The OTF prediction competition

[Logan Mountstuart]

Arsenal 3-1 Watford
Burnley 2-1 Brighton
Chelsea 3-2 Wolves
Crystal Palace 1-2 Tottenham
Everton 2-1Bournemouth
Leicester 3-2 Man Utd
Man City 5-o Norwich
Newcastle 1-3 Liverpool
Southampton 1‐1 Sheff Utd
West Ham 2-0 Aston Villa

I make that 36 goals. I know it will be less. Cheers Sean.

[Guy Profumo]

Was anyone else checking yesterday's results to see what the final scores were?

Thanks as ever Sean.

It's been a blast.

[irony towers]

Yesterday's results were in the National League playoffs, Guy. The Premier League fixtures kick off at 4pm today.

[jdsx]

Arsenal 1-0 Watford
Burnley 0-0 Brighton
Chelsea 1-2 Wolves
Crystal Palace 0-2 Tottenham
Everton 1-0 Bournemouth
Leicester 0-1 Man Utd
Man City 4-1 Norwich
Newcastle 1-1 Liverpool
Southampton 1-0 Sheff Utd
West Ham 1-2 Aston Villa

27 (may not match)

Cheers Sean.

[Guy Profumo]

Yesterday's results were in the National League playoffs, Guy. The Premier League fixtures kick off at 4pm today.

Yes I know (now!)

[ad hoc]

Arsenal 1-1 Watford
Burnley 3-2 Brighton
Chelsea 3-2 Wolves
Crystal Palace 1-3 Tottenham
Everton 1-0 Bournemouth
Leicester 1-1 Man Utd
Man City 5-2 Norwich
Newcastle 1-4 Liverpool
Southampton 1-0 Sheff Utd
West Ham 0-2 Aston Villa

31 goals

Thanks again Sean

[Sean of the Shed]

Final table:

irony towers 7 310
jdsx 4 278
Guy Profumo 7+3 277
Sean of the Shed 6 270
Sporting 7 266
Logan Mountstuart 8 260
Jah Womble 7 260
Sits 8 256
ad hoc 4 254
longeared 8 252
Duncan Gardner d 241
Stobart d 226
CY_Boaby 3 212
Merseybeast 226
Antepli Ejderha d 183
nmrfox 4 161

Congratulations to irony towers on convincingly winning this season's prediction competition. He eventually won it by a very comfortable 32 points from runner up jdsx, who in turn finished just 1 point ahead of Guy Profumo in third. Guy was the final week's top scorer with 10, including the three point bonus for correctly predicting the number of goals scored in the final round of games.
Thanks to everyone who has participated this season and hopefully we will be doing it all again in a few weeks time.

[irony towers]

Many thanks to you, Sean, for your superlative stewarding once again.

It's a win with an asterisk, I accept, so let's hope for a clearer run in the tenth staging of the competition, and that I shan't have spoilt everyone's fun by the end of November. [/humblebrag]

[irony towers]

To scratch Logan's itch, the standings for the Jose Mourinho Post-Lockdown Competition are:

Sporting 50
Logan Mountstuart 44
Guy Profumo 43
irony towers 37
jdsx 37
Sits 35
longeared 35
Jah Womble 32
Sean of the Shed 31
nmrfox 29
CY_Boaby 27
Duncan Gardner 23
ad hoc 15

[Guy Profumo]

Many thanks once again for this Sean.

[Antepli Ejderha]

Thanks for running this Sean of the Shed

[Logan Mountstuart]

Thanks, Sean. And congrats and thanks to Irony. A convincing and deserved victory. That meddling Sporting....

I'll be back.

[Sean of the Shed]

To scratch Logan's itch, the standings for the Jose Mourinho Post-Lockdown Competition are:

Sporting 50
Logan Mountstuart 44
Guy Profumo 43
irony towers 37
jdsx 37
Sits 35
longeared 35
Jah Womble 32
nmrfox 29
CY_Boaby 27
Duncan Gardner 23
Sits 17
ad hoc 15

Erm...

[Sean of the Shed]

Many thanks to you, Sean, for your superlative stewarding once again.

It's a win with an asterisk, I accept, so let's hope for a clearer run in the tenth staging of the competition, and that I shan't have spoilt everyone's fun by the end of November. [/humblebrag]

No asterisk required here, irony. The few who dropped off psot-pandemic were never contenders anyway, and there were exactly the same number of paying supporters attending either side of the lockdown.

[irony towers]

Aagh, very sorry for not having emulated your triple-checking scrutiny in compiling the post-lockdown table, Sean. In my scribblings 'SotS' became indistinguishable from Sits. Now amended.

[Sits]

Congratulations irony; we ran you close I thought.

And thanks as ever Sean, masterful stewardship. And stewardly mastering.

[nmrfox]

Congratulations irony towers on your well deserved victory; almost a Liverpool level of gap between you and those squabbling for the minor places.

And as ever many thanks to Sean of the Shed for running this excellent and enjoyable competition.

Next season is a new season Sits, if I manage to stay around for it in its entirety then I'll be reclaiming our much sought after imaginary trophy...

[Sits]

Congratulations irony towers on your well deserved victory; almost a Liverpool level of gap between you and those squabbling for the minor places.

And as ever many thanks to Sean of the Shed for running this excellent and enjoyable competition.

Next season is a new season Sits, if I manage to stay around for it in its entirety then I'll be reclaiming our much sought after imaginary trophy...

Best of luck with that Foxy, since you were unable to whittle my lead following your comeback. #shitmindgames

[CY_Boaby]

Echoing what everyone else is saying - cheers Sean for organising yet another entertaining season of tipping.

My objective for the season is to try and win at least one round and I think I managed two wins this season. My crowning glory was back in February when I won the round and the bonus 3 points by predicting the exact attendance at the Everton v Crystal Palace game. I'd just gone in for the snip earlier in the week and was feeling a bit sorry for myself, so that round really cheered me up.

Roll on next season!

[Logan Mountstuart]

Try having the snip and then getting divorced 3 moths later, CJ. (high pitched smiley thing).

[Sean of the Shed]

It was only a month ago that we watched irony towers sprinting off into the distance like Usain Bolt in the Dad's race on school sports day, and here we are all over again. TheFootball powers that be have kindly arranged for the first round of the EFL cup to be played next Saturday alongside the UEFA Nations League, so we can start a week before the EPL.
Just so you get a reminder I'm tagging all the participants from last season but please feel free to take part if you haven't done recently or before, and anyone who is lurking and generally just watches from the sidelines is welcome to join in too.
irony towers jdsx Guy Profumo Sporting Logan Mountstuart Jah Womble Sits ad hoc longeared Duncan Gardner Stobart CY_Boaby Merseybeast Antepli Ejderha nmrfox

Here is a reminder of the rules:

Each round will be 10 games, hopefully all played on the same day, so all Saturday games, and if we do a midweek one then they will all likely be on the same night. Though it will be based mainly on the Premier League, there may also be lower league games, cup games, international games, European competition etc.

I'll post the games no later than 48 hours before the first kick-off, so Saturday games will be no later than midday Thursday, and midweek games will be no later than 7pm two days before, but if I can, I'll post them as early as possible.

Any posts made after the kick-off time, or edited after the kick-off time will be null and void for the relevant game(s). Watch out for early Saturday games kicking off at midday.

Predict the score of all games. Correct score is 3 points, correct result is 1 point. No minus points, no safe games, no bankers. There will usually be a bonus such as first scorer for a game, first yellow, or something like.

[Sean of the Shed]

Saturday's fixtures:

Iceland v England
Denmark v Belgium
Portugal v Croatia
Sweden v France
Barnsley v Nottingham Forest
Rochdale v Huddersfield Town
Luton Town v Norwich City
Newport County v Swansea City
Northampton Town v Cardiff City
Swindon Town v Charlton Athletic

First games kick off at 3pm. For the three point bonus predict the half time/full time score in the Gibraltar v San Marino game.

*predictions for EFL cup games should be for the score at 90 minutes.

[Sporting]

Iceland v England 0-2
Denmark v Belgium 0-2
Portugal v Croatia 2-0
Sweden v France 1-1
Barnsley v Nottingham Forest 0-0
Rochdale v Huddersfield Town 0-0
Luton Town v Norwich City 1-2
Newport County v Swansea City 1-2
Northampton Town v Cardiff City 1-2
Swindon Town v Charlton Athletic 1-1

0-0/0-0

[Duncan Gardner]

Saturday's fixtures:

Iceland 1-3 England
Denmark 0-2 Belgium
Portugal 1-0 Croatia
Sweden 1-1 France
Barnsley 0-2 Nottingham Forest
Rochdale 1-0 Huddersfield Town
Luton Town 1-2 Norwich City
Newport County 0-2 Swansea City
Northampton Town 1-3 Cardiff City
Swindon Town 2-0 Charlton Athletic

Gib 2(1) SMR 1 (0)

Welcome back Mr Shed

[Sporting]

Sean of the Shed: too late now but have you ever considered starting a new thread for a new season's competition? Would create more impact, and would make looking up previous results easier.