TSF Super Tipping 2023

Results are up and next week's form is live. https://thesilverfern.com/tipping/

No real damage for Higgins with his errant Crusaders pick as he scored the same as Hydro11 so the lead remains at 18. No change at all to the top 6. Best of the weekend was Langakali, Duluth, Antipodean & Victor, all with 57. Nearly everyone tipped 5/6 as nobody at all picked the Force win.

In the Sequel Cup, Tim leads Sportboy by just a point so all to play for in the second leg.

The first leg of the play-offs and plate went according to form and BOP Chiefs & Barbarians are on course for a big showdown in the final although their first leg leads are not massive.

Don't forget to tip - only 2 more weeks after this week. https://thesilverfern.com/tipping-submit/

@Crucial reminder

I'm 16th out of 26,000 in the fucking WORLD on SuperBru... but I'd swap it all to be in the running for the TSF championship.
(#ThinlyDisguisedBrag)

@Kruse Impressive - I'm second in our pool and I'm mighty pleased with that

Tim wins the Sequel Cup by just a point over Sportboy.

No change in the second legs of the play-offs so BOP Chiefs and Barbarians will meet in the final over the next 2 weekends.

SuperBru - I've clawed up to 12th in the WORLD, and 10th in NZ.
Which made me check - rugby predictions are mirroring the actual results:
NZ-based accounts make up ~37% of those in the SuperBru Super-Rugby-Pacific Predictor 'game' - but 90% of the top 30-placed.
Australia... that's fucking embarrassing. <insert gif of Letterkenny Irish Coach >

Did my tips not go through KP?

CLAN 1-8
Brumbies 1-8
Rebels 1-8
Hurricanes 1-8
Crusaders 17+
Drua 17+

None of my margin picks even close, damn you Moana!

They did go through Bart - but you picked Waratahs 17+ and Reds 9-16. Sorry!

@KiwiPie bugger that must be fat prop fingers. Oh well.

Tipping time - penultimate week of the Super tipping season

Tips Guesses are in

@Winger I've done mine in time this week.

@KiwiPie what time is cut off?

@mikey07 said in TSF Super Tipping 2023:

@KiwiPie what time is cut off?

Before the first game starts - you made it in plenty of time.

I'm picking there will be some low scores this week, me included!

Best scores for the weekend were TR (based on picking 5/6) and Paj and Richie (based on getting 15/20 category picks) on 44. 40+ scores also for Cactus Jack, Machpants & Broughie. Nobody picked 6/6 as nobody picked Moana.

Higgins lead has been cut to just 5 with Hydro11 scoring 37 to his 27 so all to play for on the final week. Hydro11 is 21 ahead of Tim and Winger in 3rd place.

In the teams comp, all 4 are close after the first leg with BOP Chiefs holding a 1 point lead over Barbarians in the battle for the title.

Up the Chiefs.

@chimoaus said in TSF Super Tipping 2023:

Up the Chiefs.

Yourself and Donsteppa I trust not to mess up - the rest of us are a bit flaky!

Well that's tipping done for year, thanks for organising it all, was well done I thought. First time I done one for a tipping comp for a few years, and just nade sure I got picks in every week (though may of stuffed up early) for first time ever. But basically because this my favourite forum, and so thought if I joining comp, I will do the right thing. It was a lot easier for me than you buggers who do the work I think!

@Dan54 said in TSF Super Tipping 2023:

Well that's tipping done for year, thanks for organising it all, was well done I thought. First time I done one for a tipping comp for a few years, and just nade sure I got picks in every week (though may of stuffed up early) for first time ever. But basically because this my favourite forum, and so thought if I joining comp, I will do the right thing. It was a lot easier for me than you buggers who do the work I think!

There is one more week to tip - don't forget. Should be easy, just pick the NZ teams? Maybe?

@KiwiPie said in TSF Super Tipping 2023:

@Dan54 said in TSF Super Tipping 2023:

Well that's tipping done for year, thanks for organising it all, was well done I thought. First time I done one for a tipping comp for a few years, and just nade sure I got picks in every week (though may of stuffed up early) for first time ever. But basically because this my favourite forum, and so thought if I joining comp, I will do the right thing. It was a lot easier for me than you buggers who do the work I think!

There is one more week to tip - don't forget. Should be easy, just pick the NZ teams? Maybe?

Ok, thought maybe it finished, yep well my heart won't let me pick against Canes in knockout anywy, so guess I will just have to studiously decide on scores!!

I came here to congratulate Higgins! Good to know there is one week left.

Well done my final picks for year. Started off waiting until teams were named, and then thought who am I kidding, I not that scientific anyway, and proper heart picks!!!
All Kiwi teams and only the points gap that will help me I guessing!

@hydro11 Thanks for your kind intentions, was it an early attempt to grab the underdog status!? Looks like the title will be decided on the category picks plus the ACT Brumbies v Hurricanes match as the other three look to be easy 17+ers. My form has tailed off over the last few weeks so must be due for a good week this time out!

Get your tips in everyone - final round and you won't have to tip again until the start of August

Hydro11 sneaks over the line in the final weekend to retain his title, his 5th title after winning the first in 2016. Some tactical tipping went on just before the first game on Friday - if a similar situation happens in the future, I'll get the contending players to send their tips directly to me. Higgins finished 7 points behind after leading from week 3 to week 15. 3rd was Winger with Tim 4th and Plastered Peni in 5th.

Best score of the weekend and the season was Triple T, with 75.5 and every selection correct except going Chiefs 17+. Rico#1 was perfect with the game picks but went Reds instead of Drua for low scorer and scored 75. These are both in the Barbarians meaning they beat the BOP Chiefs easily to take the teams title for the 3rd time in a row. The 3rd place play-off was won by Canes Black over Canes Gold.

Most results picked correctly was Hydro11 with 86% success, 2 more correct than Triple T & Higgins. Most margins correct was also Hydro11 with 42%, 1 match ahead of Donsteppa & Tim.

Thanks to everyone who stuck with it until the end and to those who play every season. See you for NPC Tipping all too soon.

@KiwiPie Thanks again. Did not watch too many games this year. Decided sleep was more important otherwise my Saturdays start off shitty. Congrats to Hydro11. Perhaps someone needs to sabotage his picks or a 9 iron to his shins :-)..

Thanks KP and congrats to Hydro.

Worryingly my tips are no worse now that I watch no Super Rugby than when I used to watch every game.

Remembering to tip would help though

Thanks KP!

thanks as always KP!

Thanks, a very average result for me, tho I did miss a round

Thanks for the congrats guys.

It was bitter sweet. I tipped early and went for the Hurricanes to win. Higgins picked the same results, margins and bonus questions. My only way to win was to change a tip and the only 50/50 game was the Hurricanes. I changed my tip to the Brumbies and was very much still guttered Ardie didn't score and hand Higgins the title.

@hydro11 All good, no quibbles here as I had my picks sorted out earlier in the week but got too busy to submit them until a bit later than usual, even posted on here that the first three games looked dead set 17+ers! Prue co-incidence that they might have been the same as your initial picks. Well done but you had better be looking over your shoulder next season as there are bound to be heaps out there looking to wrestle the title away from you just for once! Anyway I am still chuffed the Barbarians came right and knocked over the BoP Chiefs to make it a hat-trick of Teams Championships.

History Update for Super Tipping

Winner	Runner-up

2006 Crucial His Bobness
2007 Barnya Tim
2008 Donsteppa Crusher
2009 Justin77 Donsteppa
2010 RugbyGal Cactus Jack
2011 Quo Vadis ACT Crusader
2012 Cactus Jack Stoli
2013 Hooroo Virgil
2014 Langakali Justin77
2015 Winger Barbarian
2016 Hydro11 Donsteppa
2017 Barbarian Hydro11
2018 Hydro11 Winger
2019 Hydro11 Corkscrew
2020 Higgins Hurrycanes
2021 (A) Hurrycanes Winger
2021 (T-T) Victor Tim
2022 Hydro11 Tim
2023 Hydro11 Higgins

Winner	Runner-up

2006 Hurricanes Blues
2007 Stormers Inland
2008 Blues North Waikato Chiefs
2009 Aussies Canes Gold
2010 Blues Taniwha Canes Gold
2011 Canes Black Blues C
2012 Blues A Barbarians
2013 Saffas Barbarians
2014 Barbarians BOP Chiefs
2015 Canes Gold Barbarians
2016 Barbarians BOP Chiefs
2017 Canes Gold BOP Chiefs
2018 Canes Black Blues B
2019 SunJags BOP Chiefs
2020 Barbarians Canes Black
2022 Barbarians Canes Gold
2023 Barbarians BOP Chiefs

Thanks again KP. And well done to the winners.

@KiwiPie

75.5 must be close to the highest ever score

@KiwiPie said in TSF Super Tipping 2023:

History Update for Super Tipping

Winner Runner-up
2006 Crucial His Bobness
2007 Barnya Tim
2008 Donsteppa Crusher
2009 Justin77 Donsteppa
2010 RugbyGal Cactus Jack
2011 Quo Vadis ACT Crusader
2012 Cactus Jack Stoli
2013 Hooroo Virgil
2014 Langakali Justin77
2015 Winger Barbarian
2016 Hydro11 Donsteppa
2017 Barbarian Hydro11
2018 Hydro11 Winger
2019 Hydro11 Corkscrew
2020 Higgins Hurrycanes
2021 (A) Hurrycanes Winger
2021 (T-T) Victor Tim
2022 Hydro11 Tim
2023 Hydro11 Higgins

Winner Runner-up
2006 Hurricanes Blues
2007 Stormers Inland
2008 Blues North Waikato Chiefs
2009 Aussies Canes Gold
2010 Blues Taniwha Canes Gold
2011 Canes Black Blues C
2012 Blues A Barbarians
2013 Saffas Barbarians
2014 Barbarians BOP Chiefs
2015 Canes Gold Barbarians
2016 Barbarians BOP Chiefs
2017 Canes Gold BOP Chiefs
2018 Canes Black Blues B
2019 SunJags BOP Chiefs
2020 Barbarians Canes Black
2022 Barbarians Canes Gold
2023 Barbarians BOP Chiefs

Hold on, our day came and I missed the celebratory party! Fucking Covid.

@Winger 77 is the all time best, the perfect score is still to be achieved after almost 2 decades

The Superbru competition was completed with victory for @Kruse and a silver medal and moral victory to me.