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Prediction League Not606 - Last survivor

Discussion in 'Hull City' started by Febbos, Jul 12, 2019.

  1. tigerscanada

    tigerscanada Well-Known Member

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    You've got cricket on the brain askew <laugh>
     
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  2. Febbos

    Febbos Well-Known Member

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    Geez, you guys making me sweat :D

    Okej, lets try to clarify it again.

    1: There are NO points. Either you're through or out.
    2: If you pick Man United (god knows why you would) to win during week 2. You CAN'T pick them again.
    3: There's no money involved, complicated enough.
    4: I'll put it all into an Excel document. You'll see the progress there. Below is STRICTLY an example, not the actual picks for week 2.
    5: Could make a running table of it with points, but it'd be a lot more work, not sure I could be arsed.
    6: The established round will be confirmed in more than enough time before deadline, whether it's a FA Cup weekend or not.
    7: I'm aware this could all be over in a few couple of weeks, but it's also kind of a first try.

    I'll figure out something for the risk of postponed/abandoned games.

    As I said, we COULD do the running table with 1 point for each correct guess, but feels like it'd also remove some of the importance for each prediction?
    It'd change the game in general. Depends on what you guys think.


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  3. GLP

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    Week 1 Brentford
    Week 2 Cardiff City
     
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  4. Ernie Shackleton

    Ernie Shackleton Well-Known Member

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    1) You pick a team to win.
    2) If they lose you’re out.
    3) If they win you pick a different team to win.
    4) Repeat 2)
    5) Repeat 3)
    6) Repeat 4) & 5) until there’s only one person left.
    7) They’re the winner.


    It’s not ****ing rocket science folks.
     
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  5. tigerscanada

    tigerscanada Well-Known Member

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    It's not.
    It'll last no more than 10 weeks before there's a single winner.
    Have fun for 5 weeks.
     
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  6. Febbos

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    Having fun for 5 weeks doesnt sound bad! :)

    Nah, but I understand the concept that it could be fun if everyone had a chance to catch up with getting a point for each pick, etc. BUT.
    1: WAY more time consuming for me.
    2: People tend to give up anyway. Take Fantasy Football for example. I wonder how big the % is that stops making swaps after a poor start or they forget a round.
    This concept makes each prediction WAY more important

    It's all just for fun, not even a Proschwitz shirt this time around, if someone doesn't wanna join there's plenty of other decent threads <ale>
     
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  7. tigerscanada

    tigerscanada Well-Known Member

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    Understand, the amount of work may well mount up as myself & Duffen's_Briefs have discovered. It's the bitching & moaning that can kill something like this.
    We usually start out with approx 30-35 punters in the first couple of weeks of a season, which over the following 7-8 weeks reduces to a steady & permanent 22-25 regulars for the rest of the season. The same players end up the regulars pretty well every season.
    Duffens choses the fixtures, I collate the results. Probably takes me about 1 hour per week to review , log & publish the results on a spreadsheet, and maybe another couple of hours to report the season-to-date totals/stats every 5-6 weeks through the season.

    Biggest problem with your current design I see is keeping track of which team has been used by which player on an ongoing weekly basis.
    92 teams X 20 regular players is a lot of effort to maintain, even though the chances are the elimination of contestants will likely be around 50% per set of fixtures.
    Hint: Don't trust the buggers, they'll try to pull a fast one all the time !! Half kidding :emoticon-0100-smile

    See last page (53) of Predictions League in above stickyed thread # 3 to see typical weekly & frequent season to date stats spreadsheets. Not sure if you've ever joined the predictions league thread before. happy for you to do so - probably 15 mins per week effort. !
     
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  8. askewshair

    askewshair Well-Known Member

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    And keeping tabs with Chazz
     
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  9. tigerscanada

    tigerscanada Well-Known Member

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    How about:
    1) Any fixtures left ? Yes - Go to 2) No - Go to 4)
    2) You pick a team( still available to you) to win.
    3) If they win, return to 1). Else go to END.
    4) Only one participant left - you're outright Winner. More left - joint winner
    5) END: OUT of competition.

    Much tighter.
     
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  10. askewshair

    askewshair Well-Known Member

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    Is that possible?
     
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    tigerscanada Well-Known Member

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    Not a clue as he's not participated in regular predictions league. Probably a model subject :emoticon-0100-smile
     
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  12. John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.

    John Ex Aberdeen now E.R. Well-Known Member

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    For the second time.

    Week one Brentford
    Week two Cardiff

    Ok?
     
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    We'll go ahead as originally planned.

    Please only make a prediction for week 1 and not for upcoming weeks unless something else is confirmed further ahead.
    Mustyfrog: You pick 1 team for week 1, not one team from every division, sorry if this was unclear.

    As it looks right now.
    Please let me know if someone is missing out

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  16. AlRawdah

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    Hull City please. We always win at Swansea on the first day of the season.
     
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  20. M0WDS

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    Stoke please.
     
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