⚽ Sportsbet.io ⚽ Spanish La Liga ⚽ Football Pool Discussion Thread 2023/2024

[Trofo]

Ok guys now it is official. Sponsorship has been agreed with Sportsbet once again. I have also updated the OP with new info. Here are the sponsorship details:

1. 100 mBTC cash for pool rewards (over 3000$ at the moment)
2. 0.5 mBTC free bet for all participants paid when the league starts and we have final number of participants
3. 1 mBTC for each week yellow cap winner

Big thanks to Steve and Sportsbet once again. Should be another cracking year.

You can already start to sign up. Escrow address is the same one as every year. You have it in the OP. Send me a PM with tx details when you pay and I will send you a link to join Superbru. That being said La Liga is not live yet on Superbru so I can't send you joining details immediately. It will probably get live a couple of weeks before it starts. Same goes for Serie A, but my post is the last there so I will refresh it a bit later.

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[darxiaomi]

As always im in, i hope i can drag some other people from some threads who i think maybe they can join. But you know easy to say hard to do when you said to them they have to pay a fee to enter (no matter how generous and easy to retake was the opportunitie).

First season for me in this pool was good i ended in third position, but last one was a shame, so i hope to improve again this year.

[mitchr4]

I didn't have time to join the pool at first because I didn't know this pool existed.
Therefore I also want to join this pool, please count me in. Registration fees will be sent via PM.
Thanks to the Sportsbet team for sponsoring this competition again.

Is there another registration thread? like The Premier League has

[Trofo]

I didn't have time to join the pool at first because I didn't know this pool existed.
Therefore I also want to join this pool, please count me in. Registration fees will be sent via PM.
Thanks to the Sportsbet team for sponsoring this competition again.

Is there another registration thread? like The Premier League has

No need for registration thread in my opinion. Just send me a PM with tx id. And I am also organising Serie A pool with same conditions so check that one as well.

[mitchr4]

I didn't have time to join the pool at first because I didn't know this pool existed.
Therefore I also want to join this pool, please count me in. Registration fees will be sent via PM.
Thanks to the Sportsbet team for sponsoring this competition again.

Is there another registration thread? like The Premier League has

No need for registration thread in my opinion. Just send me a PM with tx id. And I am also organising Serie A pool with same conditions so check that one as well.

Okay, good to know that I thought only the Spanish pool was open but it was great. I also want to join both pools to try my luck  

[Trofo]

Paid for cryptofrka and myself.
Tx id: 8842983d34f7a4c5b0e9bc288d863b39cff7cc066f7e5cc37e0da9a7033565e7

More good news, buwaytress decided to throw some money out our way as well   That will be another 10mBTC added to addy for each pool. Thanks man.

[buwaytress]

^ You're welcome!

So great to hear about Sportsbet putting it all in with us again next season so I thought it's nice to make the pool even merrier. Happy with the fee, and hopefully, with 20 of us plus a tiny bit more we are 40% matched with the sponsorship, which is actually decent enough to show the ongoing demand.

Think our mission now, as with every new season, is to get one or two new players in. All you guys active in local boards, come on now, get those Madridistas and culers in, the forum seems to have many of them anyway

[darxiaomi]

Wow man thanks buwaytress for your generosity again (i remember you last year also put some extra money).

Its gonna be really good to see between 20 and 25 players this season.

Im gonna send my payment later, like in early august, but if its any problem with that i send the fee earlier.

[Trofo]

Wow man thanks buwaytress for your generosity again (i remember you last year also put some extra money).

Its gonna be really good to see between 20 and 25 players this season.

Im gonna send my payment later, like in early august, but if its any problem with that i send the fee earlier.

We started sign ups way early as a way to make it easier for those of us playing loads of pools. This way you can pay when most convenient or try to pay early if you think BTC is going up soon.

Deadline for payment is the kick off of the first match. If somebody can't make it, you guys can always pm me and we will find a way but that should be more than enough time.

[slaman29]

I don't know about you guys but this is my favorite pool, followed by Champions League. That doesn't mean I do well in it, it's just my favorite league, with my favorite team and my favorite sports.

I will send PM with payment details. Always a good idea to pay as early as possible because BTC always higher end of season

Barca just got slapped with UEFA fine. I have a feeling it's more bad news coming

[LTU_btc]

I don't know about you guys but this is my favorite pool, followed by Champions League. That doesn't mean I do well in it, it's just my favorite league, with my favorite team and my favorite sports.

I will send PM with payment details. Always a good idea to pay as early as possible because BTC always higher end of season

Barca just got slapped with UEFA fine. I have a feeling it's more bad news coming

La Liga is my favourite league, but seems that my own performance is getting worse each season. I hope that I will do better this year. But even if not, getting yellow caps with free bet rewards helps to recover what you paid, so, it's great deal even if you don't fight for top places.
Going tp pay sign up fee for all pools over this weekend if nothing will go wrong.

[darxiaomi]

Well i thin last year season was really strange, because Barcelona being not so good overall counting their performance in Europe ,make a big gap very early in the tournament so after that Real MAdrid and Atletico Madrid dont do a well tournament.

Also Sevilla start really bad fighting for relegation until 3/4 of the tournament.

[casperBGD]

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La Liga is my favourite league, but seems that my own performance is getting worse each season.

it is my favorite league as well, but had to let others win it last season
on the bright side, Valencia succeeded in relegation fight, and it was really intense at one point, hopefully this season will be very different on that matter

although, looking at transfer rumors' and activity so far, seems that Valencia is heading to one more hard season

[slaman29]

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La Liga is my favourite league, but seems that my own performance is getting worse each season.

it is my favorite league as well, but had to let others win it last season
on the bright side, Valencia succeeded in relegation fight, and it was really intense at one point, hopefully this season will be very different on that matter

although, looking at transfer rumors' and activity so far, seems that Valencia is heading to one more hard season

I guess in the end favorite has nothing to do with expertise lol I mean, my luck in pools and now in BSFL is going up and down, and if anyone looks, none of the "rankings" will tell a true picture about how much I like or follow a particular league.

I'll always remember casper updating us about Valencia, for now, I will wait on odds for them and Sevilla to see if I place early bets or put them on early blacklist

[LTU_btc]

So, I finally paid for both pools, here is tx id:
5ec13435282b35e64747fb468675809d863bb2b91c9551ae4f00e35e4c8e0028
There is still lot of time left, but I already see La Liga available on Superbur, no Serie A yet. Looked at 1st round schedule - Sevilla vs Valencia or biggest choker in league face each other and most interesting game is Athletic - Real, it's never easy for them to play at San Mames.

[KTChampions]

It's a pity that there is no functionality in Superbru to completely hide the participants' choices until the end of the event. If such functionality existed, then it would be possible to discuss the possibility of participation in the pool by several accounts (for example, I would like to try different forecasting strategies), but at the moment this is not possible, since one of the accounts can "peep" the choices of competitors.

[darxiaomi]

It's a pity that there is no functionality in Superbru to completely hide the participants' choices until the end of the event. If such functionality existed, then it would be possible to discuss the possibility of participation in the pool by several accounts (for example, I would like to try different forecasting strategies), but at the moment this is not possible, since one of the accounts can "peep" the choices of competitors.

Two things about this, first of all i dont thing its gonna be good for the competitions/pools to have multiaccounts. But asides of that i think if you put the pick but no lock them you are still unseen for the rest of the field. But im not 100% sure about that.

Last year in Premier League in the last rounds i make that only save the picks but not lock them (yes pure paranoid) but ended up having at least 75%+ of the picks the same as my rival.

[Trofo]

It's a pity that there is no functionality in Superbru to completely hide the participants' choices until the end of the event. If such functionality existed, then it would be possible to discuss the possibility of participation in the pool by several accounts (for example, I would like to try different forecasting strategies), but at the moment this is not possible, since one of the accounts can "peep" the choices of competitors.

Two things about this, first of all i dont thing its gonna be good for the competitions/pools to have multiaccounts. But asides of that i think if you put the pick but no lock them you are still unseen for the rest of the field. But im not 100% sure about that.

Last year in Premier League in the last rounds i make that only save the picks but not lock them (yes pure paranoid) but ended up having at least 75%+ of the picks the same as my rival.

If you don't lock your pick your opponent can still see them but the catch is that your opponent can't even look at the pick before locking his own so this really isn't a problem unless multiaccounts.

You can battle against it by changing your pick last minute and I don't think it is necessary before last 2 weeks.

[KTChampions]

It's a pity that there is no functionality in Superbru to completely hide the participants' choices until the end of the event. If such functionality existed, then it would be possible to discuss the possibility of participation in the pool by several accounts (for example, I would like to try different forecasting strategies), but at the moment this is not possible, since one of the accounts can "peep" the choices of competitors.

Two things about this, first of all i dont thing its gonna be good for the competitions/pools to have multiaccounts. But asides of that i think if you put the pick but no lock them you are still unseen for the rest of the field. But im not 100% sure about that.
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If we ignore the problems with peeping, then why wouldn't it be good? It was written above that it would be good if the number of pool participants turned out to be above 20, but if you introduce the possibility of participation from several accounts, then I am sure that the number of players will be more than 30 for sure. If the same fee is paid for each account, then this does not affect the economy in any way, but it increases the prizes.

[Trofo]

It's a pity that there is no functionality in Superbru to completely hide the participants' choices until the end of the event. If such functionality existed, then it would be possible to discuss the possibility of participation in the pool by several accounts (for example, I would like to try different forecasting strategies), but at the moment this is not possible, since one of the accounts can "peep" the choices of competitors.

Two things about this, first of all i dont thing its gonna be good for the competitions/pools to have multiaccounts. But asides of that i think if you put the pick but no lock them you are still unseen for the rest of the field. But im not 100% sure about that.
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If we ignore the problems with peeping, then why wouldn't it be good? It was written above that it would be good if the number of pool participants turned out to be above 20, but if you introduce the possibility of participation from several accounts, then I am sure that the number of players will be more than 30 for sure. If the same fee is paid for each account, then this does not affect the economy in any way, but it increases the prizes.

Multi accounting introduces a whole plethora of problems and I am not keen to tackle them. For instance you decide to enter with 2 accounts, I decide to enter with 5, and couple of more players decide to enter with 3 or 4. You are not feeling good since somebody is having more accounts then you. Half of the pool that plays single account feels like utter shit and they don't sign up next season.

Better to keep it simple and on equal footing for everybody.