Group 4 Spreadsheet

[Risteard]

Don't mean to pick holes in your hard work, but:


"If Ireland lose either of the two games, then we are out of the running for qualification, so let's only focus on the 3 remaining possibilities:
1 - Beat France and beat Switzerland
2 - Beat France and draw with Switzerland
3 - Draw with France and beat Switzerland"


i) We can lose one match, say against France and still qualify.

ii) There are 4 remaining possibilities, discounting any loss:
Win / Win
Win / Draw
Draw / Win
Draw / Draw
He's right, isn't he?

[tetsujin1979]

One last time..if anyone..anywhere..has a problem with this, YOU edit it!!

err, ahem, seriously though, this looks on the money. And it's got colours this time around, so it's much easier to read!!

http://members.boards.ie/tetsujin1979/Group4Permutations.html

[Metrostars]

Excellent work. Though I do have an inkling that Cyprus or the Faroes will pull off an upset with a draw before the group is done. Maybe the Faroes will draw at home to Israel and Cyprus a draw at home against the Swiss or away to France...

[Stuttgart88]

Great work, again.

If you were blindfolded & had to throw a dart at that page, what are the chances of it landing on a white square?

[tetsujin1979]

Hmmm, good question that. Half a mo.

<minutes of hasty coding later>

Page updated with answer to Stuttgart's question -
Ireland have 28 chances of topping the table
Ireland have 21 chances of making the playoffs
There are 32 chances of Ireland not qualifying

[Kingdom]

Tetsujin,

Are you ina relationship of any kind? Just wondering... ;)

[tetsujin1979]

Tetsujin,

Are you ina relationship of any kind? Just wondering... ;)

err, no, I'm single at the moment ;)

Bored out of my tree at work, so I worked on the table manually first, then I threw some code together to generate it automatically. It's linked at the bottom of the page

[eirebhoy]

Fair play, much easier to see whats going on now that it has colours. :)