Bitcointalk IPL Prediction Pool & Discussion

[Haunebu]

And 2 valuable players Narine/Rusell are not performing, now kicked out. Mr Khan might start crying soon.

Lol. You do realize that SRK is one of the richest actors in the world, don't you? KKR losing would probably cause a small dent in his finances. Apart from that, KKR already won IPL twice so far which is a pretty good return on his investment. However, he probably would still be sad for obvious reasons.

I think they will surely lose the match and if they play on target, they must have to keep RR below 160 which I think impossible with their bowling unless Rashid Khan becomes the Lord Siraj 

Very little is impossible when it comes to the IPL. RR got restricted to 154 which is a decent target. However, SRH is currently struggling.

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[Pffrt]

Finally, Manish Pandey is back in his form. Two early wickets have gone but Manish and Vijay (too slow though) have got the needed partnership and match now seems easy. I liked Holder coming in the team but I think Willimson should be kept in the team by excluding either Warner or Bairstaw (that would require little change too).

[Haunebu]

Finally, Manish Pandey is back in his form. Two early wickets have gone but Manish and Vijay (too slow though) have got the needed partnership and match now seems easy. I liked Holder coming in the team but I think Willimson should be kept in the team by excluding either Warner or Bairstaw (that would require little change too).

I predicted a comfortable win, but never expected SRH to beat RR this easily after losing Warner and Bairstow so quickly. Pandey and Shankar were fantastic together.

It would be a tough call to replace Bairstow with Williamson and replacing Warner is absolute stupidity. Bairstow scored 97 recently which is why he will probably stay. Holder will probably stay too.

The problem with SRH has never been their foreign players, but the fault almost always belonged to the domestic players. Manish Pandey is the only consistent one among them currently.

[webtricks]

"Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner". Finally won a round! As I said earlier, it would take 2-3 rounds to get on track, here is my performance summary:

First 2 rounds - Total Points: 5 Total Correct Predictions: 4/13

Next three rounds: Total Points: 24 Correct Predictions: 17/27 with 8 margin points.


Manish Pandey showed complete dominance today! He batted with good intent, something which was missing from his batting from long time. Last time I saw him playing with this much maturity was year and half ago in IPL12. That was April 27th 2019, I was with @teosanru and we were enjoying Misal Pao in Pune's local restaurant while watching Manish Pandey's pacy innings. Hope you remember bud 

Good comeback from SRH, hope they would still qualify for play-offs.

[teosanru]

"Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner". Finally won a round! As I said earlier, it would take 2-3 rounds to get on track, here is my performance summary:

First 2 rounds - Total Points: 5 Total Correct Predictions: 4/13

Next three rounds: Total Points: 24 Correct Predictions: 17/27 with 8 margin points.


Manish Pandey showed complete dominance today! He batted with good intent, something which was missing from his batting from long time. Last time I saw him playing with this much maturity was year and half ago in IPL12. That was April 27th 2019, I was with @teosanru and we were enjoying Misal Pao in Pune's local restaurant while watching Manish Pandey's pacy innings. Hope you remember bud 

Good comeback from SRH, hope they would still qualify for play-offs.

Haha yeah Man! How can I forget that! Congratulation on win in this round! 


SRH have made this competition even more interesting now. RR seems to be out of this tournament just like CSK. Now all eyes are on the fight between SRH, KXIP and KKR. Which will also be narrowed down after the Next match of KXIP and SRH after which the loser would be out of the tournament. I think the rest of the three teams should comfortably qualify by winning a couple of matches out of their remaining 4-5. KKR has the added edge of winning one extra match as they can afford to lose one match and could still qualify by winning the rest 3. Unfortunately KXIP and SRH do not enjoy the Luxury. Day after tomorrow's match would be pretty interesting.

Meanwhile some CSK Fans still hoping if their team can qualify for the playoffs.  

[AB de Royse777]

"Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner". Finally won a round! As I said earlier, it would take 2-3 rounds to get on track, here is my performance summary:

First 2 rounds - Total Points: 5 Total Correct Predictions: 4/13

Next three rounds: Total Points: 24 Correct Predictions: 17/27 with 8 margin points.

You nailed this round!!!

So we have a clear winner in this round not like last round that we had to end up with 3 round winners LOL
webtricks outnumbered everyone in this round. Pffrt and Igniter had a good round too with 8 points each.



I really had a bad round and was able to manage only 4 points which obviously dropped me in the leaderboard.

Congratulations webtricks!

Edit: Round table has been updated: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5114470.0
Time goes quick! We only left two more rounds!!!

[Little Mouse]

Congrats webtricks. You really did a very outstanding job within last 2 rounds. Some other people have performed very well in the last round but it's me who got only 8 points from the last two rounds.
Here's my stats-
Round 1: 4
Round 2: 5
Round 3: 7
Round 4: 4
Round 5: 4
This two rounds lose me a lot of points.

[JSRAW]

"Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner".

Mubaraka ji

So you and @teosanru know each other irl, that's nice.

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Rajasthan had no chance yesterday but i don't blame them as our 3 dimension dude Vijay Shankar is too good for everyone even Lord Tewatia.  

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Everyone should stop selecting their pick from now on.. Give some chance to bottom 3 participants, May be quota/reservation system needed here.

[Vishnu.Reang]

Congratulations to webtricks!!!

The 5th round was perhaps the toughest. There were a lot of upsets and close matches. Also, we had three super-overs in the same day. In the end, it was down to luck. Anyway, I hope the 6th round won't be this much unpredictable. The action moves to Sharjah, where we have short boundaries. I am expecting a few 200 plus scores and thrashing wins. 

[Little Mouse]

Everyone should stop selecting their pick from now on.. Give some chance to bottom 3 participants, May be quota/reservation system needed here.

Stopping pick wouldn't guarantee bottom participants to get points and come closer to the higher as everyone else will be given default pick (5 times) and that will be enough I think. However, there are still chance for everyone. Look how webtricks, Royse777, pffrt has come closer to the topper. I had almost 2x point then pffrt I think but now he has more than me.

[Haunebu]

KKR followed by CSK this time. What is going on? Bowlers are bowling really well towards the tail end of the tournament. I expected CSK to post 80 or something, but Curran took them all the way to 114 which is brilliant considering how much pressure he was under.

Tahir played some great shots too though I have no idea why he wasn't part of the team from the initial stages. MI are set to take the top position once again.

[JSRAW]

What a dud game, glad didn't watch it. CSK did one good thing, giving chance to young batsmen and they should try this tactic for rest of the tournament, doesn't matter if they lose all game or not. They're already out anyway.

Consider remaining matches as practice game for 2021 season.

[shamimal93]

KKR followed by CSK this time. What is going on? Bowlers are bowling really well towards the tail end of the tournament. I expected CSK to post 80 or something, but Curran took them all the way to 114 which is brilliant considering how much pressure he was under.

Tahir played some great shots too though I have no idea why he wasn't part of the team from the initial stages. MI are set to take the top position once again.

I totally agree with you.  CSK played exactly as KKR played in the last match.  I didn't think CSK's team combination was right. They are the worst team in terms of team combination this time.  No matter how bad the team combination is, no matter how bad the selection is, they put players like Imran Tahir on the bench.  It's really ridiculous.  On the other hand, I like the team combination of Mumbai Indians the best.  As strong as they are in terms of batting, they are just as strong in terms of bowling.  I am quite sure that the cup of this year's event will be in the hands of Mumbai Indians.

[RapTarX]

Once again poor performance from CSK as expected although at the very first match, they beat MI. Their batsman made some mistakes certainly. I guess Rayudu and MSD has given their wicket.
On the other hand, both the openers of MI had great performance; Ishan Kishan was superb. He seems quite flexible in opening than batting at 4/5 or other places. But there's no chance for him to start the match as in next match Rohit will come back; Surya is playing good at 3, so no chance for Ishan to change his position.

[Haunebu]

On the other hand, both the openers of MI had great performance; Ishan Kishan was superb. He seems quite flexible in opening than batting at 4/5 or other places. But there's no chance for him to start the match as in next match Rohit will come back; Surya is playing good at 3, so no chance for Ishan to change his position.

Kishan and De Kock were excellent. They demolished CSK completely. This is the first time CSK didn't reach the playoffs and they probably might end up in last place at this rate.

Kishan could replace Surya for the 3rd position since his performances were better in comparison while Surya couldn't get going in many matches. MI are in a strong position to win the cup once again this year.

[RapTarX]

Kishan could replace Surya for the 3rd position since his performances were better in comparison while Surya couldn't get going in many matches. MI are in a strong position to win the cup once again this year.

Surya is consistent at 3 and there's no point to place him in another place I guess. Once Rohit is back, Ishan will be at 4. Ishan is an opener most of the times but since De Cock is having performance and Rohit is unlikely to play 3 or 4, everything will be same as before.

[SaShiRaJaVu]

Once again poor performance from CSK as expected although at the very first match, they beat MI. Their batsman made some mistakes certainly. I guess Rayudu and MSD has given their wicket.

It looks like the opening match win for CSK was a curse as they never came close to having a decent performance after that and it is the worst season they had and they will be stuck at the bottom and today's performance was the nail in the coffin as MI dominated them in every aspect. Before the IPL started i had high hopes and i even picked them to win the tournament but i was totally wrong .

[JSRAW]

Ranking based on Impact full performance (21 OCT) . * Taking top order wickets/important wickets and according to match scenario for example taking wickets when opposition already losing game earns you less points.

Look at the Economy rate of Rashid Khan, this guy is freak in T-20 format.

[Vishnu.Reang]

Kishan could replace Surya for the 3rd position since his performances were better in comparison while Surya couldn't get going in many matches. MI are in a strong position to win the cup once again this year.

Surya is consistent at 3 and there's no point to place him in another place I guess. Once Rohit is back, Ishan will be at 4. Ishan is an opener most of the times but since De Cock is having performance and Rohit is unlikely to play 3 or 4, everything will be same as before.

Suryakumar Yadav failed whenever he was under pressure. His performance so far in the IPL is average, with 243 runs from 10 matches. Ishan Kishan on the other hand has scored more runs at a higher strike rate. The best batsman needs to be at no.3 and therefore I would place Kishan at no.3 and Yadav at no.4. One thing I liked about Kishan is that he doesn't waste too many balls. MI needs someone like him to be at no.3.

[JSRAW]

Kishan could replace Surya for the 3rd position since his performances were better in comparison while Surya couldn't get going in many matches. MI are in a strong position to win the cup once again this year.

Surya is consistent at 3 and there's no point to place him in another place I guess. Once Rohit is back, Ishan will be at 4. Ishan is an opener most of the times but since De Cock is having performance and Rohit is unlikely to play 3 or 4, everything will be same as before.

Suryakumar Yadav failed whenever he was under pressure. His performance so far in the IPL is average, with 243 runs from 10 matches. Ishan Kishan on the other hand has scored more runs at a higher strike rate. The best batsman needs to be at no.3 and therefore I would place Kishan at no.3 and Yadav at no.4. One thing I liked about Kishan is that he doesn't waste too many balls. MI needs someone like him to be at no.3.

If my memory serves me well then Rohit used to come down the middle order (no 4) for number of times. MI could try same if Ishan Kishan is more comfortable and consistent at the top order and keep Surya at no 3.