2016 UFC Tipping -- R2 -- April 1st - June 30th

[BradWCE]

I wasn't too confident in my pick of Calderwood, but I thought for sure if she won it'd be by decision. I wasn't quite as sure on this one, but I thought if Cerrone won it'd very likely be by decision too. I thought Bosse by KO was very likely if he was to win. Wrong on all three.

 

[Guy Threepwood]

UFC Fightnight 89: MacDonald vs Thompson

Thompson Dec
Cerrone TKO
Bosse Dec
Aubin-Mercier Sub
Calderwood TKO

Final Standings

Ryz -- 4+0 (previous score 39) = 43
Phantom13 -- 3+1 (previous score 39) = 43
Guy Threepwood -- 3+0 (previous score 38) = 41
Jab -- 2+1 (previous score 38) = 41
BradWCE -- 4+1 (previous score 36) = 41
Bkozican -- 3+1 (previous score 36) = 40
Ross -- 4+1 = (previous score 35) = 40
Stevi_Tigers -- 2+1 (previous score 34) = 37
D-mac3276 -- 2+1 (previous score 33) = 36
MMAPride Scott -- 2+1 (previous score 33) = 36
Nickos66 -- 3+0 (previous score 33) = 36
Gigantic -- 4+3 (previous score 29) = 36

Congrats to Ryz and phantom13 for being joint winners of the tipping comp for this quarter. Great tipping guys! Ryz, I do have to say though that the the gig is up... you keep saying you're relatively new to the sport, but the tipping numbers don't lie!

Congrats also to Gigantic for saving his best until last and dominating the scoring this round.

The next quarter starts with a bang... three cards in three days! Given that we are starting fresh in a few weeks, did anyone have any suggestions on improvements for the comp? I thought that we could look at tipping for the fightpass and undercard main event fights as both of those usually have well known fighters in them. Any other thoughts/comments?

 

[phantom13]

Pretty sure me and Ryz were tied up for like 3 cards.

Honestly ive preferred the main cards only, maybe if you want to chuck a feature Fight Pass or prelim fight but not the whole thing, they can just be so hard to keep track of.

Other option would be to have a weighted thing, either you pick one fight (thats really close) and assign it double points or each tipster picks a lock which is worth double points (mind you thats alot more work for you).

Honestly Guy Threepwood youre doing a bang up job and i wouldnt change a thing.

 

[Stevi_Tigers]

s**t sorry i forgot the last card

 

[Guy Threepwood]

Pretty sure me and Ryz were tied up for like 3 cards.

Honestly ive preferred the main cards only, maybe if you want to chuck a feature Fight Pass or prelim fight but not the whole thing, they can just be so hard to keep track of.

Other option would be to have a weighted thing, either you pick one fight (thats really close) and assign it double points or each tipster picks a lock which is worth double points (mind you thats alot more work for you).

Honestly Guy Threepwood youre doing a bang up job and i wouldnt change a thing.

That was the idea, just add the main event of each of the undercard and fightpass prelims rather than the full card.

The weighted idea could be interesting. Are you talking about a fight where both fighters are around even money or where a particular type of win (ie KO) is by far the most likely outcome?

 

[Gigantic]

Or maybe include the whole card for PPV events? There's only one once a month so you'll only have 2-3 full card predictions for each round

 

[Ry009]

Should have gone with my gut and tipped Calderwood for 5

Also, I swear I'm a newbie to MMA, combination of beginners luck hammering Sherdog

As far as the comp itself, pretty perfect set up but has anyone looked at the UFC 'Pick Em' site? Looks like you can create league similar to footy tipping but not sure whether you can tip on the undercards though.

 

[phantom13]

No dont add full cards. Main cards only maybe add feature bouts but not full cards, wind up with no name 1 (with a record of 12-0 in Peru) vs no name 2 (with a record of 75-1 in china).

Weighted tips, example on the weekend. Gout was like $4.75 to win, so if you tipped him and he got up you get like double points or something. I'll be honest i havent really considered this... heres two options
1- You can (but dont have to) nominate an upset tip and get double points if you get it right (or even get market value for it, so in Goutis case 4 points instead of 1)
2- You have to pick a "lock" and if it gets up you get double points but if it loses you lose a point.

I just throwing ideas out here, any variations of that would be fine. Just means if youre way back you can have a ping at some hail marys and maybe get back in it (UFC 189 would have seen Tate and Diaz score alot, UFC 199 could have gotten you Hendo and Bisping)

 

[Gigantic]

Yeah, probably not the entire card for PPVs but you could easily add in the top half of the prelims for PPV events.

Most PPV cards have quite a lot of well-known fighters in the top half of the prelims.

 

[bkozican]

Congrats Ryz and phantom13 on winning thia round and a thankyou to Guy Threepwood for doing the numbers.

Dont mind the idea of changing it up but at the same time I think this set up is ok. It was close throughout and only a handful of tips between last and first

 

[BradWCE]

I don't really mind how the next comp is set up. Only main cards has been good. The way we did it before was good too. Whatever everyone else decides is fine by me.

 

[MMAPride Scott]

I'd stick to what we got you don't want to get too out of hand. We might as well start a pick em league If you want double points and stuff.

 

[Jab]

I wouldn't be against having odds added in but I'm happy to keep it the same too.

 

[Ross]

I'd be happy to just keep it as is. The quarterly rounds and only doing the main card make it accessible to everyone.

 

[Ry009]

EDIT: Deleted my league because none of you flogs joined up

Will still do the comp here which also agree is perfect as is.

 

[Jab]

Did you want to start a new thread for this, Guy Threepwood? I think post #6 had a few names to tag in but there were also some that I missed too. The sooner we get this up and running the better it will be to attract more players.