[DISCUSSION THREAD] ⚽PREDICTION POOL AMERICA CUP U.S.A 2024 ⚽

[buwaytress]

Hahaha man for me is no problem, since you are a regular and we only has passed two games if you want put your picks just in case everybody agree with this, we can made an execption since the pool is small and is not big money.

I'm fine with this if everyone is. Everyone picked Argentina anyway, and he still missed the 2nd game, 1 point would have been what he'd gotten at least. So do I understand this means we get a late participant, and just +1 point to their total at the end? If so, go for it. But I don't think we should be accepting any more late players after tonight (or we can, if they don't mind losing out on early points).

Don't want a case of people trying to see if they could predict well and then join late when they have many points, is all

[cryptofrka]

Hahaha man for me is no problem, since you are a regular and we only has passed two games if you want put your picks just in case everybody agree with this, we can made an execption since the pool is small and is not big money.

Sure, for me it is ok as well. If the majority agrees I say go with it.
slaman29 - fill your predictions while the jury is doing their thing

Don't want a case of people trying to see if they could predict well and then join late when they have many points, is all

Yep, agreed. If there are newcomers after slaman, they forfeit all points won so far.

[darxiaomi]

I already send to him the link to the competition just in case he finally decide to take part.

[slaman29]

Thank you cryptofrka darxiaomi and buway. I have joined the pool now, as you can see I'm bottom anyway so nothing to worry about

Let me know if everyone agrees or not with me coming late. And I won't get mad if it doesn't go to me, it's my fault for not noticing about it anyway

Very low scoring games so far, don't you think?

[Slissy]

@slaman I have no problem with you joining a little late 😁

There have been very few goals so far, let's hope that changes 😁

I'm annoyed with myself, I had Argentina 2-0 but I changed to 3-0. I had the same with Mexico where I had 1-0 at first but changed to 2-0😂 Damn!!

From now on, I will not change anything😂

[darxiaomi]

Ahhh man i know it and i dont trust him, i know this Venezuela can win the game because "checho" Batista the argentinian coach is doing a super job with the team, but also know Ecuador right now is one of  the best teams in CONMEBOL so it was super bold if i picked Venezuela to win. Well next time i need to trust more my instics.

Mexico..... come on man what a disaster, like we say here in Argentina, how they cant made a good team of footbal being 130 millions. For everyone who doesnt know, Mexican people invented a "derby" against Argentina, and we dont know why it was for pure jealousy, and Argentina doesnt give a fuck clearly because they dont have any to compete with us, we only luaght about that and we make tons of memes.

[rdluffy]

Ahhh man i know it and i dont trust him, i know this Venezuela can win the game because "checho" Batista the argentinian coach is doing a super job with the team, but also know Ecuador right now is one of  the best teams in CONMEBOL so it was super bold if i picked Venezuela to win. Well next time i need to trust more my instics.

Mexico..... come on man what a disaster, like we say here in Argentina, how they cant made a good team of footbal being 130 millions. For everyone who doesnt know, Mexican people invented a "derby" against Argentina, and we dont know why it was for pure jealousy, and Argentina doesnt give a fuck clearly because they dont have any to compete with us, we only luaght about that and we make tons of memes.

I was doing a good job of advertising the Copa America, saying that it's an exciting tournament with great matches...
Only Argentina's game was reasonable, because the rest is really hard to watch hahaha
I hope Brazil's game tomorrow will be good and with plenty of goals

I'm still on 3 points, Venezuela's result surprised me a lot too, it's incredible how much the team has improved

[slaman29]

I was doing a good job of advertising the Copa America, saying that it's an exciting tournament with great matches...
Only Argentina's game was reasonable, because the rest is really hard to watch hahaha
I hope Brazil's game tomorrow will be good and with plenty of goals

I'm still on 3 points, Venezuela's result surprised me a lot too, it's incredible how much the team has improved

I have not been able to watch any yet, except the Argentina one like on a sneak peek. This coming weekend will try, but all the timings are crazy, EURO and Copa is shit

You can't always have all games start off nice, Uruguay one should have been great if Bielsa got his styles right?

For pool. 1 exact and 1 close, I like my picks so far

[darxiaomi]

Fuck man, im missing the results always by one goal from exact, yesterday USA 2 Bolivia 0 and i put 3-0, we are very dry in term of goals in this start, Uruguay 3-1 against Panama and i put 3-0. But well lets keep fighting.

[slaman29]

Shit Brazil!

Fuck man, im missing the results always by one goal from exact, yesterday USA 2 Bolivia 0 and i put 3-0, we are very dry in term of goals in this start, Uruguay 3-1 against Panama and i put 3-0. But well lets keep fighting.

That's why Superbru is a real roulette wheel with no influence whatsoever.

I know BSFL can feel like that sometimes BUT if you always put in good answers, then when your opponent slips up, you win. So it's not 100% random in that way. But these pools? Honestly 3-1 and 3-0 are they really supposed to be worth double the points of the guy who missed one goal, right?

[rdluffy]

Fuck man, im missing the results always by one goal from exact, yesterday USA 2 Bolivia 0 and i put 3-0, we are very dry in term of goals in this start, Uruguay 3-1 against Panama and i put 3-0. But well lets keep fighting.

Hehehe, that makes two of us, I missed a few games by one goal
I'm doing very badly in our competition, I thought I was going to get good results, but so far I haven't managed to get any exactly result and win 3 points

It's been more difficult than I thought, and I usually make a profit on my sports bets (but I always bet on wins and not on the correct result)

Peru vs Canada today should be a difficult game to predict , I haven't managed to decide on my pick yet
But Argentina vs Chile I've already decided 

[LTU_btc]

Shit Brazil!

I wake up early this morning, there was about 20 minutes of game remaining and when I saw 0:0 score on Superbru, I thought it's just another Superbru error. But didn't got burned by this game much as odds for Brazil was too low, same about goals over. While everyone was wrong with their predictions on Superbru, so, didn't lost anything. Additionally, got exact score from Colombia - Paraguay.

[cryptofrka]

That's why Superbru is a real roulette wheel with no influence whatsoever.

I know BSFL can feel like that sometimes BUT if you always put in good answers, then when your opponent slips up, you win. So it's not 100% random in that way. But these pools? Honestly 3-1 and 3-0 are they really supposed to be worth double the points of the guy who missed one goal, right?

Yea, this is the reason why people mostly don't sign up for the Superbru stuff anymore and why the companies don't want to sponsor it.
Doesn't really create any hype, it's just blind luck in putting in predictions.

This makes me follow Copa at least a little bit, so it's still a plus in my book.

[darxiaomi]

Fuck man, im missing the results always by one goal from exact, yesterday USA 2 Bolivia 0 and i put 3-0, we are very dry in term of goals in this start, Uruguay 3-1 against Panama and i put 3-0. But well lets keep fighting.

Hehehe, that makes two of us, I missed a few games by one goal
I'm doing very badly in our competition, I thought I was going to get good results, but so far I haven't managed to get any exactly result and win 3 points

It's been more difficult than I thought, and I usually make a profit on my sports bets (but I always bet on wins and not on the correct result)

Peru vs Canada today should be a difficult game to predict , I haven't managed to decide on my pick yet
But Argentina vs Chile I've already decided 

Well in this kind of competitions where you have a few strong teams and a few weaks one, is allways in that matches were the diference is made. In the ones were is pretty dificult to know how is gonna win.



Just in case i moved the money because i consolidate some Tx and i forget i was holding the money from the tournament in that wallet. But is safe.

[buwaytress]

I thought I was taking a risk with 2-0 scores for Canada and Argentina.

Turns out, not enough risk.

That's why Superbru is a real roulette wheel with no influence whatsoever.

I know BSFL can feel like that sometimes BUT if you always put in good answers, then when your opponent slips up, you win. So it's not 100% random in that way. But these pools? Honestly 3-1 and 3-0 are they really supposed to be worth double the points of the guy who missed one goal, right?

Yea, this is the reason why people mostly don't sign up for the Superbru stuff anymore and why the companies don't want to sponsor it.
Doesn't really create any hype, it's just blind luck in putting in predictions.

This makes me follow Copa at least a little bit, so it's still a plus in my book.

I think that's the undelrying reason people don't sign up (as much) for sure. I do look back, though, and remember that EPL is always popular, while other comps on Superbru fall by the wayside. Same format, different retention. Some Superbru pools I've seen are strong after many years, even growing.

The difference -- and I haven't put this to a scientific testing haha -- I believe is the interaction. The pools that are still active on Superbru are actively discussing wherever their home is. And here on the forum, EPL also attracts and retains a fairly large active community in English.

When there aren't many active viewers, there's less discussion, then that pool struggles.

So that's me in a roundabout way saying you're 100% right. Except for EPL (and perhaps Champions League), it has to be more than blind predictions to encourage forum discussion. But I think for comps like Copa, it is a good start. Someone has to plant the seeds -- then who knows, what's next?

I know the reality is also in the sponsorship. There are many who'll play just for the +EV and that's completely acceptable, even encouraged. But it's a symbiosis most people don't fully understand yet. Sponsors want value, and they get that with an active thread that's always visible. EPL will probably always survive and even thrive, even if it's on a shitty Superbru format forever, even if no one really manages it other than to administer and host. But everything else needs a bit of active intervention I think =)

[slaman29]

Hmm yes, I saw this problem in La Liga and Serie A but I kinda think the problem is deeper.

Why I say this? Look at the La Liga and Copa discussion threads, megaspammers especially from certain signatures. Lol ok I don't need to be indirect, Stake spammers especially. If you look there, every day guaranteed 20 posts from these users.

But in the paid pools, nada.

If you make more interaction, like BSFL, or even look at Champions League pool. You get more users, but they are not anyway the spammers since they are only interested in making posts, and they know if they spam the 'good' threads they get deleted.

But the worst thing is if I go in, and new users go in, all we see on first page of forum is the spam threads. That's why I didn't even know about Copa pool until I saw @darxiaomi tell it. So I missed it because buried under the spam threads. So something needs to be done about those.

[rdluffy]

Well in this kind of competitions where you have a few strong teams and a few weaks one, is allways in that matches were the diference is made. In the ones were is pretty dificult to know how is gonna win.

Hehehe I'm only in 13th place
Congratulations to MoSala and cryptofrka who have 16.50 points, I've only got 9 so far
I'm quite surprised at how bad I am at getting the results right (and in sports betting I have a good percentage).

I bet on a draw between Peru and Canada and I lost a lot of points on that match, I bet on 1x1 and I was surprised by the Canadian victory, since Peru is a team that is used to facing strong teams in CONMEBOL, and theoretically it would be difficult to lose to Canada

Today there are 2 more matches that I consider difficult to get right, Ecuador vs Jamaica and Mexico vs Venezuela.

[darxiaomi]

Yesterday again Argentina strugle so much to score against Chile, easily it can be done 3 goals for Argentina, but seems like the gunpowder is a little wet until now.

Well about the Peru Canada, Peru is not longer the PEru that it was when Gareca manage them, and they are coming back to his worst form which is a shit form like they have since the 2005 until Gareca arrives.

About mosalah.... well we all know his dirty tactis hahahaha, we know him very well and he laways go with lower goals results, and for him works pretty well i ahve to say, in several pools he is always fighting for paid positions.

[LTU_btc]

Tonight I put some money on Mexico and Ecudar, need to recover somehow from my EURO loses .

Hmm yes, I saw this problem in La Liga and Serie A but I kinda think the problem is deeper.

Why I say this? Look at the La Liga and Copa discussion threads, megaspammers especially from certain signatures. Lol ok I don't need to be indirect, Stake spammers especially. If you look there, every day guaranteed 20 posts from these users.

But in the paid pools, nada.

These spam megathreads is horrible, discussion is impossible here. I gave up posting in it long time ago. While pool topics is platform for quality discussion. Maybe not mainly about Superbru stuff, but more about whole competition. But seems that sponsors don't see enough activity andtheir name isn't getting enough exposure.
Though, EPL looks strong as always, while La Liga, Serie A and Bundesliga number of participants is stable every year.

[slaman29]

Man we really need to be not falling for the reputation of these teams and just going for 1-0 picks dirty MoSala tactics indeed, but come on Copa, don't be Eurocup people defending  Brazil especially you idiots wasted peoples chances on you.

How did MEXICO lose.

These spam megathreads is horrible, discussion is impossible here. I gave up posting in it long time ago. While pool topics is platform for quality discussion. Maybe not mainly about Superbru stuff, but more about whole competition. But seems that sponsors don't see enough activity andtheir name isn't getting enough exposure.
Though, EPL looks strong as always, while La Liga, Serie A and Bundesliga number of participants is stable every year.

That's the thing, Exposure is for spam threads. Campaign managers at Stake are very guilty in this case, but I guess they got what they are paying for, exposure. Now we need more Sheriffs to be super strict in moderation.