daib0
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Inter-Forum PREMIER Positions Game 2015-16
The game is already well established, several seasons running now. And we’d like to invite you! You'd have plenty of competition from local rivals!
The Sunderland ‘Black Cat Chat’ forum (and admin Hakuna Matata to be precise) does the real hard mathematical donkey work all during the season, whilst I am the representative (and mod) from the Reading’s Royals Rendezvous forum and do more the ‘public relations’ type stuff as many already know. We are going to be your points of reference for all this coming season.
Some 750 of you have already participated in previous seasons. But for newcomers, what is this game? It’s dead easy! You simply guess ONCE (now!) what you think will be the final league positions for the Premier League 2015-16 (that means placing all teams, in order from 1st to 20th), leave them on this thread, and then sit back and enjoy! Nothing more!!
BUT … THIS SEASON THE GAME WILL BE SPECIFICALLY A FORUM EVENT, NOT AN INDIVIDUAL PLAYER EVENT … so where forums have an entry of a minimum of five people we will make a ‘board average’, thus you’ll be able to see how your forum copes against many of the others across the land. It is set against a single initial average entry taken from your forum guesses, and this average will be the forum entry. Before we have the first update each forum entry will be made clear on every participating forum. Five different member entries as a minimum is the requirement (no maximum!), this so as to avoid ‘fluke’ results which might distort the good guess-work averaged out by forums with large numbers.
This game will initially take you a couple of minutes, and then enjoy without having to make updates at all, all season. Right, below are the current 20 Premier teams in alphabetical order – BEST IDEA is simply copy these onto your PC and re-arrange them in your finishing order come the end of the 2015-16 season. The Sunderland computer handles them in an alphabetical order initially so please help us with accurate spelling, as laid out below:
Arsenal
Aston Villa (please don’t write only ‘Villa’!!)
Bournemouth (comes for us under ‘B’, so try to avoid AFC Bournemouth!)
Chelsea
Crystal Palace (please don’t write only ‘Palace’!!)
Everton
Leicester City
Liverpool
Manchester City
Manchester United
Newcastle United
Norwich City
Southampton
Stoke City
Sunderland
Swansea City
Tottenham Hotspur (please don’t write only ‘Spurs’!!)
Watford
West Bromwich Albion (here it doesn’t matter if you put WBA)
West Ham United
Try not to give any nicknames (‘Hammers’, ‘Gunners’ etc) – or more disrespectful rival names - might understandably be a good laugh but it is simply a headache for us at our end so … please!!
Next …
According to your choices your forum will score points, and better still, very few, points. And how do you sparingly score those points?
Scoring is as follows:
For each team your forum scores one point for each place away from its predicted position. Example - if you predict Sunderland to finish 9th and they finish 9th, you score 0 points (that’s really excellent predicting). If they finish 13th you score 4 points or if they finish 7th you score 2 points. Therefore, the nearer you get to the exact position and have less points mounting up the better. I will endeavour to make updates at least at the beginning of every month during the season out of interest, and usually fortnightly, scoring points from the ‘real’ live premier table at each moment, but all leaderboards during the season are given for interest. So IMPORTANT! - The big winners are the forums at the end of the season who have LEAST points after the final game has been played.
The table positions won’t change position so much in the later stages of the season so … how can we maintain interest to the end you might be thinking?! Well, we have MONTHLY rewards for those in the top positions! That means points rewards for the highest positions at the end of every month (calculating from the REAL table on the 30th/31st - except when part-way through a weekend programme in which case we will wait to a maximum of Monday night for completed weekend programme to calculate progress reports).
Here's the idea:
1st spot - take off 3 bonus points from score, so score dips even lower /
2nd - take off 2 bonus points /
3rd - take off 1 bonus point
Bonus Points are for the most successful - Positions 1 to 3 – and includes tied points so there may well be far more than 3 teams involved. Their position for the deduction will be based on their (true) teams' score, not taking any previous deductions into account which you do keep all season of course on lowering your overall total.
* THE COMPETITION LAST SEASON
How did the best forums do 2014-15? Here goes!
FORUM Honorary Gold Medal – Shared
• DCFC Fans Derby County
• Toffee Talk Everton
FORUM Honorary Silver Medal –
• United Lounge Manchester United
FORUM Honorary Bronze Medal – shared
• Foxes Talk Leicester City
• Black Cat Chat Sunderland
FORUM Honorary Diploma of Honour I
• Baggies Zone West Bromwich Albion
FORUM Honorary Diploma of Honour II – shared
• Not 606 Hull Board Hull City
• Toon Forum Newcastle United
THIS SEASON
– the following boards have already got their member entries for participation:
that’s 27 team forums already - have the minimum 5 to take part!
WFC Forums - Watford
The Holmesdale - Crystal Palace
Wolves Forum - Wolverhampton Wanderers
Foxes Talk - Leicester City
Toon Forum - Newcastle United
Back Henry Street - Blackpool
Talk of the Tarn - Barnsley
Baggies Zone - West Bromwich Albion
Royals Rendezvous - Reading
Not 606 QPR Board - Queens Park Rangers
Cardiff City On-Line - Cardiff
Cardiff City Fans Forum - Cardiff
Claret and Banter - Bradford City
DCFC Fans - Derby County
Toffee Talk - Everton
CourtOffside - AFC Bournemouth
MCFC Fans - Manchester City
LUFC Talk - Leeds United
Extreme Football Forum - all teams
Not 606 Norwich Board - Norwich City
North Stand Chat - Brighton
Rovers Talk - Blackburn Rovers
Joys and Sorrows - Birmingham City
The Longside - Burnley
Viking Chat - Doncaster
Tudor Talk - Hemel Hempstead
The Posh Forum - Peterborough United
AND we’re expecting a few more to arrive by next weekend!
But it’s not member numbers in itself, 5 or 30 will do, simply that more entries make a better forum average representing your members!
IMPORTANT –
ENTRIES IN THIS WEEK BY FRIDAY 7TH AUGUST 2015 – because late entries cannot be accepted, for we would not be able to add them to an average forum entry once the first Saturday matches have kicked off …!
Have fun …
daib0
The game is already well established, several seasons running now. And we’d like to invite you! You'd have plenty of competition from local rivals!
The Sunderland ‘Black Cat Chat’ forum (and admin Hakuna Matata to be precise) does the real hard mathematical donkey work all during the season, whilst I am the representative (and mod) from the Reading’s Royals Rendezvous forum and do more the ‘public relations’ type stuff as many already know. We are going to be your points of reference for all this coming season.
Some 750 of you have already participated in previous seasons. But for newcomers, what is this game? It’s dead easy! You simply guess ONCE (now!) what you think will be the final league positions for the Premier League 2015-16 (that means placing all teams, in order from 1st to 20th), leave them on this thread, and then sit back and enjoy! Nothing more!!
BUT … THIS SEASON THE GAME WILL BE SPECIFICALLY A FORUM EVENT, NOT AN INDIVIDUAL PLAYER EVENT … so where forums have an entry of a minimum of five people we will make a ‘board average’, thus you’ll be able to see how your forum copes against many of the others across the land. It is set against a single initial average entry taken from your forum guesses, and this average will be the forum entry. Before we have the first update each forum entry will be made clear on every participating forum. Five different member entries as a minimum is the requirement (no maximum!), this so as to avoid ‘fluke’ results which might distort the good guess-work averaged out by forums with large numbers.
This game will initially take you a couple of minutes, and then enjoy without having to make updates at all, all season. Right, below are the current 20 Premier teams in alphabetical order – BEST IDEA is simply copy these onto your PC and re-arrange them in your finishing order come the end of the 2015-16 season. The Sunderland computer handles them in an alphabetical order initially so please help us with accurate spelling, as laid out below:
Arsenal
Aston Villa (please don’t write only ‘Villa’!!)
Bournemouth (comes for us under ‘B’, so try to avoid AFC Bournemouth!)
Chelsea
Crystal Palace (please don’t write only ‘Palace’!!)
Everton
Leicester City
Liverpool
Manchester City
Manchester United
Newcastle United
Norwich City
Southampton
Stoke City
Sunderland
Swansea City
Tottenham Hotspur (please don’t write only ‘Spurs’!!)
Watford
West Bromwich Albion (here it doesn’t matter if you put WBA)
West Ham United
Try not to give any nicknames (‘Hammers’, ‘Gunners’ etc) – or more disrespectful rival names - might understandably be a good laugh but it is simply a headache for us at our end so … please!!
Next …
According to your choices your forum will score points, and better still, very few, points. And how do you sparingly score those points?
Scoring is as follows:
For each team your forum scores one point for each place away from its predicted position. Example - if you predict Sunderland to finish 9th and they finish 9th, you score 0 points (that’s really excellent predicting). If they finish 13th you score 4 points or if they finish 7th you score 2 points. Therefore, the nearer you get to the exact position and have less points mounting up the better. I will endeavour to make updates at least at the beginning of every month during the season out of interest, and usually fortnightly, scoring points from the ‘real’ live premier table at each moment, but all leaderboards during the season are given for interest. So IMPORTANT! - The big winners are the forums at the end of the season who have LEAST points after the final game has been played.
The table positions won’t change position so much in the later stages of the season so … how can we maintain interest to the end you might be thinking?! Well, we have MONTHLY rewards for those in the top positions! That means points rewards for the highest positions at the end of every month (calculating from the REAL table on the 30th/31st - except when part-way through a weekend programme in which case we will wait to a maximum of Monday night for completed weekend programme to calculate progress reports).
Here's the idea:
1st spot - take off 3 bonus points from score, so score dips even lower /
2nd - take off 2 bonus points /
3rd - take off 1 bonus point
Bonus Points are for the most successful - Positions 1 to 3 – and includes tied points so there may well be far more than 3 teams involved. Their position for the deduction will be based on their (true) teams' score, not taking any previous deductions into account which you do keep all season of course on lowering your overall total.
* THE COMPETITION LAST SEASON
How did the best forums do 2014-15? Here goes!
FORUM Honorary Gold Medal – Shared
• DCFC Fans Derby County
• Toffee Talk Everton
FORUM Honorary Silver Medal –
• United Lounge Manchester United
FORUM Honorary Bronze Medal – shared
• Foxes Talk Leicester City
• Black Cat Chat Sunderland
FORUM Honorary Diploma of Honour I
• Baggies Zone West Bromwich Albion
FORUM Honorary Diploma of Honour II – shared
• Not 606 Hull Board Hull City
• Toon Forum Newcastle United
THIS SEASON
– the following boards have already got their member entries for participation:
that’s 27 team forums already - have the minimum 5 to take part!
WFC Forums - Watford
The Holmesdale - Crystal Palace
Wolves Forum - Wolverhampton Wanderers
Foxes Talk - Leicester City
Toon Forum - Newcastle United
Back Henry Street - Blackpool
Talk of the Tarn - Barnsley
Baggies Zone - West Bromwich Albion
Royals Rendezvous - Reading
Not 606 QPR Board - Queens Park Rangers
Cardiff City On-Line - Cardiff
Cardiff City Fans Forum - Cardiff
Claret and Banter - Bradford City
DCFC Fans - Derby County
Toffee Talk - Everton
CourtOffside - AFC Bournemouth
MCFC Fans - Manchester City
LUFC Talk - Leeds United
Extreme Football Forum - all teams
Not 606 Norwich Board - Norwich City
North Stand Chat - Brighton
Rovers Talk - Blackburn Rovers
Joys and Sorrows - Birmingham City
The Longside - Burnley
Viking Chat - Doncaster
Tudor Talk - Hemel Hempstead
The Posh Forum - Peterborough United
AND we’re expecting a few more to arrive by next weekend!
But it’s not member numbers in itself, 5 or 30 will do, simply that more entries make a better forum average representing your members!
IMPORTANT –
ENTRIES IN THIS WEEK BY FRIDAY 7TH AUGUST 2015 – because late entries cannot be accepted, for we would not be able to add them to an average forum entry once the first Saturday matches have kicked off …!
Have fun …
daib0
