[St Charles Owl]

Premier League

Last week I promised Blue Baggie that I would try to get the results our earlier in the week, well in typical Sheffield Wednesday fashion, I once again failed to deliver!!!  Thankfully I got the results up before the next fixtures because we have the hated international break so its not that critical hopefully!!

Blue B 18
Minizin 17
Zinman 10
Dingle 8
Derby 6
B.B.B. 4
Stairs 2
Lady J -1

Another mediocre week in the PL this week, but like previous weeks there is quite a big spread in the scores on the doors!!  At the top end we see Blue Baggie with 18 points, he seems to have found some form but it always boosts the score when you get a maximum on the Gamball as he did!!  He was able to add to this with 2 other CSs but missed on the Bonus.  Right behind him is Minizin on 17 points, another max on the Gamball and a CR on the Bonus certainly helped.  Zinman was another Gamball max recipient but unfortunately wasn't able to add much to this on his way to 10 points.

Its all a bit downhill from here though!! Dingle is next with 8 points, scored a CR on the Gamball but missed on his Bonus, Derby managed 6 points with a CR on his Bonus and BBB ended with his worst week of the season so far with 4 points after missing out on an extra 2 points by not playing his Gamball, the first person in the PL not to play it this season!!

The bottom 2 had a week to forget, Stairs wrethched form continues with just 2 points, missing all your balls will do that to your score and Lady Jane also had her worst week of the season, finishing on -1, courtesy of using the Scoreball on a 0-0 draw!!!

146 Minizin
144 Zinman
140 Derby
134 Blue Baggie
130 BBB
113 Lady Jane
113 Stairs
90 Dingle

Like last week we see 6 positional changes this week!!  Back to the top of the table is Minizin as he leap frogs Zinman, who is now in 2nd place, and last weeks leader Derby who drops to 3rd.  Blue Baggie rose one place to 4th spot by overtaking BBB who drops to 5th.  The top 5 is now separated by just 16 points and with a 19 point spread in this weeks scores alone, its still anyone's title.

There is now a 17 point gap down to LJ and Stairs in joint 6th, they need to string some weeks together to get back to the leading pack.  Dingle is still last and still struggling to get over the 100 mark, just 10 to go for him to get there!!

Cheers
SCO


Championship

Themaclad  18pts
BaggieOne  15
Snooty        13
SCO              9
AAA              6
Sanjay          4
Twerton          1

A mixed week for the Championship. Once again the bonus choices weren't the best (though SCO's selection was probably down to hope rather than expectation!) but we did have a couple of maximums from the Gamball. 2 players chose to avoid the gamball (I know, I hate playing the gamball on the Albion match, I wish the match selector wouldn't do this) and both saved a point by doing so.

Themaclad heads the table this week with his best score of the season so far. He had a complete set of positive balls, including a maximum on the gamball. BaggieOne in second place scored on more balls than Themac but lost out on the gamball - still a good week for players who had been lagging behind the pack. Snooty scored on the week's high of 7 matches but failed to turn any of them into correct scores. One of his 3 incorrect predictions also happened to be his bonus, so what could have been a great week was only enough to secure 3rd place.

SCO also scored a maximum gamball but his over-optimism regarding the Owls cost him 3 points, leaving him adrift of this week's leaders. In contrast to Snooty, AAA turned all of his correct predictions into correct scores. Sadly, also in contrast to Snooty, he only got 2 results correct to leave him with just 6 points. Sanjay's season just keeps getting worse - just 4 points means his last double figure score was back in week 3. Still, he avoided last place which once again goes to Twerton with just a single point. He capped a miserable week by losing the maximum number of points from his balls - including a 0-0 scoreball.

[b]AAA      128
Snooty      127
SCO          126
Twerton  119
BaggieOne 107
Themaclad 106
Sanjay        65/b]

AAA retains his lead - just - but it's suddenly got very interesting at the top of the table. Twerton's 2nd consecutive poor week drops him from 2nd to 4th with Snooty jumping to 2nd just 1 point off the top. A good week for Themaclad and BaggieOne sees them move above the 100 point mark and within striking distance of the top.

And then there's Sanjay, not having the best of seasons.

Zin

[Blue Baggie]

Would the tables look much different if the old scoring system was used?;
It's a bit all or nothing ATM, maybe it will all even itself out as time passes.

[St Charles Owl]

Would the tables look much different if the old scoring system was used?;
It's a bit all or nothing ATM, maybe it will all even itself out as time passes.

If we take the PL from this week with the Gamball scoring from last season the scores would have been:

Blue B 20
Minizin 19
Zinman 12
Dingle 10
Derby 4
B.B.B. 4
Stairs 0
Lady J -2

So in this case those that did well on the Gamball would simply have had a bigger gap over those that got it wrong. With the Gamball being the only significant scoring change I think if we had kept it the same then the table would be nowhere near as close as it is this season. The way the Gamball was would have stretched the difference between top and bottom of each weekly table and then done the same with the league table. I haven't gone back to look at all the weeks but my guess is league positions would be pretty similar.

[Blue Baggie]

Would the tables look much different if the old scoring system was used?;
It's a bit all or nothing ATM, maybe it will all even itself out as time passes.

If we take the PL from this week with the Gamball scoring from last season the scores would have been:

Blue B 20
Minizin 19
Zinman 12
Dingle 10
Derby 4
B.B.B. 4
Stairs 0
Lady J -2

So in this case those that did well on the Gamball would simply have had a bigger gap over those that got it wrong.  With the Gamball being the only significant scoring change I think if we had kept it the same then the table would be nowhere near as close as it is this season.  The way the Gamball was would have stretched the difference between top and bottom of each weekly table and then done the same with the league table.  I haven't gone back to look at all the weeks but my guess is league positions would be pretty similar.

Cheers for that, nothing drastically different then.

[Stairs]

PLUMMETING. But sticking with using the Gamball every week regardless.

[Baggiebob(BBB)]

Gameball: Last week there was 6/8 pts seperating 1-4th. However with a 9pt gain if you got it right or got it wrong that has changed the tables a lot. 

4pts for a correct GB as the BB would would be a lot fairer.  

Also I have never seen so many o-o scores before, does that mean people are following each other, if so posting to the scorer directly would stop this.

Just my point of view which i think no one else will agree with.  

[St Charles Owl]

Gameball: Last week there was 6/8 pts seperating 1-4th. However with a 9pt gain if you got it right or got it wrong that has changed the tables a lot. 

4pts for a correct GB as the BB would would be a lot fairer.  

Also I have never seen so many o-o scores before, does that mean people are following each other, if so posting to the scorer directly would stop this.

Just my point of view which i think no one else will agree with.  

Hence why its called the Gamball and uses the emoji!! The Gamball is optional but since we changed the penalty for getting it wrong to only 1 point it has been played virtually every time by everyone. The reward for getting it right needs to be higher than the bonus because its a gamble that you decide if you take or not, whereas the Bonus is compulsory.

I don't believe that anyone takes this seriously enough to be that bothered about copying anyone else, its a fun game only!!

This season its not the predicting of 0-0 draws that has risen, its the actual number of games that have finished 0-0 that has risen, hence probably why more people are now predicting that as a viable option. Out of 80 prediction in the PL this week we only had 4 0-0 draw predictions, its still the least used score prediction but this week we saw 2 games end in 0-0 draws, adding to the number we have seen in previous weeks.