Inter-Forum PREMIER Positions Game 2015-16

Inter-Forum PREMIER Positions Game 2015-16



The game is already well established, several seasons running now. Several Not 606 forums on board - And we’d like to invite you!

The Sunderland ‘Black Cat Chat’ forum (and admin Hakuna Matata to be precise) does the real hard mathematical donkey work all during the season, whilst I am the representative (and mod) 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 … 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 a 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 (comes for us under ‘B’, so try to avoid AFC 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 (here it doesn’t matter if you put WBA)
West Ham United


Try not to give any nicknames (‘Hammers’, ‘Gunners’ etc) – or more disrespectful rival names - might understandably be a good laugh but it is simply a headache for us at our end so … please!!



Next …

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 means 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.



* THE COMPETITION 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


THIS SEASON

– the following boards have already got their member entries for participation:

that’s 27 team forums already - have the minimum 5 to take part!


WFC Forums - Watford
The Holmesdale - Crystal Palace
Wolves Forum - Wolverhampton Wanderers
Foxes Talk - Leicester City
Toon Forum - Newcastle United
Back Henry Street - Blackpool
Talk of the Tarn - Barnsley
Baggies Zone - West Bromwich Albion
Royals Rendezvous - Reading
Not 606 QPR Board - Queens Park Rangers
Cardiff City On-Line - Cardiff
Cardiff City Fans Forum - Cardiff
Claret and Banter - Bradford City
DCFC Fans - Derby County
Toffee Talk - Everton
CourtOffside - AFC Bournemouth
MCFC Fans - Manchester City
LUFC Talk - Leeds United
Extreme Football Forum - all teams
Not 606 Norwich Board - Norwich City
North Stand Chat - Brighton
Rovers Talk - Blackburn Rovers
Joys and Sorrows - Birmingham City
The Longside - Burnley
Viking Chat - Doncaster
Tudor Talk - Hemel Hempstead
The Posh Forum - Peterborough United

AND we’re expecting a few more to arrive by next weekend!


But it’s not member numbers in itself, 5 or 30 will do, simply that more entries make a better forum average representing your members!





IMPORTANT –


ENTRIES IN THIS WEEK BY FRIDAY 7TH AUGUST 2015 – because late entries cannot be 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 just as an example, so put your own order of teams of course!


1 Chelsea
2 Manchester United
3 Manchester City
4 Tottenham Hotspur
5 Everton
6 Arsenal
7 Liverpool
8 West Ham
9 Crystal Palace
10 Swansea
11 Newcastle
12 Norwich City
13 Leicester City
14 West Bromich Albion
15 Sunderland
16 Southampton
17 Watford
18 Bournemouth
19 Stoke
20 Aston Villa



An important reminder once again - we need just a minimum of FIVE entries each forum to constitute a forum average entry!!


daib0

 

1. Chelsea
2. Arsenal
3. Manchester United
4. Manchester City
5. Liverpool
6. Southampton
7. Tottenham Hotspur
8. Crystal Palace
9. Stoke City
10. Everton
11. Swansea City
12. Newcastle United
13. Aston Villa
14. West Ham United
15. West Bromwich Albion
16. Leicester City
17. Bournemouth
18. Sunderland
19. Watford
20. Norwich City

 

that's the stuff, it's easy ... keep 'em coming!!

 

16th????????

 

He'll be the one that suffers with all the points he'll accumulate.

 

1. Arsenal
2. Chelsea
3. Manchester City
4. Manchester United
5. Tottenham Hotspur
6. Liverpool
7. Stoke City
8, Everton
9. West Brom
10. Swansea City
11. Crystal Palace
12. Southampton
13. Newcastle United
14. West Ham
15. Aston Villa
16. Sunderland
17. Bournemouth
18. Watford
19. Leicester City
20. Norwich City

 

1. Chelsea
2. Manchester United
3. Arsenal
4. Manchester City
5. Liverpool
6. Southampton
7. Tottenham Hotspur
8. Everton
9. Stoke City
10. West Ham United
11. Swansea City
12. Crystal Palace
13. West Bromwich Albion
14. Newcastle United
15. Aston Villa
16. Sunderland
17. Bournemouth
18. Leicester City
19. Norwich City
20. Watford

 

well, it was only an example, but you're right - last season when it was individual and not only forum, I finished about 260th out of 290 or so!!!

 

1. Chelsea
2. Manchester United
3. Manchester City
4. Arsenal
5. Tottenham Hotspur
6. Liverpool
7. Stoke City
8, Everton
9. Swansea City
10. Southampton
11. Newcastle United
12. West Ham
13. Crystal Palace
14. West Brom
15. Aston Villa
16. Sunderland
17. Bournemouth
18. Leicester City
19. Watford
20. Norwich City

 

well, at least that's proof that it's all above board!!

Anyway, Saints Not 606 is almost there now!

 

Yes however, three of us haven't a clue and the fourth one is a referee... We're doomed. I blame the board.


And Rupert Lowe.

 

1. Chelsea
2. Manchester United
3. Arsenal
4. Manchester City
5. Tottenham
6. Liverpool
7. Stoke
8. Everton
9. Swansea
10. Crystal Palace
11. West Ham
12. West Brom
13. Southampton
14. Newcastle
15. Watford
16. Leicester
17. Bournemouth
18. Aston Villa
19. Sunderland
20. Norwich

 

1. Manchester City
2. Arsenal
3. Chelsea
4. Manchester United
5. Liverpool
6. Tottenham Hotspur
7. Everton
8. Southampton
9. Stoke City
10. Crystal Palace
11. Swansea
12. West Ham United
13. West Bromwich Albion
14. Newcastle
15. Watford
16. Norwich City
17. Aston Villa
18. Sunderland
19. Bournemouth
20. Leicester City

 

1. Chelsea
2. Arsenal
3. Manchester united
4. Manchester City
5. Liverpool
6. Southampton
7. Tottenham hotspurs
8. Stoke City
9. Swansea
10. Everton
11. Newcastle United
12. Crystal Palace
13. West ham united
14. Leicester
15. Aston Villa
16. Bournemouth
17. Sunderland
18. West bromwich albion
19. Watford
20. Norwich City

 

1. Chelsea
2. Manchester United
3. Arsenal
4. Manchester City
5. Tottenham Hotspur
6. Liverpool
7. Southampton
8. Everton
9. Crystal Palace
10. Swansea City
11. Stoke City
12. West Ham United
13. West Bromwich Albion
14. Newcastle United
15. Aston Villa
16. Sunderland
17. Norwich City
18. Bournemouth
19. Leicester City
20. Watford

 

1. Chelsea
2. Manchester United
3. Manchester City
4. Arsenal
5. Liverpool
6. Southampton
7. Tottenham Hotspur
8. Stoke City
9. Everton
10. Crystal Palace
11. Swansea City
12. West Ham United
13. West Bromwich Albion
14. Newcastle United
15. Aston Villa
16. Leicester City
17. Bournemouth
18. Norwich City
19. Sunderland
20. Watford

 

1. Chelsea
2. Arsenal
3. Manchester United
4. Manchester City
5. Liverpool
6. Southampton
7. Tottenham Hotspur
8. Everton
9. Stoke City
10. Crystal Palace
11. Swansea City
12. West Ham United
13. Watford
14. Newcastle United
15. West Bromwich Albion
16. Aston Villa
17. Bournemouth
18. Leicester City
19. Sunderland
20. Norwich City

 

1. Chelsea
2. Manchester City
3. Manchester United
4. Arsenal
5. Liverpool
6. Tottenham Hotspur
7. Southampton
8. Everton
9. Stoke
10. Crystal Palace
11. Newcastle
12. West Bromwich Albion
13. Swansea City
14. West Ham
15. Aston Villa
16. Sunderland
17. Bournemouth
18. Watford
19. Leicester City
20. Norwich City

 

1. Arsenal
2. Chelsea
3. Manchester United
4. Manchester City
5. Liverpool
6. Tottenham Hotspur
7. Stoke City
8. Swansea City
9. Everton
10. Southampton
11. Crystal Palace
12. Aston Villa
13. West Bromwich Albion
14. Newcastle United
15. Leicester City
16. Bournemouth
17. Sunderland
18. West Ham United
19. Norwich City
20. Watford