Group A
Zinman 24
Twerton 22
Minizin 14
Themaclad 13
A.A.A. 11
Amelia 8

Excellent week of scoring in Group A this week with a total of 92 points setting a new weekly high for the season!! 5 players got into double figures, half picked up positive points on the Gamball and 12 correct scores were posted. Leading the pack this week is Zinman with a season high score of 24 points!! He managed a CR on the Gamball and Bonus and then backed that up with 3 CSs and the scoreball for good measure!! Close behind him was Twerton with 22 points, a season high for him as well, he managed to get the only CS on the Gamball this week and scored positive points on 7 games but missed out on top spot because he got his Bonus wrong!!

Bit of a drop to Minizin in 3rd with 14 points and Themaclad in 4th with 13 points. Minizin got a CR on the Gamball but missed on his bonus, Themaclad did the opposite!! Minizin scored on more games but Themaclad had one extra CS. AAA is 5th with 11 points, he managed 2 CSs but his points were kept down mainly because he missed on the main balls.

Amelia was the only player to not hit double figures this week, scoring 8 points. She scored on 5 games but she missed out on all the balls to keep her score down.

235 Themaclad
229 Minzin
219 Zinman
210 Twerton
182 A.A.A.
160 Amelia

No positional changes this week but its now really getting close at the top. Themaclad had a 28 point lead just 4 weeks ago, that is now down to just 6 points over Minizin!! Add to that the good form Zinman has shown sees him just 10 points back with Twerton not that far behind him. Another week like this one would see the top 4 separated by just 15 points!! The top 4 have now all surpassed the 200 mark and AAA is not far off it as well.

One interesting stat for you, if you look at Correct Scores and Correct results it shows an interesting fact about the importance of these. So far there have been 1320 predictions made in Group A and nearly 40% (491 games) of those have resulted in a CS or CR. Of these 351 have been CRs and 140 have been CSs which attract the extra 2 points. The interesting stat is that the league leader Themaclad has actually scored the least Correct Results, with just 53 to his name. Contrast this to Minizin with 62 and Amelia and Zinman with 61 each, so how is Mac top? Well when you look at Correct Scores Themaclad is leading the way with 29, of which 5 were Gamballs, and this easily outweighs the points scored by others on their CRs!! Getting a spot on score really boosts your points.

Group B

Stairs 17
SCO 15
BaggieOne 14
Derby 11
Snooty 11
BBB 9
Lady Jane 3

A good week for Group B - 5 players in double figures, a rare positive return from the bonus ball and everyone getting at least 1 correct score led to the equal 2nd highest points haul of the season. A poor return form the gamball, with just one player predicting a Bournemouth win, prevented a possible 3 figure total score.

Stairs leads this week's table thanks largely to a full set of balls. As well as getting the gamball correct (that's now 3 in a row) he also nailed a maximum bonus. SCO takes 2nd place with 5 correct results, 2 of them spot-on, but like everyone else failed on his gamball. His extra scoreball point keeps him 1 point ahead of BaggieOne in 3rd place.

Derby and Snooty are tied on 11 points with an identical breakdown of 1 correct score, 4 correct results, a bonus and the scoreball. BBB sits 2 points further back, his only difference being a negative scoreball, even though that game went to extra time! A miserable week for long time leader Lady Jane - just 3 points after scoring on just 2 games and missing out on all her balls.

214 Lady Jane
197 SCO
195 Stairs
191 Derby
173 Snooty
161 BBB
140 BaggieOne

While she still sits on top, Lady Jane is beginning to come under pressure from the chasing pack. 7 weeks ago she held a 32 point advantage over 2nd place - that's now down to 17 and over the last 3 weeks, SCO in 2nd place has outscored her by 21. It's now very close in the fight for 2nd place with just 6 points separating the next 3 places. Derby had held 2nd place for many weeks but has now dropped to 4th having been overtaken by Stairs in the only positional change this week.

I mentioned Stairs run of 3 successive positive gamballs above and so I decided to look at such runs for my stats of the week. 3 successive gamballs is in fact the equal best run of the season, matched by BaggieOne and Lady Jane - can he set the record by getting another one right this week?

The longest positive bonus ball run is 5, a record shared by Stairs and Snooty, with 4 weeks being the longest positive scoreball run by SCO, BaggieOne, Snooty and Lady Jane. Snooty could make it 5 this week.

Zin & SCO

Thursday 13 February 2025

Port Vale 1-2 Notts County

Saturday 15 February 2025

Doncaster 1-2 Grimsby
Wimbledon 1-1 Salford City
Bromley 1-0 Fleetwood
Carlisle 1-2 Colchester
Cheltenham 0-2 Barrow
Gillingham 2-1 Crewe
Harrogate 2-2 Swindon
Morecambe 2-0 Accrington
Newport 0-2 Bradford City
Tranmere 1-1 MK Dons
Walsall 0-2 Chesterfield


League Table After Match day 34

Devon - 558
Dancing - 552
Maclad - 545
SaltergateBorn - 528
Amelia - 516
Lord Snoots - 503
Spireitematt - 501
St Charles - 493

THE MATCH

WEDNESDAY 8TH JANUARY KO 7:45PM

v

LAST MATCH



Just as we seemed to have rescued a point, we threw that away by conceding in the last minute of injury time via a set piece....AGAIN The Baggies had much of the possession in the first half and had a couple of chances with Grant firing wide and Beadle making a save from Heggem. Onto the 2nd half and the Baggies had an early chance but Johnson blocked, then we appeared to take the lead, Gassama cutting in from left and guided the ball into the corner, but the goal was controversially chalked off by ref/linesman. The Baggies then went up the other end and Armstrong put the Baggies in front. We went looking for the leveller and we finally got it in when Pato knocked in his own rebound. A point gained, unfortunately not as Albion got a corner and we forgot how to mark again as the Baggies took all 3 points

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

THE MATCH



Next up and we travel to Swansea. Swansea are languishing in the bottom half of the table in the 16th place and 9 points clear of the relegation zone and probably have too much to get embroiled in a relegation battle and probably too much to get to the playoffs. They are managed by Luke Williams, who has been in charge for just over a year and has a 34% win percentage from 56 games. There leading scorer is Liam Cullen who has 9 goals and 1 assist.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 13
SWAN 10
DRAW 15

CURRENT FORM

OWLS  L D W D L L                                                                      

SWAN W L L L L D                 

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

ELLIOT BELL
Graham Kane and Robert Hyde
Fourth Official: Leigh Doughty

THE TEAM

Beadle
Palmer Bernard Iorfa Johnson
Bannan Ingelsson
Musaba Windass Gasama
Smith

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-1 Gassama

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

26

ATTENDANCE

N/A

BML LEAGUE

SCO 21
Imre 20
Washington 19
Maddix 19
Wereham 11

BMPL

Stateside 15
Owlkev 13
Southey 12
Pei 8

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Everton v Liverpool
Plymouth v Millwall
Sheff Utd v Middlesboro
WBA v Blackburn
Port Vale v Notts Co

AADDD

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

Wimbledon 1-0 Crewe
Barrow 1-2 MKDons
Bradford 2-0 Accrington
Newport 1-1 Carlisle
Tranmere 1-0 Fleetwood
Walsall 0-0 Gillingham

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 Badger gives you 2 points

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. However, if you do predict a draw and it's a match that won't be going to a replay, you can get a possible extra point by stating which of the two teams you think will eventually win.

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.  


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, which is usually the FA Cup 3rd round, finishing on the last game of the League One 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 League One fixtures and bonus matches, hopefully around ten, eleven or twelve games per Matchday.

The random badger is restricted to three goal scorers in any of the fixtures in your group.

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


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

Any of those will score two points if correct. No minus points 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 or scorer in one of the Town games:- These will be only be allowed if you change them before the match involved has kicked off.

Prediction League Archive: https://www.sportsbabble.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=12830



Division One table after Matchday 5:

1. jjamez = 78 pts
   
2. neonfoxinthebox = 75 pts
   
3. Baggiebob(BBB) = 63 pts
   
4. Lord Snooty = 57 pts
   
5. St Charles Owl = 57 pts
   
6. themaclad = 54 pts
   

Saturday February 15th:
Barnsley v Town
Town scorers:
Barnsley scorers:

Cambridge United v Exeter City (12:30)
Blackpool v Mansfield Town
Bristol Rovers v Burton Albion
Crawley Town v Wycombe Wanderers
Leyton Orient v Lincoln City
Shrewsbury Town v Bolton Wanderers


Tuesday 18th February:
Shrewsbury v Town
Town scorers:
Shrews scorers:

Crawley Town v Wigan Athletic

Bonus matches:
Championship:
Saturday:
Preston North End v Burnley (12:30)
Millwall v West Bromwich Albion
Sheffield Wednesday v Coventry City

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

1. ritchiebaby = 102 pts
   
2. SHEP_HTAFC = 86 pts
   
3. theo_luddite = 84 pts
   
4. Devongone = 83 pts
   
5. Amelia Chaffinch = 67 pts
   
6. WakeyTerrier = 57 pts
   

Saturday February 15th:
Barnsley v Town
Town scorers:
Barnsley scorers:

Northampton Town v Wrexham (12:30)
Birmingham City v Charlton Athletic
Reading v Rotherham United
Shrewsbury Town v Bolton Wanderers
Stevenage v Peterborough United
Wigan Athletic v Stockport County

Tuesday 18th February:
Shrewsbury v Town
Town scorers:
Shrews scorers:

Mansfield Town v Lincoln City
Wycombe Wanderers v Bristol Rovers

Bonus matches:
Saturday:
League Two:
Walsall v Chesterfield

Sunday:
Scottish Premiership:
St. Mirren v Hibernian (14:00)

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

Gamball:
Sheff Wed - Coventry

Others:
Fulham - Nottingham Forest
Man City - Newcastle
West Ham - Brentford
Cardiff - Bristol City
Preston- Burnley
Hull - Norwich
Middlesbrough - Watford
Millwall - WBA
Stoke - Swansea

Bradford 2-0 Harrogate
Swindon 1-1 Port Vale
Accrington 1-2 Wimbledon
Barrow 1-0 Gillingham
Colchester 2-0 Walsall
Crewe 3-0 Newport
Fleetwood 1-1 Cheltenham
Grimsby 1-2 Carlisle
MKDons 2-0 Bromley
Notts C 3-1 Morecambe
Salford 1-1 Tranmere