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Prediction League Week 8 Results
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Group A

Twerton 12
Stairs 12
A.A.A. 10
Minizin 10
B.B.B. 9
BaggieVicar 5
BaggieOne 3
Zimnan -1

Scoring was very middle of the road this week but of course we all know what causes that generally - Bonus Balls and Correct Scores!! The Bonus was a complete washout this week, everyone got it wrong despite the m being played across 5 different games but at least everyone picked up the point on the Scoreball. Thankfully the Gamball had a season high 28 points scored on it, but as we know with that one, those who get it right end with a decent score but those who don't see their scores tumble!!

Twerton and Stairs share top spot with 12 points. This is Twerton's 3rd top score position and second in a row, whereas its the first of the season for Stairs. They both picked up a maximum on the Gamball, added one CS each to this and then did little else!! Sharing 3rd spot with 10 points is AAA and Minizin, this represents AAA's highest finish so far this season. Like the top 2 they both got a maximum on the Gamball but the difference was they both failed to back that up with any CSs.

Now we drop to those who missed on the Gamball. BBB is 5th with 9 points, he scored the most CSs with 2 but missing the Gamball and the Bonus hurt him. It didn't quite hurt as much for him as it did the next two players - Vicar in 6th with 5 points and our league leader B1 with just 3 points in 7th, thats an improvement for Vicar over last week but BaggieOne has now only scored 6 points over the past 2 weeks after his storming start!!

And so here I am again having to have a final paragraph solely about our fixture picker and Group B scorer Zinman. Just when you think he has found some form with his best score of the season last week, he goes and sets the opposite record of his lowest score of the season this week. His -1 is his first negative week of the season and only the second one in the group overall, the only saving grace for him this week is that he is exploring the great city of Chicago and BBB still holds the record for the lowest score for the season!!

99 BaggieOne
85 Minizin
84 Stairs
73 Twerton
57 BaggieVicar
56 A.A.A.
53 B.B.B.
29 Zinman


No positional changes this week but we did see some gaps closing and some widening. BaggieOne still leads the way, that late Everton goal prevented him from reaching the century so he will need to wait one more week to claim that. Minizin and Stairs have closed some of the gap to him, its now down to 14 points from 22 points 2 weeks ago!! Twerton is hanging onto the shirt tails of the top 3 in 4th but still has some work to do. Big gap now down to 5th spot where we find BaggieVicar, closely followed by the alphabet boys. Then we hit the Victoria Fall type drop down to Zinman in last place.

Still lost of time left, so keep plugging away!!

Cheers
SCO


Group B

4eva 14
Amelia 14
SCO 10
Derby 7
Snooty 5
Salop 3
Lady Jane 1
Themaclad 0

A bad week for the bonus ball with everyone getting theirs wrong and it was also a poor week for correct result predictions - the second lowest total this season. The total scores were saved by a high scoring gamball and also the highest proportion of correct scores - more than half of the correct results were turned into maximums.

2 clear leaders in 4eva and Amelia, both with 14 points. 4eva only scored on 3 games but got all of them spot on, including his gamball. Amelia scored the week's high of 4 correct results but only (only!?) got 2 correct scores, though again, one of them was the gamball. SCO makes up the top 3, again scoring a max on the gamball. He started like a train, getting the first 2 results spot on, but then missed out on the remaining 8 matches though history was made when he finally scored a positive point on the scoreball.

Derby was the only player to score 4 points on the gamball, one of his 3 correct predictions, the same number as Snooty who missed out on both the main balls. Salop managed just 3 points, one correct score and one other correct result while Lady Jane was the only player not to get a maximum. Themaclad had a poor week - just 1 correct result (a maximum) and a grand total of zero points.


72 SCO
67 4eva
63 Themaclad
54 Snooty
49 Lady Jane
48 Derby
39 Amelia
35 Salop


Changes at both ends of the table with Themaclad dropping from first to third after his zero points week. SCO and 4eva take over the top 2 spots. At the bottom, Amelia has dumped Salop to the foot of the table, already making up the gap caused by her late entrance.

Short write up this week as I'm grabbing a few minutes of free internet on my journey from "war ravaged" Chicago* to Milwaukee and hoping my battery lasts!

*SCO lives in Chicago and after a great couple of days, I'm jealous. I suspect I probably wouldn't be saying that if I'd visited in January!

Week off for the international break - I'll post the next fixtures next week, probably Tuesday.

Zin


Note - Zin, glad you enjoyed your visit to the Windy City, it really is a great place to visit!! I always say a visit to Chicago in January is worth the effort just so you can experience what it's like to be well below zero every day for a month!! Although I suspect the 27C temperatures you got this weekend would certainly feel better though!!! Glad to see you made it out alive though Whistle , the Orange Man has certainly got his finger on the pulse for which cities in the US are dangerous!!! Doh
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I did fear for my life on our last night when we strolled into a neighborhood bar and received a comped beer (I pointed out to the server that she’d missed off my beer and she just said “I know”!) and finished the night by being given some very generous bourbon shots. I don’t know how we survived.

Seriously it was a great visit, lots of food, booze and walking and meeting amazingly friendly people. Up there as one of my favourite US cities.
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They say that ignorance is bliss - no wonder so many people are happy.
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So I would have been in 3rd this week with 12 points if not for that 93rd minute Grealish goal, grrr Big Grin Big Grin
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That's Grealish for you. When you want him to be rubbish....
Not all men are sexist but all men can stop sexism. CALL IT OUT!
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