[Fluffy]

not even the guys behind betting for paraguay lol

[jjbrr]

57) 2
58) 2
59) 2
60) 2

[gwnn]

Fluffy, on Jun 30 2010, 12:15 PM, said:

not even the guys behind betting for paraguay lol

i tried betting against the field but it didn't work out as expected.

[Aberlour10]

gwnn, on Jun 30 2010, 09:11 AM, said:

Fluffy, on Jun 30 2010, 12:15 PM, said:

not even the guys behind betting for paraguay lol

i tried betting against the field but it didn't work out as expected.

You had better read the Conditions of the Contest before you did it:

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§59a  The lowest ranked player has to qualify for the WC 2014 Prediction Contest through the participation in Women Golf Prediction Series

[cherdanno]

Aberlour10, on Jun 29 2010, 03:37 PM, said:

As usual, the Germans are ready once the knockout phase begins!

[shyams]

57) 2 - Brazil to win
58) 1 - Uruguay
59) 1 - Argentina
60) 2 - Spain

[gwnn]

I like women's golf

[Codo]

My bet 2002 And the Urus and Germany will win after the penalties.

[mike777]

I have no idea

even you so called experts seem confused.....



geeZ.........................

[Aberlour10]

y, the real football make us dazed and confused

[hotShot]

mike777, on Jul 1 2010, 08:48 AM, said:

I have no idea

even you so called experts seem confused.....



geeZ.........................

What do you expect, it's the round of 8 of a world championship.

This should be the 8 best teams in the world.

5 of them definitely are and I think Ghana, Uruguay and Paraguay had a little luck.
It would be easier if the pairing where different, so Paraguay - Spain seems the only save bet.


According to the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking (which is bad, but not totaly useless):
1 Brazil
2 Spain

4 Netherlands

6 Germany
7 Argentina

16 Uruguay

31 Paraguay
32 Ghana

So the QUARTERFINALS are:

57) Netherlands (4) - Brazil (1)

58) Uruguay (16) - Ghana (32)

59) Argentina (7) - Germany (6)

60) Paraguay (31) - Spain (2)

57 and 59 are close matches everybody has to guess.
60 should be a clear win for Spain.
58 is interesting because Ghana is underrated and Uruguay had a lot of luck getting there.

[cherdanno]

2
1
1
2

[gwnn]

Disagree with hotShot about Uruguay. I think they fully deserve to be here, they played very good football in the groups and the second round. I guess they did get a little lucky that the seeded team in their group was as bad as ZA but I think Korea was an average group runner-up, not especially weak.
Mexico
Korea
Ghana
England
Japan
Slovakia
Chile
Portugal

I really liked seeing them play this tournament so far.

[hanp]

I also enjoyed watching England. And France too.

I don't think Netherlands-Brazil is a close match, Brazil has made a much more solid impression. It's not impossible for the Netherlands to win but I'd say it's 70-30 in favor of Brazil.

Agree that Argentina - Germany is tough to predict, I hope Germany wins with beautiful soccer.

[Aberlour10]

hanp, on Jul 1 2010, 06:59 AM, said:

I don't think Netherlands-Brazil is a close match.

I don't agree. It depends on....if the team Netherlands will get a really "good day", then they are able to beat these Brazilians for sure. If they show only the avarage performence, this will be not enough. I see the chance for both by 50:50

[hotShot]

gwnn, on Jul 1 2010, 12:40 PM, said:

Disagree with hotShot about Uruguay. I think they fully deserve to be here, they played very good football in the groups and the second round. I guess they did get a little lucky that the seeded team in their group was as bad as ZA but I think Korea was an average group runner-up, not especially weak.
Mexico
Korea
Ghana
England
Japan
Slovakia
Chile
Portugal

I really liked seeing them play this tournament so far.

Remember jdonn's post?

jdonn, on Jun 26 2010, 10:33 AM, said:

The difference in FIFA world rankings between the matchups:

Uruguay 16, South Korea 47 = 31
Netherlands 4, Slovakia 34 = 30
USA 14, Ghana 32 = 18
Brazil 1, Chile 18 = 17
Paraguay 31, Japan 45 = 14
Argentina 7, Mexico 17 =10
Germany 6, England 8 = 2
Spain 2, Portugal 3 = 1

Except for USA -Ghana the higher ranked teams won.

South Korea and Japan seemed to be the weakest. (This will obviously change when the ranking is updated after the WC.)

And who expected that France would not qualify from a group with:
9 France
16 Uruguay
17 Mexico
83 South Africa

Of cause Uruguay deserves to be in the round of 8, but Portugal has meet Brasil and Spain on their way out of the tourney. Could you agree that Uruguay had more luck than Portugal?

[gwnn]

Sure. They had more luck than Portugal, but less than ghana, I'd say.

[Aberlour10]

Aberlour10, on Jun 29 2010, 03:47 PM, said:

***  QUARTERFINALS ***

57)  Netherlands - Brazil

58)  Uruguay - Ghana

59)  Argentina - Germany

60)  Paraguay - Spain


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[gwnn]

I think QF matches should count 100 points each.

[jjbrr]

And the final should count for a million.