Thursday, October 18, 2012

World Cup Predictions

Kinda. Obviously I'm not going to upset any of the competing teams by posting what I think is likely to happen to each of them at Cup and I'm certainly not going to predict a winner--y'all already know who I think will win--and if I don't believe in my team, who will? Okay, I don't think it's a foregone conclusion, I think it is possible. I think we are capable and probably one of the favorites. And I am confident we will get it done. (All that means is I'm just like everybody competing the for the title.)
What I am going to do is predict prelim records--but without saying (at least for right now) which teams end up with which records. In checking the rules it seems the Pro division will still move 6 teams on to Sunday and that the top two (best records, highest point differential) will get byes to the semis.
Most of the time when peeps make predictions they fail to take the actual prelim brackets into account and instead pick their favorites. I have broken down all the brackets to see who is playing who. I have picked winners and losers in every Pro match to reach the following outcome.
I predict--
2 teams will go 4-0.
3 teams will go 3-1.
5 teams will go 2-2.
1 team will go 1-3.
3 teams will go 0-4.
Only 1 of the 2-2 teams will make Sunday but that team will reach the semi-finals.

Now here is where y'all come in. I want you to post your top three predicted finishers in the comments. Pro only. If we get 50 responses I'll post my Sunday predictions--who makes the cut off. If we get 75 I'll include the seeding order of the Sunday Club. But you only have until next Wednesday so I can post up prediction details before the event begins Thursday morning. And who knows, if the comments receive more than 100 predictions I might post all my predicted prelim records with teams included next Thursday morning.

40 comments:

  1. 1. Damage
    2. Heat
    3. Ironmen

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  2. 1) Infamous
    2) Damage
    3) Russian Legion

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  3. 1) Heat
    2) Infamous
    3) Russians

    Sorry Baca :(

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  4. 1. Legion
    2. Heat
    3. Damage

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  5. 1. Damage
    2. Heat
    3. D Y N A S T Y

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  6. Damage
    Infamous
    Heat

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  7. Russians
    Infamous
    X-Factor

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  8. Heat
    Dynasty
    Infamous

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  9. I predict that there will be huge delays in the finals games as teams dispute reffing decisions.

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  10. I'm placing Infamous, Damage and Heat in the top 3, not necessarily in that order.
    They've all been dominating this season, so unless something big shakes up World Cup, I don't see it changing.

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  11. I came up with a slightly different breakdown...
    4-0: 3 teams
    3-1: 2 teams
    2-2: 4 teams
    1-3: 3 teams
    0-4: 2 teams

    Damage
    Heat
    Legion
    Infamous

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  12. Russians
    Heat
    Dynasty

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  13. Heat

    Dynasty

    Infamous

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  14. Ironmen
    Dynasty
    Damage

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  15. Heat
    Damage
    Infamous

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  16. Dave,
    Gotta disqualify your predictions. Closed system will have equal number of winners and losers and your math doesn't add up. :)

    Almost halfway to the first reveal, kids. Keep up the good work.

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  17. Infamous
    Damage
    Heat

    LMAO @ whoever said CEP

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  18. Heat Damage Legion

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  19. Legion
    Heat
    Damage

    Think the Russians will have gotten it right by now, and see them beat Heat narrowly in the final game (and no, I have not looked at the draw, so that might not actually be possible? :D)

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  20. Legion
    Damage
    XSV
    Heat

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  21. 1. Damage
    2. Heat
    3. Infamous

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  22. damage
    legion
    xfactor

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  23. Baca,

    Not sure what you mean....Maybe I wrote down the schedule wrong when I put it into excel....hum...

    Found my mistake - should have been:
    4-0: 3 teams
    3-1: 2 teams
    2-2: 3 teams
    1-3: 4 teams
    0-4: 2 teams

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  24. Heat
    Russian Legion
    Damage

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  25. You're back in, Dave. ;) Last time your games broke down to 29 wins and 27 losses which can't happen. This group is 28-28 for wins & losses.

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  26. There wouldn't happen to be a nice graphic with matches (ala March Madness) style would there?

    Not sure how playoff pairings would work so I'll throw out:

    Infamous
    Heat
    Russians

    They've been on fire each tournament.



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  27. -Heat
    -Damage
    -Rusians

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