Portland 2 North Carolina 1 in regular time. If NC had played at home on Saturday, I'd be reversing the score. But, NC traveled far and is on short rest. At a certain point, it's got to catch up with them. MVP: Horan
...especially the way they play. you may be right. that high octane style may simply be unsustainable in these circumstances. the fates have finally conspired against them?
Just a note that the way the scoring system we inherited from last year works, for the semifinals and championship games, there's no need to indicate whether the game is overtime or not. But if you've predicted a tie, you need also to indicate who prevails on PKs. So for 59 Amerinorsk, who predicted 1-1 with the Thorns prevailing on PKs, I enter the game score as 1-1 and the winner as Portland. The predictions about whether the game is decided in regulation, OT, or by PKs was for the pre-season predictions part of the contest -- which has a much more complicated scoring system. After the contest is over, we can discuss changing the playoffs actual predictions to a system more like the pre-season predictions. It would make sense to me to do that (or even to reverse the two).
Camping this weekend. Sketchy signal. Too emotionally involved in the game. I abstain from predicting the final, respectfully.
Too bad to have CoachJon, a stalwart, miss out on this one. liesse00, are you going to go for this one?
Yes, although I somehow understand him: NC Courage had been a very emotional affair for him since the beginning!
Here are the final tables. The robot held onto its lead, but BlueCrimson was a strong challenger. Thanks everyone for participating, this has been a lot of fun. And, at least for me, it's been interesting to see how the robot v humans competition went. I'll post some thoughts about that in a couple of days. Also in a couple of days, for the regular season predictions, I'll do a set of calculations to show what the end-of-regular-season results might have been if all of our "major" participants had made predictions for every game and will combine them with the pre-season ladder and playoff and actual playoff prediction results to see how it all might have come out. I'll be very interested to see how BalanceUT might have come out -- might have beaten the robot, maybe not. Pre-Season Playoff Predictions: Actual Playoff Predictions: FINAL TOTAL CONTEST RESULTS:
What about the final-game MVP prediction? Although I saw the game, I missed post-match ceremonies, so I don't know who got that award, but I had predicted McDonald and I feel like it surely had to be between her and Debinha for the MVP.
So this should give me some more points and set me apart from @Tracer, shouldn't it? Anyone else apart me guessed the MVP correctly?
Oops, stop the train, bring it back, Blissett is absolutely right, my numbers didn't include the MVP points, so let's do a couple of tables again. Here are the two tables that I corrected. The MVP points now are included in the Championship game points award: Actual Playoff Predictions: FINAL FINAL TOTAL CONTEST RESULTS:
I see @Smallchief was absolutely perfect! Nailed the exact score of the game and guessed McDonald right! Congratulations.
Right, the two of you got her. Others had Debinha and Williams. Personally, I think it's too bad the defenders get overlooked. NC's defense was fantastic.
If you give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, one of them will write "King Lear."
Yes, but without even asking @cpthomas about notions as "sample-size", I guess we can safely say that our number of monkeys was definitely-non-infinite.
Eh, eh, blame it on @cpthomas, who had forgot the MVP part for a moment. It's been anyway a valiant fight, and I acknowledge you would have most likely deserved being level with me.