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  Chesterfield Prediction League 2023/24 Matchday 47
Posted by: spireitematt - Yesterday, 20:00 - Forum: Chesterfield - Replies (3)

Tuesday Night

Barnet 0-1 Eastleigh

Wednesday Night

Halifax 0-1 Chesterfield
Wealdstone 2-1 Bromley


League Table After Matchday 46

SaltergateBorn - 814
Spireitematt - 795
Amelia - 710
Lord Snoots - 688
Dancing - 657
St Charles - 632
Devon - 603


SaltergateBorn Predictions

Halifax 1-2 Chesterfield

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  HTAFC Prediction League 2024 Matchday 12 - international break.
Posted by: Lord Snooty - 17-03-2024, 21:30 - Forum: Huddersfield Town - Replies (1)

2 points for correct result
4 points for correct score
2 points for each correct scorer
Correct joker doubles your score   Laugh (correct score on a joker would give you 8 points)
Wrong joker result gives you minus 2
Correct Random Badger gives you 2 points Badger

The random badger Badger is used for any random prediction used once in each matchday sequence. For instance, a scorer at a particular match, the number of red cards in the matches or yellow cards or own goals or owt you want really within reason, I do need to be able to check whether it's correct or not. Please don't put stuff like....."Commentator says...."  Rolleyes
The joker  Laugh is played for one match in each sequence and if correct you get double points. So if you've predicted 1-0 and it finishes 2-0, you get 4 pts, but if you've predicted 2-0, that's 8 pts. But if you get it wrong, it's minus 2.
Jokers and badgers are optional. You don't have to play one if you don't want.


The prize for winning the league is one rep point.

Cup games: In the event of a draw, it's half the points if you've predicted a draw when it gets to 90 mins and the full points if it's still a draw after extra time. Half the points will be awarded for correctly predicting the winner of the match if it goes to penalties. Similarly with the badger, if your random prediction is affected by this, it'll be half the points.

Random score generator: I will be using the random score generator again for those who miss predicting, so we shouldn't get some people too far behind that after missing a couple of weeks they lose all interest, because I know it's not easy getting on here every week.
To be fair to everybody, this is going to be like, say if three people in one week miss their predictions, the first one in the table will be given all 0-0, the second one down the line will get 1-0 and the third will get 0-1 and so on, like if there's four missing the 4th will get 1-1, then 5th 2-1, 6th 1-2. and if there are so many missing, might as well pack in. Wink
And if you miss two weeks on the trot, I'll stop until you come back on again. Not doing it for half a season like I did t'other year.  Rolleyes

End of season Play Offs: The one who finishes top of the league will still be champion, but after the season finishes there will be Play Offs between the top 4, with 1st v 4th and 2nd v 3rd. This will take in stuff like the EFL Play Offs, FA Cup Final, final day of Prima Donna League, European Finals etc. It will be one matchday for the semis and one for the Final. It will be the individual scores for each matchday against the allotted opponent, with some kind of tie breaker for a drawn match.

The prize for winning will be enormous. Another rep point. Whistle



So we have a new format for this season, which I put forward as an idea at the end of last season. Nobody offered any objections so here it is explained......

Firstly, I thought it was getting a bit boring towards the end with the league format as it was with the champion being so far ahead and everybody else not much to play for apart from the push for a play off spot, which was a bit of an anticlimax anyway. The most exciting bit was the tussle for 8th, 9th and 10th positions with Shep, Ritchie and Amelia.  Whistle

So I'm splitting the group up into two groups with the top six from last season in the top group and the bottom six in group 2. At the end of the season, the winner of group 2 and the bottom of group 1 will swap places in what is commonly known as "promotion" and "relegation". It's something that most football fans will be familiar with, unless you're a fan of Liverpool or Arsenal or one of those other fashionable clubs.

The second placed player in group 2 will then have a play off with the player who finishes second from the bottom in group 1 to decide whether they will be going up, down or staying where they are.

We're going to have two seasons in one though, just to try and make it a bit more interesting and not so long drawn out. The first season will end on the Boxing Day fixtures, with the play offs being on the dates of the Twixtmas fixtures and the NYD fixtures.

The second season will start the following week, finishing on the last game of the Championship season. Then another period of relegation/promotion play off games, taking in such fixtures as the EFL play offs, FA Cup Final, UEFA finals and such like.

Each group will have it's own set of fixtures. Both groups will have the Town games, with scorers to predict as before. Then it will be a split of Championship fixtures and bonus matches. And not as many fixtures to go at. Hopefully around ten, eleven or twelve games per Matchday.

The rest of the rules will be the same as before apart from the Badger which will still be in use, but I'm going to get arsey about it. Sometimes in the past, I've been able to just award two points immediately because it was such a nailed on thing to happen. Not accusing anyone of cheating. Far from it. I didn't put any boundaries on it, so anything was alright. So now I'm restricting it to three goal scorers in any of the games in your group. Sorry to all our more adventurous badgerers.

Here's how that will appear at the end of the fixture list. All you have to do is fill in the blanks.......


Badger *** scores for ***
Badger *** scores for ***
Badger *** scores for ***

Any of those will score two points if correct. No minus points for getting it wrong.

The joker  Laugh will still be the same as before, ie doubling your points for a correct prediction or minus 2 for getting it wrong.

Postponed matches will only count if the match is re-played before the next Matchday is under way. Abandoned matches will be awarded half the points for the score at the time of abandonment, so 1 point if you have the correct result, 2 points if you have the correct score.

Substitute Badger :- These will be only be allowed if you change them before the match involved has kicked off.



Division One table after Matchday 11:
  1. Lord Snooty = 247 pts
  2. St Charles Owl = 244 pts
  3. Baggiebob(BBB) = 232 pts
  4. jjamez = 232 pts
  5. themaclad = 216 pts
  6. ritchiebaby = 201 pts

It's internationals week again, which means there's a Thursday game. This is a knockout game now, which will require a winner on the night, so here's the usual reminder to put a winner down if you're predicting a draw.

European Championship qualifying:
Thursday March 21st:
Wales v Finland

International friendlies:
Friday 22nd March:

Netherlands v Scotland
Romania v Northern Ireland

Saturday 23rd March:
Republic of Ireland v Belgium (17:00)
England v Brazil (19:00)
France v Germany (20:00)

Tuesday 26th March:
England v Belgium
Germany v Netherlands
Republic of Ireland v Switzerland
Scotland v Northern Ireland
Spain v Brazil (20:30)

Proper football:
Saturday:
League Two:

Harrogate Town v Bradford City (13:00)
Stockport County v Milton Keynes Dons (17:15)

National League:
FC Halifax Town v Ebbsfleet United


Badger *** scores for ***
Badger *** scores for ***
Badger *** scores for ***




Division Two table after Matchday 11:
  1. theo_luddite = 229 pts
  2. neonfoxinthebox = 228 pts
  3. Devongone = 223 pts
  4. SHEP_HTAFC = 209 pts
  5. WakeyTerrier = 164 pts
  6. Amelia Chaffinch = 163 pts

It's internationals week again, which means there's a Thursday game. This is a knockout game now, which will require a winner on the night, so here's the usual reminder to put a winner down if you're predicting a draw.

European Championship qualifying:
Thursday March 21st:

Wales v Finland

International friendlies:
Friday 22nd March:

Netherlands v Scotland
Romania v Northern Ireland

Saturday 23rd March:
Republic of Ireland v Belgium (17:00)
England v Brazil (19:00)
France v Germany (20:00)

Tuesday 26th March:
England v Belgium
Germany v Netherlands
Republic of Ireland v Switzerland
Scotland v Northern Ireland
Spain v Brazil (20:30)

Proper football:
Saturday:
League One:

Burton Albion v Port Vale

League Two:
Mansfield Town v Colchester United (12:30)

National League:
Chesterfield v Boreham Wood


Badger *** scores for ***
Badger *** scores for ***
Badger *** scores for ***

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  Eastleigh Win Us The League on Anti-Climax Tuesday
Posted by: Devongone - 17-03-2024, 14:06 - Forum: Chesterfield - Replies (1)

Barnet 1-3 Eastleigh

Having been carefully run through the current League table, with Eastleigh only three points clear of the drop zone, Paul McCallum misses a penalty and still scores a hat trick to make Chesterfield Champions on an anticlimactic Tuesday night, with an away game at The Shay looming the following evening.

"McCallum is far too hot to handle," according to a rueful Dean Brennan. McCallum for his part is wondering why, if he's that hot, is he always in the National League.

Chesterfield celebrate with a Trebor Mint and a Haliborange overdose before bed-time. Manager Paul Cook remains unavailable for comment.

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  WBA vs Bristol City - Match Thread
Posted by: Ska'dForLife-WBA - 15-03-2024, 01:39 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion - Replies (4)

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One more push and we're into the home straight for another season: Bristol City are the last visitors to the Hawthorns before the international break, and though the cushion beneath us remains comfy at five points, one bad Easter weekend a fortnight from now could tear the stuffing right out of it. Four points on the road last week was a fantastic return, but now it's back to the business of grinding out vital home wins.

Having just broken a run of four defeats with a win over Swansea last weekend, the Robins arrive having perhaps turned a corner; moreover, for a side that's tended to struggle against us in the 21st century, their recent record is pretty respectable. Having held us to a goalless draw earlier this season and beaten us 3-0 in the cup last year, their last visit to the Hawthorns - a week before Carlos Corberan took over - also ended happily for them with a 2-0 win, their first in West Bromwich since 1993. But as we know, Albion are no mugs right now either; despite an occasional half to forget on our travels, we're on a roll of six wins from the last seven on home soil, with four clean sheets in that time, and Mikey Johnston is undisputed holder of the Romelu Lukaku Award For Players Who Are Way Too Good To Sign Permanently For Us, No Matter How Many Chickens We Sacrifice To The Enormous Bloodstained Idol In The Catacombs Under The Smethwick End. Averaging a goal every 86 minutes since joining us, he has the best time-per-goal ratio in the Championship among players who've scored five times or more, and it would be a brave man or a fool who bet against him doing it again on Saturday.

The last time both Baggies-Robins encounters in a single season ended in stalemate was fully fifty years ago in 1973-74, and no one wants to go back to that, however much they love the Wombles and Alvin Stardust. Three points to send us sailing into the international break, and we'll be nicely set for the run-in.

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  Millers v Terriers - 16-03-24
Posted by: theo_luddite - 14-03-2024, 18:47 - Forum: Huddersfield Town - Replies (25)

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The AESSEAL Noo Yark Stadium
Just off t'M1
T'other side from Meadowhall
Meadowhall might be more entertaining

Kick-off 15:00 UK Time
Saturday 16/03/24


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Town head down the M1 to rainy Rotherham on Saturday for the first of two 6 pointers in the next 3 games. Town will be looking to do what almost everyone else has done in 2024 and come back with 3 points. This is the last Yorksha League fixture for both clubs, with nowt but pride to play for. In that other League we're in Town need to climb out from under the trap door where we've found ourselves again in spite of some recently improved performances.

With Rotherham on 19 points, if only two places below us, it might be pushing it to say this is a 6 pointer I suppose, but it's definitely a 'must winner' of a match for us.

On the tellybox

Not showing anywhere at the moment other than iFollow in furrin lands and some (ahem) interweb feeds

Pies, pees and pints..

All in here, though the prices quoted might be in need of an update.

https://www.football-stadiums.co.uk/grou...k-stadium/

We have been allocated 2,205 tickets in the Mears South Stand for the fixture, including 16 wheelchair spaces.

Ticket Prices on the Town website are as follows -
Adult - £25
Over 60 - £18
Armed Forces - £18
Ages 18-21- £18
Ages 13-17 - £10
Ages 8-12 - £8
Under 8 - £8

Doesn't look like we've sold out yet either. Huh

Latest news

Kevin the Gerbil was quoted in The Unexamined this week as saying nothing that really isn't the bleeding obvious. Quite what resources he's going to supply when it's better players (and/or fit one's) we need, when he can't do anything until the Summer window opens is beyond me.

Brody Spencer has been called up by Nor'n Iron for the International Break Thumb up

Elsewhere, Reading have gained yet another 3 point deduction and in the National League South former Football League club Torquay, who we played many a time have been given a 10 point penalty after saying they are going into administration. That will leave them 2 points above the trap door to who knows where. Southern League South?

Out Injured/Suspended/Isolating

The long term injured and banned (he knows who he is) are still where they've been practically all year. Brighton Writer indicated Healey, Mr. Bojangles and Edwards are back in training. Likey won't make the squad.

Former Town fullback Lee Peltier joined the ranks of the Rotherham injured when he damaged ankle ligaments in the recent game against Wendies. He's gonna be out for a while.

Daniel Ayala: Rotherham United release veteran defender

Back training but not oven ready/Back in the frame

Balker came on against WBA and came through OK, so is in contention for Saturday.

Last time out

After 45 minutes of WBA trying their best to give us the game and a healthy half-time lead, they came out in the 2nd half and showed us in 20 minutes how to take the chances that we continuously failed to take in the first and the second half. The 1-4 defeat left us where we started, after some of Saturday's results had gone against us (again), on the wrong side of the trap door with our already piss-poor goal difference taking another big hit.

Have your socks dried out yet from all that rain?

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The Millers got a similar thumping 5-0 at Norwich. Afterwards their head coach Leam Richardson didn't pull too many punches regarding their display.

“You feel physically sick,” he said. “You feel physically sick for the travelling fans who've been to Coventry and Norwich and been on the back of the performances we've offered.” “I'll take full blame, full responsibility, regardless of what's gone before. I'm the leader, so to speak. I pick the team, I put the players out there.

“In the last two games ... if you don't do the basics right at this level, you get punished, you get put on your arse.” “We can't carry people,” he said. “We've got to make sure we're all as one. We have to be united going forward. We can't have different agendas.”


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Almost everyone that we didn't want to get points did on Saturday, though with 2 games featuring clubs in our little corner of the League Table playing each other, that was bound to happen. Wendies defeat to L666s on Friday Night Football kept them below us on goal difference, Millwall took all three points off Brum, Blackburn and Plymouth drew at Ewood Park, Stoke took all 3 points off Both Ends, QPR lost at home to Boro ending a string of decent results.

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Music

The Reytons hail from this part of the world and landed a Number 1 album in January last year.


You might want to have your headset plugged in if you play this at work or if you don't want to upset yer mam. Whistle
Otherwise they sound alreyt to me. Smartass

Jive Bunny and The Mastermixers were also responsible for stuff like this

I don't really think it's aged too well, but what do I know?

Back in history a bit, a familiar face on the Folk Club circuit and occassionallly on TV a certain Tony "It takes an 'ammer, a chisel and a fortneet to tune this .." Capstick was one of Rotherham's famous sons. (1944-2003). He has an infamous, if tenuous, link to The Millers.



I never knew what ringworm was until I came to work in Wolvo. I'd get it on my elbows about every 3-5 years, (it might have been carpet burn some years, but let's not go there). Fortunately athletes foot cream clears it up, so I didn't have to paint my elbows purple.

Plenty of other famous folk from these parts too. Too? To me - to you. Tongue

The Sack Race

The one we knew was always going to happen, it was just a matter of when, not if. Watford finally got round to sacking long-time (by their standards) manager Valerien Ismael, after Saturdays 1-2 home defeat to Coventry. Watford have won only 2 games this year, at QPR and Rotherham, and have gone from top 6 challengers to being 7 points above us (we're currently under the trap door, I may have mentioned that). How many more managers they will appoint in the next two months is anyone's guess, but Ismael surely qualifies for a Long-Service-Award at Watford. Smartass

Colin also handed his notice in at Aberdeen, having not won a league match but having won two cup matches to get them into the semi-final of the Jock's version of the FA Cup. As reported by Snoots, allegedly, Fotheringham is on the short list to take over. How embarrassing would that be for Colin? Well he obviously talks a good interview, everything else is just bollox that follows. If that doesn't get Sir Alex Ferguson's Red Nose twitching and spinning I don't know what will. Good luck with that Aberdeen. Whistle

Tables & Recent Form

The Yorksha League
(in case you missed it last time)

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The madness that is The Championship Table continues to baffle all who try to predict the unpredictable.

Only 9 points separate a desperately out of form Blunderland in 12th place and Wendies in 23rd. Blackburn and Plymouth who a few weeks ago were well clear of Town in mid-table are now both only 3 points above us. Having the two top goalscorers in the division in their sides somewhat helps their goal difference. However, only Rotherham have conceded more than them (you can include Town in that list too).

So in predicting the unpredicatable, I wouldn't be surprised if more than 50 points are needed to stay up, and two clubs might get relegated on goal difference this season, let alone one. The Millers have been bottom of the table for the best part of half the season now and if we win and that doesn't sink them, then any more points dropped by them over Easter surely will.

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It shouldn't be too difficult to find both clubs in the form tables.

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Leam Richardson was appointed mid-December after Matt Taylor was given the push a month before. A brief period of New Manager bounce kicked in as they unexpectedly picked up 6 points in the Christmas/New Year/January fixtures, from a home win and and away draw v Boro and two draws against Sunderland and Blackburn. They lost 0:1 to Stoke in their other fixture. Since that point at Boro, they've lost every game, all 9 of them, with the last two both being 5-0 thumpings on the road.

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Innies and Outies

Not surprisingly, The Millers kept the purse strings tight in the January Sales. I might not be the only one in thinking we should get a refund on Wiles though. He was seemingly far more consistent for them. Well, he's consistent for us to be honest, just the wrong consistency. More water? More flour? More yeast? Maybe we need to ask Deliah. Come on son, let's be 'avin' ya! Where are ya?

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Who's banging 'em in

A team that's only scored 30 goals all season isn't going to have a 20 goal/season goal machine in the ranks.

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They can't all lose

This is also FA Cup 6th Round weekend, and with Leicester and Coventry involved, their games have been pushed back to April 23rd. Not that those fixtures will affect the battle down amongst the dead men.

In the bottom 3rd, apart from our match, Wendies go to Ipswich, out of form Brum play out of form and managerless Watford, hit and miss QPR go to out of form Blunderland, win-one-lose-one Stoke are home to a suddeny more in form Norwich. Blackburn go to Boro and Plymouth are home to Both Ends. Try predicting those two! Oh! Apparently our Division 1 predictors are going to give it a go. Well, there's only a 2 in 3 chance of the wrong results and who knows what odds of the wrong/right score. I suspect not many jokers will be played on those two matches.

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We've played 'em before

Town are way ahead in the Head2Head but The Millers often give us a game when we meet at their's. This won't be a push over and Town will need some better shooting boots on than they had last weekend to win this one.

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Next up?

It's international break time again next weekend, so our next fixture is at home to Coventry on Good Friday.

Pressers

Danny, Danny, Danny Ward and Brighton Writer share their wit and wisdom.



Wardy from 04:50, André at 34:30

The view from Tinsley Viaduct

Leam Richardson let's rip.

https://www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk/sp...arsely-api

Kwik Millers Kwiz.

1. Who or what was Mick the Miller?
2. Who famously lived and worked at Colley's Mill and where was it?
3. There are pubs on the Burnley Road at Mytholmroyd and Halifax Road, Hove Edge (Brighouse) with (give or take a "The") the same name.
Name those pubs? (Apologies to non-locals but an inspired guess will maybe get you the answer).
4. Where is the cobbled street, made famous in the Hovis advert? Clue - it's not in Rotherham.
5. What was previously on the site of Noo Yark Stadium?
6. Which river flows by the stadium and which other stadium does it occassionally flood?
7. Which trophy have The Millers won twice?
8. Which division have The Millers spent most time in?
9. Who is Rotherham's all time leading scorer?.
10. What was The Millers previous ground called, how far away is it from the current one and why is it still there?
(I'm joking about that last bit). Big Grin

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  Ipswich v The Owls SBC Match Thread
Posted by: Owlkev71 - 14-03-2024, 14:31 - Forum: Sheffield Wednesday - Replies (66)

THE MATCH

SATURDAY 16TH MARCH KO 3:00PM

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LAST MATCH



Our 4 game winning run came to an end as we went down to Leeds. We had the first real chance when Gassama's close range shot was somehow deflected wide. We were keeping Leeds at arms length but did have a few attempts with Beadle making a decent save. Just as we thought we would make it to HT, Leeds took the lead, Firpo's cross finding Bamford who finished from close range. Onto the 2nd half and Leeds stepped it up and made it 0-2 when Rutter sent Gnonto through to finish with ease. Leeds came close to adding to there lead but the score stayed the same all the way to the final whistle.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB Thumb up  Thumb up  Thumb up

THE MATCH



Back on the road and a trip to Portman Road to take on Ipswich. Of the 3 promoted sides Ipswich are easily doing the best, currently sitting in the 3rd place just 1 point behind Leeds in the automatic places. It is going to be a great race to see who finishes in the top two. Ipswich are managed by Kieran McKenna who took over in 2021 and last season saw them promoted to the Championship alongside ourselves and Plymouth. There leading scorer is Connor Chaplin with 12 goals and 7 assists, closely followed by Nathen Broadhead with 11.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB Thumb up  Thumb up  Thumb up

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 21
IPSW 21
DRAWS 16

CURRENT FORM

OWLS              -                                    Angry Big Grin Big Grin Big Grin Big Grin Angry                                                            

IPSW - Angry Big Grin Big Grin Big Grin Big Grin Big Grin                                         

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT Thumb up  Thumb up

LEIGH DOUGHTY
Nigel Lugg and Mark Stevens
Fourth Official: Anthony Backhouse

THE TEAM

Beadle
Palmer Ihiekwe Bernard Johnson
Paveda M Diaby Vaulks Bannan Gassama
Ugbo

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-1 Ugbo

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

26

ATTENDANCE

N/A

BML LEAGUE

Imre 23
Washington 17
Maddix 17
Owlkev 13
SCO 10

BMPL

Wereham 8
Stateside 6
Pei -2
Southey -12

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Fulham v Tottenham
Stoke v Norwich
Derby v Bolton
Bradford v Mansfield
Hartlepool v Southend

AAHAA

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE

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KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

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  Chesterfield Prediction League 2023/24 Matchday 46
Posted by: spireitematt - 13-03-2024, 23:17 - Forum: Chesterfield - Replies (6)

Oldham Athletic 0-1 Chesterfield
AFC Fylde 2-1 Wealdstone
Boreham Wood 1-1 Altrincham
Bromley 3-0 Kidderminster Harriers
Dagenham & Redbridge 2-0 Maidenhead United
Dorking Wanderers 2-1 Solihull Moors
Eastleigh 0-1 Rochdale
Ebbsfleet United 2-2 Gateshead
Hartlepool United 1-2 Southend United
Woking 1-1 Barnet
York City 2-3 Aldershot Town

Sunday

Oxford City 0-2 Halifax


League Table After Matchday 45

SaltergateBorn - 802
Spireitematt - 781
Amelia - 687
Lord Snoots - 660
Dancing - 648
St Charles - 623
Devon - 583


SaltergateBorn Predictions

Oldham 1-2 Chesterfield
Fylde 2-0 Wealdstone
Boreham Wood 2-2 Altrincham
Bromley 1-1 Kidderminster H
Dag & Red 2-0 Maidenhead
Dorking 1-3 Solihull
Eastleigh 1-1 Rochdale
Ebbsfleet 3-2 Gateshead
Hartlepool 2-1 Southend
Woking 0-2 Barnet
York 1-3 Aldershot

Sunday

Oxford C 0-1 Halifax

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  Prediction League Week 29 Results
Posted by: Zinman - 11-03-2024, 23:44 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion - Replies (1)

Premier League

Minizin 16
Derby 14
Lady J 11
B.B.B. 10
Stairs 10
Zinman 0
Blue B -1

Decent week of scoring in terms of the average points for each player, but we are dropping players like Watford drop managers at the moment so the total points are not that high!!! Minizin gets his first top place in a while with 16 points, he got a CR on the Gamball and the Bonus and scored on 7 games, if only he could have found a couple of Correct Scores in there he could have been on for a really big score. Derby was second with 14 points, he only scored on 5 games but unlike Minizin was able to get 2 CSs. Lady Jane came third on 11 points, she was the only other player to score positive points on the Gamball.

BBB and Stairs were joint 4th with 10 points. BBB missed on the Gamball but got a CR on his bonus, Stairs managed a weeks high 2 CSs but his score was down as he missed on all his balls!!

Bottom of the participants this week is one of our league leaders, Zinman, who missed on all his balls and managed just 2 CRs to cancel out the negative points and might as well have not bothered to show up with his zero total points!!! Blue Baggie, our other league leader actually didn't bother to show up at all after struggling to cope with waiting on the results last week, so by the rules he scores one less point than the bottom scorer so ended on -1 for his lack of effort!!

351 Blue Baggie
351 Zinman
325 BBB
318 Minizin
316 Derby
287 Stairs
231 Lady Jane
204 Dingle

So after the deliberate no show and the involuntary no show we now have joint leaders in Blue Baggie and Zinman, although if Blue does decide to come back as we hope he will, Zin may well rue this week when he technically had no opponent but then tripped as he ran onto the pitch and couldn't score himself!!.

BBB takes third spot on his own, partly due to some added points from Week 26 that I missed and now holds a slender lead over Minizin and Derby with just 9 points separating all three. Stairs is firmly fixed in the relegation PO spot and LJ doesn't seem to be making up any real ground on him.

Championship

BaggieOne 20
SCO 16
AAA 15
Sanjay 12
Twerton 10
Themaclad 7
Snooty 7

A decent week for the Championship with a high proportion of correct score predictions. Balls were mixed with the bonus again causing problems. Only one fixture failed to score any points with nobody predicting Villa's humiliating, crushing, hilarious, joyful (I could go on) defeat. It was definitely a good week for 0-4 2nd halves (sorry, Snooty).

BaggieOne had his best week of the season to secure his first 20 point week and sit perched on top of the Championship table this week. He was helped by a gamball maximum as one of 3 correct scores and the week's high of 6 correct predictions, though he did put his bonus on a Villa win - apparently they lost, rather heavily. SCO reacted to Twerton's pressure at the top by posting another strong week with 16 points from 5 correct predictions and 3 maximums, though he failed with the Gamball.
AAA is 3rd with the week's only bonus maximum - he chose not to play the gamball and therefore lost out on 2 points as he predicted the draw. It seems that whenever he avoids the gamball, he gets it right whereas if he does play it he gets it wrong!

Sanjay and Twerton reached double figures, Sanjay matching SCO's 3 out of 5 correct score predictions but he was let down by his balls. Twerton scored on just 4 games including his bonus but only got 1 correct score.

Themaclad and Snooty both scored 7 points to share the bottom spot. Themaclad only got 2 results correct but was saved by one of them being a maximum and the other his bonus. Snooty was the only player not to get a score right but did pick up 4 points from the Gamball.

320 SCO
312 Twerton
286 Snooty
281 AAA
266 Themaclad
257 BaggieOne
219 Sanjay


No changes in overall positions with the top 2 looking set for promotion. The battle for the play-off spot is intense with just 5 points between AAA and Snooty - will AAA live to regret his reluctance to play the Gamball?

Finally, can I apologise to whoever runs this site for posting these results on Monday causing them to miss out on about 350 site visits?

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  HTAFC Prediction League 2024 Matchday 11
Posted by: Lord Snooty - 11-03-2024, 22:34 - Forum: Huddersfield Town - Replies (16)

2 points for correct result
4 points for correct score
2 points for each correct scorer
Correct joker doubles your score   Laugh (correct score on a joker would give you 8 points)
Wrong joker result gives you minus 2
Correct Random Badger gives you 2 points Badger

The random badger Badger is used for any random prediction used once in each matchday sequence. For instance, a scorer at a particular match, the number of red cards in the matches or yellow cards or own goals or owt you want really within reason, I do need to be able to check whether it's correct or not. Please don't put stuff like....."Commentator says...."  Rolleyes
The joker  Laugh is played for one match in each sequence and if correct you get double points. So if you've predicted 1-0 and it finishes 2-0, you get 4 pts, but if you've predicted 2-0, that's 8 pts. But if you get it wrong, it's minus 2.
Jokers and badgers are optional. You don't have to play one if you don't want.


The prize for winning the league is one rep point.

Cup games: In the event of a draw, it's half the points if you've predicted a draw when it gets to 90 mins and the full points if it's still a draw after extra time. Half the points will be awarded for correctly predicting the winner of the match if it goes to penalties. Similarly with the badger, if your random prediction is affected by this, it'll be half the points.

Random score generator: I will be using the random score generator again for those who miss predicting, so we shouldn't get some people too far behind that after missing a couple of weeks they lose all interest, because I know it's not easy getting on here every week.
To be fair to everybody, this is going to be like, say if three people in one week miss their predictions, the first one in the table will be given all 0-0, the second one down the line will get 1-0 and the third will get 0-1 and so on, like if there's four missing the 4th will get 1-1, then 5th 2-1, 6th 1-2. and if there are so many missing, might as well pack in. Wink
And if you miss two weeks on the trot, I'll stop until you come back on again. Not doing it for half a season like I did t'other year.  Rolleyes

End of season Play Offs: The one who finishes top of the league will still be champion, but after the season finishes there will be Play Offs between the top 4, with 1st v 4th and 2nd v 3rd. This will take in stuff like the EFL Play Offs, FA Cup Final, final day of Prima Donna League, European Finals etc. It will be one matchday for the semis and one for the Final. It will be the individual scores for each matchday against the allotted opponent, with some kind of tie breaker for a drawn match.

The prize for winning will be enormous. Another rep point. Whistle



So we have a new format for this season, which I put forward as an idea at the end of last season. Nobody offered any objections so here it is explained......

Firstly, I thought it was getting a bit boring towards the end with the league format as it was with the champion being so far ahead and everybody else not much to play for apart from the push for a play off spot, which was a bit of an anticlimax anyway. The most exciting bit was the tussle for 8th, 9th and 10th positions with Shep, Ritchie and Amelia.  Whistle

So I'm splitting the group up into two groups with the top six from last season in the top group and the bottom six in group 2. At the end of the season, the winner of group 2 and the bottom of group 1 will swap places in what is commonly known as "promotion" and "relegation". It's something that most football fans will be familiar with, unless you're a fan of Liverpool or Arsenal or one of those other fashionable clubs.

The second placed player in group 2 will then have a play off with the player who finishes second from the bottom in group 1 to decide whether they will be going up, down or staying where they are.

We're going to have two seasons in one though, just to try and make it a bit more interesting and not so long drawn out. The first season will end on the Boxing Day fixtures, with the play offs being on the dates of the Twixtmas fixtures and the NYD fixtures.

The second season will start the following week, finishing on the last game of the Championship season. Then another period of relegation/promotion play off games, taking in such fixtures as the EFL play offs, FA Cup Final, UEFA finals and such like.

Each group will have it's own set of fixtures. Both groups will have the Town games, with scorers to predict as before. Then it will be a split of Championship fixtures and bonus matches. And not as many fixtures to go at. Hopefully around ten, eleven or twelve games per Matchday.

The rest of the rules will be the same as before apart from the Badger which will still be in use, but I'm going to get arsey about it. Sometimes in the past, I've been able to just award two points immediately because it was such a nailed on thing to happen. Not accusing anyone of cheating. Far from it. I didn't put any boundaries on it, so anything was alright. So now I'm restricting it to three goal scorers in any of the games in your group. Sorry to all our more adventurous badgerers.

Here's how that will appear at the end of the fixture list. All you have to do is fill in the blanks.......


Badger *** scores for ***
Badger *** scores for ***
Badger *** scores for ***

Any of those will score two points if correct. No minus points for getting it wrong.

The joker  Laugh will still be the same as before, ie doubling your points for a correct prediction or minus 2 for getting it wrong.

Postponed matches will only count if the match is re-played before the next Matchday is under way. Abandoned matches will be awarded half the points for the score at the time of abandonment, so 1 point if you have the correct result, 2 points if you have the correct score.

Substitute Badger :- These will be only be allowed if you change them before the match involved has kicked off.



Division One table after Matchday 10:
  1. St Charles Owl = 238 pts
  2. Lord Snooty = 231 pts
  3. Baggiebob(BBB) = 218 pts
  4. jjamez = 216 pts
  5. ritchiebaby = 201 pts
  6. themaclad = 198 pts


Saturday March 16th:
Rotherham v Town
Town scorers:
Rotherham scorers:

Swansea City v Cardiff City (12:30)
Ipswich Town v Sheffield Wednesday
Middlesbrough v Blackburn Rovers
Plymouth Argyle v Preston North End
West Bromwich Albion v Bristol City

Bonus matches:
FA Cup quarter finals:
Saturday:

Wolverhampton Wanderers v Coventry City (12:15)
Manchester City v Newcastle United (17:30)

Scottish Premiership:
Saturday:

Hibernian v Livingston

Premier League:
Saturday:

Fulham v Tottenham Hotspur (17:30)

Sunday:
West Ham United v Aston Villa (14:00)


Badger *** scores for ***
Badger *** scores for ***
Badger *** scores for ***




Division Two table after Matchday 10:
  1. theo_luddite = 221 pts
  2. neonfoxinthebox = 216 pts
  3. Devongone = 207 pts
  4. SHEP_HTAFC = 203 pts
  5. WakeyTerrier = 156 pts
  6. Amelia Chaffinch = 151 pts



Saturday March 16th:
Rotherham v Town
Town scorers:
Rotherham scorers:

Swansea City v Cardiff City (12:30)
Birmingham City v Watford
Stoke City v Norwich City
Sunderland v Queens Park Rangers

Sunday 17th March:
Leeds United v Millwall (15:00)

Bonus matches:
National League:
Saturday:

Oldham Athletic v Chesterfield (12:30)

Premier League:
Saturday:

Burnley v Brentford
Luton Town v Nottingham Forest

FA Cup quarter finals:
Sunday:

Chelsea v Leicester City (12:45)
Manchester United v Liverpool (15:30)


Badger *** scores for ***
Badger *** scores for ***
Badger *** scores for ***

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  Chesterfield Prediction League 2023/24 Matchday 45
Posted by: spireitematt - 11-03-2024, 19:46 - Forum: Chesterfield - Replies (6)

Aldershot Town 2-0 Ebbsfleet United
Altrincham 1-0 York City
Barnet 1-1 Eastleigh
Chesterfield 4-0 Oxford City
FC Halifax Town 1-0 Oldham Athletic
Gateshead 1-2 Dagenham & Redbridge
Kidderminster Harriers 0-2 AFC Fylde
Maidenhead United 1-0 Hartlepool United
Rochdale 2-0 Woking
Solihull Moors 0-0 Boreham Wood
Southend United 2-1 Dorking Wanderers
Wealdstone 1-0 Bromley


League Table After Matchday 44

SaltergateBorn - 782
Spireitematt - 766
Amelia - 666
Lord Snoots - 637
Dancing - 633
St Charles - 623
Devon - 568

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