Yes folks, Serie A restarts this weekend, and with it the reasonably popular OTF prediction league. Ursus minor and I both hope that a number of our newer posters with an interest in things Italian will choose to join the usual suspects (Martlets, Bruno, we're looking at you, not chewing a brick).
But before we get down to business, a tribute to last season's very worthy Champion*
Unlike anything else involving Italian football, the rules for our competition don't change every year. We will post five matches a week (no later than Friday morning, we hope, and trying to include "big" games and all major derbies) and ask you to submit 1X2 "Totocalcio style" (i.e., home win=1, draw=X, away win=2) predictions for each of them, along with score predictions for the two matches highlighted in bold.
Correct result predictions earn you one point; correct score predictions get (at a total of) three points. The maximum score in any one week is therefore nine points, which has never been recorded in the history of the competition. We try to post each week's results and a current table on Monday.
And here are this week's matches (starting times are in CET):
Sampdoria - Inter (Sat 20h30)
Atalanta - Siena (Sun 15h00)
Cagliari - Lazio (Sun 15h00)
Roma - Napoli (Sun 15h00)
Fiorentina - Juventus (Sun 20h30)
And just to get things started, here are my picks:
Sampdoria - Inter 2
Atalanta - Siena 1
Cagliari - Lazio 1
Roma - Napoli 1 (2-1)
Fiorentina - Juventus 2 (1-2)
And those of ursus minor:
Sampdoria - Inter X
Atalanta - Siena X
Cagliari - Lazio 2
Roma - Napoli 1 (3-1)
Fiorentina - Juventus 2 (0-1)
Bocca a lupo to everyone.
* ad hoc, we would be happy to send you a mounted hard copy of this memento for your trophy room, just pm me a postal address.
But before we get down to business, a tribute to last season's very worthy Champion*
Unlike anything else involving Italian football, the rules for our competition don't change every year. We will post five matches a week (no later than Friday morning, we hope, and trying to include "big" games and all major derbies) and ask you to submit 1X2 "Totocalcio style" (i.e., home win=1, draw=X, away win=2) predictions for each of them, along with score predictions for the two matches highlighted in bold.
Correct result predictions earn you one point; correct score predictions get (at a total of) three points. The maximum score in any one week is therefore nine points, which has never been recorded in the history of the competition. We try to post each week's results and a current table on Monday.
And here are this week's matches (starting times are in CET):
Sampdoria - Inter (Sat 20h30)
Atalanta - Siena (Sun 15h00)
Cagliari - Lazio (Sun 15h00)
Roma - Napoli (Sun 15h00)
Fiorentina - Juventus (Sun 20h30)
And just to get things started, here are my picks:
Sampdoria - Inter 2
Atalanta - Siena 1
Cagliari - Lazio 1
Roma - Napoli 1 (2-1)
Fiorentina - Juventus 2 (1-2)
And those of ursus minor:
Sampdoria - Inter X
Atalanta - Siena X
Cagliari - Lazio 2
Roma - Napoli 1 (3-1)
Fiorentina - Juventus 2 (0-1)
Bocca a lupo to everyone.
* ad hoc, we would be happy to send you a mounted hard copy of this memento for your trophy room, just pm me a postal address.
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