Official: Total RANKERS - Super Rugby 2019

Thanks ED

I joined  and made my pick s for round 1

Well, this is new and I see participation in this as a way to thank Ruckers Admin  for giving us the platform to moan and b!tch about what's going on in the game we love most...and it seems simple enough. We will shame those not partaking.  Only 3 picks a week. Even my ADHD self can cope with that!

Where are you Beenz, you have risked much more than this before?

Thanks Ruckers Admin, Flash and the rest of the team.

Thanks Ed

Looks power.

Nice little twist with the rankings.

Who is "Badly Burned Albanian Boy"?

Draad ... isn't it obvious?

He's known by a thousand other names ... I'll give you a clue ... he's a fellow Toadie.

Great stuff, Ed ... I'm in ... let's get it on ...

Gooooooooooo Mr Cuttttttttt!!!

Hi Ruckers

So far the engagement has been great.

We're up to 12 players now which is more than we anticipated. so this is great.

If this becomes a real trend, we are going to start introducing some more prizes.

@Roonek, we bypassed the bookies and used the rankings from last year.

Each week the rankings will change according to log position. Keep that in mind.

Enjoy game week 1!

Yours in rugga

Ed

Lol Xavi

You picked the Lions to win away from home against Bargie?

Thought I was fanboy.

@ Plum,

I don't watch as much Super Rugby anymore and didn't check if the Lions were home or away. 

They could still stuff the jumped up Bargies on a good day away.

Only really joined the game as a courtesy to Ed and the Forum for creating it so I don't expect to do well.

I too have picked them to win in Argentina.

It's high time we sent a strong team through to South America.

We need a good start and an away win would boost our boys confidence going forward.

Go Lions!!

hi, in my view the way the rankings are made is not the best one,.... to base the rankings  on last season's log but then finally end up not basing the rankings on last year's log (as the saders 4th place proves) is kind of strange

as the game is formulated I think it would be better to classify the games according to its difficulty to forecast the outcome,... in this week's case the team that's easiest to choose as winner, or less gains gives in bets, or more people choose as winner in platforms like Superbru, is the Sharks,... then rank Sunwolves as 15 and Sharks as 1
the next easiest game would probably be Blues vs. Crusaders,.... the 14th last season against the incontestable nº1,... rank Blues as 14 and saders as 2,... and so on,... the next one 13-3,... then 12-4, 11-5, 10-6 and 9-7

and what would make the game more interesting and fun it would be instead of giving 3 points each team that win, to give each team the same amount of points as their rank,... in the case of the game Sunwolves-Sharks, the players who have choosen the Sunwolves as winner would receive 15 points if they win and those who have choosen the Sharks would receive just 1

Hi ABasquefan

Rankings change weekly according to log position.

However your idea of handing points based on log position is really nice.

Its too late to implement that now, but possibly for the RWC.

Thanks for your input.

Yours in rugga

Ed

Even more accurate would be a system where the aim is to get the lowest score and you simply subtract the winning team's ranking from the losing teams ranking and award that many points.

Example:

If the #3 ranked team beats the #7 ranked team (predictable) then you score 4 points (or 15+4 if you predicted wrong).

If the #3 ranked team beats the #14 ranked team (highly predictable) then you score 11 points (or 15+11 if you predicted wrong).

If the #7 ranked team beats the #3 ranked team (unlikely) then you score -4 points (or 15-4 if you predicted wrong).

If the #14 ranked team beats the #3 ranked team (highly unlikely) then you score -11 points (or 15-11 if you predicted wrong).

that could be another possibility, rooi,....

if the chiefs of the site decide to keep drawing the ranks from the log, your proposed system would be a way of reaching what I was proposing, to give the points based on the difficulty of the game,...

anyway, what I think is a must is to systematize the way of establishing the rank,... if it's based on the Super Rugby real log, then be it,... but this means that the ranking should be:

1. Crusaders

2. Lions

3. Waratahs

4. Hurricanes

otherwise is confusing to have the ranking based on last year's log as:

1. Hurricanes

2. Lions

3. Waratahs

4. Crusaders

Hi Rooi and ABasquefan

Thanks for your input. Very valuable and relevant.

The next time we have a think tank over Total RANKERS, we'll send you an invitation to join us.

We have some ideas of where we would like to go with the platform and your opinions and input would be invaluable.

Yours in rugga

Ed

you're wellcome,.... it would be a good idea to have a "think tank" about it,... the users' feedback is always important,... and 20 heads always think better than one alone,...

I would participate with pleasure in it

Cheers for this Ed, excited to see it take shape.

Yes, I agree BlueBok ... the last thing we need is to complicate it unnecessarily ... keeping it simple is usually the best.

Let's see how it goes ... oh and by the way, didn't you commit yourself to joining us in one of the Fantasy competitions this year?

If so ... then I'd join the Rugby Magazine's version if I were you ...  

Howzit Deddy ... where the hell have you been ... ?

Ok ... noted ... I'll watch out for you.

Who knows ... you may just come aboard and kick all our asses.

How about SuperBru?

That takes no time at all.

https://www.superbru.com/superrugby/pool.php?p=11998058

Hmmmmmmm ... I see Moffie doesn't support Ed and his vision for this site ... neither does the pouting coward.

At least Poepol signed up ...

Where the hell are all the kiwis?

Ok ... I'm sorry ... I shouldn't have said all those nasty things about you guys ... and girl ... down under ... please come join us.

You are after all part of our family ... even you Hick ...     

How do you regIster. ClIcked on RegIster and Logon to Play at top of screen. Then all I see Is how to play but nowhere to logon?

Hi Beeno

Once you are logged in on RuckersForum, you are logged in to the game.

But right now the game week is closed as the games are already underway.

If you would like to join, give me 3 teams that you back to win this week (but have not played yet) and I will manually add you to the competition.

Yours in rugga

Ed