Tipping 2021

Everything up to date after the weekend.

7 picked 4/4 with the top scorers Paj & Langakali with 62 and they also had Manawatu as top scoring team. Bay Imports broke the season's worst score record with just 3 points - 0/4 tipped. Higgins retains his 6 point lead over Plastered Peni as they both scored 50 and they are pulling away from Stargazer in 3rd.

Wellington are now 6/6 for the season and clear at the top but the next 4 teams all have a 4/2 win/loss record and one of them will miss out on the play-offs after next weekend.

@kiwipie said in Tipping 2021:

Wellington are now 6/6 for the season

These teams that actually tip just aren't playing fair.

Hawkes Bay do it as well.

Bloody disgraceful if you ask me.

@kiwipie said in Tipping 2021:

Bay Imports broke the season's worst score record with just 3 points

must be close to an all time low for someone who has actually tipped?

@taniwharugby said in Tipping 2021:

@kiwipie said in Tipping 2021:

Bay Imports broke the season's worst score record with just 3 points

must be close to an all time low for someone who has actually tipped?

im sure there is worse

..must be damn it,

surely ha ha

@bayimports if it is, a record is a record bro, wear it proud!!

@taniwharugby said in Tipping 2021:

@bayimports if it is, a record is a record bro, wear it proud!!

if it isnt I certainly will still have a record, surely the only person who could claim winning an NPC tournament and having worst all time score ha ha

@bayimports said in Tipping 2021:

@taniwharugby said in Tipping 2021:

@bayimports if it is, a record is a record bro, wear it proud!!

if it isnt I certainly will still have a record, surely the only person who could claim winning an NPC tournament and having worst all time score ha ha

Unfortunately it is probably a record - mitigating circumstance is that it was only 4 games - with a full 7 games, surely you would have fluked picking a result! If only you had picked Otago 9-16, you would have scored the perfect zero .....

@dogmeat said in Tipping 2021:

@kiwipie said in Tipping 2021:

Wellington are now 6/6 for the season

These teams that actually tip just aren't playing fair.

Hawkes Bay do it as well.

Bloody disgraceful if you ask me.

To be fair, BOP has been back at full strength these past 2 weeks and now it is clear for all to see that we are just shit tipsters!

@kiwipie said in Tipping 2021:

@dogmeat said in Tipping 2021:

@kiwipie said in Tipping 2021:

Wellington are now 6/6 for the season

These teams that actually tip just aren't playing fair.

Hawkes Bay do it as well.

Bloody disgraceful if you ask me.

To be fair, BOP has been back at full strength these past 2 weeks and now it is clear for all to see that we are just shit tipsters!

on this seasons form the BOP team would prefer me not to tip!

Should we include the "friendlies" in the updated fixture list in the tipping or not? Thoughts? If teams can treat it like a pre-season game and roll a whole new 15 out at half time, the score would be anything.

@kiwipie said in Tipping 2021:

Should we include the "friendlies" in the updated fixture list in the tipping or not? Thoughts? If teams can treat it like a pre-season game and roll a whole new 15 out at half time, the score would be anything.

Your comp your call mate! I reckon leave it for real rugby despite the fewer fixtures

@kiwipie I dont think it matters either way...I still aint gonna win it!

Happy to go with what you decide...but don't call it a friendly again...haha

I'm leaving them out - form is live now

Get your tips in people

@bayimports well so far this week, I am looking to take your record...

@taniwharugby Not quite - you actually picked a result!

Scores are all updated, report to follow later

When there are only 4 matches, it is possible to move up fast - as long as you can tip them correctly.

Victor was the best of the weekend with 4/4 (the only player to do it) and moves up to 4th overall. Also moving up fast is Paj with 51 and the only one to pick both top and lowest scorer. He is now up to 5th after being 23rd 2 weeks ago. Winger and Hydro11 both plunged down from 4th place to out of the top 10. OomPB the lowest scorer this weekend with just 8 points, TR, FarNthHayden & Broughie with 11.

Higgins still leads Plastered Peni by 6 with Stargazer another 6 points back.

In the 1st leg of the Cup, Hydro11 turned up late and goes into the 2nd leg with a 34-16 deficit.

The round robin is over in the teams competition and the semi-finals will be

Wellington v Counties-Waikato
Hawke's Bay v Wairarapa Bush

The Bush inflicted Wellington's 1st defeat of the season. In the battle for the wooden spoon, Harbour-Auckland beat Northland 10-4 with both teams having just 2 tippers left.

@kiwipie said in Tipping 2021:

In the battle for the wooden spoon, Harbour-Auckland beat Northland 10-4 with both teams having just 2 tippers left.

Go @Dice

@kiwipie said in Tipping 2021:

When there are only 4 matches, it is possible to move up fast - as long as you can tip them correctly.

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Victor was the best of the weekend with 4/4 (the only player to do it) and moves up to 4th overall. Also moving up fast is Paj with 51 and the only one to pick both top and lowest scorer. He is now up to 5th after being 23rd 2 weeks ago. Winger and Hydro11 both plunged down from 4th place to out of the top 10. OomPB the lowest scorer this weekend with just 8 points, TR, FarNthHayden & Broughie with 11.

Higgins still leads Plastered Peni by 6 with Stargazer another 6 points back.

In the 1st leg of the Cup, Hydro11 turned up late and goes into the 2nd leg with a 34-16 deficit.

The round robin is over in the teams competition and the semi-finals will be

Wellington v Counties-Waikato
Hawke's Bay v Wairarapa Bush

The Bush inflicted Wellington's 1st defeat of the season. In the battle for the wooden spoon, Harbour-Auckland beat Northland 10-4 with both teams having just 2 tippers left.

@dogmeat said in Tipping 2021:

@kiwipie said in Tipping 2021:

In the battle for the wooden spoon, Harbour-Auckland beat Northland 10-4 with both teams having just 2 tippers left.

Go @Dice

Full credit to the boys.:thumbs_up:

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@kiwipie What's the deal with the Northland-BOP game(being rescheduled)?

I'm a bit confused on what to do, especially for most/fewest points.

@dice both will get the fewest...

Not really sure on the scoring this week. Probably just score it on the 3 games and nothing for high/low points.

Scores have been up for a while for this week but hadn't got around to posting - form for next week is live now as well.

I doubled the scores for the 3 games that took place and didn't include category picks. 6 players scored 50 points (Victor, Paj, Stockcar86, Mikedogz, Joan and Mary, Crucial. Higgins still leads by 4 from Victor who is 6 ahead of Paj. Plastered Peni, Stockcar86 and Stargazer in 4th, 5th, 6th are all within 18 of the lead so still all to play for with 2 weeks to go.

Counties-Waikato and Hawke's Bay will compete in the final over the next 2 weekends as Counties-Waikato defeated Wellington in a big upset.

Higgins won the TSF Cup so is going for the double.

@kiwipie said in Tipping 2021:

Scores have been up for a while for this week but hadn't got around to posting - form for next week is live now as well.

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I doubled the scores for the 3 games that took place and didn't include category picks. 6 players scored 50 points (Victor, Paj, Stockcar86, Mikedogz, Joan and Mary, Crucial. Higgins still leads by 4 from Victor who is 6 ahead of Paj. Plastered Peni, Stockcar86 and Stargazer in 4th, 5th, 6th are all within 18 of the lead so still all to play for with 2 weeks to go.

Counties-Waikato and Hawke's Bay will compete in the final over the next 2 weekends as Counties-Waikato defeated Wellington in a big upset.

Higgins won the TSF Cup so is going for the double.

This seems unusual, but all the players in the top 8 are from just 2 teams - Hawkes Bay and Wairarapa Bush

@stockcar86 said in Tipping 2021:

@kiwipie said in Tipping 2021:

Scores have been up for a while for this week but hadn't got around to posting - form for next week is live now as well.

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I doubled the scores for the 3 games that took place and didn't include category picks. 6 players scored 50 points (Victor, Paj, Stockcar86, Mikedogz, Joan and Mary, Crucial. Higgins still leads by 4 from Victor who is 6 ahead of Paj. Plastered Peni, Stockcar86 and Stargazer in 4th, 5th, 6th are all within 18 of the lead so still all to play for with 2 weeks to go.

Counties-Waikato and Hawke's Bay will compete in the final over the next 2 weekends as Counties-Waikato defeated Wellington in a big upset.

Higgins won the TSF Cup so is going for the double.

This seems unusual, but all the players in the top 8 are from just 2 teams - Hawkes Bay and Wairarapa Bush

That is weird - and the top 14 are all from those 2 teams plus Wellington. Which makes Counties-Waikato's achievement in making the final even more remarkable.

@stockcar86 Clearly they are cheating by actually knowing who has form in the Insert Building Products Supplier Cup.

Aside from somehow being aware that Hawkes Bay have held on to the RS I have no idea who has done well. No local representation and several plane loads of our best on tour with the AB's means the season has a massive * against all results

Don't forget to tip. This week and next week and then you can take 3 months off.

All updated on the site

Given the restricted nature of the comp, Broughie almost had a perfect 80, picking 4/4 margins and Hawke's Bay as top scorers. But picking Ta$man as low scorers was not done by anyone so he had to settle for 72. Still way down the table though. 4/4 results was also picked by Dogmeat, Corkscrew & Hooroo but none of these is in contention either.

Strangely nobody in the top 12 picked better than 2/2. Plastered Peni had 2 maximums and draws level with Higgins with 1 round to go. Their lead is 10 over Paj and 12 over Victor.

Counties-Waikato lead Hawke's Bay by 8 after the first leg of their final. Could this be their first title since Waikato won in 2009? In the 3/4 place game, Wairarapa Bush leads Wellington by 8. In the plate final, South Island had the highest score of the season and lead a shrinking BOP team by 39.

@kiwipie come on the South.

@kiwipie wow.

@antipodean Apologies - I should have called out that you matched Bay Imports for lowest score of the season. Correcting my mistake right now

@kiwipie said in Tipping 2021:

@antipodean Apologies - I should have called out that you matched Bay Imports for lowest score of the season. Correcting my mistake right now

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Cheers. Finally some recognition. :face_with_tears_of_joy:

Three tippers in both the best and worst week lists.

Who out of the top 10 thinks they can take out the whole comp in the final week?

Higgins has won twice before and has been in the top 5 for the past 3 seasons.
Plastered Peni was 3rd in 2016.
Paj was once 2nd in 2010 but in his last 4 attempts he was no higher than 38th.
Victor has been 2nd 3 times and 3rd once.
Hurrycanes was 4th in 2011.
Stargazer was 4th in 2018.
Stockcar86 was 5th in 2011.
Propsicle won in 2013.
Buck was 3rd in 2015.
Laurence has never been higher than 17th.

Faaaarrrk, I didn’t know there was a game tonight!

Edit: so was tonight’s game on last weeks tip sheet?

@unite said in Tipping 2021:

Faaaarrrk, I didn’t know there was a game tonight!

Edit: so was tonight’s game on last weeks tip sheet?

In tipping terms, last night's game never happened.

@kiwipie I did finish first one year - it was the year you took off and we played on some other inferior website I'd be happy to just to maintain my position and not drop any more

Final tipping call of the season. Get those tips in now and make sure they possess quality!