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HTAFC Prediction League 2023/24 Play Offs 2nd leg - Lord Snooty - 28-12-2023
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.
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.
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 New Years Day games and the FA Cup 3rd round weekend. (edit: willbe 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
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.......
*** scores for *** *** scores for *** *** scores for ***Any of those will score two points if correct. No minus points for getting it wrong.
The joker
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.
So we now have a two legged Play Off between theo_luddite and ritchiebaby. The usual rules apply, but in the case of the match ending in a tie, we will have a tie breaker. That will be to predict the total number of corners in the two Town matches during the two legs. The closest wins. If it's still a tie, the winner will be the one who scored most points over the season.
Final Division One table for 2023/24:
- St Charles Owl = 438 pts
- Baggiebob(BBB) = 423 pts
- jjamez = 372 pts
- themaclad = 362 pts
- theo_luddite = 357 pts
- neonfoxinthebox = 347 pts
Final Division Two table for 2023/24:
- Lord Snooty = 383 pts
- ritchiebaby = 355 pts
- WakeyTerrier = 346 pts
- Devongone = 345 pts
- Amelia Chaffinch = 328 pts
- SHEP_HTAFC = 304 pts
Score after 1st leg: theo_luddite 10-20 ritchiebaby
Monday 1st January:
Leicester v Town
Town scorers:
Leicester scorers:
Sunderland v Preston North End (12:30)
Blackburn Rovers v Rotherham United
Bristol City v Millwall
Leeds United v Birmingham City
Middlesbrough v Coventry City
Norwich City v Southampton
Plymouth Argyle v Watford
Queens Park Rangers v Cardiff City
Stoke City v Ipswich Town
Swansea City v West Bromwich Albion
Sheffield Wednesday v Hull City (17:15)
*** scores for *** *** scores for *** *** scores for ***Posting this early in case either of you want to get on with it.
RE: HTAFC Prediction League 2023/24 Play Offs 2nd leg - ritchiebaby - 28-12-2023
Don't know about theo, but I'll wait until Saturday, maybe even late Friday night if I haven't turned into a grumpy git by then.
RE: HTAFC Prediction League 2023/24 Play Offs 2nd leg - theo_luddite - 29-12-2023
It will be Saturday or Sunday for me. I'll be heading back down the M6 tomorrow.
RE: HTAFC Prediction League 2023/24 Play Offs 2nd leg - ritchiebaby - 30-12-2023
Monday 1st January:
Leicester 4 v 1 Town
Town scorers: Kasumu
Leicester scorers: Dewsbury-Hall, Mavididi, Ndidi, Winks.
Sunderland 1 v 0 Preston North End (12:30)
Blackburn Rovers 2 v 2 Rotherham United
Bristol City 1 v 1 Millwall
Leeds United 3 v 1 Birmingham City
Middlesbrough 1 v 1 Coventry City
Norwich City 1 v 2 Southampton
Plymouth Argyle 2 v 2 Watford
Queens Park Rangers 1 v 2 Cardiff City
Stoke City 1 v 2 Ipswich Town
Swansea City 0 v 1 West Bromwich Albion
Sheffield Wednesday 1 v 2 Hull City (17:15)
Szmodics scores for Blackburn Summerville scores for Leeds Connolly scores for HullHappy New Year to theo (I might not feel so generous after Monday, though) and all the other posters on the Town board. Thanks to Snooty for making it an exciting end to the year.
RE: HTAFC Prediction League 2023/24 Play Offs 2nd leg - theo_luddite - 30-12-2023
Need get out of that barbedy wire stuff.
Didn't look at ritchie's picks before picking mine but now I have, I might not have enough differentiation to get the 11 points I need.
Let's see how it falls. What's the wurst that can happen, as they might not say in Germany? Good luck ritchie.
Monday 1st January:
Leicester 3v1 Town
Town scorers: Koroma
Leicester scorers: Mavididi, Dewsbury-Hall, Iheanacho
Sunderland 2v1 Preston North End (12:30)
Blackburn Rovers 2v1 Rotherham United
Bristol City 1v1 Millwall
Leeds United 4v0 Birmingham City
Middlesbrough 2v2 Coventry City
Norwich City 1v2 Southampton
Plymouth Argyle 2v2 Watford
Queens Park Rangers 0v0 Cardiff City
Stoke City 1v2 Ipswich Town
Swansea City 2v2 West Bromwich Albion
Sheffield Wednesday 1v2 Hull City (17:15)
Mavididi scores for Leicester Piroe scores for Leeds A. Armstrong scores for Southampton
RE: HTAFC Prediction League 2023/24 Play Offs 2nd leg - theo_luddite - 01-01-2024
Another change please Snoots, Iheanacho not in the squad so Vestergaard please?
There's still a chance Dewsbury (Market) Hall might get on the pitch and bounce one in off his bread basket.
RE: HTAFC Prediction League 2023/24 Play Offs 2nd leg - theo_luddite - 01-01-2024
Darn, I picked Summerville and changed it as my picks were too similar to ritchies
RE: HTAFC Prediction League 2023/24 Play Offs 2nd leg - Lord Snooty - 01-01-2024
Wouldn't make much difference, theo. Ritchie's stormed it with just one game to go.
RE: HTAFC Prediction League 2023/24 Play Offs 2nd leg - Lord Snooty - 01-01-2024
theo_luddite 26 - 46 ritchiebaby
It's a big congratulations to ritchiebaby after winning this Play Off and promotion to the First Division. He won it in style too, winning both legs by 10 points. He had three correct scores in the 2nd leg today, including the Town result and also had two badger scorers.
Bad luck, theo. An inspired last Matchday from themaclad and now a superb set of predictions from ritchie means he's gone from a position of almost safe to starting the next season in Division Two.
That new season will be up and running as soon as I've posted this by the way.
Good luck everybody.
theo_luddite = 26 pts
Monday 1st January:
Leicester 3v1 Town = 2 pts
Town scorers: Koroma
Leicester scorers: Mavididi, Dewsbury-Hall, Iheanacho Vestergaard = 2 pts
Sunderland 2v1 Preston North End (12:30) = 2 pts
Blackburn Rovers 2v1 Rotherham United = 0 pts
Bristol City 1v1 Millwall = 0 pts
Leeds United 4v0 Birmingham City
= 4 ptsMiddlesbrough 2v2 Coventry City = 0 pts
Norwich City 1v2 Southampton = 0 pts
Plymouth Argyle 2v2 Watford = 2 pts
Queens Park Rangers 0v0 Cardiff City = 0 pts
Stoke City 1v2 Ipswich Town = 0 pts
Swansea City 2v2 West Bromwich Albion = 0 pts
Sheffield Wednesday 1v2 Hull City (17:15) = 0 pts
Mavididi scores for Leicester = 2 pts Piroe scores for Leeds = 0 pts A. Armstrong scores for Southampton = 2 ptsTie breaker: Total number of corners in the matches Town v Boro and Leicester v Town (on New Years Day) = 20 (16)
Matchday total = 16 pts
ritchiebaby = 46 pts
Monday 1st January:
Leicester 4 v 1 Town = 4 pts
Town scorers: Kasumu = 0 pts
Leicester scorers: Dewsbury-Hall, Mavididi, Ndidi, Winks. = 2 pts
Sunderland 1 v 0 Preston North End (12:30) = 2 pts
Blackburn Rovers 2 v 2 Rotherham United = 4 pts
Bristol City 1 v 1 Millwall = 0 pts
Leeds United 3 v 1 Birmingham City
= 4 ptsMiddlesbrough 1 v 1 Coventry City = 0 pts
Norwich City 1 v 2 Southampton = 0 pts
Plymouth Argyle 2 v 2 Watford = 2 pts
Queens Park Rangers 1 v 2 Cardiff City = 4 pts
Stoke City 1 v 2 Ipswich Town = 0 pts
Swansea City 0 v 1 West Bromwich Albion = 0 pts
Sheffield Wednesday 1 v 2 Hull City (17:15) = 0 pts
Szmodics scores for Blackburn = 2 pts Summerville scores for Leeds = 2 pts Connolly scores for Hull = 0 ptsTie breaker: Total number of corners in the matches Town v Boro and Leicester v Town (on New Years Day) = 21 (16)
Matchday total = 26 pts
RE: HTAFC Prediction League 2023/24 Play Offs 2nd leg - theo_luddite - 01-01-2024
Inspired picks ritchie
