Tipping 2020

@KiwiPie said in Tipping 2020:

Sorry for the delay but I closed off the competition by adding any points scored for the Highlanders v Hurricanes game - to be honest there weren't many and there were a fair few zeroes for people who actually tipped.

Virgil, Joan and Mary and Richie were the only 3 to pick a Highlanders win and Virgil top scored with 25, moving him into 3rd overall with Joan and Mary moving up to 2nd. Winger took the title despite scoring just 2 points.

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At the moment, I still plan to run NPC Tipping ... we'll see what happens

My lowest ever score I think. I'm surprised I keep my lead (a lead due to TR not tipping one week).

And thanks for running again KiwiPie

Who's keen to have an NPC tipping competition whatever form the NPC takes?

@KiwiPie said in Tipping 2020:

Who's keen to have an NPC tipping competition whatever form the NPC takes?

Yes please!

@KiwiPie said in Tipping 2020:

Who's keen to have an NPC tipping competition whatever form the NPC takes?

Keen

@KiwiPie said in Tipping 2020:

Who's keen to have an NPC tipping competition whatever form the NPC takes?

I'm in if its run again.

I'm in. Will be seeing a couple of the Wai-Bush team up at Hataitai Park for the Wellington v Poneke match so will put them on notice to be ready to go for the opening round when they invariably hit me up for the losers shout during the aftermatch function!

I'm in.

NPC Tipping is happening - look for a form to submit your tips very soon.

@KiwiPie said in Tipping 2020:

NPC Tipping is happening - look for a form to submit your tips very soon.

Thanks for running this again

Everything is at the usual place (tables will be updated with correct data later)

Direct link to the tipping form is here

Last call to enter the tipping competition, the first game is tonight. 29 entrants so far not including myself and a few regulars are yet to join - if we can get to 40+ that will be perfect for an 8 team competition.

The Superbru comp has been activated

Join Fern NPC, my Mitre 10 Cup league on @Superbru! You can find my pool here:

or by downloading the Superbru app and searching for the pool with code:

oathbarb

just roll the dice for week one, I reckon almost every game could go either way!

@taniwharugby said in Tipping 2020:

just roll the dice for week one, I reckon almost every game could go either way!

Yes they could go either way but you were the only person to pick Harbour to win! Which has you at 47th of 47 players ......

Great response to the call and we have 47 players with tips in for Round 1, that's 8 teams of 6 and only BOP with 5 so we get the next player to join up. So everyone who selected a team made it into that team and the 4 who declared as individuals have been drafted as follow.

Richie, @Joan-and-Mary into Northland to make them up to 6.
@Kruse into South Island.
Fiamacho into Counties-Waikato.

24 picked Canterbury 9-16 and are all in the lead.
22 picked 1-8 or 17+
1 (TR) picked Harbour 1-8

@KiwiPie its all good, lulling people into a false sense of security, especially after the rest of my tips don't come in

4 games down and 3 to go.

All of Sportboy, YeetYaah, Unite, Fiamacho, Virgil and Stockcar86 have picked 4/4 meaning not many went for a Waikato win. Nobody at all went for that margin of victory though. Margins have made the difference in the leaders for the round, with Caprice, Stargazer, Billsy and Justin77 all on 30 points with 3 margin picks correct.

Counties-Waikato 25 - 26 Hawke's Bay
BOP 26 - 23 Northland
South Island 20 - 25 Wairarapa Bush
Wellington 26 - 26 Harbour-Auckland

First week results are live https://www.thesilverfern.com/tipping/

A good win for Harbour-Auckland, a narrow win for Hawke's Bay and the other 2 games were drawn - all very close.

Virgil was the only one to get 7/7 but he struggled to get a margin and is only 5th. It was Caprice who top scored with 50 despite only picking 5 /7 - 4 of the 5 were correct margins and she also picked Otago as low scorers. Gunner is 2nd and Fiamacho 3rd who was the only other one to get a category pick correct. Joan and Mary and Mikedogz share last place with 24 points.

Your score next week goes towards the TSF Cup - the best 16 scores go into Round 1, the rest have to play off to qualify.

27 of 48 entries in for this week, get your tips in before the first game tonight. You need to be one of the top 16 scorers for the weekend to go straight to the main TSF Cup draw - everyone below 16 will go into a qualifying round next week.

4 games in and only YeetYah, Fiamacho and FarNthHayden have picked 4/4. YeetYah has the best score with 32 ahead of Phooey who has 30 with 3 maximums. Missing tippers are @mikedogz @Paj @billsy & @Canes4life

Counties-Waikato 28 - 25 Northland
BOP 25 - 22 Wairarapa Bush
South Island 25 - 23 Harbour-Auckland
Wellington 20 - 17 Hawke's Bay

Strangely the 3 who picked 4/4 all ended up with 4/7 and nobody at all picked Wellington to win in Auckland. Plenty went for Ta$man as top scorer and Southland as lowest scorer and there was a good boost for those who picked both.

Dice top scored with 53 and is now 2nd overall, 4 behind Gunner who scored 50. Stargazer is in 3rd another 7 points back.

Wairarapa Bush go top in the teams comp although no team has 2 wins so it is very close with 4 teams a point behind. Counties start with 2 defeats to be rock bottom.

The Cup starts next week - if you don't see your name in the Cup draw it means you made it through to the first round proper which starts in Week 4.

This is your Friday reminder to get your tips in - around 20 still to tip.

@KiwiPie said in Tipping 2020:

This is your Friday reminder to get your tips in - around 20 still to tip.

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Shit - I'd forgotten until just now.
I assume you'll take the rest of the tips, and just throw away the Wgtn/BOP game? (I did do the tipping before checking the score, but would assume/hope that you'd have zero trust in my word for that).
Fucking lost the SR tipping comp by forgetting to tip the final week. Getting my slide into tip-dementia early for this oone.

@Kruse been there...

@Kruse said in Tipping 2020:

@KiwiPie said in Tipping 2020:

This is your Friday reminder to get your tips in - around 20 still to tip.

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Shit - I'd forgotten until just now.
I assume you'll take the rest of the tips, and just throw away the Wgtn/BOP game? (I did do the tipping before checking the score, but would assume/hope that you'd have zero trust in my word for that).
Fucking lost the SR tipping comp by forgetting to tip the final week. Getting my slide into tip-dementia early for this oone.

If you picked the Bay to win (which any sane individual would have done pre-game) then I will count your tip!

4 games in and only Paj and Richie have picked 4/4, Paj with the best score of 34 so far. Richie on 30 as is Phooey who yet again has picked 3/3 with maximum points but has not realised that Canterbury are a losing team this season.

Counties-Waikato 19 - 19 Wairarapa Bush
BOP 22 - 20 Harbour-Auckland
South Island 20 - 21 Wellington
Hawke's Bay 26 - 23 Northland

Hawke's Bay and Northland are the top scoring teams and unluckily for Northland, playing against each other.

Current overall top 5

Dice 121
Stargazer 114
Gunner 113
Justin77 105
Winger 105

Cup preliminary round

Justin77 22 v 20 Billsy
Mikey07 26 v 34 Paj
Cactus Jack 26 v 0 Canes4life
Trooa 7 v 14 Mikedogz
Virgil 21 v 19 Unite
Hydro11 17 v 20 Waynes World
TR 18 v 25 Donsteppa
Hooroo 12 v 14 Hurrycanes
YeetYaah 15 v 16 Smudge
Tim 17 v 27 Crucial
Buck 16 v 24 Stockcar86
Victor 26 v 21 Fiamacho
Caprice 17 v 14 Dogmeat
Sportboy 24 v 19 FarNthHayden
KP 18 v 18 Plastered Peni
Bay Imports 16 v 14 Corkscrew

Final scores are up for the weekend.

Richie and Kiwiwomble shared the top score of 49, Richie getting 7/7 picks (the only one on a tricky weekend) but not getting a category pick when the majority of tippers picked Auckland as top scorers. Dice is the new leader, Stagazer up to 2nd, Kiwiwomble in 3rd and Caprice shares 4th with Gunner. Richie shoots into the top 10 in 8th place. Big falls for Virgil, Kruse and DK.

Wairarapa Bush and South Island are the top 2 in the teams comp but it is very close with only Counties-Waikato winless and needing probably 4 wins from 4 to make the semis.

All of those winning in the TSF Cup go into the first round proper next week to join the 16 who pre-qualified last week.

3 hours to get your tips in for this weekend

This could be a moving week with 3 of the 4 games so far being tough to call, Northland were not picked by the majority and the Canterbury-Wellington game was split almost 50-50. This has led to some very good scores - and some very bad ones. Sportboy, Mikedogz and Dogmeat lead the way with 37/40 and 3 games to go today. At the other end Laurence and Waynes World are in single figures and Trooa is on zero having missed the first game.

All matches have a 4 points or more lead to one team. We have all picked Ta$man, nearly all have picked Waikato while the Shield match is another 50-50 call.

Counties-Waikato 23 - 27 Harbour-Auckland
BOP 24 - 20 Wellington
South Island 23 - 27 Northland
Hawke's Bay 25 - 19 Wairarapa Bush

Sportboy 37
Mikedogz 37
Dogmeat 37
Virgil 34
FarNthHayden 32
Cactus Jack 30
Stargazer 30
Hydro11 30

Waynes World 9
Laurence 9
Trooa 0

Stargazer 164
Dice 158
Caprice 155
Sportboy 150
Kiwiwomble 150
Richie 148
Justin77 147
Gunner 147
Cactus Jack 144
Virgil 143

Justin77 27 v 22 Dice
Mikey07 16 v 19 Gunner
Cactus Jack 30 v 24 Langakali
Broughie 26 v 37 Mikedogz
Virgil 34 v 9 Laurence
Triple T 24 v 9 Waynes World
Kruse 24 v 15 Donsteppa
Hooroo 17 v 27 Higgins
Winger 17 v 27 Smudge
Propsicle 19 v 14 Crucial
Stargazer 30 v 29 Stockcar86
Victor 15 v 21 Kiwiwomble
Caprice 27 v 16 Phooey
DK 12 v 32 FarNthHayden
Richie 29 v 14 Plastered Peni
Bay Imports 24 v 19 Joan and Mary

Results are live at https://www.thesilverfern.com/tipping/

Sportboy was the top scorer, the only one to tip 6/7 and 49 points was the reward, moving him up to 5th place. Stargazer takes the lead by 3 points from Dice with Justin77 in 3rd and Caprice in 4th.

Wairarapa Bush dropped from 1st to 6th losing without a bonus point and the battle for the top 4 in intense with only 2 points covering 1st to 6th. Northland are top, level on top with Hawke's Bay but ahead by a single extra point Missing tippers are @Canes4life and @billsy - your teams need you.

@KiwiPie said in Tipping 2020:

Wairarapa Bush dropped from 1st to 6th losing without a bonus point and the battle for the top 4 in intense with only 2 points covering 1st to 6th. Northland are top, level on top with Hawke's Bay but ahead by a single extra point Missing tippers are @Canes4life and @billsy - your teams need you.

@Billsy111

....i dont think i picked a single winner

Bring on cricket season

@Kiwiwomble said in Tipping 2020:

....i dont think i picked a single winner

Don't be harsh on yourself - you did get Auckland and Northland.

And shout out to Waynes World who salvaged respectability as the only one to get Hawke's 17+

@KiwiPie said in Tipping 2020:

@Kiwiwomble said in Tipping 2020:

....i dont think i picked a single winner

Don't be harsh on yourself - you did get Auckland and Northland.

And shout out to Waynes World who salvaged respectability as the only one to get Hawke's 17+

I think @mikedogz deserves a shout-out for predicting a draw for Cant-Well, in the SuperBru tipping. But only getting 0.5 "Margin Points" for being within 5, because, you know... Golden Point, and all that.

I was just dialing it in on superbru.

First game is tonight for Mitre 10 Cup - get your tips in people.

Scoring is live - check it out at https://www.thesilverfern.com/tipping/

The highest scoring round so far with some easy maximums to be picked. Only one upset but Kiwiwomble was the only one who picked 7/7 to be second highest for the weekend behind Hydro11 who managed 5 exact picks to score 55. Level with Kiwiwomble on 52 were Tim and Kruse with Hooroo the only other tipper to reach 50.

It's close at the top but no change to the top 2 as Stargazer leads Dice by 3. Sportboy up to 3rd, 4 behind Dice and then 7 behind Sportboy there is a logjam of players with 13 players within 10 points and all of them are one big week away from moving to the top.

Wins for Northland and BOP mean they are looking good for the semis but 7 of 8 teams will probably make it by winning their last 2 games.

And finally the TSF Cup quarter-finals are coming up - well done to Bay Imports, Richie, Langakali, Caprice, Victor, Triple T, Kruse, Higgins.

Well you all failed my cunning test - the leaderboard hadn't been updated since last week and only Mr @dogmeat checked his score and thought he had scored more (he had). It is updated now.

@KiwiPie I checked but I knew eventually it would be updated. I have full confidence in you.

About half the players are still to tip this week and you have less than 6 hours to do it. https://www.thesilverfern.com/tipping