60 YAP's Correct Score Competition 2023/24

[60YearsAPie]

Three days to go before the 2023/24 season kicks off. Notts opening game is at Sutton United, and we’re 8/11 favourites to win our first game back in the EFL. Sutton are 15/4, and the draw is 13/5.

Here’s a recap of the main rules of the competition:
1. Each participant begins the season with a bank of 60 YAPS
2. Those who predict the score correctly have their bank increased by the odds for that score
3. Everyone else has 1 YAP deducted from their bank whether they made a prediction or not
4. Predictions must be made before the team is announced (1 hour before kick-off)
5. Please enter your prediction on SwalePie's score, scorers, and attendance thread each game
6. Predictions made on this thread will be ignored
7. An updated YAPs Table will appear with the odds for the next game
8. Zero tolerance - Anyone who, on this thread, engages in the childish squabbles that regularly hijack other threads will be immediately excluded from the competition

[Proactive not Reactive]

Thank you 60 years

[60YearsAPie]

Our third game of the season is against Grimsby, who began their league campaign with a goalless draw at home to AFC Wimbledon and followed that with a 2-0 defeat at Mansfield in the EFL Cup.

Notts are 4/6 to win; the draw 3/1; Grimsby 4/1

Nigel_M was the only one to predict a 2-0 defeat against Lincoln and is our early leader. Against Lincoln, 12 went for a Notts win, 17 for a defeat and 8 for a draw.

This season's new feature is how we’re doing against the bookies overall. Against Sutton, 60 incorrect predictions saw us get off to the worst possible start. There were 36 incorrect against Lincoln, and thanks to Nigel_M’s 18/1 winner, we ended with a net loss of 18 YAPS.

[60YearsAPie]

Just had a quick tot-up of the yellow cards we've had in our first 7 games. I make it 19.
If my maths are correct, 6 players are currently on 2 yellows:
Austin, Baldwin, Bostock, Jones, Nemane and O'Brien

[60YearsAPie]

Unsurprisingly, no one predicted our result against Forest Green, and so the Leaderboard is as you were, apart from us all being one YAP poorer. Our final game of September sees us away to Colchester. 20th in the table with a game in hand, they beat Tranmere 2-0 and drew 1-1 with Mansfield in their last two home games. With Gillingham playing Mansfield, there’s a chance we could increase our lead at the top of the table if the two results go our way.

[SwalePie]

Would have been tricky if someone had got this one right with 'no quote' for this scoreline!

[SwalePie]

Brilliant 60YAP! Thanks for organising this again.

[kill_the_drum]

Excellent, look forward to it

[PTID1862]

yippee... I am in

[60YearsAPie]

Games are coming thick and fast, and Tuesday sees us away to Morecambe. Who can forget Sol Campbell’s debut for us in the same fixture 14 years ago, much as we’d like to?

We appear to have uncovered another gem in Dan Crowley if Saturday’s game is anything to go by. And he topped it off with an excellent header to win the match and kickstart our season.

Again, only one person predicted the correct score, and with odds of 22/1, 51Magpie takes over the top spot. Even so, with 58 incorrect predictions, the group still gave a net 36 YAPS to the bookies.