Payments have been sent now. Thanks everyone for participating and massive thanks to jeremypwr and Sportsbet for hooking us up with the sponsorship. Without them this pool wouldn't be anywhere near as fun.
I got my payment also, it's a very nice bonus to get from World Cup, from pool, from bracket and even from quiz formats, so rightly right to thank Sportsbet, jeremypwr and everyone involved for making this a special memory (apart from the games themselves, amazing!!).
The PL pool is so long that you can slowly climb up the leader board over time. You don't need to do amazing just be consistent with slightly above average scores and you will crawl up the table. The world cup you can't afford to be average as the competition is so short. I started off pretty badly but moved up the table in the knockout stages but wasn't enough to grab a paid place (though I wasn't far off in the end but it's so close that you need every point you can get).
It was definitely the case in WC where Slissy led for a long time until a lot of people took over. I also did very well while absent, and lost 3 spots in the last 4/5 games but still got a nice 10 mbtc, so it's definitely like UCL. You have to be lucky a lot, and then keep it steady while EPL you just need to be consistent, which is hard to do with 38 weeks!