Topic: ⚽ Sportsbet.io ⚽ Spanish La Liga ⚽ Football Pool Discussion Thread - page 128. (Read 31858 times)

it's always been like this in this board, with or without messi/cr7 

idk man, team looked awful last season and yet messi still found a way to carry them to 3rd place (just barely).

Defence is the same (Eric garia and Emerson are not an improvement over the current defenders), midfield is the same, attack is worse (they just let go of 30 goals+15 assists per season, grandpa aguero already injured, depay will need time to adapt), squad and manager will be under tremendous pressure cuz the fans are fuming...It's rough.

Debut this weekend against Sociedad. I remember their last meeting at the camp nou, it was a really close game, 2-1 win for barca

I am actually thinking Barca will be very good this season. They have enough quality for several players to take over Messi responsibility among them. They will also be a bit of unknown, everybody was basing their tactics against Barca on containing Messi, what will they do now nobody knows.

That financial fair play is a joke. Barca doesn't have enough for players wages and PSG does with all those star players in their team? I am sure Neymar, Mbappe, Ramos, Donnaruma, Di Maria, Icardi and Verati are basically playing for free, right? UEFA should either stop pretending that they care about Financial Fair play or start enforcing it on all clubs. Maybe implement salary cap like in NBA for all members of UEFA.

@Trofo, you can enter Valencia CF as my favorite club

regarding Messi, leaving Barca was inevitable in the end, according to La liga fair play (did not know that this exist as well), but expected Messi to join some other picks, not PSG
nevertheless, it is all about money for him in the end (not judging)

Barca is a question this season, but things will be clear after few rounds, even first match with Sociedad at home will get us some insight what we can expect from them this season, without Messi

Allowing people to join until end of September is a good idea, but I still find it strange there is so little interest in a league that used to have the two GOATs of football.

Oh and yes I woke up to Messi PSG news finally. The nightmare has truly entered for Barca. Tough time to be a fan now but I wish Messi the best (I still wish he joined a better league).

And a surprise participant have come I will be joining this pool.
Not sure about joining SerieA pool it will be time consuming doing this one alongside EPL pool.
I will think about it still got bit more time since it’s still have 10 days for it.

Yo did not get me properly or I was not clear enough But good think that this misunderstanding happened since you are actually right. I thought La Liga has been decided to start earlier while the truth is Serie A has been pushed to start one week later.

There is 9 of us currently in the pool. Still expect 3 people to join and hope for one or two surprise participants.

I also thought that Serie A would start at the same time as other leagues, although perhaps you and I just subconsciously looked at the day of the week and not at the date. What I mean is that there is no mention of the postponement of the date in the news feed. The good news is that the delayed start will give time to join the pool for those who have not seen notifications in this or last week, (I think it is worth changing the name of the thread, adding the final date of joining).

Hey guys I just realized that La Liga starts in 3 days. Has that been changed? I am sure it was supposed to start on the same day as Serie A, whole week later. If you plan to join, hurry up. If you are undecided or collecting money put your results in Superbru and you can join latter on. You will have all the points you earned. I'll allow late registrations up to 01.10.2021.

Just created the pool, sending PM's with details in few minutes.

Ok I have made my payments now for this pool. I did very badly last season and the worse is I was doing quite well initially until made a few bad calls.

Did I mention I finished in top 10% of Barcelona pool and a separate pool but very low in bitcointalk pool? So you guys are really, really good:)

This is going to be a strange season for me without Messi. I still can't believe it.

I am thinking only PSG and City are realistic options and if I were Messi I would choose City for sure. He believes he is best in the world then go in the best league and prove it. City already had a very good 5 year contract for him if I remember correctly. First 2 years would be in PL and then he would play for their sister club in MLS after he gets older. Same money for whole 5 years, it doesen't get better than that from money and sportsmanship perspective. And he is reunited with Guardiola as a bonus.

and well, Barca made a statement, Messi is not staying

Marca speculates four clubs, City, United, PSG and joining Ronaldo in Juventus (must say that neither is making sense from my side, Premier is not for him (he is just too old to play there), PSG is really just for money (do not see him that way), and joining Ronaldo does not seem realistic, although interesting possibility)
https://www.marca.com/en/football/barcelona/2021/08/05/610c2f9f268e3e0e0c8b45cd.html

there is not much of a choice if he is pay-chasing, otherwise he could decide to finish in Boca for example (maybe it is soon, but he is 34 after all)
if it is for pay and rivalry with Ronaldo, maybe Inter?

what are your picks?

I'm such a cheapskate I've been sending 1 sat/byte txs almost even without checking mempool these days. It's crazy how it can still get confirmed under a week even when last clogged. But anyway, use your SB account, and don't worry;)

@toma @icopress haha nah, I love all these pools, love that SB's got them all covered now, and am a big, big supporter of micro crypto (Bitcoin) communities, wherever and however they play;) Plus, I'm winning it all back anyway =D

JK, I'm doing it to embarrass you all.

Wow, this guy has definitely decided to embarrass us all.  

Lol ... I saw your Euro prediction results and they left a lot to be desired, therefore, I offer you the chance to win back your investment! I'm talking about a dispute between you and me for the sum of 5 mBTC, where the winner is determined by the worst forecast for the whole season! ^{[The winner must have fewer Superbu points than the loser].} If you agree and if you have a couple of ideas on how to make this dispute even more absurd, then feel free to quote me) 

It also helps down the road when I have to pay out the prizes. When you have transaction with 20 inputs and 5 outputs those fees quickly get quite high. I know I can consolidate those inputs but I sort of avoided doing that for the pools. This way anybody can check the addresses and all inputs very easy. Shouldn't be hard even after consolidation but this way I keep max transparency and I have every input marked down in electrum with the name of the user that paid.

I never think about BTC fees when I am just sending simple tx with 1 input and 1 output.

sounds good (: 👍



yeah, i've sent a few tx this week with an average of 2-4 sats (i usually avoid using 1sat/byte) and they all got confirmed in less than 30 min. As LoyceV would say, perfect time to consolidate your small inputs 

could not help it to think that we are overthinking fees at the moment, with 1sat/byte you can send transaction within few blocks


it was an issue in January/February, but last two months are really bringing BTC fees down, and I have send my entry fees for $0.09 with an automated mobile wallet (that do not have many options to adjust fees - expect slow, medium, fast transaction), it seems that $0.09 is not worth thinking about fees, but maybe I am wrong

nevertheless, good thing that Sportsbet lowered minimum amount to withdraw without fees, kudos to them

Sportsbet has lowered the minimum withdraw amount to 1 mBTC; so there shouldn't be any issues with fees 

Kind beautiful Sir Trofo (was that even good enough) ,

I think that it is best to have more markets from a single match, but it would be good not to have Barca/Real each round, do others as well (Valencia would be nice)
nevertheless, would skip BTS, does reveal a bit about score, maybe even under/over goals, first sub side is maybe better (first team to make sub/draw if halftime)

First of all don't call me mister. I accept only Sir and only if you are able to write it at least 10 times in single post preferably each time with different ego boosting adjective ie. kind, beautiful, superb … 

These side coemptions take some work but I decided to do them in order to add little bit more spice/interaction to our community. This pools should be about community foremost and I believe they serve their purpose.

It will be one competition for both pools together which means we are talking 20 games each week. I see no problem of making public our pick for one or two games in this format. I will be choosing top derby that week. Still considering if it should be one game with more markets or two games with just main markets. I will then keep the same format for whole season and just change games every week.

For instance, two games:
Winner
under over 2.5
cards
Tie breaker: first goal

or one game:
Winner
under over 2.5
cards
corners
BTS
Tie breaker: first goal

Thoughts?

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My 2 cents ... I think it would be more expedient to opt for the weekly Superbu statistics. The thing is that most of us will participate in three pools of predictions and so that this hobby does not take too much time, I think we should limit ourselves to only standard practice. ^{[Although I have no objection if Trofo has time for this]}