Round Two Completo
Round two of the World Cup has been completed. Already, a few teams have qualified for the round of 16 (Netherlands, Brazil).
Australia really needed a win against Ghana in their second game, but their draw doesn’t necessarily mean they are out. If Ghana beat Germany, and we beat Serbia, then we will go through. That’s a pretty slim chance, but better than the alternative – if Germany beat Ghana, then we will need to beat Serbia by four goals.
Let’s get an update on my Sportsbet odds:
Outright Winner:
My odds: 101 to 1
After Round one: 401 to 1
Current odds: 751 to 1
Group Exacta (Germany finishes group first, Australia second):
My odds: 7 to 1
After Round one: 10 to 1
Current odds: 23 to 1
Out of interest, there are slightly better odds for Ghana to go top, Australia second : 21 to 1
Australia is eliminated in the Quarter finals:
My odds: 12 to 1
After Round one: 41 to 1
Current odds: ?
They’ve suspended bets on Australia’s stage of elimination, they’ll probably crank those again if we make it through to the round of 16.
It’s not looking great, and I think that $25 I outlay on Australia might have gone down the drain. Could the money have been better spent elsewhere? I just put “25 bucks” into Google image source, and found out I could have purchased any one of these replica pellet guns:
Imagine pulling one of these out in a strip club. Fun!
The end of Round Two means that we should check out our tipping competition again:
Oh wait, that's an old shopping receipt. here's the tipping table:
Most of these scores haven’t changed since last round, leading me to believe many of the punters have forgotten to update their tips (also – I was having quite a few headaches getting the tipping site to work a week ago, so if you’ve given up on the bastard I can hardly blame you). As I was checking this, I scratched my head and thought ”hang on...have I updated my tips..?”, as it turns out I missed five matches:
A shame, as I would have picked the winner in three of those matches.
I’m doing AFL footy tips at the moment, plus a half hearted attempt at an AFL Dream Team. I joined the shoddy jinggez tipping comp, then for some reason I joined the World Cup tipping comp on the AFL site, and then I saw Sportsbet had a tipping comp too.
Five tipping competitions I’m in kids. I don’t know why I did that, as I don’t have anywhere near the time management skills to warrant such a decision. It doesn’t help that the AFL site allocates the tips by group, Sportsbet by date, and the shoddy jinggez has split the whole first two weeks into three rounds. Naturally, I’ve missed the cut off point for tips in all three competitions. Cursing the Sportsbet one, as I wasn’t doing too bad in that comp (I was in the top 10% of tippers), and they have prizes for the top 40 tippers. Cash, or a car, or a hand job from Justin Bieber or some shit.
As always, I’ve stretched myself too thin. I think there might be a lesson to learn here. Is it this?:
Yeah, I think that might be the lesson.
Australia really needed a win against Ghana in their second game, but their draw doesn’t necessarily mean they are out. If Ghana beat Germany, and we beat Serbia, then we will go through. That’s a pretty slim chance, but better than the alternative – if Germany beat Ghana, then we will need to beat Serbia by four goals.
Let’s get an update on my Sportsbet odds:
Outright Winner:
My odds: 101 to 1
After Round one: 401 to 1
Current odds: 751 to 1
Group Exacta (Germany finishes group first, Australia second):
My odds: 7 to 1
After Round one: 10 to 1
Current odds: 23 to 1
Out of interest, there are slightly better odds for Ghana to go top, Australia second : 21 to 1
Australia is eliminated in the Quarter finals:
My odds: 12 to 1
After Round one: 41 to 1
Current odds: ?
They’ve suspended bets on Australia’s stage of elimination, they’ll probably crank those again if we make it through to the round of 16.
It’s not looking great, and I think that $25 I outlay on Australia might have gone down the drain. Could the money have been better spent elsewhere? I just put “25 bucks” into Google image source, and found out I could have purchased any one of these replica pellet guns:
Imagine pulling one of these out in a strip club. Fun!The end of Round Two means that we should check out our tipping competition again:
Oh wait, that's an old shopping receipt. here's the tipping table:
Most of these scores haven’t changed since last round, leading me to believe many of the punters have forgotten to update their tips (also – I was having quite a few headaches getting the tipping site to work a week ago, so if you’ve given up on the bastard I can hardly blame you). As I was checking this, I scratched my head and thought ”hang on...have I updated my tips..?”, as it turns out I missed five matches:
A shame, as I would have picked the winner in three of those matches.I’m doing AFL footy tips at the moment, plus a half hearted attempt at an AFL Dream Team. I joined the shoddy jinggez tipping comp, then for some reason I joined the World Cup tipping comp on the AFL site, and then I saw Sportsbet had a tipping comp too.
Five tipping competitions I’m in kids. I don’t know why I did that, as I don’t have anywhere near the time management skills to warrant such a decision. It doesn’t help that the AFL site allocates the tips by group, Sportsbet by date, and the shoddy jinggez has split the whole first two weeks into three rounds. Naturally, I’ve missed the cut off point for tips in all three competitions. Cursing the Sportsbet one, as I wasn’t doing too bad in that comp (I was in the top 10% of tippers), and they have prizes for the top 40 tippers. Cash, or a car, or a hand job from Justin Bieber or some shit.
As always, I’ve stretched myself too thin. I think there might be a lesson to learn here. Is it this?:
Yeah, I think that might be the lesson.
posted by Beef at Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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