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July 14, 2018
SportsFilter World Cup Pickem Final: Make Your Picks: The World Cup finals are France vs. Croatia on Sunday at 11 a.m. Eastern. In the SportsFilter World Cup Pickem, geneparmesan is back in first place with 177 and four other players are within 10. Make your picks in the comments.
1. Croatia
2. CRO 2 - FRA 1
3. Rakitic, Mbappe
4. Lovren, Varane
5. Mbappe
6. 37 minutes, 11 minutes of extra time
posted by grum@work at 03:20 PM on July 14, 2018
3 & 4 are pick a player in "each game" and grum has chosen one from each team. It sounds like it was meant to include the 3rd place match but since that has passed, I now assume we aren't picking anything for that match. But if we are, I choose Belgium winning 2-0 with Hazard to score and Stones to get a card.
posted by Ricardo at 03:35 PM on July 14, 2018
Yeah, we can't pick the third-place game. I was tempted to include it in the contest and award negative points for getting it right.
posted by rcade at 04:07 PM on July 14, 2018
1. Croatia
2. 1-1
3. Luka Modrić
4. Hugo Lloris
5. Luka Modrić
6. 30th minute card, 12 minutes of extra time
posted by rcade at 04:11 PM on July 14, 2018
Whoops.
That's what I get for rushing ahead.
1. Croatia
2. CRO 2 - FRA 1
3. Rakitic
4. Lovren
5. Mbappe
6. 37 minutes, 11 minutes of extra time
posted by grum@work at 07:31 PM on July 14, 2018
I think the prize for winning the pick 'em should be a Serbo-Croatian computer keyboard like rcade's, so you can spell Modric with the accented "c".
posted by beaverboard at 09:08 PM on July 14, 2018
Winner: France
Score: 2-1
Scorer: Griezmann
Cards: Lovren
Golden Ball: Mbappe (although it should be Kante)
First Card: 40th
Extra Minutes: 7
posted by Ricardo at 11:31 PM on July 14, 2018
France 1-2 Croatia AET
Rebic
Rakitic
Modric
19'
10 minutes
posted by bender at 12:29 AM on July 15, 2018
France 2 - 1 Croatia
Goals: Mbappe
Cards: Mandzukic
Golden Ball: Mbappe
First Card: 50th minute
Added Time: 5 minutes
posted by geneparmesan at 03:58 AM on July 15, 2018
Champion: France
Score: 3-2
Goals: Griezmann
Card: Mbappe
Golden Ball: Modric
First card: 11 minutes
Added time: 8 minutes
posted by jagsnumberone at 04:11 AM on July 15, 2018
Croatia
Croatia 1-0
Modric
Hernandez
Modric
Card: 20th minute
Added time: 9 minutes
posted by Hooli at 09:47 AM on July 15, 2018
France
France 2 - Croatia 0
Mbapp
Mbapp
Mbapp
24 minutes, 5 minutes
posted by tron7 at 10:58 AM on July 15, 2018
Damn, shoulda picked Mandzukic for goals
posted by tron7 at 11:20 AM on July 15, 2018
1. Pick the World Cup champion (10 points).
2. Pick the score of the game, not including penalty kicks (5 points minus 1 for each goal off the correct score).
3. Pick a player and get 2 points for each goal he scores.
4. Pick a player and get 2 points for each yellow card he receives or 5 points for a straight red card.
5. Pick the Golden Ball winner (5 points, best player of the entire tournament)
6. Pick the minute of the first card (first tiebreaker) and the total minutes of extra time (second tiebreaker). If multiple players pick the same tiebreaker, the first to choose it wins.