Would anybody be interested in doing something similar for Rugby's Heineken Cup?
Format's a bit different, with the twenty qualifying teams split into five groups of four, playing home and away. The eight best teams (five group winners, plus the three second place teams with the best records) go through to single leg quarterfinals seeded on pool results (i.e 1v8, 2v7) with higher seedings having home advantage, single leg semis (with a complicated formula for who gets the home country advantage, i.e. you don't play in your home stadium but in another club in your country's stadium) and a final in Edinburgh.
As regards the picking what I'd be thinking for the pool games is that the pick can be win, lose, draw (yes a draw is a legitimate result in rugby), and also whether either team gets the bonus point for scoring four tries, and the losing team gets the <7 point loss bonus point (though the bps can be dropped), straight win/loss for the knock out games, eight qualifiers picked before the start of the pick'em and eventual winners.
The tournament starts in seven days (pity I didn't think of it earlier), but we could always skip picking the first round games, especially if people want to research teams. Second round is the week after. Now as the competition is multinational and with international breaks in between, it'll go on until May.
Format's a bit different, with the twenty qualifying teams split into five groups of four, playing home and away. The eight best teams (five group winners, plus the three second place teams with the best records) go through to single leg quarterfinals seeded on pool results (i.e 1v8, 2v7) with higher seedings having home advantage, single leg semis (with a complicated formula for who gets the home country advantage, i.e. you don't play in your home stadium but in another club in your country's stadium) and a final in Edinburgh.
As regards the picking what I'd be thinking for the pool games is that the pick can be win, lose, draw (yes a draw is a legitimate result in rugby), and also whether either team gets the bonus point for scoring four tries, and the losing team gets the <7 point loss bonus point (though the bps can be dropped), straight win/loss for the knock out games, eight qualifiers picked before the start of the pick'em and eventual winners.
The tournament starts in seven days (pity I didn't think of it earlier), but we could always skip picking the first round games, especially if people want to research teams. Second round is the week after. Now as the competition is multinational and with international breaks in between, it'll go on until May.
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