Good morning everyone and here we are again at the dawn of a new football league season (yes, already!) when many of us are still trying to get over the last one and failed hopes and disappointments, once again!
Well, let’s hope this season brings us more to cheer about and that the newly assembled squad that Michael Flynn has put together will see a rise in performance and consistency.
On that note, as we talk about performance and consistency, let’s introduce this season’s prediction league and another chance for people to get stressed, humiliated, cocky, dismissive and ignorant (and that’s just one of our predictors!!) each and every week over 3 games of mostly mind-numbing football happening in League 2.
For those who haven’t played before or are new to UTS, here is what you do (if you want to take part):
Choose 3 of the games from the game week post that has the set of fixtures and predict their result and scoreline
You score 2 points if you get the exact scoreline correct and 1 point if you get the result correct but not the scoreline (e.g. you predict Walsall 7 v 7 Bradford City but it actually ends up 6 v 6). So you are playing for 6 points each week.
After the games are finished, a table is created and updated on a weekly basis to show how people are doing.
There are weekly winners announced and we keep track of how many weekly wins there are for people across the season alongside the overall winner with most points accumulated.
Key Rules:
You must have the predictions in before the kick off of the games otherwise they are void.
If you miss some games (for example at 3pm but there are 2 games at 5.30 kick off) you can still predict the later games.
If someone doesn’t predict for 5 game weeks in a row, they will be taken off the table, but can join back in again and will be re-instated into the table if so.
If you mis-copy games so the teams are wrong then they will be void as well (if you can’t get that right then tough luck!)
Predictions can be PMd to me if you would rather avoid any skullduggery from certain people ‘copying’ predictions, although we are all big girls and boys so shouldn’t need this really!!
Any lording it up with pictures of medieval battles or Norse gods reigning over everyone will result in penalty points and severe eye rolling, sighing and shaking of a fist at a screen from myself!
Here is the final table from last season so you can see who are the big ‘threats’!
The thread for next Saturday is now up and running, so get your predictions in at some point this week before the kick off time.
To give the season a bit of added spice (!) we’re going to trial doing a second ‘division’ at some point - in SPL style, after week 30, we’ll do a ‘split’ and have 2 divisions for the final 15/16 weeks. Then, there will be 2 levels of competition going on (a bit like a trophy and a plate - so we’ll have 2 winners) as well as those people that achieve more points at the top of the 2nd tier than the bottom of the 1st tier will provide some ‘promotion’ and ‘relegation’ for the following season. I hope that encourages people to keep predicting through the whole season and not drop out after a few duff result weeks. Either way, it’s just a bit of fun, so let’s just enjoy!
Here is the updated table after today’s games, and a mixed day it was! It could well have looked quite different without those late 2 goals from Doncaster!
The winning score was a very decent 5 points, achieved by Jayelar and Burton-Saddler - well done to both of you!
Week 3 games are already up and running so predict before 3pm next Saturday.
We will have our first midweek game week of the season on Tues 16th so I will set that up the middle of this coming week, after we have hopefully got one over on Swindon in the League Cup!
Here is the updated table after yesterday’s games and welcome to a few new predictors who have joined the party!
A bit of a mixed bag of scoring but some people have made a very steady, consistent start to this year’s prediction league and are setting the clear pace for us all!
The winning score was 4 points, achieved by deldras and OldPenkSaddler (a 2nd weekly win already!) - well done to you both!
The games for Tuesday evening are already up and running in the week 4 thread so get your predictions in before the 7.45pm kick offs.
I will set up next Saturday in the next day or two.
Updated table after Tuesday evening’s games.
For the first time this season (and a lot earlier than I hoped or expected!) we had a p-p game due to the Grimsby v Carlisle one being called off after half an hour. So this has been jotted down and all relevant predictors have the familiar asterisk next to their name!
The winning score was a very good 5 points, achieved by Belphegor - well done!
This Saturday’s games are already up and running so get your predictions in before the kick off times.
