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The Wolf In The North

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Welcome to Season Three of the Weekend Prediction League! You bloody masochists. If you're new to the scene, or simply want to relive the horrors of last year, you can find the thread here. Our reigning Champion is the brutal Blast Tyrant: boo him at your leisure, he cares not.

THE RULES

Every Tuesday, or thereabouts, I will post a list of 15 specific fixtures for the upcoming weekend - always Saturday and Sunday only, none of this Friday or Monday night malarkey, taken from the Premier League and other top European leagues. Or sometimes Scotland.

Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to predict the scores of those 15 matches (and the easiest way to do this is to just copy-and-paste or quote my fixtures post and fill in your scores). You earn 5 points for each perfectly correct scoreline, 2 points for each correct result but wrong scoreline, and 0 points for every game you make a complete hash of.

ASTERISKS

Each week you get 3 asterisks, to allocate to 3 of the 15 fixtures of your choosing. Asterisks earn double points - so, 10 for a perfectly correct scoreline or 4 for a correct result but wrong score.

MRS SPOON

After abject failure last season, Mr Spoon has retired in shame. This year, Mrs Spoon will take her spoony spouse's spot - she will predict 1-0 home wins for every fixture, and her asterisks will be allocated to the final 3 fixtures of each weekly list. 1-0 is the new 1-1.

NEW RULES AND CLARIFICATIONS FOR THIS YEAR

If you forget your asterisks, or simply can't be bothered, they will automatically be allocated to the first three fixtures on the list. This will henceforth be known as the ChignalWolf rule.

This season, there is no deadline for submitting fixtures. You can enter as late as you want, you just can't place a prediction for any game that's kicked off. So, even if you sleep through your entire Saturday after spending Friday night drunk on the floor of a Korean Karaoke Bar in Finsbury Park, and you miss Saturday's games, you can still join in late and submit for Sunday, asterisks included.

Any Cup or Play-Off games included in the 15 fixtures are "Normal Time" scores only, no extra time included. So don't predict a penalty shoot-out.

This season, in the overall points table, if two or more players are equal on points, "Most Correct Scores" comes into play like Goal Difference, so be aware! If players are still inseparable, there will be naked wrestling in whipped cream. Not for any systematic purpose, just because.

NEW COMPETITIONS

This is the Big One!

This season's Prediction League will run for exactly 32 weeks. As well as the regular Hall Of Fame for weekly winners, those 32 weeks will be divided into 8 blocks of 4 weeks, each of which will be designated as a fruit-themed Cup. Yes, fruit. The first one is Banana. Go with it. At the end of the season there will be TWO small, exclusive competitions - The Fruit Bowl (see?) will be our version of the Cup-Winners-Cup, where the winners of those 8 4-weekly cups will be invited to compete (if a player wins more than one Cup, then the second-place player of each subsequent triumph will get that spot instead). There will also be The Top 10 Challenge, where the 10 top players of the season get to face off for one final trophy, giving everyone more to play for as we reach the final stages of our marathon mission.

ALSO!

This year sees the debut of a sister competition, separate to the main Prediction League, named Goals Galore! Each set of 15 fixtures will be numbered each week, so after your predictions reply post, please list FOUR of those numbers. The first three of these matches will score you 1 point per goal scored in these fixtures, BUT the fourth match will score you -1 point per goal scored! So choose wisely, and remember that the number you place last is the one you DON'T expect to see goals in (insert obligatory Wolves joke here).

Reminder - these points do NOT contribute to the Prediction League, it will be a separate Leaderboard game that will be listed in the results post each week.

Have fun everyone, and thank you to all who participate!
 
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Welcome to Season Three of the Weekend Prediction League! You bloody masochists. If you're new to the scene, or simply want to relive the horrors of last year, you can find the thread here. Our reigning Champion is the brutal Blast Tyrant: boo him at your leisure, he cares not.

THE RULES

Every Tuesday, or thereabouts, I will post a list of 15 specific fixtures for the upcoming weekend - always Saturday and Sunday only, none of this Friday or Monday night malarkey, taken from the Premier League and other top European leagues. Or sometimes Scotland.

Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to predict the scores of those 15 matches (and the easiest way to do this is to just copy-and-paste or quote my fixtures post and fill in your scores). You earn 5 points for each perfectly correct scoreline, 2 points for each correct result but wrong scoreline, and 0 points for every game you make a complete hash of.

ASTERISKS

Each week you get 3 asterisks, to allocate to 3 of the 15 fixtures of your choosing. Asterisks earn double points - so, 10 for a perfectly correct scoreline or 4 for a correct result but wrong score.

MRS SPOON

After abject failure last season, Mr Spoon has retired in shame. This year, Mrs Spoon will take her spoony spouse's spot - she will predict 1-0 home wins for every fixture, and her asterisks will be allocated to the final 3 fixtures of each weekly list. 1-0 is the new 1-1.

NEW RULES AND CLARIFICATIONS FOR THIS YEAR

If you forget your asterisks, or simply can't be bothered, they will automatically be allocated to the first three fixtures on the list. This will henceforth be known as the ChignalWolf rule.

This season, there is no deadline for submitting fixtures. You can enter as late as you want, you just can't place a prediction for any game that's kicked off. So, even if you sleep through your entire Saturday after spending Friday night drunk on the floor of a Korean Karaoke Bar in Finsbury Park, and you miss Saturday's games, you can still join in late and submit for Sunday, asterisks included.

Any Cup or Play-Off games included in the 15 fixtures are "Normal Time" scores only, no extra time included. So don't predict a penalty shoot-out.

This season, in the overall points table, if two or more players are equal on points, "Most Correct Scores" comes into play like Goal Difference, so be aware! If players are still inseparable, there will be naked wrestling in whipped cream. Not for any systematic purpose, just because.

NEW COMPETITIONS

This is the Big One!

This season's Prediction League will run for exactly 32 weeks. As well as the regular Hall Of Fame for weekly winners, those 32 weeks will be divided into 8 blocks of 4 weeks, each of which will be designated as a fruit-themed Cup. Yes, fruit. The first one is Banana. Go with it. At the end of the season there will be TWO small, exclusive competitions - The Fruit Bowl (see?) will be our version of the Cup-Winners-Cup, where the winners of those 8 4-weekly cups will be invited to compete (if a player wins more than one Cup, then the second-place player of each subsequent triumph will get that spot instead). There will also be The Top 10 Challenge, where the 10 top players of the season get to face off for one final trophy, giving everyone more to play for as we reach the final stages of our marathon mission.

ALSO!

This year sees the debut of a sister competition, separate to the main Prediction League, named Goals Galore! Each set of 15 fixtures will be numbered each week, so after your predictions reply post, please list FOUR of those numbers. The first three of these matches will score you 1 point per goal scored in these fixtures, BUT the fourth match will score you -1 point per goal scored! So choose wisely, and remember that the number you place last is the one you DON'T expect to see goals in (insert obligatory Wolves joke here).

Reminder - these points do NOT contribute to the Prediction League, it will be a separate Leaderboard game that will be listed in the results post each week.

Have fun everyone, and thank you to all who participate!
Fantastic @The Wolf In The North looking fwd to another season of this with the new formats and I love a Fruit Bowl. Thanks for running it again I know it must be a massive amount of work for you.
 

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Welcome to Season Three of the Weekend Prediction League! You bloody masochists. If you're new to the scene, or simply want to relive the horrors of last year, you can find the thread here. Our reigning Champion is the brutal Blast Tyrant: boo him at your leisure, he cares not.

THE RULES

Every Tuesday, or thereabouts, I will post a list of 15 specific fixtures for the upcoming weekend - always Saturday and Sunday only, none of this Friday or Monday night malarkey, taken from the Premier League and other top European leagues. Or sometimes Scotland.

Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to predict the scores of those 15 matches (and the easiest way to do this is to just copy-and-paste or quote my fixtures post and fill in your scores). You earn 5 points for each perfectly correct scoreline, 2 points for each correct result but wrong scoreline, and 0 points for every game you make a complete hash of.

ASTERISKS

Each week you get 3 asterisks, to allocate to 3 of the 15 fixtures of your choosing. Asterisks earn double points - so, 10 for a perfectly correct scoreline or 4 for a correct result but wrong score.

MRS SPOON

After abject failure last season, Mr Spoon has retired in shame. This year, Mrs Spoon will take her spoony spouse's spot - she will predict 1-0 home wins for every fixture, and her asterisks will be allocated to the final 3 fixtures of each weekly list. 1-0 is the new 1-1.

NEW RULES AND CLARIFICATIONS FOR THIS YEAR

If you forget your asterisks, or simply can't be bothered, they will automatically be allocated to the first three fixtures on the list. This will henceforth be known as the ChignalWolf rule.

This season, there is no deadline for submitting fixtures. You can enter as late as you want, you just can't place a prediction for any game that's kicked off. So, even if you sleep through your entire Saturday after spending Friday night drunk on the floor of a Korean Karaoke Bar in Finsbury Park, and you miss Saturday's games, you can still join in late and submit for Sunday, asterisks included.

Any Cup or Play-Off games included in the 15 fixtures are "Normal Time" scores only, no extra time included. So don't predict a penalty shoot-out.

This season, in the overall points table, if two or more players are equal on points, "Most Correct Scores" comes into play like Goal Difference, so be aware! If players are still inseparable, there will be naked wrestling in whipped cream. Not for any systematic purpose, just because.

NEW COMPETITIONS

This is the Big One!

This season's Prediction League will run for exactly 32 weeks. As well as the regular Hall Of Fame for weekly winners, those 32 weeks will be divided into 8 blocks of 4 weeks, each of which will be designated as a fruit-themed Cup. Yes, fruit. The first one is Banana. Go with it. At the end of the season there will be TWO small, exclusive competitions - The Fruit Bowl (see?) will be our version of the Cup-Winners-Cup, where the winners of those 8 4-weekly cups will be invited to compete (if a player wins more than one Cup, then the second-place player of each subsequent triumph will get that spot instead). There will also be The Top 10 Challenge, where the 10 top players of the season get to face off for one final trophy, giving everyone more to play for as we reach the final stages of our marathon mission.

ALSO!

This year sees the debut of a sister competition, separate to the main Prediction League, named Goals Galore! Each set of 15 fixtures will be numbered each week, so after your predictions reply post, please list FOUR of those numbers. The first three of these matches will score you 1 point per goal scored in these fixtures, BUT the fourth match will score you -1 point per goal scored! So choose wisely, and remember that the number you place last is the one you DON'T expect to see goals in (insert obligatory Wolves joke here).

Reminder - these points do NOT contribute to the Prediction League, it will be a separate Leaderboard game that will be listed in the results post each week.

Have fun everyone, and thank you to all who participate!
Brilliant stuff @The Wolf In The North . I was expecting Mr Spoon to have a Wolfie type makeover but no, you're always one step ahead of us.
 

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Now I know it's nearly the start of the season!

Thank you so much for doing this again, I shall hopefully do better than last season. Or my name might as well be Bruno Lage.
 

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I, for one, firmly believe in our beloved Gruppenführer's dream and fully support his/her/their introduction of what will probably be the first of many bewildering sub-competitions in what is obviously a heroic attempt to help soothe the post-matchday nerves of us pantwetters when results don't quite go our way in the real world.

Bring it on baby.

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Welcome to Season Three of the Weekend Prediction League! You bloody masochists. If you're new to the scene, or simply want to relive the horrors of last year, you can find the thread here. Our reigning Champion is the brutal Blast Tyrant: boo him at your leisure, he cares not.

THE RULES

Every Tuesday, or thereabouts, I will post a list of 15 specific fixtures for the upcoming weekend - always Saturday and Sunday only, none of this Friday or Monday night malarkey, taken from the Premier League and other top European leagues. Or sometimes Scotland.

Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to predict the scores of those 15 matches (and the easiest way to do this is to just copy-and-paste or quote my fixtures post and fill in your scores). You earn 5 points for each perfectly correct scoreline, 2 points for each correct result but wrong scoreline, and 0 points for every game you make a complete hash of.

ASTERISKS

Each week you get 3 asterisks, to allocate to 3 of the 15 fixtures of your choosing. Asterisks earn double points - so, 10 for a perfectly correct scoreline or 4 for a correct result but wrong score.

MRS SPOON

After abject failure last season, Mr Spoon has retired in shame. This year, Mrs Spoon will take her spoony spouse's spot - she will predict 1-0 home wins for every fixture, and her asterisks will be allocated to the final 3 fixtures of each weekly list. 1-0 is the new 1-1.

NEW RULES AND CLARIFICATIONS FOR THIS YEAR

If you forget your asterisks, or simply can't be bothered, they will automatically be allocated to the first three fixtures on the list. This will henceforth be known as the ChignalWolf rule.

This season, there is no deadline for submitting fixtures. You can enter as late as you want, you just can't place a prediction for any game that's kicked off. So, even if you sleep through your entire Saturday after spending Friday night drunk on the floor of a Korean Karaoke Bar in Finsbury Park, and you miss Saturday's games, you can still join in late and submit for Sunday, asterisks included.

Any Cup or Play-Off games included in the 15 fixtures are "Normal Time" scores only, no extra time included. So don't predict a penalty shoot-out.

This season, in the overall points table, if two or more players are equal on points, "Most Correct Scores" comes into play like Goal Difference, so be aware! If players are still inseparable, there will be naked wrestling in whipped cream. Not for any systematic purpose, just because.

NEW COMPETITIONS

This is the Big One!

This season's Prediction League will run for exactly 32 weeks. As well as the regular Hall Of Fame for weekly winners, those 32 weeks will be divided into 8 blocks of 4 weeks, each of which will be designated as a fruit-themed Cup. Yes, fruit. The first one is Banana. Go with it. At the end of the season there will be TWO small, exclusive competitions - The Fruit Bowl (see?) will be our version of the Cup-Winners-Cup, where the winners of those 8 4-weekly cups will be invited to compete (if a player wins more than one Cup, then the second-place player of each subsequent triumph will get that spot instead). There will also be The Top 10 Challenge, where the 10 top players of the season get to face off for one final trophy, giving everyone more to play for as we reach the final stages of our marathon mission.

ALSO!

This year sees the debut of a sister competition, separate to the main Prediction League, named Goals Galore! Each set of 15 fixtures will be numbered each week, so after your predictions reply post, please list FOUR of those numbers. The first three of these matches will score you 1 point per goal scored in these fixtures, BUT the fourth match will score you -1 point per goal scored! So choose wisely, and remember that the number you place last is the one you DON'T expect to see goals in (insert obligatory Wolves joke here).

Reminder - these points do NOT contribute to the Prediction League, it will be a separate Leaderboard game that will be listed in the results post each week.

Have fun everyone, and thank you to all who participate!
Brilliant news, looking forward to it. Must remember my asterix’s!
 

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WEEK 1 - Sat 12-Sun 13 Aug (BANANA CUP 1/4)

1Arsenal~Nottingham Forest
2Bournemouth~West Ham
3Brighton~Luton
4Everton~Fulham
5Sheffield Utd~Crystal Palace
6Newcastle~Aston Villa
7Coventry~Middlesbrough
8West Brom~Swansea
9Southampton~Norwich
10Las Palmas~Mallorca
11Marseille~Reims
12Brentford~Tottenham
13Chelsea~Liverpool
14Celta Vigo~Osasuna
15
Nantes​
~Toulouse

Don't forget your Asterisks and Goals Galore!
 

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1Arsenal2~0Nottingham Forest
2Bournemouth1~1West Ham
3Brighton3~1Luton
4Everton2~1Fulham
5Sheffield Utd1~1Crystal Palace
6Newcastle2~1Aston Villa
7Coventry1~1 *Middlesbrough
8West Brom2~0Swansea
9Southampton3~1Norwich
10Las Palmas2~1Mallorca
11Marseille2~0 *Reims
12Brentford1~1Tottenham
13Chelsea2~1Liverpool
14Celta Vigo2~0Osasuna
15Nantes1~1 *Toulouse

GG : 6 , 9 , 3 , 5
 

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GOALS GALORE - Remember, choose FOUR numbers from the 15 listed fixtures. For the first three you pick, you score a point for every goal scored in that game, for the fourth pick, you score minus points. These are NOT to do with your score predictions, entirely separate sub-game.
 

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Arsenal
2~0*Nottingham Forest
2Bournemouth0~1West Ham
3Brighton3~0Luton
4Everton0~0Fulham
5Sheffield Utd0~2*Crystal Palace
6Newcastle2~1Aston Villa
7Coventry2~2Middlesbrough
8West Brom1~0Swansea
9Southampton2~1Norwich
10Las Palmas1~2Mallorca
11Marseille2~0Reims
12Brentford0~2Tottenham
13Chelsea2~2Liverpool
14Celta Vigo*2~0Osasuna
15Nantes0~0Toulouse
GG 1,7,9,15
 

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WEEK 1 - Sat 12-Sun 13 Aug (BANANA CUP 1/4)

1Arsenal4~0*Nottingham Forest
2Bournemouth1~1*West Ham
3Brighton3~1Luton
4Everton0~1Fulham
5Sheffield Utd1~1Crystal Palace
6Newcastle2~0Aston Villa
7Coventry2~1Middlesbrough
8West Brom1~1*Swansea
9Southampton2~2Norwich
10Las Palmas0~0Mallorca
11Marseille3~1Reims
12Brentford1~2Tottenham
13Chelsea1~1Liverpool
14Celta Vigo2~3Osasuna
15
Nantes​
3~0Toulouse

Don't forget your Asterisks and Goals Galore!
 

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WEEK 1 - Sat 12-Sun 13 Aug (BANANA CUP 1/4)

1Arsenal3~0*Nottingham Forest
2Bournemouth1~1West Ham
3Brighton5~0*Luton
4Everton1~1Fulham
5Sheffield Utd0~1Crystal Palace
6Newcastle2~2Aston Villa
7Coventry1~2Middlesbrough
8West Brom1~2Swansea
9Southampton2~0Norwich
10Las Palmas1~0Mallorca
11Marseille2~0Reims
12Brentford0~3*Tottenham
13Chelsea2~4Liverpool
14Celta Vigo2~0Osasuna
15
Nantes​
1~0Toulouse

Don't forget your Asterisks and Goals Galore!
GG - 13, 12, 3, 5
 

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1Arsenal50*Nottingham Forest
2Bournemouth0~1West Ham
3Brighton3~0*Luton*
4Everton1~1Fulham
5Sheffield Utd1~1Crystal Palace
6Newcastle2~1Aston Villa
7Coventry2~1Middlesbrough
8West Brom2~0*Swansea
9Southampton2~0Norwich
10Las Palmas1~0Mallorca
11Marseille2~0Reims
12Brentford0~2Tottenham
13Chelsea1~2Liverpool
14Celta Vigo1~1Osasuna
15Nantes2~0Toulouse
 
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First week ….. much like every other week
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1Arsenal4*~0Nottingham Forest
2Bournemouth1~1West Ham
3Brighton3*~0Luton
4Everton1~1Fulham
5Sheffield Utd0~1Crystal Palace
6Newcastle3*~2Aston Villa
7Coventry2~1Middlesbrough
8West Brom0~2Swansea
9Southampton2~1Norwich
10Las Palmas2~2Mallorca
11Marseille3~1Reims
12Brentford2~2Tottenham
13Chelsea2~1Liverpool
14Celta Vigo2~0Osasuna
15Nantes1~2Toulouse
1,3,6…5
 

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WEEK 1 - Sat 12-Sun 13 Aug (BANANA CUP 1/4)

1Arsenal3~0*Nottingham Forest
2Bournemouth2~1West Ham
3Brighton1~0*Luton
4Everton2~0Fulham
5Sheffield Utd1~1Crystal Palace
6Newcastle2~2Aston Villa
7Coventry1~0Middlesbrough
8West Brom0~4Swansea
9Southampton2~0*Norwich
10Las Palmas1~1Mallorca
11Marseille0~0Reims
12Brentford2~1Tottenham
13Chelsea0~1Liverpool
14Celta Vigo2~3Osasuna
15
Nantes​
0~1Toulouse

Don't forget your Asterisks and Goals Galore!
1,4,8,14
 

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WEEK 1 - Sat 12-Sun 13 Aug (BANANA CUP 1/4)

1Arsenal~Nottingham Forest
2Bournemouth~West Ham
3Brighton~Luton
4Everton~Fulham
5Sheffield Utd~Crystal Palace
6Newcastle~Aston Villa
7Coventry~Middlesbrough
8West Brom~Swansea
9Southampton~Norwich
10Las Palmas~Mallorca
11Marseille~Reims
12Brentford~Tottenham
13Chelsea~Liverpool
14Celta Vigo~Osasuna
15
Nantes​
~Toulouse

Don't forget your Asterisks and Goals Galore!
WEEK 1 - Sat 12-Sun 13 Aug (BANANA CUP 1/4)

1Arsenal4-0*Nottingham Forest
2Bournemouth1-1West Ham
3Brighton4-1Luton*
4Everton1-1Fulham
5Sheffield Utd0-2Crystal Palace
6Newcastle1-1Aston Villa*
7Coventry2-1Middlesbrough
8West Brom2~2Swansea
9Southampton0-1~Norwich
10Las Palmas2-2~Mallorca
11Marseille2-1~Reims
12Brentford1-2Tottenham
13Chelsea3-2Liverpool
14Celta Vigo1-1Osasuna
15
Nantes​
2-1Toulouse

Don't forget your Asterisks and Goals Galore!
13,15,3and 2 sorry about the mess
UTW COG;-)
 
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