On June 07 2018 01:18 haitike wrote: I'm so excited for Worldcup.
Casually I will be visiting England when the WC begins, so it is going to be hilarious watching matches there in some pub xDD
Watching football in England is great. I was studying in the UK in 2009 or 2010 when Man City won the title in the 93rd minute against some bottom table team. Was sitting in the JCR together with 50% man city and 50% man u fans, what an experience...
On the WC front, Belgium took a rather easy 3-0 victory vs Egypt (without Salah obviously), though if the papers are to be believed we were still pretty terrible. I didn't care enough to watch No new injuries at least...
On June 07 2018 01:18 haitike wrote: I'm so excited for Worldcup.
Casually I will be visiting England when the WC begins, so it is going to be hilarious watching matches there in some pub xDD
Watching football in England is great. I was studying in the UK in 2009 or 2010 when Man City won the title in the 93rd minute against some bottom table team. Was sitting in the JCR together with 50% man city and 50% man u fans, what an experience...
On the WC front, Belgium took a rather easy 3-0 victory vs Egypt (without Salah obviously), though if the papers are to be believed we were still pretty terrible. I didn't care enough to watch No new injuries at least...
I don't mean to be anal, but City won the first premier league title in 2012.
I was in studying England in 2007 when they lost to Croatia and missed the Euro 2008. That was pretty fun.
On June 07 2018 01:18 haitike wrote: I'm so excited for Worldcup.
Casually I will be visiting England when the WC begins, so it is going to be hilarious watching matches there in some pub xDD
Watching football in England is great. I was studying in the UK in 2009 or 2010 when Man City won the title in the 93rd minute against some bottom table team. Was sitting in the JCR together with 50% man city and 50% man u fans, what an experience...
On the WC front, Belgium took a rather easy 3-0 victory vs Egypt (without Salah obviously), though if the papers are to be believed we were still pretty terrible. I didn't care enough to watch No new injuries at least...
I don't mean to be anal, but City won the first premier league title in 2012.
I was in studying England in 2007 when they lost to Croatia and missed the Euro 2008. That was pretty fun.
Eh 2012 then, I was there from 2009 to 2013 I also saw the David Green fiasco live with about 100 English ppl watching, that was another great moment.
This looks to be surprisingly transparent and relatively sensible. If I understand correctly, we (the viewers) will get to see exactly what the referee is seeing in a situation where he is going for a review himself. Though not necessarily what the VAR team are looking at (well, this would meant to have like 10+ splitscreens going), which will most likely still lead to controversy when the referee makes a decision based on the VAR information in his ear without having a look himself (or more precisely, the focus of controversy will switch from the ref to the VAR team).
Statistically european teams and powerhouse teams are more likely to advance. The thing is though that it's also likely that several teams that are statistically likely to win will end up not winning. For example, looking just at the bracket percentages given, the average of those 15 percentages given is 65%, which means that average about 5 out of 15 predictions will not come true. (ignoring that there'd be a change in future percentages caused by earlier upsets).
This is why I get annoyed when i hear any version of 'there are only like 3 groups where the outcome for top 2 is not given' - if you have 5 groups where there's an 80% chance of two particular teams advancing (and imo only spain+portugal and england+belgium are even there) then it's quite likely that one of those groups will get an underdog advancing. .
On June 13 2018 23:50 Liquid`Drone wrote: Statistically european teams and powerhouse teams are more likely to advance. The thing is though that it's also likely that several teams that are statistically likely to win will end up not winning. For example, looking just at the bracket percentages given, the average of those 15 percentages given is 65%, which means that average about 5 out of 15 predictions will not come true. (ignoring that there'd be a change in future percentages caused by earlier upsets).
This is why I get annoyed when i hear any version of 'there are only like 3 groups where the outcome for top 2 is not given' - if you have 5 groups where there's an 80% chance of two particular teams advancing (and imo only spain+portugal and england+belgium are even there) then it's quite likely that one of those groups will get an underdog advancing. .
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