IMO. But cosidering how pandemy spreads in Europe when Italy and Spain already surpassed China by number of deaths. So, things doesn't looks good now..

You are right its really matter of concern as many countries in worst situation against this and until now we have no good news from any way even now in USA its spreading very quickly I am feeling this is not going to happen in April may be we have some chances in early days of June.

[tokeweed]

But again...  I'd accept for the season's pool to be scratched if the EPL scratches the season and there's no winner.  Pretty sure LFC would call a war against it too.

If the current top five agrees to scrapping this tournament (assuming it doesn't get going any time soon) we could put all the prize money into the pot for next season. I would probably only do this though if all the top 5 were okay with it. If this season doesn't get finished though I dread to think when the new league would start. Could be a long time before that happens if things get worse which I'm sure it will before it gets better. I'm not expecting anything catastrophic but enough to scare the gov into not allowing things to go ahead until the coast is well and truly clear but there's no end in sight for that.

Still a no for me...  I propose a degen route:  Let's bet the whole pot in the biggest show in sporting events right now.  UFC 249.  We gamble on Tony Ferguson.  He's around 3.5ish (but highly underestimated for this match) the last time I looked.  We get the price money for the top 5, we return everybody's reg. fee and the rest goes to the pot for the next pool...  or nothing.

With me, say aye!

[hilariousetc]

April 30th is supposed to be when we could resume but I think it’ll be longer than that. Obviously as a big Liverpool fan I’m desperate for the season to restart. I think possibly late May we could restart.

There is no way how season can resume om April 30th. Just look at things in China. They had to start in February, but now they are planning to start on April 18th. It's 2.5 month. So, end of May or start of June is most optimistic scenario IMO. But cosidering how pandemy spreads in Europe when Italy and Spain already surpassed China by number of deaths. So, things doesn't looks good now..

You are right its really matter of concern as many countries in worst situation against this and until now we have no good news from any way even now in USA its spreading very quickly I am feeling this is not going to happen in April may be we have some chances in early days of June.

I really don't think it will be anytime soon. Certainly not next month or the month after or even the month after that. I think we'll be lucky if they even get to play the games this year to be honest.

But again...  I'd accept for the season's pool to be scratched if the EPL scratches the season and there's no winner.  Pretty sure LFC would call a war against it too.

If the current top five agrees to scrapping this tournament (assuming it doesn't get going any time soon) we could put all the prize money into the pot for next season. I would probably only do this though if all the top 5 were okay with it. If this season doesn't get finished though I dread to think when the new league would start. Could be a long time before that happens if things get worse which I'm sure it will before it gets better. I'm not expecting anything catastrophic but enough to scare the gov into not allowing things to go ahead until the coast is well and truly clear but there's no end in sight for that.

Still a no for me...  I propose a degen route:  Let's bet the whole pot in the biggest show in sporting events right now.  UFC 249.  We gamble on Tony Ferguson.  He's around 3.5ish (but highly underestimated for this match) the last time I looked.  We get the price money for the top 5, we return everybody's reg. fee and the rest goes to the pot for the next pool...  or nothing.

With me, say aye!

Whilst it's sure to be a great fight I think Ferguson is too old to trouble Khabib really and I also doubt the UFC 249 will go ahead either:

[tokeweed]

^  Too old meaning..?  Ferguson is still in his prime judging from his performances and hasn't shown to be declining.  Khabib vs him could be closer to a coin flip than what the bookies priced it imho.

[DeathAngel]

^  Too old meaning..?  Ferguson is still in his prime judging from his performances and hasn't shown to be declining.  Khabib vs him could be closer to a coin flip than what the bookies priced it imho.

I’d love to see Khabib defeated but you know what he’s like with his boring, predictable style. He grinds his opponent down & then makes them tap out.

I don’t know how anybody beats him, you have to attack him & go for a KO.

[buwaytress]

I'm okay with awarding the top 5 right now, but I see no harm in waiting to see the final decision from the English FA.

And hm, I don't think that fight is happening either. @toke the more degen route would be to live stream a low-edge dice game on a site everyone agrees is good and bet all in. If we win, we do as you say. If we lose, we look like idiots;)

[tokeweed]

^  Oooo that's uber degen.  Let's stick with plain old normal degen..  Where we could at least have a better probability to win some monies.  And I guess it'll get everybody at the pool together too.

[examplens]

I'm okay with awarding the top 5 right now, but I see no harm in waiting to see the final decision from the English FA.

And hm, I don't think that fight is happening either. @toke the more degen route would be to live stream a low-edge dice game on a site everyone agrees is good and bet all in. If we win, we do as you say. If we lose, we look like idiots;)

let's reward the last yellow hat winner. that might be fair

[LFC_Bitcoin]

I'm okay with awarding the top 5 right now, but I see no harm in waiting to see the final decision from the English FA.

We’re more likely to finish the season than not. Let’s give it time, if the season gets cancelled pay out the top 5. If it doesn’t then we finish the season.

[tokeweed]

^  I was hopeful..  But seeing the stats, it looks like a BTC bull chart from 2017.  And it doesn't look like it'll slow down in a couple of months.  It's just getting started.

[Indymoney]

I'm okay with awarding the top 5 right now, but I see no harm in waiting to see the final decision from the English FA.

And hm, I don't think that fight is happening either. @toke the more degen route would be to live stream a low-edge dice game on a site everyone agrees is good and bet all in. If we win, we do as you say. If we lose, we look like idiots;)

let's reward the last yellow hat winner. that might be fair

I not agree with this as I never have any yellow in my first season 

[cryptofrka]

^  I was hopeful..  But seeing the stats, it looks like a BTC bull chart from 2017.  And it doesn't look like it'll slow down in a couple of months.  It's just getting started.

Even if that's true, people will simply have to get back to work one way or the other. They might keep us in homes after working hours, but we cannot stop economy for 6 months.

I think football as a huge business will continue as well. Behind closed doors maybe, yes, in June - August period - maybe, but I'm still certain the season will finish.

[buwaytress]

@examplens: I'm down for that, maybe ask all yellow hats and wooden spoons to do a random draw too, to pick the bonus winners. I know. Complicated. I think I've had one yellow hat, or was that last season? haha.

@LFC: Yeah, we'll just wait. It'll resume, in whatever form, and whenever. And it'll still be fun. And everyone in football will remember our (eventual) win;)

@cryptofrka: I actually have been reading a lot about the "degrowth movement" since last year and it's funny that this is happening now. Hard to summarise easily here but in degrowth, negative GDP isn't such a bad thing and it focuses on work that brings actual value to society. This is one good article about it: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bj9yjq/the-radical-plan-to-save-the-planet-by-working-less

and this: https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2017/11/19/why-branko-milanovic-is-wrong-about-de-growth

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

@LFC: Yeah, we'll just wait. It'll resume, in whatever form, and whenever. And it'll still be fun. And everyone in football will remember our (eventual) win;)

I Just read this in other thread:

Premier League season could end after Arsenal, Man City, Aston Villa & Sheffield Utd play again

And if this happen then toke is far away for anyone to give any competition so he will definitely have the first prize and for rest of the positions I think we will have a good fight until the end. Toke is like Liverpool in this season LOL

[LTU_btc]

@LFC: Yeah, we'll just wait. It'll resume, in whatever form, and whenever. And it'll still be fun. And everyone in football will remember our (eventual) win;)

I Just read this in other thread:

Premier League season could end after Arsenal, Man City, Aston Villa & Sheffield Utd play again

And if this happen then toke is far away for anyone to give any competition so he will definitely have the first prize and for rest of the positions I think we will have a good fight until the end. Toke is like Liverpool in this season LOL

I think it doesn't makes sense. If it will be safe enough to play these two games, why not play remaining 9 rounds?

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

I think it doesn't makes sense. If it will be safe enough to play these two games, why not play remaining 9 rounds?

I think for the remaining rounds there are scheduling concern too not just the virus things.
 
For these two match the risk is there but if they do not do it then they will have to cancel those rounds too I guess but the matches were already played for the other teams so results can not be reversed imho. And I am sure they will make sure everything that those players will be fully tested if they have the virus before sending them out in the ground.

[cryptofrka]

So, it seems like the Premier league will be continued without fans - like many of us thought it would. At least, that's the current plan according to The Independent.

The Premier League has developed plans for clubs to play televised games in isolated “World Cup-style” camps in the midlands and London over June and July, in order to try and finish the 2019/20 season amid the coronavirus pandemic.

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/coronavirus-premier-league-isolated-camps-remaining-fixtures-dates-suspension-latest-a9432961.html

If it happens, it will be hard for us Liverpool fans to watch the team lift the trophy without fans, but it will still be a relief knowing that the title will be won. Also, it will be much more fair to the whole league knowing that final positions will be determined based on all games being played.

[hilariousetc]

So, it seems like the Premier league will be continued without fans - like many of us thought it would. At least, that's the current plan according to The Independent.

The Premier League has developed plans for clubs to play televised games in isolated “World Cup-style” camps in the midlands and London over June and July, in order to try and finish the 2019/20 season amid the coronavirus pandemic.

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/coronavirus-premier-league-isolated-camps-remaining-fixtures-dates-suspension-latest-a9432961.html

If it happens, it will be hard for us Liverpool fans to watch the team lift the trophy without fans, but it will still be a relief knowing that the title will be won. Also, it will be much more fair to the whole league knowing that final positions will be determined based on all games being played.

I'm sure that's what they're wanting to do as that's the only possibly way they'll be able to get them done at all, but it's out of their hands and I'm really sceptical they'll be able to play these matches even like that. The government probably just won't allow it. I also think that a lot of non-football fans will complain ie why do we have to self-isolate or can't go outside with more than one other person but people are playing football matches?. Every player, coaching staff and match official will likely have to be tested before they play and what happens if something does spread between players? Could cause much more damage. As much as I want the football to continue as soon as possible, I just can't see it and think it would be better just to wait until all this has blown over.

[tomahawk9]

@cryptofrka  thx for the link.
From the article:

In order to complete the plan, clubs and their staffs would be confined to separate hotels away from their families, just like in an international tournament – albeit with full testing and quarantine conditions.

Add to this that they won't be playing in their home stadiums but rather in some god awful pitch or training ground as the article suggested...Idk, all of this sounds stressful as f***.

Also, that part that says "psychological boost"...Yeah, sure, to those who call the shots and are afraid of ending the year without a few more zeros on their bank acc.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

@cryptofrka  thx for the link.
From the article:

In order to complete the plan, clubs and their staffs would be confined to separate hotels away from their families, just like in an international tournament – albeit with full testing and quarantine conditions.

Add to this that they won't be playing in their home stadiums but rather in some god awful pitch or training ground as the article suggested...Idk, all of this sounds stressful as f***.

Also, that part that says "psychological boost"...Yeah, sure, to those who call the shots and are afraid of ending the year without a few more zeros on their bank acc.

I think it’s the TV money that will force the league to finish. Sky & BT have paid hundred of millions for these games. The show must go on!