Official Super Rugby Thread 2013

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OrbitalDawn

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Maybe I should partake in this Superbru business everyone's always going on about. How's it work?
 
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OrbitalDawn said:
Maybe I should partake in this Superbru business everyone's always going on about. How's it work?
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Register, pick a pool, make a pick for every game. You only need to pick the winner and the margin.

You get 1 point for picking the winning team, 0.5 points for guessing the margin within 7 points of the actual margin. Then there is the bonus point, this is awarded to the player that had the closest prediction to the actual margin.
 
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Devill said:
Register, pick a pool, make a pick for every game. You only need to pick the winner and the margin.

You get 1 point for picking the winning team, 0.5 points for guessing the margin within 7 points of the actual margin. Then there is the bonus point, this is awarded to the player that had the closest prediction to the actual margin.
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Thank you. I guess I'll give it a whirl!
 
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Sorry but most of us have jobs, friends and a local pub that needs our support.
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Haha :p. Actually now that I think about it, it is only the initial setting up of the team that will take like an hour or so. Once you got your team in place, you only have 3 transfers per week, so one just needs to think which players are going to do well against particular teams. It was very easy last year as I always packed my backline with whoever was playing against the Lions. This year it will be similar, except against the Kings, although I'm over-simplifying matters a little bit (as you have a budget). I suppose the most interesting aspect of the game is players can still get lots of points even if they are on the losing side.

I just had one bad experience of Superbru which put me off...my friend was an admin for the cricket world cup in 2007 and he could see all the picks so he usually just picked an average of all the other picks and was usually getting the BPs. Hopefully they have fixed that now. The admin shouldn't be allowed to see other people's picks.
 
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Haha :p. Actually now that I think about it, it is only the initial setting up of the team that will take like an hour or so. Once you got your team in place, you only have 3 transfers per week, so one just needs to think which players are going to do well against particular teams. It was very easy last year as I always packed my backline with whoever was playing against the Lions. This year it will be similar, except against the Kings, although I'm over-simplifying matters a little bit (as you have a budget). I suppose the most interesting aspect of the game is players can still get lots of points even if they are on the losing side.

I just had one bad experience of Superbru which put me off...my friend was an admin for the cricket world cup in 2007 and he could see all the picks so he usually just picked an average of all the other picks and was usually getting the BPs. Hopefully they have fixed that now. The admin shouldn't be allowed to see other people's picks.
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You can't see the picks unless you have made yours. Superbru takes me 5 minutes a week and I am not so clued up on all the players but team dynamics I get :p

Some of my friends also prefer the Fantasy league to Superbru, I tried it once and did not like it that much.
 
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Chris said:
Fox Sports Fantasy Rugby is much more entertaining that Superbru although you need to devote much more time to it.
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Also have a look at www.testrugby.com.

I enjoye it more than Superbru. In testrugby you also have buy and sell players. Each player is allocated a value and increase / decrease depending on performance. You get a certain amount of trades over the period of the game.
In each game, players are allocated points for scoring tries, tackling, etc.

All this done on a budget.
 
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This weekend we have the Bulls vs the Lions, and the Stormers vs the Cheetahs :D

Wooohoo.
 
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Devill said:
This weekend we have the Bulls vs the Lions, and the Stormers vs the Cheetahs :D

Wooohoo.
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FSRU is giving away the tickets for the match so it should attract a few supporters, there is a soccer match before the game as well. Hopefully I won't leave the stadium in utter disappointment like last year!
 
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Devill said:
Sorry I do not read braille sir.
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Most Weepee supporters are blind. Changed my location to Cape Town and asked Google to translate. Loosely translated:

"Where the fsck is the SuperBru you promised, mother trucker?"
 
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Devill said:
I nominated you to start one so that you can be captain and at least brag about something :p:D
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Dafuq? I'm a Sharks supporter. I'll brag about anything...:D

And if memory serves correct I finished 4th - or did MickeyD overtake me in that last game?
 
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Most Weepee supporters are blind. Changed my location to Cape Town and asked Google to translate. Loosely translated:

"Where the fsck is the SuperBru you promised, mother trucker?"
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You could just ask a guy who reffed a sharks game where they lost to read it to you.

But you have it spot on.

Pool please................
 
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