Predictor 2018-19 (Week 1) - Ladbrokes Championship - Sat 4 Aug

[QoS1_StMirren1]

For fruitloop...

Ayr 1-1 Partick joker
Dundee Utd 1-1 Dunfermline
Falkirk 1-1 ICT
Morton 1-2 Queens
Ross Co 3-0 Alloa

[PARKGATEQOS]

Ladbrokes Championship
Saturday, 4 August 2018
Ayr Utd 1 v Partick Thistle 2
Dundee Utd 2 v Dunfermline Athletic 2
Falkirk 1 v Inverness CT 2
Morton 2 v Queen of the South 3
Ross County 4 v Alloa Athletic 1 (joker)

[ALBERTZ_11]

Any updates?

[QoS1_StMirren1]

Any updates?

I'll post updates, as well as addressing the points raised in Edqos1's post, later this evening.

[ALBERTZ_11]

No worries.

[Francis_begbie_HFC]

No worries.

are we getting any points updates from the week 1 predictions .

[QoS1_StMirren1]

Results...
Ayr Utd 2-0 Partick Thistle
Dundee Utd 2-3 Dunfermline Athletic
Falkirk 0-1 Inverness CT
Morton 2-2 Queen of the South

It did occur to me once that for the regular players, if they miss a week every game should default to say 2-1? It is quite hard sometimes to make the time to make the predictions, and this default would mean they wouldn't fall quite so far behind? Although I'm not wanting to add more complications.....

Just a thought.

This is a good idea, so I've implemented this for this season. There is a couple of points though:- no bonus points will be awarded on games where scores have been entered 'automatically' like this (no Jokers will have been played, and I don't think I could award any shock points that would have been scored 'accidentally', as it were); and no player that has posted predictions will be denied shock bonus points because of these automatic entries, ie shocks will still be decided on the number of actual predictions posted.

These automatically entered predictions are marked in red on the following sheet...


Click here for the points scored on these matches...


Click here for the first tables...

I wonder if I am hampered slightly by predicting a win for Queens, every time without exception, as a point of principle!

In the early years of this I couldn't bring myself to predict that we'd lose and I thought I'd jinx us if I said we'd win (craziness, I know!) so I always put us down to draw 1-1. Got me nowhere! It's only since having a proper shot on our game that I've got anywhere near challenging at the top.

I also wondered how difficult it would be to construct an 'all-time' league table. I wouldn't be near the top because I missed half a season once, I missed three weeks in a row and took a break after that.

This would be reasonably easy, look out for this in the next few weeks.