⚽ Sportsbet.io ⚽ Bundesliga ⚽ Football Pool Discussion Thread 2025/2026

[LTU_btc]

Damn, 5 guys sharing yellow cap, it's something what you won't see often. Too bad there isn't freebets for winners anymore . Strong round from @KTChampions and my lead now is out of double digits zone.
Forgot to say few words about Der Klassiker. It was action filled game, but final outcome is as usual. Now it's safe to say that fate of Bundesliga trophy was decided on final day of winter. Positive result from Borussia would have kept them quite close.

[KTChampions]

Damn, 5 guys sharing yellow cap, it's something what you won't see often. Too bad there isn't freebets for winners anymore . Strong round from @KTChampions and my lead now is out of double digits zone.
Forgot to say few words about Der Klassiker. It was action filled game, but final outcome is as usual. Now it's safe to say that fate of Bundesliga trophy was decided on final day of winter. Positive result from Borussia would have kept them quite close.

This time the Joker card 1-1 didn't work in your favor, but it was close. I think by the end of the season, such outcomes will mean a lot, many teams are losing motivation.
In any case, a 9-point advantage should give you peace of mind and room to experiment.
By the way, as I understand it, you can't see how points are awarded for bonus picks until the end of the final round? I remember last season the standings weren't finalized immediately after the final round (or am I mistaken?).

[cygan]

in around 8 hours the 25th matchday in the bundesliga starts with the game bayern vs. mönchengladbach and the battle for the top ranks begins again
to make sure that all pool participants submit their picks in time, here is a reminder for all those who are missing out:

Code: Saint-loup morvillz7z buwaytress Kanapka el che Etiquette.exe Renato297 Trofo B1g4udge

[buwaytress]

Funny story: after the last game, checking kicktipp leaderboard takes you all the way back to GM17... where I was actually still in top 2. So cruel of kicktipp to show me that leaderboard. Watch out, boys and germs, I'm wiping the soot off my cap and oiling the barrels of my scattershot ping machine.

Translate: I'll pretend I know what I'm doing.

[cygan]

today we can congratulate Trofo on winning the yellow cap - congratulations!
on matchday #25 he scored an impressive 25 points the most of any participant!
there were no changes at the top of the table... morvillz7z climbed three places and is now in fifth place

[cygan]

in around 9 hours the 26th matchday in the bundesliga starts with the game mönchengladbach vs. st. pauli and the battle for the top ranks begins again
to make sure that all pool participants submit their picks in time, here is a reminder for all those who are missing out:

Code: KTChampions morvillz7z Saint-loup Harkorede Etiquette.exe Kanapka buwaytress Trofo el che Renato297 B1g4udge

[KTChampions]

in around 9 hours the 26th matchday in the bundesliga starts with the game mönchengladbach vs. st. pauli and the battle for the top ranks begins again
to make sure that all pool participants submit their picks in time, here is a reminder for all those who are missing out:

Code: KTChampions

Thanks, for some reason I completely forgot about this pool.
I've made my picks, but I'm still thinking about the Bayer vs. Bayern game. Will Bayer waste energy trying to secure the toughest points possible in the Bundesliga? Or is it better to try your luck in the return game against Arsenal, where everything is going very well so far? Regarding Bayern, the motivation is also unclear, it seems that it is in their interests to weaken Arsenal.

[buwaytress]

Thanks for the reminder! Wanted to pick a Bayern loss but went a bit more realistic and chose the draw. I know, I know, my idea of realistic is not... very... realistic. But with points to chase, one must commit to ill-advised maneuvers, no? Also, no Freiburg for me this week, thank you very much.

P.S. Trofo yellow cap? How rude and how selfish.

[buwaytress]

Thanks for the reminder! Wanted to pick a Bayern loss but went a bit more realistic and chose the draw. I know, I know, my idea of realistic is not... very... realistic. But with points to chase, one must commit to ill-advised maneuvers, no? Also, no Freiburg for me this week, thank you very much.

And of course, I got some points here, sacrificing however several tickets that had Bayern to win. Wish they just lost in the end, it isn't much consolation to get 2 points in this pool for the pick and nothing else.

In the lead along with frka with 12 points and three games to go. No prizes, just bragging rights over Cro2.

[cygan]

after matchday #26 four players can celebrate winning the yellow cap!
KTChampions, buwaytress, Fantomaz, and cryptofrka each scored 12 points to win the matchday - congratulations!
LTU_btc managed to defend his first-place position but the competition is getting tougher...

[slackovic]

after matchday #26 four players can celebrate winning the yellow cap!
KTChampions, buwaytress, Fantomaz, and cryptofrka each scored 12 points to win the matchday - congratulations!
LTU_btc managed to defend his first-place position but the competition is getting tougher...

/snip

Wow... After 25 points that Trofo earned in the last matchday, this 12 points look pretty bad. 11 points that I won looked pretty bad at first. But then I saw those four players with 12 points and suddenly I'm pretty happy with my 11 points

[LTU_btc]

Damn, I wasted almost all my lead against KTChampions. Round afte round he was getting closer and now he reached me. It's getting hot there and I'm now under big pressure... One of rare rounds where Bayern didn't won, but it's not game that affected my results most.

[Harkorede]

The rate at which I feel off in the pool needs to be studied, I remember being at the top of the leaderboard for a while at some point, but I never checked back in here and to be honest I didn't follow any of my predictions, I just keep tossing them in week after without any proper due diligence, I don't know if there is still anything that can be savaged from this season.

[mv1986]

Damn, I wasted almost all my lead against KTChampions. Round afte round he was getting closer and now he reached me. It's getting hot there and I'm now under big pressure... One of rare rounds where Bayern didn't won, but it's not game that affected my results most.

Trust me guys, I am still preparing my comeback. Eight rounds left and if I go for a perfect 9/9 every round, I still have chances to win this

Quite a shame for someone from Germany who knows the Bundesliga well, to perform like that. I have been telling myself that next season, everything will be better, but it has been going like this for three years now I think. Or four years? I am not sure, but I never won anything

[slackovic]

The rate at which I feel off in the pool needs to be studied, I remember being at the top of the leaderboard for a while at some point, but I never checked back in here and to be honest I didn't follow any of my predictions, I just keep tossing them in week after without any proper due diligence, I don't know if there is still anything that can be savaged from this season.

Well, since you say that you just kept tossing predictions week after week, there's not much to study, is there? But it's not that everything is lost. You probably can't win, but since you are only 9 points away from the 5th place, you can fight for the 4th or 5th place that also gets rewarded in the end. I also know that I can't win, but I keep trying to get up to at least 5th place.

[KTChampions]

Damn, I wasted almost all my lead against KTChampions. Round afte round he was getting closer and now he reached me. It's getting hot there and I'm now under big pressure... One of rare rounds where Bayern didn't won, but it's not game that affected my results most.

Honestly, I thought I would be destroyed in this round by the 1-1 draw pickers  But by a happy coincidence, the appetite of those who love such picks disappeared precisely in the round when 3 such outcomes occurred. So I'm very pleased with the last round.
I just noticed that buwaytress is in the middle of the table. How did this happen? It seems like he was at the very top just recently (or maybe I'm mixing up the pools).

[buwaytress]

Damn, I wasted almost all my lead against KTChampions. Round afte round he was getting closer and now he reached me. It's getting hot there and I'm now under big pressure... One of rare rounds where Bayern didn't won, but it's not game that affected my results most.

Honestly, I thought I would be destroyed in this round by the 1-1 draw pickers  But by a happy coincidence, the appetite of those who love such picks disappeared precisely in the round when 3 such outcomes occurred. So I'm very pleased with the last round.
I just noticed that buwaytress is in the middle of the table. How did this happen? It seems like he was at the very top just recently (or maybe I'm mixing up the pools).

There was one very bad round, followed by another trying to chase the gap (bad idea). Doesn't seem so long ago when I was battling you for top spot, wasn't it? I wasn't even planning on taking risks, I just picked what I thought were wise moves, but for some reason that round went against the majority picks. Might have been looking at wrong odds, or wrong teams, I was too heartbroken to confirm haha.

Quite a shame for someone from Germany who knows the Bundesliga well, to perform like that. I have been telling myself that next season, everything will be better, but it has been going like this for three years now I think. Or four years? I am not sure, but I never won anything

No shame. I feel like I know the Premier League best but I don't particularly see my performance there indicative as such. This season bottom ten and stuck there. Luck? Stubbornness?

[KTChampions]

Honestly, I thought I would be destroyed in this round by the 1-1 draw pickers  But by a happy coincidence, the appetite of those who love such picks disappeared precisely in the round when 3 such outcomes occurred. So I'm very pleased with the last round.
I just noticed that buwaytress is in the middle of the table. How did this happen? It seems like he was at the very top just recently (or maybe I'm mixing up the pools).

There was one very bad round, followed by another trying to chase the gap (bad idea). Doesn't seem so long ago when I was battling you for top spot, wasn't it? I wasn't even planning on taking risks, I just picked what I thought were wise moves, but for some reason that round went against the majority picks. Might have been looking at wrong odds, or wrong teams, I was too heartbroken to confirm haha.

This sounds familiar to me. In the Premier League, GoalMadness and Champions League pools, I fell into the same trap, trying to catch up with the lucky ones who scored a lot of points in the early rounds with risky picks. So one risk led to another and then all that was left was to claim the yellow cap haha.
By the way, I noticed that European competitions have had a significant impact on the Bundesliga as well, the average scoring rate is only 1.6 goals per game. Almost like Serie A 

[cygan]

in less than 10 hours the 27th matchday in the bundesliga starts with the game leipzig vs. hoffenheim and the battle for the top ranks begins again
to make sure that all pool participants submit their picks in time, here is a reminder for all those who are missing out:

Code: LTU_btc Saint-loup buwaytress Harkorede morvillz7z Etiquette.exe Kanapka el che Trofo B1g4udge mv1986

[buwaytress]

Timely reminder, thank you. I went to make my picks when I saw this several hours ago, have to say I know how cryptofrka feels like in UCL, seeing myself in 10th spot when I was holding on to top 2 for the longest time as I recall. Well, it's not exactly the same. I'm out of a prize spot, while he's still in with a good shout haha. But he knows what I mean.

Can't see any surprises. I threw in a smattering of draws, but went back to big-margin-victory-for-Bayern mode.