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?

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

The random 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...."  
The joker   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.
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.  

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.

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)


*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
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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)


*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***

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

After the disappointment following Sundays Cup exit to sevco, Hibs face the long trek North to face Ross County on Wednesday night.

A very difficult game with the Staggies fighting for every point. Hibs will be without Boyle and I don't know on whether Vente and Miller will be available?

It'll be the turn of the Hibs players to be a little leggy with the Ross players well rested.

I feel Montgomery needs to win Wednesday and the home game on Saturday to keep the Hibs fans onside! Although, apparently, the team are playing better they need to start winning games on a consistent basis.........however it looks like the officials are not making it easy for them. Yet again yesterday, ( caught the game on viaplay) there were some bemusing decisions.

I think the problem is that not why certain decisions are given to the uglies but why similar scenarios are, invariably, not given against them? Very frustrating, made worse by VAR and tells me that I made the right decision in going back to non league football. I also don't come across the scum who support sevco who were disgusting yesterday ( again!) especially when Boyle was down hurt and nobody knew how bad the situation was.

Gamball:
Luton - Nottingham Forest

Others:
Burnley - Brentford
Fulham - Spurs
Swansea - Cardiff
Birmingham - Watford
Plymouth - Preston
Rotherham - Huddersfield
Stoke - Norwich
Man U - Liverpool (FAC)
West Ham - Villa

Aldershot Town 1-2 Oldham Athletic
Altrincham 2-0 Woking
Chesterfield 3-1 AFC Fylde
FC Halifax Town 0-1 Boreham Wood
Kidderminster Harriers 2-1 York City
Maidenhead United 1-1 Dorking Wanderers
Rochdale 4-1 Oxford City
Southend United 2-1 Dagenham & Redbridge


League Table After Matchday 43

SaltergateBorn - 768
Spireitematt - 763
Amelia - 655
Lord Snoots - 623
Dancing - 621
St Charles - 608
Devon - 562

B.B.B. 16
Stairs 15
Zinman 10
Blue B 10
Minizin 8
Derby 6
Lady J 6
Dingle 0

Better week in the PL this week, everyone missed the Gamball but everyone scored on the Bonus!! We once again see an in form BBB at the top of the table with 16 points, he scored on 7 games including one CS. Stairs was 2nd with 15 points which included a week's high 2 correct scores. Our battling leaders, Blue Baggie and Zinman, finished joint 3rd with 10 points each. Blue scored on more games but Zinman was able to get one correct score to match the points total.

Minizin was 5th with 8 points, Derby and Lady Jane ended effectively last each with 6 points. Not much to report on with these three but Derby needs to watch those fat fingers when posting as he did not add a score for Brighton in their game against Fulham so this prediction was void in the end!!

352 Blue Baggie
351 Zinman
302 Derby
302 Minizin
302 BBB
277 Stairs
220 Lady Jane
204 Dingle

No change with the top 2, still a solitary point between them. But we now see the crazy situation with Derby, Minizin and BBB all level on points in the battle for 3rd place!! They are all still way behind the front two but this race looks like the relegation race in the real Championship at the moment!!

Championship

Twerton 19
Snooty 15
Themaclad 15
BaggieOne 11
SCO 10
Sanjay 7
AAA 2

Unlike in the Premiership, the Gamball provided a decent return with just 3 players losing out on it. In contrast, for the first time this season, nobody scored on the scoreball - fortunately none of the eligible games finished scoreless or we'd have been looking at a negative total score! There was also a distinct lack of correct scores - and the 4 scores that were correct all came from the same match!

Twerton heads the table having scored on 7 of the games including both the gamball and bonus. Snooty also got 7 results right but lost out on his bonus to sit joint 2nd with Themaclad - 6 correct predictions for him including the gamball and bonus, but unfortunately he failed to get any correct scores. BaggieOne and SCO gained respectability by reaching double figures, BaggieOne scoring on just 4 games but achieving the week's only bonus maximum. Sanjay's struggles continued with just 3 correct predictions though at least these included the gamball and 1 correct score while AAA endured a miserable week with just 2 points and missing on all his balls.

304 SCO
302 Twerton
279 Snooty
266 AAA
259 Themaclad
237 BaggieOne
207 Sanjay

It's getting tight at the top with both SCO and Twerton passing the 300 point mark and Twerton closing the gap to just 2 points. They have opened a decent gap to Snooty in 3rd place who himself has some space in the play-off chase due to AAA's poor week. No changes at the bottom though Themaclad is closing on AAA.