Predictor 2016-17 - Week 1 - Betfred Cup - Fri 15 July

That'll be that for the close season! The football seems to come around quicker and quicker these days. If we're all ready, then, it'll be time to roll this out again!

(The post below this has a list of the previous winners along with a recap of the rules).

To start us off is the Betfred (League) Cup, specifically the games in the groups involving Queens, Annan and Stranraer...

Betfred Cup, Group Stage
Friday, 15 July 2016
Group E : Airdrieonians v Partick Thistle (ko 7.30pm)
Saturday, 16 July 2016
Group E : Queen's Park v Queen of the South
Group F : Annan Athletic v Stranraer
Group F : Motherwell v Rangers
Tuesday, 19 July 2016
Group E : Queen of the South v Airdrieonians (ko 7.45pm)
Group E : Stenhousemuir v Queen's Park (ko 7.30pm)
Group F : Rangers v Annan Athletic (ko 7.45pm)
Group F : Stranraer v East Stirlingshire (ko 7.45pm)
Please play 2 Jokers.


As per usual/always, you don't have to post predictions for all these games at the same time. For instance, you can delay predicting next Tuesday's games until after this weekend's matches. This will be the case throughout the season.


In short...
Airdrie v Partick
Queen's Park v Queens
Annan v Stranraer
Motherwell v Rangers
Queens v Airdrie
Stenhousemuir v Queen's Park
Rangers v Annan
Stranraer v East Stirling
2 Jokers to play

Previous winners...

2009-10
1st Edqos1
2nd stanecaldpie
3rd hotrod

2010-11
1st wull2001
2nd holden
3rd Orion

2011-12
1st (the poster formerly known as) middleagedirtbag
2nd holden
3rd Katboy31

2012-13
1st Bob_Agari
2nd ALBERTZ_11
3rd wull2001

2013-14
1st (the poster formerly known as) middleagedirtbag
2nd wull2001
3rd Sane_Man

2014-15
1st Sane_Man
2nd Edqos1
3rd mainstandman59

2015-16
1st doonumberland
2nd EwanHughesArmy
3rd McGuffie2


Rules...

The rules remain the same but just in case there is anyone new to this that fancies giving this a go this season here's a brief(?) re-cap:-

This competition will run from this coming Friday until the Premiership Play-off final (probably end of May/early June).

Each week I'll post the games to be predicted (the vast majority of the time this will consist of that week's Championship fixtures but on occasion domestic Cup games/World Cup 2018 qualifiers will also feature, for instance).

In competitions in which games go to extra-time/penalties in order to determine a winner, players will always be asked to predict the score at the end of normal time.

Predictions can be made at any point up to kick-off time. There is a little leeway - I'll accept predictions that are a little late, say by about 5 minutes after ko, but much more than that would be unfair to fellow players.

Players will get 3 points for each correct score and 1 point for each correct result. Each week everyone will get at least 1 Joker to play on any of that week's games. This will score them double points on a correct prediction. Also, any match where a quarter or less of the received predictions are correct will have those points doubled.

I post a complete breakdown of the points scored each week so that we can all see exactly how that week's points were scored. A set of tables are also posted weekly: the first listing players' points scored that week, the second the overall table and the third a table of each players' points in the current month. At all times these tables are organised in descending order firstly of points scored, then, if two or more players are tied, the number of correct scores, then the number of correct results, then finally alphabetically.

All the very best of luck to all that take part - have fun/score lots of points!

Airdrie 1 v 2 Partick (joker)
Queen's Park 1 v 2 Queens
Annan 1 v 1 Stranraer
Motherwell 2 v 1 Rangers
Queens 2 v 1 Airdrie
Stenhousemuir 2 v 1 Queen's Park
Rangers 5 v 0 Annan
Stranraer 3 v 0 East Stirling(joker)

Airdrie 2 v 1 Partick
Queen's Park 0 v 3 Queens joker
Annan 1 v 2 Stranraer
Motherwell 1 v 2 Rangers
Queens 2 v 0 Airdrie
Stenhousemuir 1 v 2 Queen's Park
Rangers 4 v 0 Annan joker
Stranraer 3 v 0 East Stirling

Airdrie 1 v 1 Partick
Queen's Park 0 v 2 Queens
Annan 1 v 3 Stranraer
Motherwell 1 v 3 Rangers
Queens 2 v 0 Airdrie
Stenhousemuir 2 v 2 Queen's Park JOKER
Rangers 5 v 0 Annan
Stranraer 3 v 0 East Stirling JOKER

Airdrie 2 Partick 2
Queen's Park 1 Queens 3 (Joker)
Annan 2 Stranraer 1
Motherwell 1 Rangers 1
Queens 2 Airdrie
Stenhousemuir 2 Queen's Park 1
Rangers 4 Annan 0 (Joker)
Stranraer 2 East Stirling 0

Airdrie 1-2 Partick
Queen's Park 1-3 Queens
Annan 2-1 Stranraer
Motherwell 0-2 Rangers
Queens 3-1 Airdrie
Stenhousemuir 1-1 Queen's Park
Rangers 6-0 Annan joker
Stranraer 1-1 East Stirling joker

Airdrie 2 v 2 Partick
Queen's Park 0 v 4 Queens (Joker)
Annan 1 v 3 Stranraer
Motherwell 2 v 2 Rangers
Queens 2 v 1 Airdrie(Joker)
Stenhousemuir 2 v 2 Queen's Park
Rangers 3 v 1 Annan
Stranraer 3 v 1 East Stirling

Airdrie 0 v 2 Partick
Queen's Park 1 v 4 Queens
Annan 1 v 1 Stranraer
Motherwell 0 v 2 Rangers joker
Queens 3 v 1 Airdrie
Stenhousemuir 2 v 0 Queen's Park
Rangers 3 v 1 Annan joker
Stranraer 2 v 1 East Stirling

Airdrie 1v 2Partick
Queen's Park 0v 2Queens
Annan 1v 2 Stranraer
Motherwell 0v 2Rangers
Queens 1v 1Airdriejoker
Stenhousemuir 2v 1Queen's Park
Rangers 5v 0Annan joker
Stranraer 2v 0East Stirling