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[Igebotz]

Yeah, Jokic is a great player but I didn't believe that he would be that good to to have everything over in the answer. But luckily for me Igebotz went with 3 "under" and I answered only 2 "under" so I guess I'm good. Also I guessed the RG semi finalists and that's one more point for me.

No surprise here, I struggled with several of the terminologies. For example, I had no idea what the FG% stood for, despite doing some research but not finding a proper explanation, therefore my responses on that question were all Inshallah. Since last season, I've been struggling with tennis and Dota questions.  Nowadays, I'm starting to care about these boring sports.

The correct spelling is Djokovic not Dokovic- you also made the mistake on the spreadsheet, its quite a difficult name so its common for people to misspell it.

Heheh, nope

It's Đoković - but is commonly written as Djokovic because most of the nations don't use these letters and don't even have them on their keyboards.
He's from a country bordering mine - we all use these letters so the above is 100% true.

I just found out about that now. I think we should all stick to his official tournament name - Novak Djokovic. I know Crotia and Serbia share many things in common, including beautiful women.

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[slackovic]

No surprise here, I struggled with several of the terminologies. For example, I had no idea what the FG% stood for, despite doing some research but not finding a proper explanation, therefore my responses on that question were all Inshallah. Since last season, I've been struggling with tennis and Dota questions.  Nowadays, I'm starting to care about these boring sports.

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Oh man... Why didn't you ask for the explanation? I too wasn't sure what it was, but then I checked out some NBA statistics and I realized that it means the percentage of field goals. Oh, wait, but in basketball there are no goals. Did I misunderstoodsomething? Is it what I thought it stands for?

[Slissy]

Wow CLS63 you are on Fire in the first round. Very well done!
I need a small miracle to manage a draw.. But the most important thing now is not to lose by so many points because we know how important it can be with the goal difference from last season😂

[ILuckyGuyI]

I see that there are a lot of people waiting for Inter to score at least one goal or people who expect Manchester City to win by one-goal difference. I didn't think in that way and thought that Manchester City would win by at least a two-goal difference without even conceding. I made a prediction like this because I think that it is very probable for us to see the usual Manchester City in this finale also.

I'm aware that this is a final game and they might be expected to play more slowly. But I can't think of them showing a boring performance while they have a huge chance to win the Champions League title for the first time. They should be dominating as usual and it will be up to Inter to defend them well to hinder a disaster.

[Trofo]

It's Đoković - but is commonly written as Djokovic because most of the nations don't use these letters and don't even have them on their keyboards.
He's from a country bordering mine - we all use these letters so the above is 100% true.

I just found out about that now. I think we should all stick to his official tournament name - Novak Djokovic. I know Crotia and Serbia share many things in common, including beautiful women.

We don't care about some small grammatical errors like missing one letter of the player. Đoković is his name while half of the word is writing it as Djokovic so both of those will always be fine.

What we care about is that you guys write it good enough that we know what player that is without any doubt. We had some really bad attempts on Alcaraz name in this round and this time we accepted them since there is nobody else with even similar name. But if you butchered Rune/Ruud names in such a way we would have to reject it.

[Igebotz]

No surprise here, I struggled with several of the terminologies. For example, I had no idea what the FG% stood for, despite doing some research but not finding a proper explanation, therefore my responses on that question were all Inshallah. Since last season, I've been struggling with tennis and Dota questions.  Nowadays, I'm starting to care about these boring sports.
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Oh man... Why didn't you ask for the explanation? I too wasn't sure what it was, but then I checked out some NBA statistics and I realized that it means the percentage of field goals. Oh, wait, but in basketball there are no goals. Did I misunderstoodsomething? Is it what I thought it stands for?

Nice for you. I answered my question pretty fast I'm used to missing out on first round question so I entered it earlier this time . So did he contributed to most of the field goals? I noticed majority went with Over. You are already leading but it's not over yet.

@trofo it's all good with me.

[Rikafip]

Oh, wait, but in basketball there are no goals. Did I misunderstoodsomething? Is it what I thought it stands for?

No, you didn't misunderstand anything, it does indeed mean field goal percentage, even though there are no "goals" in basketball.

Regarding why they use that term, my theory is this, as long time ago I asked myself the same thing (someone will surely correct me if I am wrong): for example, the word "goal" in football comes from a very definition of that word, and since goal of basketball game is to put the ball into the basket I guess that's why they use it.

[buwaytress]

@Ige @slackovic I had to look it up too, no big deal. Top answer showed me it's field goal... which does seem weird considering there are no goals, eh?

Regarding why they use that term, my theory is this, as long time ago I asked myself the same thing (someone will surely correct me if I am wrong): for example, the word "goal" in football comes from a very definition of that word, and since goal of basketball game is to put the ball into the basket I guess that's why they use it.

Old English word for "boundary". The aim of football was to get the ball past a boundary. Goal posts and goal line then defined that boundary, apparently.

I actually only watched kickboxing in Thailand in Malaysia, these aren't televised beyond local TV, and it has been 20 years almost since.

Was that kickboxing or Muay Thai?
This are two different sports with different rules, and Muay Thai is more similar to MMA, they accept knees and elbows, not just kicks like in kickboxing.

Sorry, that's muay Thai (which we just use interchangeably to refer to kickboxing, or our version of. In Malaysia it's "tomok" which isn't muay Thai rules, and the other way round).

I somehow managed to salvage a draw so far with jayce -- really surprised with his tennis picks that sort of gave me a free point, not unlike the way Sabalenka just gave Muchova a free pass into the final!

Wow CLS63 you are on Fire in the first round. Very well done!
I need a small miracle to manage a draw.. But the most important thing now is not to lose by so many points because we know how important it can be with the goal difference from last season😂

Yeah he can thank Bowen and Jovic individually. It's like City losing the opening game, but you know they do that and still win in the end (I remember, we got pipped on the last day).

[ralle14]

@Trofo @cryptofrka My answer for #5 needs to be corrected to a draw please check, I got the same answer as my opponent, but mine was marked red.

I guess my answer looked similar to the ones above me that went for Rune since we all answered in the same order. 

[Harkorede]

I got a 1mbtc freebet in my account I assume this was the final BSFL reward? Thank you jeremypwr and Sportsbet again. It was all I could get for relegation lol.

Perhaps it wasn't for the BSFL, IIRC BSFL weekly payments rewards and other prizes apart from the main prizes were paid in USDT, but I stand to be corrected if I'm wrong. It's highly likely that the 1 mBtc reward you got is for being joint yellow cap winner for the final round in the Serie A, I guess you weren't even aware that you were a yellow cap round winners as well, were you ?

That's how transparent any CRO2 team organize pools, you even don't get to remind them of any for these prizes.

[CLS63]

Wow CLS63 you are on Fire in the first round. Very well done!
I need a small miracle to manage a draw.. But the most important thing now is not to lose by so many points because we know how important it can be with the goal difference from last season😂

It would be amazing for me to start the league with a win against the last champion. But as you also said there is nothing certain yet.

Wow CLS63 you are on Fire in the first round. Very well done!
I need a small miracle to manage a draw.. But the most important thing now is not to lose by so many points because we know how important it can be with the goal difference from last season😂

Yeah he can thank Bowen and Jovic individually. It's like City losing the opening game, but you know they do that and still win in the end (I remember, we got pipped on the last day).

Jokic has really showed an amazing performance that can make history in final series. Let's see if Guardiola will make it this time.   

[Trofo]

@Trofo @cryptofrka My answer for #5 needs to be corrected to a draw please check, I got the same answer as my opponent, but mine was marked red.

I guess my answer looked similar to the ones above me that went for Rune since we all answered in the same order. 

You are right, changed the color to yellow for draw.

Jokic has really showed an amazing performance that can make history in final series. Let's see if Guardiola will make it this time.   

Can't believe he had that good game. I don't follow basketball so i went with random 2 over, 2 under to see what I get and I got draw in my H2H. Good enough for me

[notblox1]

I went with under on both assists and the FG%, and I really wasn't far off. slaman29 went wih all unders, so even 2 overs will get me the point.

I am making one early proposal for next round of questions from MMA.
One guy from Croatia is fighting next week in a main event PFL5 Ante Delija vs Maurice Greene, this would be interesting to have in one of your BSFL questions.
This should be great heavyweight fight: https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/99163-pfl-5-regular-season

Sorry, that's muay Thai (which we just use interchangeably to refer to kickboxing, or our version of. In Malaysia it's "tomok" which isn't muay Thai rules, and the other way round).

Interesting to see all this confusion with different names and rules, they can all exist but I think MMA with unified mixed martial arts rules is beating all of them right now.
Kickboxing problem is they have so many championship titles they dont even know to name them all, and its much worse situation than in boxing.

I somehow managed to salvage a draw so far with jayce -- really surprised with his tennis picks that sort of gave me a free point, not unlike the way Sabalenka just gave Muchova a free pass into the final!

I didnt expect Jokic to go all over in third question so this is one of my mistakes so far, and my opponent is doing very good, this is not going to be easy season for anyone.

[jeremypwr]

I am making one early proposal for next round of questions from MMA.
One guy from Croatia is fighting next week in a main event PFL5 Ante Delija vs Maurice Greene, this would be interesting to have in one of your BSFL questions.

Opening odds are Delija 1.25 vs Greene 4.00 so probably not the best example.
Maybe a better suggestion would be Marvin Vettori 1.67 vs Jared Cannonier 2.2 in the UFC on ESPN 47 Main Event.

[slaman29]

So far so good with U20s but then most people picked the right "bracket" of Italy and Uruguay in the final, and Israel and South Korea to be in 3rd place game. Would be funny to get 0 points for getting the "bracket" right but end result wrong.

I noticed Cro2 have both same answers in there, confidence in South Korea!

Maybe a better suggestion would be Marvin Vettori 1.67 vs Jared Cannonier 2.2 in the UFC on ESPN 47 Main Event.

I agree, but only because I recognize the names in UFC after participating in many prediction contests, both names are somehow really really familiar

[slackovic]

Damn it! I see that I have put Đoković and Alcaraz to fight in the finals in the Q9. Now I have to hope that Ruud doesn't reach the final so that Igebotz doesn't beat me in that question. The other half of the question is already wrong because Sabalenka lost to Muchova in the semi final game yesterday. But since it's a H2H question it doesn't matter since both of us answered the same on the women's tennis part of the question. If I had payed more attention, I'd probably also put Ruud to reach the final.

[cryptofrka]

@Trofo @cryptofrka My answer for #5 needs to be corrected to a draw please check, I got the same answer as my opponent, but mine was marked red.

I guess my answer looked similar to the ones above me that went for Rune since we all answered in the same order.  

Sorry about this - the spreadsheet is getting big so it's harder to rate now.
I skipped a row and actually made a mistake on quite a few and when I corrected it I guess yours slipped through.

We already have a new way to handle it, so it will be easier for us in the future - leading to (hopefully) less mistakes like these.

I am making one early proposal for next round of questions from MMA.
One guy from Croatia is fighting next week in a main event PFL5 Ante Delija vs Maurice Greene, this would be interesting to have in one of your BSFL questions.
This should be great heavyweight fight: https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/99163-pfl-5-regular-season

Is it a big competition? For 'fringe' sports we'll put in questions only things equivalent to the football World Cup/olympics/Tennis finals etc.
Considering I'm Croatian and have barely heard about the guy, not really sure this is the right type of question

[notblox1]

Is it a big competition? For 'fringe' sports we'll put in questions only things equivalent to the football World Cup/olympics/Tennis finals etc.
Considering I'm Croatian and have barely heard about the guy, not really sure this is the right type of question

Oh man you dont follow MMA that is your problem
Did you hear about Mirko CroCop? Everybody knows about him.
Well Delija is part of his CroCop team and he is planned to be one of the next opponents for ex-UFC champion Francis Ngannou, one of the best heavyweight MMA fighters in the world.
I am not saying we should answer simple question who should win in this fight, but more statistical questions.
This is not huge fight for title, but he is one of the top MMA heavyweight fighters in the world right now.

[slackovic]

Oh man you dont follow MMA that is your problem
Did you hear about Mirko CroCop? Everybody knows about him.
Well Delija is part of his CroCop team and he is planned to be one of the next opponents for ex-UFC champion Francis Ngannou, one of the best heavyweight MMA fighters in the world.
I am not saying we should answer simple question who should win in this fight, but more statistical questions.
This is not huge fight for title, but he is one of the top MMA heavyweight fighters in the world right now.

I too am from Croatia and have never heard of Delija, but of course that everyone in Croatia knows about Mirko CroCop But I don't follow MMA so it's no wonder I haven't heard about him. When I saw his last name, I thought he was from Serbia. Probably because fans of the football club Crvena Zvezda are called "delije" so it reminded me of them. I don't have anything against that question for the next week, but I'm sure that Cro2 team will decide what's best.

[cryptofrka]

Oh man you dont follow MMA that is your problem
Did you hear about Mirko CroCop? Everybody knows about him.
Well Delija is part of his CroCop team and he is planned to be one of the next opponents for ex-UFC champion Francis Ngannou, one of the best heavyweight MMA fighters in the world.
I am not saying we should answer simple question who should win in this fight, but more statistical questions.
This is not huge fight for title, but he is one of the top MMA heavyweight fighters in the world right now.

Nope, I don't - that's exactly why we ask for help regarding the questions about it.

Imagine it like this - for an MMA event to be in the questions, it has to be something most people are at least familiar with.
In football terms it cannot be a usual Premier League 'Man City - Liverpool' game, it has to be either a cup final, CL final, something of huge importance.
This Delija guy looks like Brighton at best, and from what I've seen he's fighting against a 'Middlesbrough'.