Topic: Sportsbet.io's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread - page 521. (Read 146419 times)

There are people who actually bet on these computerised games. Skybet do them. I remember once they gave me a free £1 or £2 bet to place on them. I think it was some match like Real Madrid vs a shit La liga team near the bottom and you just watch like the match play out like it was LMA Manager 2002. Anyway, I bet on Real and they lost haha. No idea who gets desperate enough to bet on these. There's enough football going on to bet on... or not so much right now but you gotta be pretty desperate to start betting on fake football.

Same here, but directly to my inbox. And meanwhile I joined quite a number of Pools , Premier League, Italian and Spanish League, so I'd guess this was sent to all users in any football pool.

Due to the stark boredom I've witness over the past fews weeks, I think I might be joining to make predictions only with nothing to lose.

I got this email too, but didn't noticed it earlier because it wasin advertisements folder.
As I understand, all these games will be played by bot? I doubt that I'm going to predict results of these games or watch it. I'll rather wait until real football will resume. And for now I'll just watch some classic matches.

I am signed up only to two Bitcointalk pools. Premier League and UEFA CL. I don't know why it's selective, maybe you'll get it later
Personally I don't like predicting results from computers game, but I might be able to follow in this deficient in sports.

lol yeah, what is this, 2010? should live stream it on Twitch, i wanna posts my pepe emotes  

But, I didn't receive this email, maybe people who signed up to specific pools this season are the ones getting this email? Anyhow, sounds like fun tbh, especially if they simulate a transfer window...Imagine Neymar in Man Utd or Bale in Chelsea LOL

Well, Superbru doesn't want to wait long, they opening virtual Premier League there with results from a computer simulation of Fifa 20.
I just received an email.


What are you thinking about that? Live stream on Youtube

Well I tend to agree. Most people seem to have a dislike of Sky over here for numerous reasons. There was also talk that BT were going to drop their already limited coverage of it when the rights came up for renewal. Those games that BT lost would probably then be open to the highest bidder and I'm sure amazon and dazn would have bid on them. They could even end up out bidding Sky for the lot. Sky and the Premier League have a pretty tight-knit relationship right now though and as they've been in business for years and neither party wants to piss the other one off, but this could easily throw a spanner in the works. The PL really won't want to pay that money back but Sky isn't just going to let them get away with not showing matches especially when they have a contract that says so. Sky Sports really depend on the PL rights but the PL know there's more money to be made by just putting them out to auction and letting the highest bidder win but they usually always do a deal that is beneficial to Sky as they've been in a comfy relationship for so long. Ideally, the Premier League should just create their own streaming service or TV channel and become like their own Premier League Netflix. They can cut out the middle man and still sell to all around the world without the need for each country to bid for rights. They would actually make a lot more money doing this it's just whether they have the balls to do it right now, but eventually everything will be going the streaming route as TV becomes outdated so I'd rather this happen sooner rather than later. I've never paid for Sky as I think it's a rip-off and they don't even show all the games anyway, but that's why sites like Dazn are brilliant. They currently show all the games live and on demand and all for around £100 a year. You'd probably get two months of Sky Sports for that and that's why I think the PL should just make their own service. I would happily pay for it as long as it wasn't ridiculously expensive. If they had prices comparable to Netflix I think that would be idea. 

Tifo is a good football youtube channel to watch. They have done a great video on the future of the TV rights and streaming etc with the theoretical numbers crunched as to what sort of revenue it would bring in if the PL did their own streaming service: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5jqCh3Eiq0

I'm not one to hope the stairs fall on the guy who's just fallen off them (saying in my country) but you know what? This could end up being a good thing with knockon effects. The last global recession hardly dented football income or transfer fees or TV deals, but this time could be very different. I would LOVE to see one of the other guys get more games and expand services more. I like Sky but being unable to access it -- and I don't even live in a remote corner of the world -- lately opened my eyes to how ridiculously impossible it can be to legitimately access rights to view.

Hopefully the numbers of new cases per day start to drop. Most governments are releasing data & graphs that show how many new cases per day. When the numbers drop & the curve starts to flatten we will then be able to look forward to football beginning again in a few months.

I'm almost certain they will finish it. The question is just when? I wouldn't be surprised at all if they didn't play it this year. Maybe even towards the end of the year is optimistic. As I've said before, as soon as whenever they would be able to start they should just resume it and then maybe just start the next season the week after or have a short break then straight back into the new season. I suppose it depends on when they would be able to resume it as they'll need to take into account finishing for before the start of other tournaments like the EUROs. It makes much more sense to just pause the leagues indefinitely and just carry them on when they can. Cancelling will cost them too much and also lead to many lawsuits. Liverpool will miss out on a title they have essentially already won and teams will miss out on promotion like Leeds so it's very unfair to just void the league. Also, if the league isn't completed the PL will owe many multiples of millions in TV money they have to pay back. I suppose they could maybe work out a deal with money off for the next bulk lot of TV rights or something but Sky is already losing a lot of money because of this and contractually they can get their money back if the league isn't completed: https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/sky-sports-customers-set-to-save-on-bills-until-premier-league-returns-1.4215760

Jeeze: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8163853/Premier-League-face-1-2billion-hit-season-abandoned.html


£762million owed just to Sky and BT sports alone. Then there's all the other countries rights. The PL and Sky could end up falling out over this if there's lawsuits which could be huge for when the TV rights go for up for auction again. I was hoping companies like Amazon or Dazn end up out bidding Sky/BT or them at least getting more games. There was even talk of Facebook maybe even throwing their hat into the ring at some point. Companies like Amazon and Facebook can easy afford to do this.

Currently we have stick locked down in dozens of countries so I am feeling most of peoples are really frustrated and bore but they cannot do any thing as safety is priority for all of us.

You guys think the season will definitely get finished? I think it should, I’m getting really annoyed staying in my house now & how boring is it with no football, FFS.

A weird choice of teams to choose to play, especially when relegation is potentially much more important to the English teams than Europe competitions at this stage (it's worth a lot more guaranteed money, whereas they could KO early from Europe).

Anyway, yeah, toke, you can donate some btc to me when Liverpool get crowned champs.

I actually still have a nice bet waiting to cash out too (Liverpool winning the season).

I think it’s the TV money that will force the league to finish. Sky & BT have paid hundred of millions for these games. The show must go on!

@cryptofrka  thx for the link.
From the article:

Add to this that they won't be playing in their home stadiums but rather in some god awful pitch or training ground as the article suggested...Idk, all of this sounds stressful as f***.

Also, that part that says "psychological boost"...Yeah, sure, to those who call the shots and are afraid of ending the year without a few more zeros on their bank acc.

I'm sure that's what they're wanting to do as that's the only possibly way they'll be able to get them done at all, but it's out of their hands and I'm really sceptical they'll be able to play these matches even like that. The government probably just won't allow it. I also think that a lot of non-football fans will complain ie why do we have to self-isolate or can't go outside with more than one other person but people are playing football matches?. Every player, coaching staff and match official will likely have to be tested before they play and what happens if something does spread between players? Could cause much more damage. As much as I want the football to continue as soon as possible, I just can't see it and think it would be better just to wait until all this has blown over.

So, it seems like the Premier league will be continued without fans - like many of us thought it would. At least, that's the current plan according to The Independent.


https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/coronavirus-premier-league-isolated-camps-remaining-fixtures-dates-suspension-latest-a9432961.html

If it happens, it will be hard for us Liverpool fans to watch the team lift the trophy without fans, but it will still be a relief knowing that the title will be won. Also, it will be much more fair to the whole league knowing that final positions will be determined based on all games being played.

I think for the remaining rounds there are scheduling concern too not just the virus things.
 
For these two match the risk is there but if they do not do it then they will have to cancel those rounds too I guess but the matches were already played for the other teams so results can not be reversed imho. And I am sure they will make sure everything that those players will be fully tested if they have the virus before sending them out in the ground.

I think it doesn't makes sense. If it will be safe enough to play these two games, why not play remaining 9 rounds?

I Just read this in other thread:

And if this happen then toke is far away for anyone to give any competition so he will definitely have the first prize and for rest of the positions I think we will have a good fight until the end. Toke is like Liverpool in this season LOL