Prediction competition

RWC Prediction Competition

Dewi on September 8, 2011, 8:08 am

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Articles suggests these questions – I agree. So, answers by 9.30 am tomorrow please. The winners The runners up The remaining two semi finalists The highest points scorers The lowest points scorers Team with most Red cards Stage at which England go out Stage at which Ireland go out Player of the tournament To make my life easier could you please answer in this fashion: (My entry) Wales, New Zealand, England, South Africa, New Zealand, Namibia, France, Semi Final, …

#ae11 Reveal your Assembly predictions

Blank on May 4, 2011, 7:29 pm

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Mick has noted two prediction competitions for the Assembly election but didn’t make a call for Slugger’s friends, contributors and readers to risk their credibility and reveal their predictions publicly in advance. So folks lets be having you, your chance to be revealed as genius or the global village idiot…. Here are mine: DUP 36 SF 30 UUP 16 SDLP 14 Alliance 7 Green 1 TUV 1 PBPA 1 – McCann Purvis McFarland Blank

Prediction competition – results #ge11: And the winner is….

Paul Evans on March 7, 2011, 4:23 pm

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… one of only four of the 79 entries that ticked the no-publicity box. A free £150 bet with Betfair is in the post to the lucky insightful winner. Update: It seems that the winner – The Dissenter – ticked the ‘no publicity’ box by mistake. The actual result was: FG – 76. Lab – 37. FF – 20. SF 14. Others (not including speaker) 18. Anon (for it is s/he) made the following prediction on the 7th Feb: Seats: …

Election day open thread #ge11

Paul Evans on February 25, 2011, 2:46 pm

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The big day is here. Mick’s in Cavan at the moment (more on that soon) and will be in Roscommon & Kilkenny later – go along if you can. Update: We’ve added a ‘CoverItLive’ window in this post (thanks Mark McG!) – it’ll probably be fairly quiet until tomorrow but worth checking back to see if you’re not a regular Twitter user: Election 2011 John has just posted on his expectations and is asking you to put your cards on the table …

Slugger Awards awards wash-up & prediction comp update

Paul Evans on February 11, 2011, 12:36 pm

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Mick’s wandering around Dublin today and out of reach of a good wi-fi connection, so I’m stepping in here in his place to say a few things about last night’s awards. We’ll have some photos and videos up here in due course, but I’d like to get a few things on record before the hangover wears off: Firstly, thanks to everyone who came along and was involved in the night – 200+ people came through the door. Special thanks to …

Reminder: Give us your predictions for #ge11

Paul Evans on February 7, 2011, 7:13 pm

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Just a quick reminder about the prediction competition that Slugger is running on the Irish elections. There’s a £150 free bet with Betfair for the best prediction (have a look at the odds on their markets here), and they’ve got their own Election Predict site up with a good bit of detail on each constituency for the real train-spotters among you. We’ve had around 30 predictions from you so far and we’re going to make some of them (anonymously, naturally) …

Win a £150 bet with Betfair as part of Slugger’s Irish Election prediction competition

Paul Evans on February 3, 2011, 4:18 pm

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Betfair have been in touch about the Election Prediction competition that we’re running here (below – you can read the form guide in a previous post here). We’ve already pointed to their markets here (currently showing 17/2 on a Fine Gael-only government as an outcome and 11/1 on SF getting 23+ seats). Labour are out at 19/1 for getting the most seats (pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will, eh comrades?) Today Betfair have launched their own prediction competition …

Slugger Awards tickets / Irish Election prediction competition

Paul Evans on January 31, 2011, 9:30 am

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One of the features of the Slugger Awards night (places limited! Get your tickets now while they last!) is going to be a bit of audience participation – we’re going to see how close the wisdom of the crowd can get to predicting the final outcome of the Irish Election in terms of seats. Details of that will be released on the night (it’ll be a surprise) but in the meantime, we also want a prediction comp to run though …

Six Nations Prediction Contest 2011

Dewi on January 30, 2011, 10:30 am

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I’ll get on to a preview later but this seemed to work quite well last year so let’s have another go. 1 point for a correct home win, 3 points for a correct away win, 7 points for a correct draw. Tie break is the total points scored in championship. Fixtures are: 1. Wales v England 2. France v Scotland 3. Italy v Ireland 4. England v Italy 5. Scotland v Wales 6. Ireland v France 7. England v France …

Prediction Competition Winners – pt1

Paul Evans on May 8, 2010, 5:09 pm

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So we have the final results from Northern Ireland (OK, we’ve had them for a while, but spreadsheets aren’t my forte, OK?). And the winner of the first part of the competition is…. Liam O’Brien Thanks, by the way to Gavan McGibbon who answered a late-night call on Twitter for help on how to work the Excel to make sense of your entries. We broke it down into two parts. The first one was where we asked you to predict …

Slugger reader predictions – latest

Paul Evans on April 30, 2010, 5:57 pm

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We’ve had 49 replies to our Prediction Competition so far*. Averaging the results, we’re collectively predicting a turnout of 61.8%, and the votes cast divide up as follows (rounded up to one decimal place): SF: 25.6% DUP: 23.5% UCUNF: 17.9% SDLP: 16.2% Alliance: 5.2% TUV: 7.3% Others: 4.2% What does this tell us? It isn’t polling evidence, and there’s no weighting (bookies have the benefit of knowing a bit about strength of sentiment because it’s hard-earned cash backing predictions). But …

Election prediction comp: The West Belfast error?

Paul Evans on April 29, 2010, 4:03 pm

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We’re nearly up to fifty entries for the election prediction competition, and there is one common answer that is coming in that suggests to me that many entrants haven’t understood one of the questions. For this reason, if any of you want to go back in and have another go, we’ll de-duplicate when we’re doing the scoring and remove one older answer from the same e-mail address. You will have to answer all of the questions again though. You will …

Slugger NI Election prediction competition!

on April 24, 2010, 1:01 pm

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One for the political anoraks: Stratagem are running an NI Election Prediction Competition in which you have to say which party will win each individual seat. In the spirit of complementarity rather than competition, we’ve got a few extra questions for you (below). NB: You will need to read the update as a few entrants haven’t fully understood part of this competition. Specifically, we want you to predict the turnout and percentages of overall votes cast in NI for each …