It's back again! Prediction League - 24-25
Jul 24, 2024 15:55:35 GMT
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Post by yorkshirestone 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!
Update following the Chelmsford debacle.
Searching for meaning among the ashes of the funeral pyre that exploded before our eyes last night I found these words from Muhammad Ali:
"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."
Hopefully George will be able to embrace this and reinvigorate the passion and the self belief that ran like a virus throughout this club during the FA Cup run. This is certainly his job and his responsibility, and if nothing else the cup run last year means (to my mind) he is owed the opportunity to put that right as a minimum.
Perhaps to remind the players that it's a ninety minute+ game, a drop of Kipling too;
"...If you can fill the unforgiving minute, with sixty seconds’ worth of distance run..."
No team has the right to win every game, but it does have the right to perform well and with integrity regardless of the result. I didn't see the game so I don't know what the variables - such as the ref - were on the night, but if the team played as well as it could, we can have no complaints, but this wasn't Coventry City we were playing so it shouldn't have happened. Perhaps the players need to take a good look in the mirror before the next game, and if playing for our club is too hard, then perhaps they should stop wasting everyone's time being here. Rant over.
Hardly anyone picked up points for predicting this although the result paid off for Sennockian, Scooby and newcomer meerkat. The only other successful predictor was clydestone who pipped pwoodstone to the closest attendance by just three.
Next up sees the visit to Enfield, bitter sweet memories for some of us from the times when Bill was the manager and Enfield were our bete-noire in the league, but particularly for my mate John and I who - in the words of the KM at the time - were rebuffed by Barry Fry when we suggested to him that he might find another job following an all too customary defeat at Southbury Road.
One more quote; "Things can only get better..."
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!
Update following the Chelmsford debacle.
Searching for meaning among the ashes of the funeral pyre that exploded before our eyes last night I found these words from Muhammad Ali:
"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."
Hopefully George will be able to embrace this and reinvigorate the passion and the self belief that ran like a virus throughout this club during the FA Cup run. This is certainly his job and his responsibility, and if nothing else the cup run last year means (to my mind) he is owed the opportunity to put that right as a minimum.
Perhaps to remind the players that it's a ninety minute+ game, a drop of Kipling too;
"...If you can fill the unforgiving minute, with sixty seconds’ worth of distance run..."
No team has the right to win every game, but it does have the right to perform well and with integrity regardless of the result. I didn't see the game so I don't know what the variables - such as the ref - were on the night, but if the team played as well as it could, we can have no complaints, but this wasn't Coventry City we were playing so it shouldn't have happened. Perhaps the players need to take a good look in the mirror before the next game, and if playing for our club is too hard, then perhaps they should stop wasting everyone's time being here. Rant over.
Hardly anyone picked up points for predicting this although the result paid off for Sennockian, Scooby and newcomer meerkat. The only other successful predictor was clydestone who pipped pwoodstone to the closest attendance by just three.
Next up sees the visit to Enfield, bitter sweet memories for some of us from the times when Bill was the manager and Enfield were our bete-noire in the league, but particularly for my mate John and I who - in the words of the KM at the time - were rebuffed by Barry Fry when we suggested to him that he might find another job following an all too customary defeat at Southbury Road.
One more quote; "Things can only get better..."
| Name | Previous total | Prediction made | Correct score | Correct outcome | Closest attendance | Total |
| Raymondo316 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| garstone | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| stewjm | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| Sennockian | 10 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 13 |
| geoffrey | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| royalstone | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| aristotle | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| pigbag | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| Sword65 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| Hongkongstone | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| Scooby | 8 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 11 |
| Deadly | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| nws | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| jdl | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| shamstone | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| daveu | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| yorkshirestone | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| bear5 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| thescribe | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| Benny | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| Clydestone | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| pwoodstone | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 1018 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| barnstone | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| jte | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Dan | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| holysmokes66 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Long gone | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| maxthestone | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| meerkat | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Nick | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| ade | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| jackster | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Harry | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Rob | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Terry | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Stonethecrow | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
