Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2024 15:55:35 GMT
Hi everyone, with the new season fast approaching now seems a good time to mention that the Prediction League will be running again this season, but before we get to that, here are some stats from last season.
As we all know daveu was the victor (is nws out of therapy yet?) by three points from Clydestone with garstone coming in four points further behind, but in addition to that I kept a tally of who did best in the score/result/attendance. Perhaps re-igniting the controversy around attendance guesses, Bernie prevailed in the attendance section, but in a dire run of form towards the end of the season almost succumbed to royalstone coming up on the rails.
As usual no appeals from anyone without a vowel in their username...
And so to this season's fun competition (that means there's no prizes)...
Rules:
You can join anytime, but you must make your prediction in advance of kick off, I will ignore any predictions (or edits) made after a time when it appears beyond or close to kick off time. Points are awarded as follows:
1 pt just for posting a prediction
2 pts for getting the correct outcome (W/L/D)
5 pts for getting the correct score
2 pts for the closest attendance prediction, but 5pts if predicted exactly.
Predictions are welcome, please keep them to this thread - I might not see them elsewhere, and if you change your mind at any point, put a new post in by quoting your original one - I record them as they are posted and I might miss an edit. Good luck everyone!
Just to clarify for everyone - new and old to this - this only covers NLS games (and the play-offs if we get there). Feel free to predict cup games if you like, but they won't count for the table.
If you are posting a prediction within two hours of kick off, please also post the actual time of your prediction. When I come to include late predictions after the game, the time of posting is not always displayed accurately by the software and we don't want any arguments about Bernie posting late because there was a queue at the turnstile he was counting at
Keep it fun folks!
Updated following the Bath City game.
Bottom vs Top of the (form) table rarely produces an anomalous result, but again with hindsight the unbeaten away team vs a team that hadn't won a league game for more than six weeks that had just sacked it's manager and scored just six goals in the eight games since was always going to be a draw. Wasn't it? At least we avoided losing to the ubiquitous new manager bounce.
The draw means that Hongkongstone tightens his grip on top spot as he along with Sennockian69, Raymondo316, pwoodstone and newcomer Dickie all predicted a stalemate albeit none of them expecting the goalfest that was visited upon the 771 hardy souls who turned out on a chilly night at Twerton. Speaking of which, that paltry attendance meant that Sennockian69 also picked up the points there for being the least wrong of us all.
Next up is the third trip this month towards the West Country when we will face Salisbury who are in similar form to Bath and hopefully will be preoccupied by the impending meeting of the two next Tuesday in the A36 derby.
As we all know daveu was the victor (is nws out of therapy yet?) by three points from Clydestone with garstone coming in four points further behind, but in addition to that I kept a tally of who did best in the score/result/attendance. Perhaps re-igniting the controversy around attendance guesses, Bernie prevailed in the attendance section, but in a dire run of form towards the end of the season almost succumbed to royalstone coming up on the rails.
As usual no appeals from anyone without a vowel in their username...
| Overall Score | Overall Score | Most Correct Score | Most Correct Score | Most Correct Outcome | Most Correct Outcome | Most Correct Attendance | Most Correct Attendance | |||
| daveu | 123 | daveu | 9 | jdl | 21 | Bernie | 7 | |||
| Clydestone | 120 | nws | 7 | Bernie | 18 | royalstone | 6 | |||
| garstone | 116 | Clydestone | 7 | garstone | 18 | Clydestone | 4 | |||
| Bernie | 115 | Pigbag | 6 | royalstone | 17 | bear5 | 4 | |||
| Sword65 | 111 | Sword65 | 6 | Sennockian | 16 | barnstone | 4 | |||
| nws | 111 | garstone | 6 | Clydestone | 16 | daveu | 3 | |||
| royalstone | 107 | stewjm | 6 | Hongkongstone | 15 | Sword65 | 3 | |||
| stewjm | 107 | bear5 | 6 | barnstone | 15 | everyone else | <3 | |||
| bear5 | 107 | everyone else | <6 | everyone else | <15 |
And so to this season's fun competition (that means there's no prizes)...
Rules:
You can join anytime, but you must make your prediction in advance of kick off, I will ignore any predictions (or edits) made after a time when it appears beyond or close to kick off time. Points are awarded as follows:
1 pt just for posting a prediction
2 pts for getting the correct outcome (W/L/D)
5 pts for getting the correct score
2 pts for the closest attendance prediction, but 5pts if predicted exactly.
Predictions are welcome, please keep them to this thread - I might not see them elsewhere, and if you change your mind at any point, put a new post in by quoting your original one - I record them as they are posted and I might miss an edit. Good luck everyone!
Just to clarify for everyone - new and old to this - this only covers NLS games (and the play-offs if we get there). Feel free to predict cup games if you like, but they won't count for the table.
If you are posting a prediction within two hours of kick off, please also post the actual time of your prediction. When I come to include late predictions after the game, the time of posting is not always displayed accurately by the software and we don't want any arguments about Bernie posting late because there was a queue at the turnstile he was counting at
Keep it fun folks!
Updated following the Bath City game.
Bottom vs Top of the (form) table rarely produces an anomalous result, but again with hindsight the unbeaten away team vs a team that hadn't won a league game for more than six weeks that had just sacked it's manager and scored just six goals in the eight games since was always going to be a draw. Wasn't it? At least we avoided losing to the ubiquitous new manager bounce.
The draw means that Hongkongstone tightens his grip on top spot as he along with Sennockian69, Raymondo316, pwoodstone and newcomer Dickie all predicted a stalemate albeit none of them expecting the goalfest that was visited upon the 771 hardy souls who turned out on a chilly night at Twerton. Speaking of which, that paltry attendance meant that Sennockian69 also picked up the points there for being the least wrong of us all.
Next up is the third trip this month towards the West Country when we will face Salisbury who are in similar form to Bath and hopefully will be preoccupied by the impending meeting of the two next Tuesday in the A36 derby.
| Name | Previous total | Prediction made | Correct score | Correct result | Nearest attendance | Total |
| Hongkongstone | 39 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 42 |
| pigbag | 37 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 |
| Yorkshirestone | 35 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 |
| Sennockian69 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 36 |
| royalstone | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 |
| stewjm | 31 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 |
| aristotle | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 |
| jdl | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 |
| Sword65 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 |
| Clydestone | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 |
| 1018 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
| Deadly | 27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 |
| barnestone | 27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 |
| geoffrey | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| garstone | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| jte | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| Raymondo316 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 27 |
| daveu | 25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| Benny | 25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| pwoodstone | 23 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 26 |
| thescribe | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| SidelineSid | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 |
| nws | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 |
| shamstone | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| vietnamesestone | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| OldBoy73 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| jf285 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| Scooby | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Nick | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| Dan | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Stonethecrow | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| holysmokes66 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| joe | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| stonematiz | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Harry | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Jackster | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Dickie | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| maxthestone | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| meerkat | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| stonepaperscissors | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Andy | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Terry | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| matt | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| ade | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Rob | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| theguvnor | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
