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Six Nations – Wrapping Up

laggleton — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:53:43 +0000

I didn’t update last weekend, mostly due to the pressing nature of being lazy, so here’s a bumper update of the last fortnight.

	Me	Dec	Alex	Pease	Dave
Ireland vs Wales	Ireland by 7	Ireland by 9	Ireland by 15	Ireland by 7	Ireland by 8
Scotland vs England	England by 3	England by 10	England by 11	England by 6	England by 6
France vs Italy	France by 18	France by 18	France by 14	France by 18	France by 23
France vs England	France by 14	France by 10	France by 9	England by 12	France by 5
Ireland vs Scotland	Ireland by 14	Ireland by 15	Ireland by 15	Ireland by 9	Ireland by 15
Wales vs Italy	Wales by 14	Wales by 12	Wales by 12	Wales by 12	Wales by 12

For round four everyone played their joker on France apart from Alex (good call, Alex). For round 5, Dec and Dave picked Ireland, Alex and Ant picked France and I picked Wales. No one took a mulligan on round four so mulligans were automatically assigned for Dave and Ant on round 5 to save them most points leading to a final leaderboard of:

Position	Score
1	+78	Me
2	7	Dave
3	-9	Ant
4	-34	Alex
5	-58	Dec

So, another glorious victory for me. All-in-all I think the jokers badly messed the table aorund this time, the points swings on them were huge, we’ll need to tweak those rules before next time…

Some statistical analysis to follow. Possibly.

More Messing Around

laggleton — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:41:24 +0000

Another way of seeing performance so far – the difference of each person’s score compared to the average score on each match.

Messing Around with Google Charts

laggleton — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:48:38 +0000

Google Charts API is pretty sweet, I’ve been messing around with it. In just half an hour of learning you can produce quite nice charts, such as below:

M shows where Mulligans were taken, J shows successful Jokers…

Six Nations Round 3 Results

laggleton — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:40:16 +0000

For the first time we’ve had the joker come into useful play and it’s made a significant difference to the scores. That plus a cunning punt on Italy over Scotland has led to the following table…

Position	Score
1	+40	Me*
2	-1	Alex*
3	-21	Ant
4	-29	Dave
5	-63	Dec*

* Mulligan used

Six Nations Round 3

laggleton — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:57:47 +0000

Well the predictions have started fragmenting a bit this week. No one has any love for Wales and their golf-kart stealing inebriation, but the other games are split predictions as are the jokers.

	Me	Dec	Alex	Pease	Dave
Wales vs France	France by 12	France by 12	France by 11	France by 15	France by 5
England vs Ireland	Ireland by 5	Ireland by 16	England by 4	Ireland by 9	England by 2
Italy vs Scotland	Italy by 4	Scotland by 10	Scotland by 10	Scotland by 10	Scotland by 5

Dec and I have both used our mulligans, jokers this week are:

Alex, Ant and I – France
Dec and Dave – Scotland

Six Nations Round 2 Results

laggleton — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:54:07 +0000

A bit of a shocker this week, and my first wrong prediction in terms of who was gonna win. Ireland were comprehensively spanked. Still, I imagine they can’t feel as bad as the Scots do.

Anyway, the terrible Ireland result has prompted both Dec and I to take our Mulligans. As a result, the standings are:

Position	Score
1	-8	Me*
2	-18	Dave
3	-23	Alex
4	-33	Ant
5	-41	Dec*

* Mulligan used

Six Nations Round 2

laggleton — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:00:31 +0000

	Me	Dec	Alex	Pease	Dave
France vs Ireland	Ireland by 2	Ireland by 5	France by 7	France by 5	France by 5
Wales vs Scotland	Wales by 15	Wales by14	Wales by 8	Wales by 12	Wales by 5
Itlay vs England	England by 24	England by 22	England by 29	England by 19	England by 22

Everyone picked England as their joker, everyone has a mulligan available.

Six Nations Round 1 Results

laggleton — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:51:28 +0000

So, Engand foxed everyone by picking up most points, which meant that no one got a joker bonus this week. Dec got hammered for backing the Welsh at Twickenham and three people actually ended the first week in positive points.

Position	Score
1	9	Me
2	4	Dave
3	3	Alex
4	-11	Ant
5	-27	Dec

Six Nations Round 1

laggleton — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:55:35 +0000

	Me	Dec	Alex	Pease	Dave
Ireland vs Italy	Ireland by 20	Ireland by 26	Ireland by 19	Ireland by 24	Ireland by 17
England vs Wales	England by 10	Wales by 7	England by 5	England by 2	England by 6
Scotland vs France	France by 8	France by 18	France by 12	France by 18	France by 6

Everyone picked Ireland as their joker, everyone has a mulligan available.

New Six Nations

laggleton — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:04:32 +0000

A new round with enhanced rules!

Each person puts £10 in.
Winner takes all.

For each game pick a winner and by how many points.

+5 for the right winner
+10 for the exact right points difference
-1 for each points difference out

e.g. England vs Italy guess England win by 10 points.

If England win 23-13 – +15
If England win 23-12 – +4
If England win 23-15 – +4
If England lose 23-13 – -20

Bonus rules:

1 Mulligan: Once throughout the game you can select a result to ignore. This must be nominated within 2 days of the result and cannot be transferred. E.g. if you selected England to beat Italy by 10 pts and England lost 23-13 you’d normally lose 20 pts. If you select this as your Mulligan, you score zero points.
Weekly Jester: Pick the team you think will get the most points that week. If you’re correct, you get the points that team got.

For example, you pick Ireland

Ireland – France – 30-15
England – Wales – 29-12
Italy – Scotland – 6-3

You would get 30 points. If you picked any other team you would get 0 points.

Winner is the one with the most overall points at the end.