Hello Cricket Fans. During 2007’s cricket world cup we had started a cricket pool of money to predict the winner and KV fans had participated by putting 5$ and putting up their predictions. (Hemal and Prashant were the winner and runnerup respectively in 2007).
Here is the post related to that:
http://www.kavita.kutchvalley.com/?p=270
Why dont we do something similar for this World Cup to make it fun. There will be 2 winners. The first one will get 2/3 of the money pool. And Runner Up will get 1/3 of the money pool. Entry is 5$. It will be great if you have paypal. You can just paypal the money to me. You can join if you are remote also (out of bay area (as long as you have a paypal account). For folks who are in bay area and dont have paypal we can consider receiving money in cash whenever we meet.
1 point each for correct selection of the 8 Quarter Finalists.
2 points each for correct selection of the 4 Semi Finalists.
3 points each for correct selection of the 2 Finalists.
5 points for predicting the eventual winner of Cricket World Cup 2011.
1 bonus point for predicting the range of total runs scored (both teams combined) in the finals. Valid Ranges are : 251-300, 301-350, 351-400, 401-450 and so on.
1 bonus point for predicting the range of total wickets (both teams combined) to fall in the finals. Valid Ranges are: 0-4, 5-8, 9-12, 13-16, 17-20.
Notes:
1) Please indicate your selection for quarters, semis, finals and winner by adding a comment. Please also indicate the range of total score in the finals and the range of total wickets in the finals.
2) In case of 1 person having the winning score and 1 person having the runner-up, the division will be 2/3 to winner and 1/3 to runnerup.
3) In case of 2 persons having winning score there will be no runnerup and money will be divded 50-50.
4) In case of 3 or more people having winning score there will be no runnerup and money will be divded by the number of people having winning score.
5) In case 1 person has winning score and 2 or more people have runner up score, winner will get 2/3 and the remainder 1/3 will be divided by the number of people having the runnerup score.
I am in with 5$. Here are my selections:
Quarters: Aus, NZ, Pak, Sri Lanka, Ind, Eng, West Indies, South Africa
Semis: Aus, Sri Lanka, Ind, South Africa
Finals: Ind vs South Africa
Winner: South Africa
Range of Total Runs in Finals: 501-550
Range of Total Wickets in Finals: 17-20
When is the last date to take part in this?
Quarter – Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, India, South Africa, Ireland, England
Semi – Pakistan, Australia, India, South Africa
Finals – India, Pakistan
Winner – India
Total runs Scored in finals – 551-601
Range of total wickets (both teams combined) to fall in the finals – 13-16
Last Day to enter is end of this Friday: Mar 11th 2011.
Quarter – Aus, SL, Pak, NZ, India, SA, England & West Indies
Semi – India, SA, SL, Aus
Final – India & SL
Winner – SL
Run Scored – 551-600
Wickets – 17-20
-Ajay
Quarters – South Africa, India, West Indies, England, Australia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, New Zealand
Semis – India, South Africa, Australia, Sri Lanka
Final – India, Sri Lanka
Winner – India
Run Scored : 575-600
Wickets – 15
Go India !!
Last Day to put down your selections. Enter by midnight if interested. We have 4 people IN the pool till now.
as of today Jaideep leads with 9 points. all remaining 3 have 8 points each.
All 4 had Ind in Semis. So Jaideep still leads the pack by 1 point. Jaideep: 11 points. All rest: 10 points.
Maybe it’s time for another article to put in the prefereneces i.e who will win the Semi’s and go to finals 🙂
And Prashant falls behind in the race since South Africa is out.
Australia get a double whammy – losing to both “local” nations and had rain not washed out their game with SL, I am sure they would have lost to them as well.
I will fall behind the rest, if Sri Lanka wins tomorrow.
Then if Sri Lanka makes it to the Finals, I will not catch up even if India is the final winner. Pahel would win. Nitul wins, if Sri Lanka is the final winner.
Go England 🙂
Looking at the trend Jaideep, I think England will win today :).
Seems like Sri Lanka has other plans :(. Have to rely on the total runs and wickets in the Finals.
And now Jaideep goes to the bottom of the pool 🙁
Prashant – maybe we should get a side bet going 🙂
Standings before the Finals:
Ajay, Nitul : 18 points (8+4+6)
Prashant : 15 points (8+4+3)
Jaideep: 14 points (7+4+3)
Finals Standings:
Nitul : 24 (8+4+6+5+ 1bonus)
Jaideep: 20 (7+4+3+5+ 1 bonus)
Ajay: 18 (8+4+6+ 1bonus)
Prashant: 15 (8+4+3)
Congrats to Nitul for being the winner of the betting pool. Congrats to Jaideep for being runner up.
Nitul gets: 13.33 ( -5 his dues for pool) = 8.33
Jaideep gets: 6.66
payment will be sent via paypal
Final points = Qtr + Semi + Finl + Wnr + Runs bonus + Wkts bonus
Nitul = 8+4+6+5+0+0 = 23 (Winner)
Jaideep = 7+4+3+5+1+0 = 20 (First Runner up)
Ajay = 8+4+6+0+1+0 = 19 (Second Runner up)
Prashant = 8+4+3+0+0+0 = 15 (Finalist :))
Congrats Nitul 🙂