World Cup Bracket Challenge

[The Abusement Park]

lol....

This aged well

 

[Dr Pepper]

Here's my attempt, for some reason I've got England making a deep run. Bound to happen eventually, maybe this is their year - to lose in the finals.

Whoops.

Looks like I overrated Egypt, big time.

Argentina to the semifinals, not looking to prescient either.

 

[krossifixo]

Error in Group A scoring in my private league
Has anyone seen an error in group A scoring of the FIFA bracket challenge, some of the members in my league got 38 points even though they picked Egypt to come 3rd and Egypt actually came last

 

[maclean]

Just in case anyone's wondering:

Group Stage Scoring

• Correctly predict a Group winner: 10 points
• Correctly predict a Group Runner-Up: 10 points
• Correctly predict the top two teams (in any order): 3 points
• Correctly predict the entire group in the correct order: 15 points

Knockout Stage Scoring

• For each correct team in the Quarter-Finals: 3 points
• For each correct team in the Semi-Finals: 4 points
• For each correct team in the Final: 5 points
• For the correct World Cup 2018 Winner: 10 points
• For the correct World Cup 2018 Runner-up: 8 points
• Correctly predict a fixture (both correct teams and the correct position in the bracket): 10 points

So the leaders in our league with 99 points right now have correctly picked the top two teams for the three groups currently decided (10+10+3 per group). Global leaders with over that also picked at least one whole group correctly in the right order.

 

[krossifixo]

Just in case anyone's wondering:



So the leaders in our league with 99 points right now have correctly picked the top two teams for the three groups currently decided (10+10+3 per group). Global leaders with over that also picked at least one whole group correctly in the right order.

Yeah but some people got 38 points in Group A even though they picked Egypt to come 3rd. I think there is an error

 

[maclean]

Yeah but some people got 38 points in Group A even though they picked Egypt to come 3rd. I think there is an error

Hm, my guess is they'll probably figure it out and fix it

 

[Big Poppa Puck]

I got 11-16 and got a perfect group F. Was 7-8 picking group winners with Germany being the only miss.

Missed Germany of course and then Poland. And took a shot with Peru and the mighty Salah's advancing. Other miss was Costa Rica apparently when I coulda sworn I had them 3rd and the Swiss 2nd, must of got heavy handed with the drag and drop lol.

 

[Dr Pepper]

I got Brazil/Mexico and Colombia/England matchups bang-on, hopefully my winners advance there as well.

But I also had Germany, Peru, Egypt, Serbia, Poland and Nigeria advancing, so.....yeah.

 

[maclean]

Who's "Tuggy13", come on admit it Three groups I got the top two, the others only one of them, wasn't really expecting to do any better than that with a lot of wishful picks so hey.

There's a (separate) knock-out phase bracket you can do now too with all the actual games, but I don't think there's any points counted for it, it's just kinda for fun.

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

My bracket:View attachment 121629
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11/16 on advancing groups, but only 4/8 on winners. Oof.

 

[maclean]

11/16 on advancing groups, but only 4/8 on winners. Oof.

By advancing groups you mean like picking the right team to advance (but possibly not in the right spot)? Huh, now that I look at it, I also got 11/16 by that metric, but all in the right spot.

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

By advancing groups you mean like picking the right team to advance (but possibly not in the right spot)? Huh, now that I look at it, I also got 11/16 by that metric, but all in the right spot.

That's what I mean, yep. 11/16 teams in the knockout rounds, but almost all in the wrong spot.

 

[maclean]

That's what I mean, yep. 11/16 teams in the knockout rounds, but almost all in the wrong spot.

Well, if it makes you feel any better, I got them in the right spot and I'm still only 20th out of 30

 

[The Abusement Park]

Had 12/16 correct. Actually doing a little bit better than I thought I was considering I’m in 5th.

 

[maclean]

The good part about having at least one team right in each group is that with a bit of luck I could have 6 out of eight teams right in the quarters...

 

[rangerssharks414]

I had Germany vs. Argentina in one of the semifinals. Oops.