Tipping

darkie

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I am after a good site where I can run a couple of tipping comps.
I was on oztips last year, which I was happy with, until yahoo totally stuffed it up. :bawling
What is a good place where I can personalise the settings eg bonus points for all correct.

Thanks in advance.
 
It was attrocious how oztips sold out to yahoo. Absolutely ruined our tipping comp. I never put in my tips once the change over happened and why do it mid season ?

I will check out footyipping site and let the guy who runs ours know.
 
@genoshan said:
It was attrocious how oztips sold out to yahoo. Absolutely ruined our tipping comp. I never put in my tips once the change over happened and why do it mid season ?

I will check out footyipping site and let the guy who runs ours know.

Its easy to say that without Yahoo waving a bit fat cheque in front of you…. Yahoo would have seen the "potential" considering the live odds sports market is starting to boom, and paid massive overs for it.

Hey, If yahoo were gonna offer me 7 figures for what is nothing more than a couple of MSAccess databases on steroids, i'd take the cash too... :mrgreen:
 
@underdog said:
@genoshan said:
It was attrocious how oztips sold out to yahoo. Absolutely ruined our tipping comp. I never put in my tips once the change over happened and why do it mid season ?

I will check out footyipping site and let the guy who runs ours know.

Its easy to say that without Yahoo waving a bit fat cheque in front of you…. Yahoo would have seen the "potential" considering the live odds sports market is starting to boom, and paid massive overs for it.

Hey, If yahoo were gonna offer me 7 figures for what is nothing more than a couple of MSAccess databases on steroids, i'd take the cash too... :mrgreen:

I agree you can hardly blame the OzTips people for selling. Having said that, Yahoo managed to ruin the whole thing with a speed and level of crappiness that was breathtaking. All they had to do was keep the strucure and value add a little but instead they absolutely stuffed it.
 
@Goose said:
im not on Oztips, how did they ruin it??

good luck to guys who sold it to Yahoo

Yahoo took a simple idea and tried to overdo with confusing menus, stats, and stacks more advertising.

Other parts of it were also broken on launch, such as checking last weeks results.

It went from fast and efficient (much like WTF) To slow and bloated.

and worst of all - THEY FORCED YOU to create a yahoo account to continue tipping etc. I already had one, however one of the tipping contests i was in last year INSTANTLY lost 50% of its players since most were "non-information-technology-type" people who didn't want/need new accounts.
 
One of the best I know of is in my neck of the woods It is run by Central Qld Petroleum (I think) and you pay $50 up front

At the end of the season they organize a free drinks day at the local races after the comp is finished and all competitors are invited

They get hundreds of players
 
The best tipping comp Ive come across was run by someone at Erst & Young and used to have a couple hundred entrants.

It was broken into 2 parts the first part was the long range. You make a large number of selections that are due on 31st of Jan, it is for all the major events, NRL,S15, AFL winners, all the european soccer leagues plus heaps of other stuff rookies of the year, leadin try scorers, Brownlow medal winners and alike. Plus american sports winners the world champs in various things. Each is worth different points

The second part is the week to week stuff, each round of the NRL, S!5, AFL, A League, plus weekly special events, major internationals, SOO the big horse races and all sorts of stuff.

It was a great comp, with loads of prizes.

It no longer runs, but someone in the original comp runs the same sort of comp with less participants, it is a cool comp. I won it for the first time ever this year! pity i didn't win it a few years ago when the prize money was about 4 or 5 times what it is now. Still great to win!
 
the only thing I am tipping, is that we as supporters will be extremely peed off, if wests-tigers do not live up to our expectations of them for season 2012.
 
Does anyone think a tipping comp on this site for the Sydney based people would work, with the comp ending at the end of round 26 and perhaps some pre semi final beers somewhere just before Tigers begin the march to the premiership, or do you all think the personalities here would not work ?
 
I'd like to be there if this forum ever had a get together. Imagine guys who don't see eye to eye, having a conversation after a few beers? Good times indeed. I'm guessing name tags would be a must
 
@GNR4LIFE said:
I'd like to be there if this forum ever had a get together. Imagine guys who don't see eye to eye, having a conversation after a few beers? Good times indeed. I'm guessing name tags would be a must

I like the anonymity, Many times we WTFers have been within meters of each other commenting on the same event. I think it would be a bit of an anti climax like finding out who spiderman is…

Having said that, Id still probably turn up....
 
@underdog said:
@Goose said:
im not on Oztips, how did they ruin it??

good luck to guys who sold it to Yahoo

Yahoo took a simple idea and tried to overdo with confusing menus, stats, and stacks more advertising.

Other parts of it were also broken on launch, such as checking last weeks results.

It went from fast and efficient (much like WTF) To slow and bloated.

and worst of all - THEY FORCED YOU to create a yahoo account to continue tipping etc. I already had one, however one of the tipping contests i was in last year INSTANTLY lost 50% of its players since most were "non-information-technology-type" people who didn't want/need new accounts.

Worse yet, they did mid-bloody-season!
 
yeah i was on oztips and was one that couldn't be bothered with a yahoo account, but I'm on a heap of tipping comps anyway, so I wasn't too concerned about dropping one…....still had 15 others.
 

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