25-02-2018, 21:24
(This post was last modified: 25-02-2018, 21:30 by bomberbrown1968.)
Well this is going to be short and sweet, You may have thought your predictions would have been a nail in your coffin a bit like WBA who it has to be said theirs is terminal unlike you lucky lot where as everybody had a stinker nothing much changes.
By far the best predictor and deserved winner with six correct predictions was Twerton, his scores seem to be improving of late, yet because of this gamball even those six correct results only got him 5 points but Top Spot !!
Next and the only other player in positive territory was Sanjay and I say positive but it was only just with a single point, I'm not sure we have had a runner up with just one point yet or a winner with 5 a real weird week confounded by the best of the rest who as you have already figured are all minus scores.
Amelia was saved by the Gamball it was her only prediction correct, without that she would have had the indignity of having the lowest score possible -13
From 4th place down to 7th everybody scored -2 BBB being top of the group by virtue of a correct score, the other 3 on -2 were Joker , Matt & our leader Zinman who although initially disappointed will view it now as nothing gained but nothing lost.
World Class came in 8th with -4, DD's woes continue with -5 in 9th, a disastrous run of Pardew proportions ......................
Derby was in 10th with -7 and we are going to have a grumpy old Owl on the board for the next week or so as St Charles came in last with -8 points,
Although to be fair he did call as soon as the fixtures went up they were a tough set of fixtures and how true those words of the Wise Old Owl turned out to be
Next week guys
Beefy
Despite all the minuses flying around this week Zinman managed to extend his lead at the top by being one of the least minuses. His lead is now 20 points and at current scoring that’s a fair few weeks of points, especially while DD seems to be on an unstoppable slide these last few weeks, in fact his total of 148 is only 5 points more than he had at the end of week 13, a full 12 weeks ago.
Sanjay, one of only 2 to be the right side zero moved up a place into 3rd and is now only 15 points off moving into the top 2, he displaces St Charles who drops a spot to 4th which he now has a share of with BBB who moves up a place from last week, again as a result of being less into the minuses than some of the others.
Amelia stays 6th and can again thank the dreaded Gamball for going a long way to keeping her where she is, 12 correct out of 25 is far and away the best across the 2 divisions, it must feel even nicer that it’s your team that gains you that success, pray tell what if feels like for us blindly loyal Baggies Amelia
.Derby left the 100 point club, at least temporarily, after such a prolonged effort to join its ranks and sits on 99 for the season in 7th place, while Worldclass in 8th is now only 6 points clear of Twerton in 9th who has not only dragged himself off the bottom in recent weeks but is also pulling away from the bottom 2 and closing in on another climb.
And so to the bottom 2 where we find Matt whose been posting alternatives for the Gamball next season, and no wonder, after 21 attempts have brought him just 2 correct results and not a glimmer of a week changing 16 pointer. Joker remains anchored at the bottom and is frankly showing about the same amount of fight to get out of it as our own boys are doing.
Bomber
This week was starting to look like it would be as bad as last weeks scores but in the end more players ended up with positive scores and the damage West Brom are doing to most was minimized by Manure today!!!
Where do you start with this lot then? Leading the pack this week is Quantum on +11, a solid score but one I feel he will be bitterly disappointed with!!! He got 3 correct scores and 2 correct results but he chose not to play the Gamball, thus when his prediction was spot on he lost out of a whopping 12 points!!!!
. Bit of drop then to Championship leader Snooty and Stairs who need up with +4. Snooty of course benefitted from the gamball unlike everyone else!! The only other person in the positive was Baggie One on +1 with 4 correct results. Bomber managed to pull off his impersonation of a statue and stayed exactly as he was last week on zero!! As for the rest, they were all negative this week with 4eva ending on -2 when he looked like maybe having a double digit negative total, Vicar on -4 who won 2 points on predicting an 8-6 win for Manure today
along with Salop who was at +5 at one point on Saturday but couldn’t buy a point in the last 6 games. That of course leaves the large one, Beefy, top scorer last week, moved up the table into 2nd place, was on a role, cream rising to the top etc etc, well his worst of the week performance at -4 saw that cream turn a bit sour but I am sure it still tastes good for everyone else!!!! 
Cheers
SCO
Total status quo in the Championship this week as less than a handful of total points were earnt this week.
Snooty not only retains top spot, but also extends his lead to 38 points, it really is his to lose from that healthy position with weeks running out for those around him.
Beefy, passing the 100 correct result predictions for the season was, if you remember the “glistening gazelle” from last week, but was more the “slumbering sloth” this week
holding on to 2nd but at a reduced margin as Bomber in 3rd used Saturday to lull Beefy into a false sense of security before coming up trumps with his 14th correct result bonus and 6th correct score to turn what had been a 4 point deficit into a 4 point advantage .4eva in 4th also keep that 2nd spot in his sights sitting only 10 points of it, though he is only 7 clear of BaggieOne now in 5th as only 17 points separate 2nd down to 5th.
Salop in 6th, suffered a bad week losing ground on those above him and also coming under pressure from Stairs in 7th, who re-joined the 100 point club after slipping below that mark last week, while Quantum, the success story of the week, is nearing membership of that same club in 8th.
Vicar continues to be rooted to the foot of the table and again, like our boys in blue & white stripes, is adrift and looking a forlorn hope.
Bomber
