But yes, I see I closed the bets early, as today's a Rest Day. I'll go ahead and open the bets again.

Are you able to mention approximately how many 2-way individual World cup match bets you'd be providing per day, especially in the next couple of days (it might affect how I use my loan strategies and betting ceiling - on a leg-by-leg basis, even an approximate <calendar> of betting events per leg would be helpful to the average player)?

< SwitchingQuylthulg >

I honestly think that this bet should be refunded. I was going to do just 3 bets, but thought, why not 4?

< MarkFinan: And the settlement dates are all wrong too. >

That one, I can fix afterward, even if the bet is closed.

< gauer: Regarding World Cup Rd 1: Upset Special - the "seed" means the ratings ranking order, after <all> players are accounted for, correct (some players qualified by different means, and saying 35th seed does <not> merely specify the 35th seed of players qualifying with a rating - it could also included a nominee, whose seed might not depend as much as on his rating (as much as it might for a top-18 rated player))? >

Yes, seeds mean like, overall seeds, accounting players who qualified by all means.

< Are you able to mention approximately how many 2-way individual World cup match bets you'd be providing per day, especially in the next couple of days (it might affect how I use my loan strategies and betting ceiling - on a leg-by-leg basis, even an approximate <calendar> of betting events per leg would be helpful to the average player)? >

Uh, I might do like 5 or 6 game bets/round, though I'm not sure.

< have you thought about doing that type of a pick-4 there <earlier (say around the 4th round, once you have an 8-way or 16-way selection of players) on> (to possibly build a pot, perhaps a wild-west style guess), and then along with the same in-play pick-4, once the 4 are selected (just an idea)? >

I think that's a good idea. One surprise Pick 4, and one Pick 4 where everyone knows.

Firstly, despite the typo in Alexander's last name, I think everyone knew what I meant. The Eduoard-Smirin rating mixup is a little less understanding, but I think I'll let it stand.

However, I'm about to refund any lines that reads Guijarro-Melkumyan-any-any. In the event that it ends up being the winner, all bets will be refunded.

Sorry for another debacle.

I'll keep those ideas in mind for Round 2. Thanks. :) But let me just try to dissect this post:

< The Pick Four (winners) is a perfect bet for the first round. Two more of them (or 3?) put up a couple of days earlier, you could have skipped all this last minute R1,G1 stuff. >

Ah, a couple of days, not a few hours. So it wouldn't really work for Round 2.

I saw you describe it as "perfect", so I only refunded some lines, not the whole bet.

< One bet perfect for this format, list 4/5 matchups and ask how many will need the tiebreaks. you could make it simple just ask the number or difficult and ask to pick which ones. >

Okay, this might work for Round 2. I think the regular game bets would be better for the later rounds. I'll try to keep them less until then (perhaps combine them all into a P3 or something).

< btw- Ben Stein has a 150 IQ.. sorry bookie :( >