~ ESB's BIG FIGHT PICKS ~ Casamayor vs. Katsidis ~ Andrade vs. Stieglitz ~

Hey everyone. Sorry, I've been pretty busy lately and I don't have time to count everything up right now. Also, I'm not exactly sure whether the JMM-Pac fight will count or not, since 4 out of 5 of the people in the review panel that was created scored the fight for JMM. I haven't received a PM from the 5th panel member yet. Decebal said that it shouldn't be a contested result because it's not an all out robbery, but if all 5 of the review panel members scored it for JMM, I think it's very reasonable to not count the fight. Especially since this is a league that has very few fights and one controversial result like last week's blue riband fight makes a huge difference in the rankings.

Regarding the new scoring system where people can choose wide UD, close UD, or draw/SD that was proposed in last week's thread.. I completely disagree with having this extra choice because it complicates things more and makes the judges' scores more important than they need to be. For example, in a fight like PBF-DLH or Diaz-Campbell, the draw/SD choice would win just because one blind judge thought DLH/Diaz won.. so in essence you're trying to get lucky guessing that one judge will get the fight wrong. I think the old close decision/wide decision system works well and there's no reason to make things more complicated, but if Decebal wants to create a vote and over 50% of people want the draw/SD option, then we can add it.

There's some things that need to be discussed, but right now I'd rather just put up this week's thread faster so people could get their picks in for this week.

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• correct winner = 15
• correct winner + correct decision pick = 25
• correct winner + correct stoppage pick = 30

Decision picks:

• correct wide or close decision pick* = 30

Stoppage picks**:

• 3 rounds or less off correct stoppage round = 35
• 1 round off correct stoppage round = 40
• correct stoppage round = 45

Draw = 50 points

* a wide unanimous decision: a decision where all three judges score the fight for one fighter and two or more of the judges' scores are four points or more apart e.g. 116-112, 115-111, 116-111, etc.
* a close unanimous decision: a decision where all three judges score the fight for one fighter and two or more of the judges' scores are three points or less apart e.g. 115-112, 116-113, 114-112, etc. A split decision or a majority decision is scored as a close unanimous decision.

** a disqualification or retirement will count as a stoppage win.

Blue riband events - really big fights like Pavlik v. Taylor, Calzaghe v. Hopkins, etc. - will count for twice the points as usual big fights. Scores for those blue riband events get multiplied by two.

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Please post your picks as follows: e.g.

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", if you think Calzaghe will win a unanimous decision over Kessler at a difference of points greater or equal to four points

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", if you think Calzaghe will win a decision over Kessler at a difference of points smaller or equal to three points, a majority or split decision.

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", if you think Kessler will beat Calzaghe by stoppage, disqualification or retirement in the third round.

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" if you think the fight between Calzaghe and Kessler will end up a draw.

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Anyone can join the league at any time, even late. In order to give late starters a chance to compete fairly, they will start in the middle of the pack, at the median position, out of those who have participated every week.

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If for some reason you miss a week and you are in the top 25 in the league, you will be allocated the median score for that week. Everyone has 3 lives (will be "saved" up to three times). This, to ensure top pickers are not demotivated by their failure to pick one week.

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A clean sweep system will be applied for weeks with 5 fights or more. The clean sweep bonus will be 20 points.

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If, by common consensus, a clear robbery might have occured, a review panel made up of brooklyn1550, kg0208, sean, McGrain and sues2nd will decide whether the result should be overruled for the purposes of our league. Unless they all agree unanimously that it was a robbery, we go by official results.

Good luck! :good

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northend: 300
**196osh: 290
MSTR: 285
*J-M-P: 280
iceman: 275
Shake: 265
Amsterdam: 255
jakeameyers: 255
*Punisher33: 255
Zakman: 255
Decebal: 250
KobeIsGod: 250
Pimp C: 250
brooklyn1550: 245
IntentionalButt: 245
aleklaser: 235
**dangerousity: 235
*pioterbezkitu: 235
theunderdog: 235
Arc_Arsenal: 230
Astola: 230
*cardstars: 230
Kolya: 230
Bulakenyo: 225
huki: 225
Violent ******: 225
Drew101: 220
Smith: 220
kg0208: 215
o_money: 215
This bloke: 215
Boro chris: 210
PacDbest: 210
Scorpy: 210
magnificentdave: 205
psychopath: 205
mney mayweather: 200
Totomabs: 195
**Cooke: 190
*H.: 190
Dorfmeister: 185
sues2nd: 180
Willy Bonka: 180
sjc: 175
*saul_ir34: 160
**TFFP: 160
*Marcus: 160
andyzOr: 155
nickthegreek: 155
*Tom_Tocca: 155
*jimmythejet: 150
**cuchulain: 140
*Brickhaus: 130
*Paenkhay: 120
*RUSKULL: 115
*Oscar de la Roa: 110
*4Rounder: 90
**Dunks: 90
**Gregor: 90
**Lenin: 90
**LONE WOLF: 90
**Mangtiny: 90
**OklahomaHoss: 90
**Sister Sledge: 90
**TheGeezer: 90
**Jack Presscot: 70
**McGrain: 55


If you joined last week and posted picks for the first time, just post your picks again this week and everything will be calculated correctly in the future.

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Please give your picks for:

Joel Casamayor vs. Michael Katsidis

Librado Andrade vs. Robert Stieglitz