The ESPN Bracket Challenge Group that I set up -- RogersBlogGroup --received 84 entries. We are now down to 2 potential victors, one of whom will receive a signed copy of The Climate Fix. Currently leading is G. Williams, who ranks in the top 1,100 of more than a million entries in the overall ESPN Bracket Challenge (or in the 99.9th percentile!). G. Williams will win with a Dutch victory on Sunday. The other potential winner is A. Michener who wins with a Spanish victory.My selections are presently in a very respectable tie for 7th place and in the 96.2 percentile overall, and I correctly picked both finalists (as did 8 others in the group). I am happy to report that the readers of this blog are very informed about football (no surprise), with the median ranking above the 60th percentile.
I'll provide a summary of the results on Sunday or Monday, and announce a support group for those like me expecting to suffer Cup withdrawal ;-) I'll also evaluate group performance against the naive baseline predictions that I set up as well as a recap of the performance of UBS, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs. I'll just say this about that -- let's just hope that their football prognostications are not an indication of their financial acumen. More after the final.
4 comments:
All my predictions were guesses apart from BIG TEAM vs small team.
Here are the original odds. I should have checked that !!
http://internationalsoccer.suite101.com/article.cfm/who_are_the_favorites_to_win_the_world_cup
I had no idea Scotland were put out by Holland, or that Holland were well quoted. I assumed France and Italy were near Argentina and Brazil.
Well done to the leaders, especially the Americans !!
Well the best rank I could achieve would be amongst top 6-8 if Spain win. I believe the world cup match is worth 32 points so many of the current leader will go down if Spain, if not the margin will only be greater.
My prediction were barely informed guesses. I wouldn't have been able to name one player in any of the team other than Ronaldo. The other I new where injured Beckham, Ballack and Ronaldhino.
Thanks for setting this up. It was loads of fun, and I'm quite pleased with how I did.
Will there be a soccer ball at the Gordon S&T? Or should I go ahead and bring one?
Oranje!
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