The rules caught up to ALL of us. We never intended the DRAWS to be so dominating. All 8 remaining players left after the last Round, never expected a Bulls draw, so they all fall out and we have nobody left standing!
A draw is not a win and that is exactly how it feels after the Bulls disasterous draw against the Chiefs! It feels like the Bulls lost.
If one changes the Rules and count losses and draws together as NO WINS we will have all 8 players living to fight another day.
We could do a vote on this Article, and give only the players voting rights. They will have to submit their vote before 12:00 on Wednesday. The question would be Yes / No to change the format as follows:
- Count losses and draws together as NO WINS
The Rules:
- The moment ONE of your predictions goes astray, you will be eliminated from the competition and marked as OUT.
- The round in witch you took the dive will be in the ALIVE or OUT column. The list will will be updated at the conclusion of each Round of Super Rugby in 2014 and the players still ALIVE will be indicated in GREEN.
- When you fall out, your name will revert to RED when the updates are done.
- Simply selecting how many LOSSES and how many DRAWS every South African franchise will have in the OPEN Rounds (16 games a side), is enough, obviously the rest will be wins or bye weekends and do not matter in this competition.
Otherwise the competition can end, like initially intended and divide the prize into 8, but this is far from ideal.
Each franchise plays 16 games in the regular season, 8 against fellow South African Conference sides (home and away) and 8 against the sides in the other 2 Conferences.
South African Conference
| Pos | Team | P | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | BPts | Pts |
| 1 | Cell C Sharks | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 181 | 101 | 80 | 3 | 23 |
| 2 | Lions | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 157 | 148 | 9 | 0 | 16 |
| 3 | Vodacom Bulls | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 145 | 138 | 7 | 2 | 16 |
| 4 | DHL Stormers | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 94 | 149 | -55 | 2 | 6 |
| 5 | Toyota Cheetahs | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 139 | 208 | -69 | 1 | 5 |
Prediction Spreadsheet
PlayerNickname |
Alive or Out |
No of Bulls losses |
No of Bulls draws |
No of Cheetahs losses |
No of Cheetahs draws |
No of Lions losses |
No of Lions draws |
No of Sharks losses |
No of Sharks draws |
No of Stormers losses |
No of Stormers draws |
| 4man | OUT | 7 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Blue Traveler | OUT | 7 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| cane | OUT | 5 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Cheetah4eva | OUT | 8 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| Grootblousmile | OUT | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| Gena_ZA | OUT | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| GoBokke&Ireland | OUT | 9 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| Gumboots | OUT | 7 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| JustFor Kicks | OUT | 8 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| Labuschagne | OUT | 8 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
| Leon | OUT | 5 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Loosehead | OUT | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| MacroBull | OUT | 7 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| Nortierd | OUT | 8 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| OzzieKiwi | OUT | 7 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Puma | OUT | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Scrumdown | OUT | 7 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| Scrumsaam | OUT | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Snoek | OUT | 5 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| superBul | OUT | 4 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 2 |
| Timothy Borman | OUT | 7 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| WikiLeaks | OUT | 7 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Winfreux | OUT | 5 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
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@ MacroBull:
I think you may well be right.
After Borren, the Hollandaise have little to offer.
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I would however……………………… love to be proved wrong.
@ cane:
hopefully England pulls an Australia.
England 19/2
England now 26/3
is an upset possible?
@ Ashley:
would you call it a upset? Or would you call England their bunnies?
super @ 35
would still be an upset
but
if pulled off, one that I would thoroughly enjoy!!
England 41/4 at the moment btw
42/5!!!!
42/5
England in DEEP
49/5
with 9 overs remaining
still 85 to get
Wheelie Bin Giles will be looking for a new job
52/6
One must not laugh, but England knows how to redefine Lows
RRR is 10.6 now
if toetie was the England coach
he would’ve told everyone who wants to listen:
“we’re losing, but we’re HAPPY!!”
@ Ashley:
“at least we restricted them to less than 140, that has to count for something right?”
macrobull @ 46
or “we’ve done quite well to only bowl 20 overs!!”
bopara gone and that must be it!!
74/7
@ Ashley:
wat was Dif se woorde, Daars nie n verskil tussen wen en verloor nie, wen is net bietjie lekkerder. Of so iets
Ai ek mis die ou, ons Rugby toneel is erg vaal vandat hy weg is.
Nou net refs om voor te lag.
@ Ashley:
“well everyone finished their full quota of overs, the tried their best but the ball did not bounce our way”
macro @ 50
MOET jy nou kwotas hier inbring?
@ Ashley:
The effort is there
super @ 49
nee wat, rugby is net nie meer dieselfde nie, lol
Gunther @ 52
exactly!
78/8
SURELY this game is in the bag now?
55 @ Ashley:
mmmmm missing Kevin Pietsen perhaps…
Macro @ 56
it must be, but it only need one morkel-like over to change things again!
86/9 broad gone
England 86 / 9
Hahahaha
48 Needed off 16 balls… only 1 wicket in hand!
Goooooooooo Netherlands!
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