Footy Tipping

The last time I joined a footy tipping competition was at Whitley College, when I lived there. I was given two options:

1. Put in all my tips for the entire season
2. Tip each week, round-by-round

Knowing that I would probably forget to submit my tips each week, I chose option #1.

Having no knowledge whatsoever of which teams were good and which weren't, I asked a friend to tell me the top four teams and bottom four teams from the previous year's season ladder. I then created a "fool-proof" system for my tips choices - for each game, if one team was top four the previous year, I chose that team and if one team was bottom four, I chose the other team. If neither team was top or bottom, I guessed. Simple.

And it took me less than 10 minutes to complete.

My system proved to be more fool-proof than I would every have imagine, because at the end of the season, they announced the winner... me!

So this year, when I was approached to join the footy tipping competition at my gym, I thought, why not? I have a little more of an idea of the teams' performance, and this time around I am actually committed to a team - Go Sainters!! Besides, James could always help me. So I entered.

My results so far (i.e. number of tips I got correct):

• Round 1 - 4/8 - tipped with James' help
• Round 2 - 2/8 - tipped without James' help so you can see how hopeless I am at it
• Round 3 - 7/8 - tipped with James' help
• Round 4 - 4/8 - forgot to submit tips, allocated "away" teams as my tips
  

Based on the above results and my past, I have made the following observations:

1. Ignorance isn't just bliss. It also helps me to tip better.
2. People who don't support a particular team will probably tip better - if James and I can't decide between our beloved Saints and the team they are playing, we tend to tip our team.
3. If James wasn't available to help me with this, I would probably get better results from not submitting any tips at all.