Friday, September 2 Group A El Salvador vs. Dominican Republic Suriname vs. Cayman Islands Group B Trinidad & Tobago vs. Bermuda Guyana vs. Barbados Group C Panama vs. Bahamas- cancelled Dominica vs. Nicaragua Tie Group D Canada vs. St. Lucia St. Kitts & Nevis vs. Puerto Rico tie Group E Grenada vs. Belize Guatemala vs. St. Vincent & the Grenadines Group F Haiti vs. U.S. Virgin Islands Antigua & Barbuda vs. Curacao Tie Tuesday, September 6 Group A Cayman Islands vs. El Salvador Dominican Republic vs. Suriname Tie Group B Barbados vs. Trinidad & Tobago Tie Bermuda vs. Guyana Group C Nicaragua vs. Panama Bahamas vs. Dominica-cancelled Group D Puerto Rico vs. Canada St. Lucia vs. St. Kitts & Nevis Group E St. Vincent & the Grenadines vs. Grenada Tie Belize vs. Guatemala Group F Curacao vs. Haiti Tie U.S. Virgin Islands vs. Antigua & Barbuda Friday, October 7 Group A Dominican Republic vs. El Salvador Cayman Islands vs. Suriname Group B Bermuda vs. Trinidad & Tobago Barbados vs. Guyana Group C Bahamas vs. Panama-cancelled Nicaragua vs. Dominica Group D St. Lucia vs. Canada Puerto Rico vs. St. Kitts & Nevis Group E Belize vs. Grenada tie St. Vincent & the Grenadines vs. Guatemala Group F U.S. Virgin Islands vs. Haiti Curacao vs. Antigua & Barbuda Tuesday, October 11 Group A El Salvador vs. Cayman Islands Suriname vs. Dominican Republic Group B Trinidad & Tobago vs. Barbados Guyana vs. Bermuda Group C Panama vs. Nicaragua Dominica vs. Bahamas-cancelled Group D Canada vs. Puerto Rico St. Kitts & Nevis vs. St. Lucia Group E Grenada vs. St. Vincent & the Grenadines Guatemala vs. Belize Group F Haiti vs. Curacao Antigua & Barbuda vs. U.S. Virgin Islands Friday, November 11 Group A Suriname vs. El Salvador Dominican Republic vs. Cayman Islands Group B Guyana vs. Trinidad & Tobago TIE Bermuda vs. Barbados TIE Group B Dominica vs. Panama Bahamas vs. Nicaragua-cancelled Group D St. Kitts & Nevis vs. Canada Tie St. Lucia vs. Puerto Rico Group E Guatemala vs. Grenada Belize vs. St. Vincent & the Grenadines Group F Antigua & Barbuda vs. Haiti Tie U.S. Virgin Islands vs. Curacao Tuesday, November 15 Group A El Salvador vs. Suriname Cayman Islands vs. Dominican Republic Tie Group B Trinidad & Tobago vs. Guyana Barbados vs. Bermuda Group C Panama vs. Dominica Nicaragua vs. Bahamas-cancelled Group D Canada vs. St. Kitts & Nevis Puerto Rico vs. St. Lucia Group E Grenada vs. Guatemala tie St. Vincent & the Grenadines vs. Belize tie Group F Haiti vs. Antigua & Barbuda Curacao vs. U.S. Virgin Islands Group A: This group is interesting with the two ES-SUR games in the last two match days. El Salvador 18 Suriname 10 Dominican Rep 5 Cayman Islands 1 Group B: I see this coming down to the last match between T & T and Guyana T & T 14 Guyana 10 Barbados 8 Bermuda 1 Group C: Pretty straight foward Panama 12 Nicaragua 4 Dominica 1 Group D: Canada will bring a B team against St Kitts in the final two games as they will only need to pick up one point to advance: thus, the draw in Basseterre. Canada 16 Puerto Rico 10 St. Kitts and Nevis 8 St Lucia 0 Group E: The bottom three teams are pretty balanced. Guatemala drops points with a B team in final game Guatemala 14 Grenada 9 Belize 5 SV & G 2 Group F: The key to this group is whether Haiti and Curacao can consistently bring their best squads. Clearly the USVI are the worst team. Haiti 14 Curacao 11 Antigua and Barbuda 8 USVI 0
I predict a winner for all games, in bold -- none of my official predictions are draws. Friday, September 2 Group A El Salvador vs. Dominican Republic Suriname vs. Cayman Islands Group B Trinidad & Tobago vs. Bermuda Guyana vs. Barbados Group C Dominica vs. Nicaragua Group D Canada vs. St. Lucia St. Kitts & Nevis vs. Puerto Rico Group E Grenada vs. Belize Guatemala vs. St. Vincent & the Grenadines Group F Haiti vs. U.S. Virgin Islands Antigua & Barbuda vs. Curacao Tuesday, September 6 Group A Cayman Islands vs. El Salvador Dominican Republic vs. Suriname Group B Barbados vs. Trinidad & Tobago Bermuda vs. Guyana Group C Nicaragua vs. Panama Group D Puerto Rico vs. Canada St. Lucia vs. St. Kitts & Nevis Group E St. Vincent & the Grenadines vs. Grenada Belize vs. Guatemala Group F Curacao vs. Haiti U.S. Virgin Islands vs. Antigua & Barbuda Friday, October 7 Group A Dominican Republic vs. El Salvador Cayman Islands vs. Suriname Group B Bermuda vs. Trinidad & Tobago Barbados vs. Guyana Group C Nicaragua vs. Dominica Group D St. Lucia vs. Canada Puerto Rico vs. St. Kitts & Nevis Group E Belize vs. Grenada St. Vincent & the Grenadines vs. Guatemala Group F U.S. Virgin Islands vs. Haiti Curacao vs. Antigua & Barbuda Tuesday, October 11 Group A El Salvador vs. Cayman Islands Suriname vs. Dominican Republic Group B Trinidad & Tobago vs. Barbados Guyana vs. Bermuda Group C Panama vs. Nicaragua Group D Canada vs. Puerto Rico St. Kitts & Nevis vs. St. Lucia Group E Grenada vs. St. Vincent & the Grenadines Guatemala vs. Belize Group F Haiti vs. Curacao Antigua & Barbuda vs. U.S. Virgin Islands Friday, November 11 Group A Suriname vs. El Salvador Dominican Republic vs. Cayman Islands Group B Guyana vs. Trinidad & Tobago Bermuda vs. Barbados Group C Dominica vs. Panama Group D St. Kitts & Nevis vs. Canada St. Lucia vs. Puerto Rico Group E Guatemala vs. Grenada Belize vs. St. Vincent & the Grenadines Group F Antigua & Barbuda vs. Haiti U.S. Virgin Islands vs. Curacao Tuesday, November 15 Group A El Salvador vs. Suriname Cayman Islands vs. Dominican Republic Group B Trinidad & Tobago vs. Guyana Barbados vs. Bermuda Group C Panama vs. Dominica Group D Canada vs. St. Kitts & Nevis Puerto Rico vs. St. Lucia Group E Grenada vs. Guatemala St. Vincent & the Grenadines vs. Belize Group F Haiti vs. Antigua & Barbuda Curacao vs. U.S. Virgin Islands Standings: Group A El Salvador 18 Suriname 12 Dominican Republic 3 Cayman Islands 3 Group B Trinidad & Tobago 18 Guyana 6 Barbados 6 Bermuda 6 Group C Panama 12 Nicaragua 6 Dominica 0 Group D Canada 18 Puerto Rico 12 St. Kitts & Nevis 3 St. Lucia 3 Group E Guatemala 18 Grenada 6 St. Vincent & the Grenadines 6 Belize 6 Group F Haiti 18 Antigua & Barbuda 9 Curacao 9 U.S. Virgin Islands 0
The games start 3:30 P.M. USA Eastern Time tomorrow and all predictions for this round must be posted before then and cannot be edited after that. I plan on posting how many correct result predictions everybody had after the second matchday of each pair. Edit: I'll post the average predicted number of points for each team after the deadline for predictions. I have 22 for this round so far.
I've changed the above. Let's say the best person's predictions for a group were off by 4 points and the worst person's were off by 20 points. The best person would get a perfect score for that group and the worst person would get 0. Each point off from 4 to 20 would be 1/16th of the possible points for that group. The points off in the final standings predictions for this round are 2% of the whole competition per group, so 1/16th of the possible points would be 1/8 or 0.125. Your score for that round would come from the following table: 4 points off: 2 5 points off: 1.875 6 points off: 1.75 ... 18 points off 0.25 19 points off 0.125 20 points off: 0 The games have started so no more predictions can be made for this round.
Yeah, based on recent form, I think Panama will probably finish 4th. Although Costa Rica could improve by the final round. I don't see Canada or Jamaica getting any better than they already are in the next couple years. As for this round, Curacao brought a decent squad and still got destroyed, and Grenada brought a bunch of scrubs. Definately threw off my predictions. Belize and Nicaragua are clearly undervalued in the FIFA rankings...probably because they only play other UNCAF teams that are better than them. However, it looks like they could beat a lot if not most of the Carribean teams that outrank them.
Oceania this time. The average correct result predictions for Matchday 1 was 8 1/22 out of 11. I got 9. I'll post everybody's total after Matchday 2.
I was 9 of 11 The two I got wrong was predicting a Draw in the Guyana-Barbados game (Guyana won), and picking Grenada over Belize (did anybody pick Belize?).
Nobody picked Belize. 18 out of people 22 picked Grenada and 4 predicted a draw. 9 points is tied for first so far (just for this round, not combining this with the five First Round aggregate series). 7 people got 9, 9 people got 8, and 6 people got 7, so nobody is way ahead or behind. If you private message me your e-mail address I will e-mail you my whole spreadsheet with everybody's predictions.
In hindsight I should've waited for the squads to be announced before picking winners. I just assumed Grenada would have Roberts, Joseph, Bain etc.
I agree they're much better than most of the CFU. They almost never win because they don't play much outside UNCAF.
Honduras should be listed in these posts. They are not any better than Costa Rica or Panama based on current form, and their youth teams have not been very good recently. 3rd and 4th in the hex are wide open at this time.
Going on results in the last ten years Belize yes. Nicaragua is debatable...they pretty much get beaten everytime they leave central america
FIFA says that the Matchday 2 game St. Vincent and the Grenadines-Grenada has been postponed to September 18. After tomorrow's games I will post standings both for this round and for this round combined with the First Round.
Any livestreams available for Barbados vs T&T? I've been googling a bit around, but most links are fake adverts and stuff.
1-0 Canada @ halftime in Bayamon. 42' by Iain Hume. Speaking of Iain Hume, looking at the scar on the side of his head you really realize how lucky his is to still be playing this game at this level. Usually a skull fracture requiring brain surgery would mean game over.
I wish they were showing these matches live. Most matches so far have been much close than anyone expected. I'm looking through live scores of matches right now, and they are no less surprising. El Salvador is still tied 0-0 with Cayman Islands 30 minutes in, and Haiti is losing 2-1 to Curucao. Damn, I really wish I could watch these.
Looks like I'm going to score at least 9 on Match Day 2 too. 9/10 with the Grenada/St. Vincent game to be played on the 18th yet.
True but you guys do mess up against lower ranked teams. (US does too.) Is it interesting enough in the Group F horse race between Haiti and Antigua will be decided in the last 2 rounds?