Posted September 15, 201014 yr Time for the next round of this easy to enter game. Can JamesP manage to beat his impressive score from round 3? It is all about the time when goals are scored. For each match, you need to predict the time of the first goal and the last significant goal. What is the last significant goal? It is the goal which decides who wins the match or whether it is a draw. For example, if the match finishes 3-1, the last significant goal is the winning team’s second goal. Just as an extra twist, own goals do not count. So, in the above example, if the second goal was an own goal, the winning team’s third goal is the one that counts. For the purposes of the game, the score was 2-1 not 3-1. The times of the goals and the identity of the scorer (i.e. whether or not it was an own goal) will be taken from the BBC website the day after the match. If the dubious goals committee later change the scorer, that will not affect this game. Scoring is simple. For each match, you score the difference between your prediction and the actual result. For example, assume you predict that the first goal will be scored in the 17th minute and the last significant goal will be in the 56th minute. The match finishes 1-0 with the goal (which will also be the last significant goal) in the 40th minute. Your score would be 23 + 16 = 39. If a match finishes 0-0, the correct prediction would be 0 for the first goal and 90 for the last significant goal. You cannot simply enter the same numbers for each match. There will be a winner each week with an overall winner at the end of the season (as long as it lasts that long). The winner will be decided by the player’s average score so it doesn’t matter if you miss the odd week. However, to be included in the overall competition you must enter at least ten times, including at least three times in the last five rounds of matches. Entries should be made in this thread. That may change for the last few rounds of matches. If you change your user name, please remind me of your previous name the first time you use it so that I can keep your entries together. The deadline for weekend matches (including Monday night games) is noon on the Saturday. The deadline for midweek games (assuming at least eight games are scheduled) will be 7 pm on the Tuesday. These deadlines may be slightly different over Christmas / New Year. Postponed games will not count. All predictions for these games will be ignored. Any questions, please ask.
September 15, 201014 yr Author This weekend's fixtures Saturday Stoke v West Ham Aston Villa v Bolton Blackburn v Fulham Everton v Newcastle Tottenham v Wolves West Brom v Birmingham Sunderland v Arsenal Sunday Man U v Liverpool Wigan v Man City Chelsea v Blackpool
September 15, 201014 yr Saturday Stoke v West Ham - 65, 65 Aston Villa v Bolton - 60, 60 Blackburn v Fulham - 35, 35 Everton v Newcastle - 50, 50 Tottenham v Wolves - 70, 70 West Brom v Birmingham - 25, 25 Sunderland v Arsenal - 30, 30 Sunday Man U v Liverpool - 45, 45 Wigan v Man City - 15, 15 Chelsea v Blackpool - 20, 20 Edited September 15, 201014 yr by Santa Claus™
September 17, 201014 yr This weekend's fixtures Saturday Stoke v West Ham 17, 88 Aston Villa v Bolton 30, 67 Blackburn v Fulham 0, 90 Everton v Newcastle 55, 80 Tottenham v Wolves 7, 36 West Brom v Birmingham 25, 90 Sunderland v Arsenal 12, 80 Sunday Man U v Liverpool 29, 63 Wigan v Man City 4, 26 Chelsea v Blackpool 6, 20
September 17, 201014 yr Chelsea v Blackpool 6, 20 If my understading of how this works is correct, if Chelsea win this game 3-0 and the first goal is scored in the 10th minute, I get 14 points?
September 17, 201014 yr Author If my understading of how this works is correct, if Chelsea win this game 3-0 and the first goal is scored in the 10th minute, I get 14 points? Correct - as long as the first goal isn't an own goal :D
September 17, 201014 yr Saturday Stoke v West Ham - 69, 72 Aston Villa v Bolton - 19, 85 Blackburn v Fulham - 24, 70 Everton v Newcastle - 19, 46 Tottenham v Wolves - 36, 81 West Brom v Birmingham - 0, 90 Sunderland v Arsenal - 13, 78 Sunday Man U v Liverpool - 0, 54 Wigan v Man City - 19, 61 Chelsea v Blackpool - 9, 72 just like a game of bingo :lol:
September 17, 201014 yr Saturday Stoke v West Ham 44 44 Aston Villa v Bolton 63 88 Blackburn v Fulham 23 67 Everton v Newcastle 10 72 Tottenham v Wolves 23 23 West Brom v Birmingham 33 33 Sunderland v Arsenal 27 77 Sunday Man U v Liverpool 12 95 (Fergie Time) Wigan v Man City 15 80 Chelsea v Blackpool 20 66
September 17, 201014 yr Saturday Stoke v West Ham 24, 24 Aston Villa v Bolton 37, 76 Blackburn v Fulham 40, 60 Everton v Newcastle 17, 34 Tottenham v Wolves 20, 20 West Brom v Birmingham 35, 80 Sunderland v Arsenal 24, 24 Sunday Man U v Liverpool 29, 82 Wigan v Man City 33, 54 Chelsea v Blackpool 17, 17
September 17, 201014 yr Author Saturday Sunday Man U v Liverpool 12 95 (Fergie Time) :lol: I think he's gone off Fergie time recently. Stoppage time goals count as 45 or 90 so I'll take that as a 90 :)
September 17, 201014 yr Saturday Stoke v West Ham- 12,69 Aston Villa v Bolton- 48,78 Blackburn v Fulham- 42,64 Everton v Newcastle- 26,72 Tottenham v Wolves- 37,67 West Brom v Birmingham- 49,80 Sunderland v Arsenal- 29,76 Sunday Man U v Liverpool- 11,58 Wigan v Man City- 18,70 Chelsea v Blackpool- 9,60
September 17, 201014 yr Saturday Stoke v West Ham 58, 72 Aston Villa v Bolton 47, 47 Blackburn v Fulham 31, 83 Everton v Newcastle 26, 38 Tottenham v Wolves 29, 79 West Brom v Birmingham 41, 68 Sunderland v Arsenal 17, 17 Sunday Man U v Liverpool 27, 69 Wigan v Man City 19, 19 Chelsea v Blackpool 12, 12
September 17, 201014 yr Stoke v West Ham 56, 56 Aston Villa v Bolton 19, 43 Blackburn v Fulham 42, 67 Everton v Newcastle 8, 89 Tottenham v Wolves 73, 73 West Brom v Birmingham 0, 90 Sunderland v Arsenal 13, 13 Sunday Man U v Liverpool 27, 83 Wigan v Man City 61, 61 Chelsea v Blackpool 14, 87
September 17, 201014 yr Stoke v West Ham 7, 28 Aston Villa v Bolton 18, 18 Blackburn v Fulham 46, 72 Everton v Newcastle 8, 80 Tottenham v Wolves 9, 77 West Brom v Birmingham 0, 90 Sunderland v Arsenal 12, 55 Sunday Man U v Liverpool 40, 40 Wigan v Man City 27, 27 Chelsea v Blackpool 24, 24
September 17, 201014 yr Saturday Stoke v West Ham 14, 53 Aston Villa v Bolton 67, 74 Blackburn v Fulham 0, 0 Everton v Newcastle 8, 61 Tottenham v Wolves, 37, 50 West Brom v Birmingham 44, 44 Sunderland v Arsenal 18, 18 Sunday Man U v Liverpool 51, 80 Wigan v Man City 16, 16 Chelsea v Blackpool 10, 10
September 18, 201014 yr Author My entry Saturday Stoke v West Ham 31, 70 Aston Villa v Bolton 24, 66 Blackburn v Fulham 19, 78 Everton v Newcastle 14, 63 Tottenham v Wolves 17, 71 West Brom v Birmingham 36, 46 Sunderland v Arsenal 18, 26 Sunday Man U v Liverpool 39, 51 Wigan v Man City 16, 25 Chelsea v Blackpool 11, 22
September 18, 201014 yr Author Six games in and it's all very close. One more game this evening and then three tomorrow. 1 C.R. 201 2 Grape 215 3 Mancunian Giraffe 228 4 Suedehead 235 5 Jonny 253 6 Santa Claus 254 7 Chart Wizard 258 8 Dandy 273 9 Rooney 332 10 Rabbit Fur Coat 333 11 Severin 339
September 18, 201014 yr Author Things change quickly in this game. After four minutes of stoppage time at Sunderland it looked like this 1 C.R. 209 2 Mancunian Giraffe 228 3 Suedehead 253 4 Grape 280 5 Santa Claus 288 6 Dandy 295 7 Jonny 296 8 Chart Wizard 337 9 Rooney 342 10 Rabbit Fur Coat 401 11 Severin 417 Mancunian Giraffe was set to score 0 for a correct prediction of 13, 13. Then Darren Bent scored and so the scores with three games to go are 1 Grape 227 2 C.R. 278 3 Chart Wizard 288 4 Jonny 289 5 Suedehead 304 6 Mancunian Giraffe 305 7 Santa Claus 331 8 Rabbit Fur Coat 344 9 Dandy 350 10 Severin 366 11 Rooney 409
September 19, 201014 yr Things change quickly in this game. After four minutes of stoppage time at Sunderland it looked like this 1 C.R. 209 2 Mancunian Giraffe 228 3 Suedehead 253 4 Grape 280 5 Santa Claus 288 6 Dandy 295 7 Jonny 296 8 Chart Wizard 337 9 Rooney 342 10 Rabbit Fur Coat 401 11 Severin 417 Mancunian Giraffe was set to score 0 for a correct prediction of 13, 13. Then Darren Bent scored and so the scores with three games to go are 1 Grape 227 2 C.R. 278 3 Chart Wizard 288 4 Jonny 289 5 Suedehead 304 6 Mancunian Giraffe 305 7 Santa Claus 331 8 Rabbit Fur Coat 344 9 Dandy 350 10 Severin 366 11 Rooney 409 so does that mean I'm bottom or top :o
September 19, 201014 yr Author so does that mean I'm bottom or top :o You're top at the moment. The lowest score wins :D
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