[St Charles Owl]

The 2025/26 Prediction League Cup will kick off next week, it was won by Zinman the last time we did it and he achieved the League and Cup double in the process, not likely this year I'm afraid!! The same set of fixtures and scores from each chosen week will count towards each round of the Cup. League points are not affected, they still count towards the league tables as they always do.

After our recent Board meeting we decided to once again make each round a random one on one, two legged match just like the real cup competitions.

Last 16 matches will take place over 2 legs during weeks 22 & 24.

Quarter Finals will be over 2 legs using weeks 26 & 28.

The winners of those then meet in 2 legged semi finals in weeks 30 & 32.

The final will be a straight sudden death result using the last weeks league fixtures for scoring.

An online random number sequence generator machine was used to determine the first round ties and will also be used for the random draw for each round, here are the first set of ties:

Round of 16

Stairs v BaggieVicar
Amelia v Salop
AAA v BaggieOne
Twerton v Themaclad
Zinman v 4eva
Lady Jane v SCO
BBB v Lord Snooty
Derby v Minizin

In the event of a tie between players, the number of Correct Scores over the two legs will determine the winner, followed by total points scored on the Bonus Ball. After that Zinman and I will toss a coin!!!!

Scores and the draw for each round will be updated on this thread as we go through the competition.

Cheers Zinman & SCO

[St Charles Owl]

Round of 16 - 1st Leg Results

Stairs 0 v -1 BaggieVicar
Amelia 13 v 14 Salop
AAA 16 v 15 BaggieOne
Twerton 0 v 6 Themaclad
Zinman 7 v 10 4eva
Lady Jane 5 v 17 SCO
BBB 11 v 11 Lord Snooty
Derby 9 v 3 Minizin

Some very close scores the first legs with 4 matches seeing 2 points or less between players. Derby is on course for the big upset if he can hold off Minizin!! Lady Jane has the largest deficit to overcome in the 2nd leg but it seems its all to play for in Week 24 to see who can make the quarter finals.

[Baggievicar]

I think Stairs and I are playing for the 'Most like the Baggies' trophy.

[St Charles Owl]

Round of 16 - Results

Stairs 6 v 0 BaggieVicar
Amelia 31 v 17 Salop
AAA 33 v 20 BaggieOne
Twerton 8 v 19 Themaclad
Zinman 29 v 18 4eva
Lady Jane 10 v 35 SCO
BBB 25 v 14 Lord Snooty
Derby 12 v 5 Minizin

So the scores after two legs are now in.

Stairs outscored the Vicar in a low scoring tie.
Amelia overcame Salop by a decent margin after a close first leg. She was one of only two players to win after being behind in the first leg.
AAA prevailed in the highest scoring tie with BaggieOne.
Themaclad held off Twerton.
Zinman overcame a 3 point deficit to 4eva in the first leg to win comfortably in the end.
SCO ended with the biggest winning margin with a 25 point win over Lady Jane.
BBB and Snooty were tied after the first leg but BBB ran out an easy winner in the end.
Derby secured the upset of the round with a great win over Minizin.

The draw for the Quarter Finals is as follows:

Zinman v Stairs
Themaclad v BBB
Derby v SCO
AAA v Amelia

So there are 4 from each group left in it with 1 tie with all Group A and 1 tie with all Group B, so the semis will see players from both groups as well. The stand out tie on current form is AAA v Amelia, both in fine form recently.

These ties will take place using the scores from Week 26 and 28.