When we've a wager on the last game of a round, the result of that wager has a disproportionate impact, I acknowledge, on my assessment of the entire round. So, I find myself tonight while not exactly happy with our 4.7c loss - our fourth loss in five rounds by the way - but instead with a glass half-full mentality. It could have been worse and we're still up by 4c on the season.
Actually, it could have been better too, but for a late behind in the Hawks game that tipped their victory margin out of the 40 to 49 and into the 50 to 59 point bucket. That behind cost Investors about 1.4c. Port Adelaide as well, despite eventually losing by 26 points to the Swans thanks to a late goal, could easily have lost by a couple of goals fewer and salvaged another couple of percent for Investors.
But none of that happened and so the Head-to-Head Fund, with its 3 and 3 performance, wound up losing almost 4c on the week, leaving it up now by just over 2c on the season. Also, the Line Fund recorded its second-straight worse-than-chance performance, bagging 1 from 5 wagers to drop by almost 8c on the round. It's still up by over 34c on the season though, so it's entitled to a little leeway on the run home.
That left the Margin Fund to record the week's only profit, its 1 from 6 performance enough to lift its price by 1.5c though still leave it down by almost 70c on the season.
TIPS AND PREDICTIONS
It was a good round for head-to-head tipping, with seven of nine favourites doing as they were expected. This helped lift the all-Tipster average for the week to 6.6 from 9, the best results belonging to Bookie_9 and the three Win-based Tipsters, who all snared 8.
That result allowed Bookie_9 to draw a further tip clear at the head of the MoS Leaderboard, extending its lead now to three tips. Combo_7 remains in second, a tip clear of Bookie_3 and Combo_NN_1.