Inter-Forum PREMIER Positions Game 2015-16 The game is already well established, several seasons running now. And it’s back! The Sunderland ‘Black Cat Chat’ forum (and Hakuna Matata to be precise) does the real hard mathematical donkey work all during the season, whilst I am the representative from the Reading’s Royals Rendezvous forum and do more the ‘public relations’ type stuff as many already know. We are going to be your points of reference for all this coming season. Some 750 of you have already participated in previous seasons. But for newcomers, what is this game? It’s dead easy! You simply guess ONCE (now!) what you think will be the final league positions for the Premier League 2015-16 (that means placing all teams, in order from 1st to 20th), leave them on this thread, and then sit back and enjoy! Nothing more!! BUT … THIS SEASON THE GAME WILL BE SPECIFICALLY A FORUM EVENT, NOT AN INDIVIDUAL PLAYER EVENT, OK?! That means don’t give rash selections like some did before in the hope for personal glory; now it’s a team average event, so putting the relegated three as the two Manchesters plus Chelsea is hardly going to get a healthy prospect for your forum… But this is an ideal way to keep fans from many different clubs all together… so where forums have an entry of a minimum of five people we will make a ‘board average’, thus you’ll be able to see how your forum copes against many of the others across the land. It is set against an single initial average entry taken from your forum guesses, and this average will be the forum entry. Before we have the first update each forum entry will be made clear on every participating forum. Five different member entries as a minimum is the requirement (no maximum!), this so as to avoid ‘fluke’ results which might distort the good guess-work averaged out by forums with large numbers. This game will initially take you a couple of minutes, and then enjoy without having to make updates at all, all season. Right, below are the current 20 Premier teams in alphabetical order – BEST IDEA is simply copy these onto your PC and re-arrange them in your finishing order come the end of the 2015-16 season. The Sunderland computer handles them in an alphabetical order initially so please help us with accurate spelling, as laid out below: Arsenal Aston Villa (please don’t write only ‘Villa’!!) Bournemouth Chelsea Crystal Palace (please don’t write only ‘Palace’!!) Everton Leicester City Liverpool Manchester City Manchester United Newcastle United Norwich City Southampton Stoke City Sunderland Swansea City Tottenham Hotspur (please don’t write only ‘Spurs’!!) Watford West Bromwich Albion West Ham United Try not to give any nicknames – putting the ‘Hammers’ or ‘Gunners’ or ‘Tigers’ or ‘Toffees’ or more disrespectful rival names might understandably be a good laugh – but it is simply a headache for us at our end so … Please!! According to your choices your forum will score points, and better still, very few, points. And how do you sparingly score those points? Scoring is as follows: For each team your forum scores one point for each place away from its predicted position. Example - if you predict Sunderland to finish 9th and they finish 9th, you score 0 points (that’s really excellent predicting). If they finish 13th you score 4 points or if they finish 7th you score 2 points. Therefore, the nearer you get to the exact position and have less points mounting up the better. I will endeavour to make updates at least at the beginning of every month during the season out of interest, and usually fortnightly, scoring points from the ‘real’ live premier table at each moment, but all leaderboards during the season are given for interest. So IMPORTANT! - The big winners are the forums at the end of the season who have LEAST points after the final game has been played. The table positions won’t change position so much in the later stages of the season so … how can we maintain interest to the end you might be thinking?! Well, we have MONTHLY rewards for those in the top positions! That’s points rewards for the highest positions at the end of every month (calculating from the REAL table on the 30th/31st - except when part-way through a weekend programme in which case we will wait to a maximum of Monday night for completed weekend programme to calculate progress reports). Here's the idea: 1st spot - take off 3 bonus points from score, so score dips even lower / 2nd - take off 2 bonus points / 3rd - take off 1 bonus point Bonus Points are for the most successful - Positions 1 to 3 – and includes tied points so there may well be far more than 3 teams involved. Their position for the deduction will be based on their (true) teams' score, not taking any previous deductions into account which you do keep all season of course on lowering your overall total. * LAST SEASON How did the best forums do 2014-15? Here goes! FORUM Honorary Gold Medal – Shared • DCFC Fans Derby County • Toffee Talk Everton FORUM Honorary Silver Medal – • United Lounge Manchester United FORUM Honorary Bronze Medal – shared • Foxes Talk Leicester City • Black Cat Chat Sunderland FORUM Honorary Diploma of Honour I • Baggies Zone West Bromwich Albion FORUM Honorary Diploma of Honour II – shared • Not 606 Hull Board Hull City • Toon Forum Newcastle United During the past two seasons these forums have participated in one way or another: Barnsley – Talk of the Tarn Blackburn – Rovers Talk Blackpool – Back Henry Street Bournemouth - CourtOffside Brighton – North Stand Chat Burnley – The Longside Cardiff – Cardiff City Forum Crystal Palace – The Holmesdale Derby – DCFC Fans Doncaster – Viking Chat Everton – Toffee Talk Fulham – Friends of Fulham Hemel Hempstead – Tudor Talk Hull – Not 606 Hull Board Leeds – LUFC Talk Leeds – Dirty Leeds Leicester – Foxes Talk Man City – MCFC Forum Man Utd – United Lounge Newcastle – Toon Forum Norwich – Not 606 Norwich Board Nottm Forest – The A Block Peterborough – Posh Forum QPR – Not 606 QPR Board Reading – Royals Rendezvous Sunderland – Black Cat Chat Swansea – Planet Swans Tottenham – Tottenham Hotspur Unofficial Fans Forum Watford – WFC Forums West Brom – Baggies Zone West Ham – Cockney Boys Wigan – This Northern Soul (please excuse me if I have missed anyone out!) But we’ll also have some new ones this season ! Note - To avoid wums/trolls (or ‘jealous’ away fans) then what you see as any disruptive entry (e.g. an impossible order which would negatively help the forum) will not be included in the average entry at the request of any moderator/admin (by PM or on the thread itself), so if you see something strange please advise your mod team! IMPORTANT – ENTRIES IN BY 7TH AUGUST 2015 – late entries are not accepted, for we would not be able to add them to an average forum entry once the first Saturday matches have kicked off …! Have fun … daib0
Entries like this, MINE as an example, with your own order of teams of course! 1 Chelsea 2 Man Utd 3 Man City 4 Tottenham 5 Everton 6 Arsenal 7 Liverpool 8 West Ham 9 Crystal Palace 10 Swansea 11 Newcastle 12 Norwich City 13 Leicester City 14 West Brom 15 Sunderland 16 Southampton 17 Watford 18 Bournemouth 19 Stoke 20 Aston Villa An important reminder - we need a minimum of FIVE entries each forum to constitute a forum average entry!! Many forums ‘sticky’ or ‘pin’ this because we have proven we don’t quirk once the season has started, and this gets updated all-season long. If possible, and not trying to be cheeky, this would help us no end, but if against internal policy then no worries … daib0
1 Arsenal 2 Man City 3 Chelsea 4 Man Utd 5 Liverpool 6 Everton 7 Tottenham 8 Southampton 9 Stoke 10 Swansea 11 Newcastle 12 West Ham 13 Leicester City 14 West Brom 15 Sunderland 16 Aston Villa 17 Crystal Palace 18 Norwich 19 Watford 20 Bournemouth Cheers daib0
1 Chelsea 2 Man Utd 3 Arsenal 4 Man City 5 Southampton 6 Liverpool 7 Everton 8 Tottenham 9 Stoke 10 Swansea 11 West Ham 12 West Brom 13 Sunderland 14 Leicester City 15 Newcastle 16 Crystal Palace 17 Norwich 18 Aston Villa 19 Watford 20 Bournemouth
1. Arsenal 2. Chelsea 3. Manchester United 4. Manchester City 5. Southampton 6. Tottenham Hotspurs 7. Liverpool 8. Everton 9. Swansea City 10. Stoke City 11. West Bromwich Albion 12. West Ham United 13. Crystal Palace 14. Newcastle United 15. Sunderland 16. Leicester City 17. Watford 18. Aston Villa 19. Norwich City 20. Bournemouth no funny games this year, it's a team effort. Cheers Daibo.
that's right, a team thing, currently got answers back from over 20 forums. Just hope a couple of Watford fans don't get up to their usual tricks, or their board predo will as good as explode!
Manchester City Chelsea Arsenal Manchester United Liverpool Everton Swansea City Southampton Tottenham Hotspur Stoke City Crystal Palace West Bromwich Albion West Ham United Newcastle United Sunderland Norwich City Aston Villa Leicester City Watford Bournemouth Cheers Diabo
some 27 forums participating so far, 12 forums now with a minimum 5 necessary, and ages to kick-off yet! SEE LATER EDIT
Well guys, I am about to go on holidays, high up in the Spanish Pyrenees, won’t have too much access in a fortnight, but I’ll be back strongly plugging this in the last week before the season kicks off. In the meanwhile, keep entries coming in and tell your pals! Latest Stats Board Entry Counts at the moment – 147 entries received as of 8.30 pm today British Time. Everything safely noted down …. SEE LATER EDIT ...
Can we change our predictions before the season starts? The way Villa are going I'll have to stick them down for relegation.
Manchester United Manchester City Chelsea Arsenal Tottenham Hotspur Liverpool Southampton Swansea City Crystal Palace Everton West Ham United Stoke City West Bromwich Albion Sunderland Aston Villa Leicester City Newcastle United Watford Norwich City Bournemouth Cheers for this diabO
Chelsea Arsenal Manchester United Manchester City Everton Liverpool Tottenham Hotspur West Ham United Southampton Stoke City Newcastle United West Bromwich Albion Crystal Palace Swansea City Norwich City Watford Sunderland Bournemouth Aston Villa Leicester City Disappointed in your tactics this year Stan..
Chelsea Arsenal Manchester United Manchester City Tottenham Hotspur Liverpool Stoke City Swansea Southampton Everton West Ham United Crystal Palace Newcastle United West Bromwich Albion Sunderland Aston Villa Norwich City Leicester City Bournemouth Watford Thanks Diablo
Man Utd Arsenal Chelsea Man City Tottenham Liverpool Newcastle Everton Swansea Stoke Southampton West Ham Crystal Palace Aston Villa West Brom Sunderland Bournemouth Norwich City Leicester City Watford
Chelsea Arsenal Manchester City Manchester United Everton Tottenham Hotspur Liverpool Southampton Swansea City Stoke City Crystal Palace Leicester City West Bromwich Albion West Ham United Newcastle United Sunderland Norwich City Aston Villa Bournemouth Watford Cheers Diablo
No problem, we go through every post before kick-off. Easiest though if possible if you mention "amended", "updated" "changed" etc. saves us time our end ! cheers to all, and hugs to qprbeth!
Latest Stats Board Entry Counts at the moment – 225 entries received in all as of today. Everything safely noted down …. SEE LATER EDIT ...
Manchester City Arsenal Chelsea Manchester United Tottenham Hotspur Southampton Liverpool Swansea City West Ham United Everton Crystal Palace Stoke City Sunderland Watford West Bromwich Albion Newcastle United Bournemouth Aston Villa Norwich Leicester City