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I haven't even put any money on them myself. I'll post the next time he mentions it though!

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I could but I don't exactly have any proof. I suppose I could always just send a newspaper an email and say 'Look into this'. Or I'd have to wait for the next time to he gives me a tip and tell someone before the match.

If nothing else, McCormack betting £2000 on a game is pretty shaky territory though imo.

EDIT: There's every chance it's just pure coincidence or slight inside information without being an actual fix. Like knowing in advance Bradford were playing for a draw and pens or something so the odds were generous.

Basically he's told me to bet 4 times on Bradford including last night. And 3 of his predictions have happened.

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A guy from work is related to a Bradford City player and yesterday he told me to put money on them to win on penalties at 25/1. Which they did. Apparently Ross McCormack of Leeds had £2000 on them to win on penalties (him and Mikkell Forssell were drinking with his relative after the game). That's a pretty outlandish bet considering Bradford are 21st in League 2 and Sheff Utd are 5th in League 1.

He's also told me two other bets this season related to Bradford results that would have won.

He now wonders why I'm suspicious >_>

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Yeah, I think you're in the same boat as me and need Ryu/Ken to bleed heavily before match end. I thought when I made my initial prediction I had called it decently high too.

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Chin up Justin. You're still in with a chance. Andylt overturned a 34 point deficit in 2k10 en route to winning and people have closed down huge ground before.



And that makes more sense Creative, will edit my post so nobody gets confused. I knew there was an average somewhere and then realised that 76 odd would have been way higher than 44 so was trying to think what it might be!

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If you go to the website and Match Results then there's an average at the top in green. So like for the last match it was

Pokemon Trainer Red vs. Pokemon Trainer Blue 76.92% 44.09

EDIT: But there isn't like an entry that keeps track of all those scores combined.

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Oh cool, may bounce back today with a Top 5. Good god do I need it. Just one year I would love to get a decent start!

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Is it being manually updated atm? If so, that's probably why.

Also good god this rivalries mattering is killing me.

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I completely forgot about the vote-ins. Or rather I never looked at them so figured Falcon was an automatic entry. Serves me right for not paying attention to the preliminary contest stuff.

Thanks CN. Least now I know there something I overlooked and not just utter bafflement at what happened!

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Xuxon posted...
From: creativename | #122
My x-stat math had this match at 77.2%
I'm curious how that came about. Without looking any numbers I thought X/Zero might be in the upper 70s, but then I saw Cloud's performance and figured they couldn't do much better.

Were you using 4-way X-stats or something?

This. I was blinded by Cloud's performance on Falcon. Even assuming Falcon is carrying dead weight I couldn't find the logic that would put a 60.73% and a 52.36% (I used 2k8 Zero due to being in with MM) with the same fanbase up to the 70%+ people were putting, nevermind 75%+ even if there was a rivalry boost.

Clearing I was majorly wrong. I just still can't see what was so bad about my logic =/

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I upped mine from 77.5% to 80.7% despite thinking at the time that it K/Catherine would overperform and it would be lower than that prediction. I still have no idea why I did it. I guess because everyone else was raising theirs >_>

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The kiddies who see boobs in the pic.

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433 for me (46.001 average)
493 for you (45.976 average)

Err so some quick maths.

46.001 * 493 = 22678.49
45.976 * 493 = 22666.17


So roughly 12 points ish I guess. Well that won't be exact but it should be somewhere in that region.

EDIT: Which means it's a really tough task to catch Creativename and Ngamer's modern average since, lets be honest, our lifetime averages are inflated by not participating in the early contests with tougher penalties/lower averages.

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Should put you above me at least since I'm at -0.66 and -0.71 atm. I wonder how much you'll have to be ahead of me to get your 45.98 average above my 46.00.

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I'm just happy to start better than last year where I ended up mired between 101st and 80th for the first quarter of the contest before fighting back to 21st. I think I was like 20 points adrift after 3-4 matches and 40 points adrift after 10.

Having such a terrible start last year was hard to take.

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Can't you manually input the result until Creative can help? Or is that not an option?

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Just had a quick glance at the predictions and quite a competitive start. A 49+ score isn't even guaranteed to get you a top 15 atm, possibly not even a top 20.

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So glad the Oracle is back. Seems ages since the last contest!

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Mario vs. Bowser - 84.7%

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Yeah, we're fine with Ice Cream then because I seem to remember it just causes problems with the update script/site when people use a different name with the same partner.

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I can't believe how few people have RvP in their Fantasy Football teams. Literally nobody in any of my leagues have him and he is gold. The last three weeks he has bailed me out of terrible weeks.

By the end of this week he will have gotten me 55 points in 3 weeks and I didn't captain him this week so it could have been 74.

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We used Brain Freeze the last time we teamed up because you were tired of the old name. I just don't think the Oracle website reflected the fact. I seem to remember either the update script and the team rankings showing 2 different names for us anyway.

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My bad then, I thought it was just the question thingy that was the optional bonus point.

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What happened last week with everyone getting a second pick? Were people allowed to change their picks or something?

EDIT: Oh I see. People were allowed a repick last week even if they were eliminated? I didn't post because I thought I was already out >_>

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I'd have taken a draw before kick-off. I don't think the Gerrard goal was a free-kick but I can't deny that Liverpool were the better team either so can't really complain.


Also, I hope Van Persie has an absolutely blinder tomorrow. I have him as my Fantasy Football captain and most of the other popular choices for captain either aren't playing or are on the bench this week. Good grief does my team need it too.

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Mario vs. Bowser - 83%
Ike vs. Black Knight - 58%
Kirby vs. Meta Knight - 60%
Sonic the Hedgehog vs. Dr. Robotnik - 69%

Mega Man X vs. Zero - 66%
Bartz Klauser vs. Gilgamesh - 55%
Ezio Auditore da Firenze vs. Rodrigo Borgia - 52%
Sub-Zero vs. Scorpion - 53%

Pokemon Trainer Red vs. Pokemon Trainer Blue - 75%
Luigi vs. Waluigi - 58%
Ryu vs. Ken - 77%
Fox McCloud vs. Wolf O'Donnell - 51%

Samus Aran vs. Ridley - 77%
Terra Branford vs. Kefka Palazzo - 60%
Chris Redfield vs. Albert Wesker - 60%
Big Boss vs. The Boss - 58%

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Trisection

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Tifa
Kan'u
Selvaria
Lightning

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BZer0 posted...
I'll team up with ShatteredElysium again.

Awesome! Want to go with one of our previous names of a new one entirely? Not really fussed either way but I'll try think of a new name just in case.

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In. Will team up with any of my previous partners if they're interested (th3l3fty , Bzer0, Peaceout).

Or will team up with anybody really. Not too fussed.

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No.

Cody Rhodes

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Christ, anyone could believe you two were 10 by the way you were acting.

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Yeah it wasn't remotely harsh imo. He did a very similar thing last season to Gareth Bale and it ruptured his ankle ligaments. Parker was lucky not to be injured in a similar fashion. I mean it wasn't even like he won the ball, he was absolutely nowhere near it.

It could have been a straight red and I think the only reason it wasn't was because he was already on a yellow.

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Btw, has anyone looked at the UEFA rankings recently? I lol'ed when I looked at them.

http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/uefarankings/club/index.html

The way they work would be okay-ish if not for silly stuff like Man Utd earning more ranking points last season than Barcelona even though Barca won the CL.

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I think the Adam sending off was fair tbh. That was a horrible challenge and could have severely injured Parker. Whether Adam intended it or not (which I don't think he did), it's still bad and you simply don't go lunging in like that when you are already on a yellow card.

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They weren't though and I say that as a Utd fan. The only difference between Utd and Chelsea in that first half is that Utd were absolutely clinical whilst Chelsea were not. Also, 2 of our goals were offside if I'm honest.

If we had gone into HT losing or drawing then I wouldn't have complained. And on a different day, I could have certainly seen that happening.


Oh and my Fantasy Football team is absolutely abyssmal this year. I've chanced it on too many differentials who have performed poorly. This week was just a kick in the nuts, I wanted Adebayor and Aguero in but I didn't want to drop RVP as I thought you guys had an easy run of fixtures. So I stuck with RVP and obviously backfired big time.

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In fairness, the game was far closer than the scoreline suggested. Chelsea were 3-0 down at half time and hadn't done a whole lot wrong.

That Torres miss was shocking though.

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I have never had a single problem with any of my consoles (or handhelds) and I have generally bought every major console release since the SNES was released (think I've only given original XBOX and the Wii a miss).

Granted there's probably a bit of luck in there but what on earth do people do to their consoles to make them fail so often.

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Your BrainHex Class is Mastermind.

Your BrainHex Class Your BrainHex Sub-Class is Mastermind-Conqueror.

You like solving puzzles and devising strategies as well as defeating impossibly difficult foes, struggling until you eventually achieve victory, and beating other players.

According to your results, there are few play experiences that you strongly dislike.

Your scores for each of the classes in this test were as follows:

Mastermind: 20
Conqueror: 17
Socialiser: 12
Achiever: 10
Seeker: 8
Daredevil: 4
Survivor: 2

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I started getting gray hairs at 19. And they were really obvious cos my natural hair colour is jet black. It never seemed cool to me!

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Instead of not letting mods get involved, they should just get rid of the terrible mods.

The problem is that the mods are seen as infallible when they are not. If the mods who constantly make mistakes or abuse their power were flagged up by other mods and thrown out after it happened X amount of times then it would go a long way to fixing the mod/user relationship. Instead when this happens it is just swept under the carpet or we are told that the mods were correct anyway.

And the sad thing is, I bet there's actually more good moderators than bad. It's just the bad ones are thrust into the spotlight so often than it ruins the mods reputation for those who are actually competent.

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It's just one of those things that you do in your test to make sure you don't fail and then as soon as you have passed you don't bother with it.

Afaik it is still far more difficult to pass a UK driving test than a USA driving test.

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Part of Arsenal's problem is what it always has been, they are lightweight. And that's true even when everyone is back fully fit.

I really can't understand why Wenger hasn't even made some makeshift signings if his primary targets weren't available. You could have had Barton or Parker who would have both improved your midfield for cheap. Then there's the likes of Enrique who went for dirt cheap.

Realistically Wenger needs to swallow his pride and stump up the cash for Cahill. He can't expect to pay 6m for him when players of a similar level like Jones have gone for 18m.

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Oh and just to add, hats off to the Arsenal supporters at OT. They were fantastic considering the circumstances.

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Not going to gloat over the Utd score because I know Arsenal fans must already be devastated. It's probably a similar feeling to when we ge destroyed by Barcelona but more gutwrenching because at least we're trying to bridge the gap. So I sympathise with you guys.

I will say this though, that was possibly the worst Arsenal team I can remember man for man. I mean looking at the starting defence and midfield, how many of those players would have honestly get into the starting XI for Utd, City, Chelsea, Liverpool or Tottenham? Ramsey possibly and none of the others. Granted I know you have a lot injuries/suspensions but that just screams to me that there's no depth to your squad.

And Wenger can't use the excuse of being young and inexperienced anymore because Utd's average age was 23, Arsenal's was 23.6.

So yeah I really sympathise with you guys because Arsene really does need to go out ad buy some big, quality players like you have been screaming out for. Otherwise you're looking at 6th or dare I say it, worse. And if it doesn't get fixed then can you really see someone as good as Van Persie staying?


I'm a Utd fan and so inherently dislike Liverpool and even I can see they're a much improved, quality outfit this season. They won't be title challengers yet but you can't expect them to go from abject to champions in a season. They just have a suspect defence imo due to it being quite slow. They'll probably come 4th with maybe a 10-12 point between them and 3rd.

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WhoopsyDaisy posted...
I'm dating a 31-year-old at 19 and when I went to a party with his coworkers no one gave him s*** for it. 23 and 18 is fine.

I was in a similar situation to you. From 18-22 I was in a relationship with someone who 30-34 at the time. And it wasn't just a casual thing, we lived together until we broke up (she wanted kids and I never wanted them, not because of m age I just never wanted kids).

Nobody cared.

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On current form you'd expect us to destroy Arsenal so I fully expect them to turn us over next week! >_>

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