2013 Spring Tipping Comp
 

NATIONAL PUNTING LEAGUE (Spring 2013)

Here's how the comp works. We will all be tipping against each other for 10 weeks from this Saturday, August 3, through to October 5, the last day of the Sydney carnival. Then at the completion of those 10 weeks, the lowest ranking tipsters will be knocked out week by week until we are left with the top 8 tipsters to go head to head in a final series over the week of the Melbourne Cup carnival culminating in the Grand Final on Saturday, November 9.



RULES

1. Of the 10 Saturdays during the preliminary rounds, you must tip on at least 7 of them.
In other words, you are allowed to miss 3 weeks. No more.

2. You can post anywhere between 5 and 15 selections each week.

4. You can bet anywhere between $50 and $150 each week.
The leading tipsters are judged on % profit, not the total amount of profit. So betting more won't give you a better chance.

5. These are the different bet sizes you can use on your selections.
($5 Win, $10 Win, $15 Win, $20 Win, $25 Win, $30 Win, $5 ew, $10 ew or $15 ew)

6 . Races you can tip in:
You can tip at any Australian meeting covered by Tattsbet on Saturdays. Which is just about everything.

7 . I will explain what happens when we get to the knockout stage at a later date.
We have to see how many tipsters we get first (hopefully we will get a good number) as that will decide how the knockout stage is conducted.




Calculating your $ return:
I will be using "Sportingbet Maxidiv" to calculate the return on all races if available. If not available, I will be using Tattsbet dividends.




Previous winners
Spring 2006 - Umrum 344 def Raw Instinct 176
Autumn 2007 - Maverick1993 98 def Woody 0
Spring 2008 - Sportz 112 def Goldcoaster 74
Spring 2009 - Reded 106 def Maverick1993 51
Spring 2010 - Luv2bet 125 def Maverick1993 0
Spring 2011 - Sportz 111 def axledog 72
Spring 2012 - Sportz 102 def Gratlog 42
Autumn 2013 - Om Sharntee 182 def Kiwi 0

Hi Sportz

Sounds good. New to the competition so please forgive me if this is a silly question.

Is consistency rewarded? ie if someone tips 5/2 to 6/1 winners consistently and another has 8 weeks with no winners and suddenly gets a 50/1 shot up.

Thanks
Dave

Well, I would say a mixture of consistency AND the ability to get good winners every now and then.

If someone only gets one big longshot winner during the whole comp, they won't be winning. One 50-1 winner could possibly get you into the finals, but once there, you will still need to tip well and find more winners from then on to take out the comp.

Have you got 3rd / 4th placings for each of those previous comp years, sportz?

Cheers LG

Why is that? No, I don't have that info on me right now, but I could find out I guess. Busy at the moment though.

Feel free to start posting tips for tomorrow, guys.

Remember you can post 5-15 tips and only use the bet sizes that I listed in the opening thread.

Because you put the stats up in detail for several years(e.g. final scores) and that raised my curiosity regards who from the current day forum has been playing this comp over the years plus which of them finished in the semi's.

Didn't expect you to drop everything and/or ferret through your records this very minute, however.

Cheers LG

Come on, guys! We're starting today! :o

OK Sportz, here goes. These are all $15 each way. Testing a system here so I'll be interested in seeing it sink or swim.

ADELAIDE: Race 3 number 8 Scotland the Brave

BRISBANE: Race 2 number 6 Carn

SYDNEY: Race 7 number 10 Saintly Sun

PERTH: Race 2 number 5 Trade Down
Race 5 number 1 Big Josh

Belmont
Race 2 no. 8 Magical Mist $30 win

Moonee Valley
Race 8 no. 9 Henwood $30 win

Rosehill
Race 4 no.5 Hunter Jack $20 win
Race 8 no. 9 Queen's Elect $10 win

Doomben
Race 2 no.5 Tuskagee Hawk $10 win

Good luck all

Sydney race 5 no 7 Breakfast in Bed $15 each way
Sydney race 5 No 6 Immeldamay $5 each way

Brisbane race 4 no6 Treasure Map $15 each way
Brisbane race 4 no 7 Always a Gibberer $15 each way

Adelaide race 6 no Lionhearted Girl $30 win
Adelaide race 6 no 11 Ironbank $15 each way

Left out Henwood because of barrier


Good luck all

I'm using a system too. It helped me to win the spring comp the past two years, but it didn't do me much good in the autumn comp this year.

BR 1-8 AROUSED $10 ew
BR 5-5 KEEP IT MOIST $20 win

SR 1-5 SUGAR RUSH $10 ew
SR 4-5 HUNTER JACK $10 ew
SR 5-8 KRISTY LEE $10 ew
SR 7-4 SACRED FLYER $10 ew

MR 5-6 ARCH FIRE $5 ew
MR 8-9 HENWOOD $10 ew

I'm afraid you're $10 over the maximum amount of $150.

Morphettville
2/6 Erbawi

Rosehill
2/6 Snitzel's Jewel
5/10 Sweet Little Lies
6/5 Ironstein
7/7 Viking Legend




$5 e/w

M3#1 The Cleaner
M4#9 Eliza Blues
M6#4 Clanga's Glory
S3#4 Champagne Cath
B7#7 Shafeeq
A5#8 Spirit Of Endeavour

All $10 win

Can I change Ironbank to $10 each way? or do you wan't me to do it all again?

No, that's okay.

Hope the turnout improves next week!!!

Rosehill
race 4 no 4 $25 win
no 6 $10 win $40 place
no 9, 10 $15 win

Nice winner with #6 but there is no $40 place bets allowed

Okay, makes my profit even greater ,

Rosehill race 6 no 8 $5 E/W

Ummm yes, I'll put that down as $10 ew then.

Rosehill race 6 no 8 $5 E/W

Fine disregard this


$40 place bet disallowed so bet was only $10 win

Better late than never, Mister Sportz...

BR 8-4 COVERT CHARMOUR
BR 8-6 CONFIDENT STAR
BR 8-8 THE STOREMAN
BR 8-11 CAPPIN JACK
BR 8-16 LAST LAP
BR 8-20 SHAFTSMAN

All $20 for the WIN.

Cheers LG

Good stuff today.

Meanwhile, I'm having a shocker.

A couple of late winners stops the rot.

Okay, well, a couple of guys went well. The rest, not so much. Well done, Lethal.

Leaderboard:
305.29 . lethal ( Out: 85 / In: 344.5 )
74.00 . Dillwar ( Out: 100 / In: 174 )
-31.67 . Sportz ( Out: 150 / In: 102.5 )
-31.67 . Try Try again ( Out: 60 / In: 41 )
-59.00 . dave101 ( Out: 150 / In: 61.5 )
-67.00 . Percentum ( Out: 150 / In: 49.5 )
-83.00 . Reded ( Out: 50 / In: 8.5 )
-100.00 . Lord Greystoke ( Out: 120 / In: 0 )

..... and where was everyone else??? :o

Hey Sportz,

Maybe you should not let anyone else in and have a top 8.

It may be the only way we can get in to the finals!!

:)

I'll see how we go, but if we don't get many more people, then I might cut it down to a top 4!

Phew!

We're safe!

Please don't forget about this, guys. Anyone that missed out last week, feel free to have a go this week.

M2#2 Great Esteem
M6#11 Henwood
M8#11 St Mark
M9#16 Are There Any
S6#3 Bull Point
A8#6 Heart Of A Lion

$10 win on all

AR5 # 7 Quick Snitzel $25 w
AR7 # 3 Broken $25 w
SR6 #2 Watabout $15 ew
SR7 #7 Punch Your Weight 15 ew
SR8 # 11 Australian Star $15 ew
MR6 # 11 Henwood $10 w

Belmont
7/4 Settle Strada $5 win
Randwick
4/6 Field Marshall $5 e/w
5/2 Rain Affair $30 win
Flemington
9/16 Are There Any $5 win
Morphettville
1/2 Bojani $5 win

PR 5-2 CELTIC ROCK
PR 6-4 RECODE
PR 7-8 DUETON
PR 8-12 GRAND CRUSADE

BR 5-11 EXTREME MOVER
BR 7-8 SEA MARVISTA
BR 8-7 RELEASE ME

SR 7-9 BUGABOO

MR 7-7 BROKEN
MR 8-6 PEPIN HOAKS

AR 8-3 MAELSTROM

All $10 WIN


Best of luck chaps!

Cheers LG

BR 2-10 FLYING HOME $10ew
BR 5-8 KURTLEY $5ew
BR 6-6 AVALADYLUCK $10ew
MR 5-13 STEREOSONIC $5ew
MR 6-11 HENWOOD $10ew
MR 7-4 RIZIZ $10ew
MR 9-16 ARE THERE ANY $5ew

These are all $15 each way thanks Sportz. Trialling a new system yet again. I feel a quiet inner confidence. I have no idea why.

MELBOURNE

Race 1 no15 Lingo
Race 4 no 10 Columbus
Race 6 no 14 Weissmuller
Race 7 no 5 Pelicano

BRISBANE
race 6 no 12 Mini Delago

Flem
R1 No. 12 Angels Beach $30 win
R3 No. 7 You're Discreet $10 win
R6 No. 11 Henwood $30 win
R9 No. 1 Means A Lot $10 win

Rand
R5 No. 2 Rain Affair $30 win

Good luck all