BitcoinNews.com's UEFA Champions League Football Preditor Pool Discussion thread

[hilariousetc]

Don't forget to put your scores in for today's and tomorrow's games. I think predicting the Champion's League is ten times harder than the Premier League. Some teams I'm just not familiar with at all. Then there's some injuries and suspensions you've got to take into consideration. Juventus are missing Ronaldo and apparently Real Madrid have a load of players out to injury. Man United are playing shit, but then Valencia aren't doing great either and are fourteenth in their league. Really not sure what to go with for a lot of these games and there's too much to research really so I guess I'll just have to go with gut instinct.

[mdayonliner]

Just you left to pay buddy.

Edit - 1KQ2ZvnRGezVHosYrWx27ftGMPNVR6KKKw

Edit 2 - All paid now, good luck to everybody especially buwaytress as obviously I want LFC to win the CL

Have we got the side bet sorted? The address seems some other transactions too including the amount sent for the side bet. If I am not mistaken then so far we have got 6 payments which are from...

bc1q0zk3sfdyae78u7am5d35naylnues8hs2t37gnd : 0.0016
3AetiSE62R1oRdgJeekXRKthzvQ69nDPQD : 0.0015
1GyLCQSgcSMN3oCDP6qitZ8b3sABP6wjaF : 0.0015
3Qf7UdmNiNaZcJaDpAMoQDU44pGUH8LqKw : 0.0015
1Gdd2hFRmaRUms1GSD2ZdQL2Nz7fZzDLkB : 0.0015
1GVjTur7HJFyiCNW2VLQrK2kpNEFJJ9Ape : 0.0015
---------------------------------------------: 0.0091 BTC

Please correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks

edit: Sorry, my bad I missed this...

Edit 2 - All paid now, good luck to everybody especially buwaytress as obviously I want LFC to win the CL

However, can anyone confirm me that the calculation I got is right? It's six of us?

[tokeweed]

Don't forget to put your scores in for today's and tomorrow's games. I think predicting the Champion's League is ten times harder than the Premier League. Some teams I'm just not familiar with at all. Then there's some injuries and suspensions you've got to take into consideration. Juventus are missing Ronaldo and apparently Real Madrid have a load of players out to injury. Man United are playing shit, but then Valencia aren't doing great either and are fourteenth in their league. Really not sure what to go with for a lot of these games and there's too much to research really so I guess I'll just have to go with gut instinct.

Yup...  It's not really worth looking into each fixture just to make an educated guess.  It's the group stages.  Things will get pretty pretty interesting startng at the KO stages tho.  Can't wait.  

[Trofo]

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Edit 2 - All paid now, good luck to everybody especially buwaytress as obviously I want LFC to win the CL

Funny thing, even though I have Real Madrid in the side bet I would like LFC to win the CL LFC deserves at least one big trophy this year and if that means me loosing this side bet so be it.

Group stages of CL are tough to predict. As someone mentioned above there is lot of teams and it is difficult to be aware of the situation in all of them. That goes double for the teams coming from smaller leagues which most of us don't watch regularly. On top of that most of the top teams will also field a few surprises on the pitch in the group stages. Especially if they are in the weak group and they have pretty much guaranteed passage to knock off stages.

[BitcoinSupremo]

I can confirm that this is mine

1Gdd2hFRmaRUms1GSD2ZdQL2Nz7fZzDLkB : 0.0015

By the way started the week with a correct score 1-2 for Man.City and a very close one to Juventus, had it 4-0.

[hilariousetc]

Don't forget to put your scores in for today's and tomorrow's games. I think predicting the Champion's League is ten times harder than the Premier League. Some teams I'm just not familiar with at all. Then there's some injuries and suspensions you've got to take into consideration. Juventus are missing Ronaldo and apparently Real Madrid have a load of players out to injury. Man United are playing shit, but then Valencia aren't doing great either and are fourteenth in their league. Really not sure what to go with for a lot of these games and there's too much to research really so I guess I'll just have to go with gut instinct.

Yup...  It's not really worth looking into each fixture just to make an educated guess.  It's the group stages.  Things will get pretty pretty interesting startng at the KO stages tho.  Can't wait.  

Well to say I wasn't that confident I'm off to a pretty good start so far with two correct scores from the two early games. The only trouble is six others also got the same results haha. Another seven players got one score right and the outcome. Real Madrid game is going to be an interesting one. I could even see a Moscow win with all the Real players out but not got the balls to back them. Russian crowds can be very lively and often give the home team a boost so sometimes you've got to take that into consideration. The weather is also another factor as it's freezing there and ten o clock at night when it kicks off I think.

[BitcoinSupremo]

Don't forget to put your scores in for today's and tomorrow's games. I think predicting the Champion's League is ten times harder than the Premier League. Some teams I'm just not familiar with at all. Then there's some injuries and suspensions you've got to take into consideration. Juventus are missing Ronaldo and apparently Real Madrid have a load of players out to injury. Man United are playing shit, but then Valencia aren't doing great either and are fourteenth in their league. Really not sure what to go with for a lot of these games and there's too much to research really so I guess I'll just have to go with gut instinct.

Yup...  It's not really worth looking into each fixture just to make an educated guess.  It's the group stages.  Things will get pretty pretty interesting startng at the KO stages tho.  Can't wait.  

Well to say I wasn't that confident I'm off to a pretty good start so far with two correct scores from the two early games. The only trouble is six others also got the same results haha. Another seven players got one score right and the outcome. Real Madrid game is going to be an interesting one. I could even see a Moscow win with all the Real players out but not got the balls to back them. Russian crowds can be very lively and often give the home team a boost so sometimes you've got to take that into consideration. The weather is also another factor as it's freezing there and ten o clock at night when it kicks off I think.

Yeah they started off with an early goal but judging by the way Real is playing, they feel confident to win the game although the minutes are passing. I had this as a draw 1-1 but then changed my mind to 1-2 at last minute.

[hilariousetc]

Spurs vs Barcelona is the only game I'm interested in today. I think Barcelona might actually win as Spurs are missing a few players and Barca favour big pitches and Spurs are still playing at Wembley. Not sure whether to go for the draw or not though.

Well to say I wasn't that confident I'm off to a pretty good start so far with two correct scores from the two early games. The only trouble is six others also got the same results haha. Another seven players got one score right and the outcome. Real Madrid game is going to be an interesting one. I could even see a Moscow win with all the Real players out but not got the balls to back them. Russian crowds can be very lively and often give the home team a boost so sometimes you've got to take that into consideration. The weather is also another factor as it's freezing there and ten o clock at night when it kicks off I think.

Yeah they started off with an early goal but judging by the way Real is playing, they feel confident to win the game although the minutes are passing. I had this as a draw 1-1 but then changed my mind to 1-2 at last minute.

I also had 2-1. It seems only one person backed the Moscow win and even got the score right. I'm sure Real will demolish them at home in the next game if they have their full strength team out.

[BitcoinSupremo]

Spurs vs Barcelona is the only game I'm interested in today. I think Barcelona might actually win as Spurs are missing a few players and Barca favour big pitches and Spurs are still playing at Wembley. Not sure whether to go for the draw or not though.

Well to say I wasn't that confident I'm off to a pretty good start so far with two correct scores from the two early games. The only trouble is six others also got the same results haha. Another seven players got one score right and the outcome. Real Madrid game is going to be an interesting one. I could even see a Moscow win with all the Real players out but not got the balls to back them. Russian crowds can be very lively and often give the home team a boost so sometimes you've got to take that into consideration. The weather is also another factor as it's freezing there and ten o clock at night when it kicks off I think.

Yeah they started off with an early goal but judging by the way Real is playing, they feel confident to win the game although the minutes are passing. I had this as a draw 1-1 but then changed my mind to 1-2 at last minute.

I also had 2-1. It seems only one person backed the Moscow win and even got the score right. I'm sure Real will demolish them at home in the next game if they have their full strength team out.

Because Real was over confident yesterday , now they have compromised just a bit their group stage, probably they will end easily in second place if they start playing for real but yesterday they just showed nothing.

[o_e_l_e_o]

Couple of nice scores for me coming through right now, would put me back in 1st place for the end of this week if things stay as they are. No doubt there will be a last minute goal or two to rob me of my points.

Edit: Yup. Messi just had to go and score in the 90th minute to drop me 1.5 points and from first to second. 

[LTU_btc]

In first week I was close to get wooden spoon. This week I'm just 1 point behind yellow cap. Big contrasts, lol . From P19, to P12, not bad week for me. I had only 2 exact scores, but got 1 or 1.5 point from most of games.

[mdayonliner]

In first week I was close to get wooden spoon.

I thought I inherited the wooded spoon but unfortunately someone snitched it from me  It was a good round for me comparing to the first round. 16/20 is quite satisfactory for me so far 

[hilariousetc]

Don't forget to put your scores in for tonight's games. Doing mine now but there's quite a few players who still haven't. Anyone think Juve will turn over United? Thought it might have been a bit closer if Ronaldo wasn't paying but turns out he'll be back for tonight. Would have gone for 1-1 draw but I think Juve will probably take it but you never know with United. Jose's jobs still on the line but I don't think tonight's game would be the decider. Not really any other games I'm interested in tonight other than that one.

[leea-1334]

Don't forget to put your scores in for tonight's games. Doing mine now but there's quite a few players who still haven't. Anyone think Juve will turn over United? Thought it might have been a bit closer if Ronaldo wasn't paying but turns out he'll be back for tonight. Would have gone for 1-1 draw but I think Juve will probably take it but you never know with United. Jose's jobs still on the line but I don't think tonight's game would be the decider. Not really any other games I'm interested in tonight other than that one.

Thanks for the note, I saw this quite late but managed to put in scores with 10 minutes to spare, and now have finished ALL my picks for group stages,,, it is actually quite easy to forget because they come after international break.

Looking at the press news, nobody is saying anything bad about United losing, even though it was at home, Juventus + Ronaldo is almost impossible to beat in Europe. I watched the game and it could have easily been 1-1, or even 2-2, a lot of good passing but De Gea was very good in goal, while the defence in Juventus is better than the current United attack. Good to see Martial smiling again, but I do not think this performance will bring United past Last 16.

Good job to everyone we are picking results well so far in Champions League, almost everyone only got 1 perfect score. Of course nobody predicted Lyon 3-3, but funny to see many people predicted Juventus win with many goals;)

[buwaytress]

This thread needs more love, but strangely enough all 20 participants are active on the predictions here, unlike the EPL ones which seems to have seen quite a few drop off.

Honestly, I thought I knew EPL better than Europe leagues but I seem to be doing marginally better in CL even though as hilarious does, I'm sort of punching in the scores without much afterthought. With all due respect to the smaller teams, I can't say I know a single player or manager from the likes of Red Star Belgrade, whom I hope will be the Qarabag for Liverpool of last season!

Odds for over 4 goals aren't even 2x, despite the Reds not being able to score lately, but I still took a bet on it haha.

Just you left to pay buddy.

Edit - 1KQ2ZvnRGezVHosYrWx27ftGMPNVR6KKKw

Edit 2 - All paid now, good luck to everybody especially buwaytress as obviously I want LFC to win the CL

Thanks buddy, we saw 2 consecutive finals and with the same team after the last time we brought home Ol' Big Ears, so I know it's not impossible for the same thing to happen again (though Real, to my great pleasure, are looking desperately far from the team we met in May).

[BitcoinSupremo]

During this round I got only one exact score so far , Young Boys vs Valencia and I am hoping for 5-0 exact score on the Liverpool game tonight together with a 3-1 win for Paris or a 1-1 draw for Dortmund. Not that many good results for this round, but here I see is closer than the EPL pool. Probably because we are less people.

[tokeweed]

Yo don't forget to make your predictions. 

And here's a little update on the side bet showing each club's current form so far.

BCT's CL Pool Side Bet:  Which Club Progresses the Furthest?

tokeweed:  City (6 pts) - LWW
buwaytress:  LFC (6 pts) - WLW
BitcoinSupremo:  Inter (6 pts) - WWL
Hhampuz:  Juve (9 pts) - WWW
hahay:  Barca (9 pts) - WWW
Trofo:  Real (6 pts) - WLW
mdayonliner:  PSG (4 pts) - LWD

All clubs are either first or second in their groups except for PSG at third in Group C.

[o_e_l_e_o]

Only 2 points between the top 6 - this league is even closer than the Premier League one. And congrats to Trofo for jumping a massive 10 places last week to be in first. I did pretty average last week and as a result dropped 4 places from 2nd to 6th. Looking back I seemed to agree with community on most of my predictions last week in terms of wins/draws/losses. Don't know if that means there were a lot of upsets last week* or the community and I are just rubbish, haha.

*I don't think there were, other than Napoli getting a draw against PSG.

[El duderino_]

Do I have to pick new club for the side bet or I can choose any that was already picked like Barca Real City etc I guess it's possible if one team have multiple winners the pot could be split between them.

I think (hope) that the sidebet is already closed.

I'll send over $10 later tonight or tomorrow when I have access to my ledger

Just you left to pay buddy.

Edit - 1KQ2ZvnRGezVHosYrWx27ftGMPNVR6KKKw

Edit 2 - All paid now, good luck to everybody especially buwaytress as obviously I want LFC to win the CL

WTF is lfc doing  :/

Missed this thread next time i Will be joining this kind of tournament things....

[BitcoinSupremo]

Big big big big dissappointment from Liverpoo tonight, I thought they would have an easy win against Red Star of Belgrade. This will be not good for their moral for the next game in EPL. Good win for Brugge on the other hand which I didn't see it coming either. 0 points for me in these two games.