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Inter-Forum PREMIER Positions Game 2015-16

daib0

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Inter-Forum PREMIER Positions Game 2015-16


The game is already well established, several seasons running now. And we'd like to invite you!
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



IMPORTANT

ENTRIES IN BY 7TH AUGUST 2015 – plenty of time, but 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!!

daib0
 
The Sunderland computer

Sunderland has a computer now? Aces!

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1. Chelsea
2. Manchester United
3. Manchester City
4. Arsenal
5. Liverpool
6. Tottenham Hotspur
7. Newcastle United
8. Southampton
9. Everton
10. Crystal Palace
11. Swansea City
12. West Ham United
13. Stoke City
14. Aston Villa
15. Norwich City
16. Sunderland
17. Bournemouth
18. Leicester City
19. West Bromwich Albion
20. Watford
 
1. Chelsea
2. Man City
3. Arsenal
4. Man Utd
5. Tottenham
6. Everton
7. Liverpool
8. Stoke
9. Swansea
10. West Ham
11. Crystal Palace
12. Southampton
13. Newcastle
14. West Brom
15. Norwich
16. Aston Villa
17. Sunderland
18. Watford
19. Leicester
20. Bournemouth
 
1. Chelsea
2. Man City
3. Man Utd
4. Arsenal
5. Southampton
6. Tottenham
7. Liverpool
8. Swansea
9. Everton
10. West Ham
11. Newcastle
12. Crystal Palace
13. Aston Villa
14. Stoke
15. West Brom
16. Sunderland
17. Norwich City
18. Bournemouth
19. Watford
20. Leicester City
 
Fuck me, the name formatting is all over the place.

Stoke (no City)
Man (chester??) Utd
West Ham (no United)

I've had to edit my list about 5 yimes already!
 
$#@! me, the name formatting is all over the place.

Stoke (no City)
Man (chester??) Utd
West Ham (no United)

I've had to edit my list about 5 yimes already!

don't worry, it's basically for the alphabetical list; Gunners doesn't go under 'A' etc. No problem, we look through all entries anyway, occasionally we get, for example, two Norwich but no Stoke!


It's going very well, currently replies in from two dozen forums :easy:
 
1. Chelsea
2. Arsenal
3. Manchester United
4. Manchester City
5. Liverpool
6. Tottenham Hotspur
7. Swansea City
8. Everton
9. Southampton
10. Stoke City
11. Leicester City
12. West Bromwich Albion
13. Newcastle United
14. Crystal Palace
15. West Ham United
16. Sunderland
17. Aston Villa
18. Norwich City
19. Watford
20. Bournemouth
 
:icon_lol: Is that Linda ^^^
 
1. Chelsea
2. Arsenal
3. Manchester United
4. Manchester City
5. Liverpool
6. Tottenham Hotspur
7. Southampton
8. Everton
9. Swansea City
10. Crystal Palace
11. Stoke City
12. West Ham United
13. Newcastle United
14. Aston Villa
15. West Bromwich Albion
16. Sunderland
17. Leicester City
18. Norwich City
19. Watford
20. Bournemouth
 
1. Chelsea
2. Manchester City
3. Arsenal
4. Southampton
5. Manchester United
6. Tottenham Hotspur
7. Liverpool
8. Stoke City
9. West Ham United
10. Crystal Palace
11. Swansea City
12. Aston Villa
13. Newcastle United
14. West Bromwich Albion
15. Norwich City
16. Everton
17. Watford
18. Sunderland
19. Bournemouth
20. Leicester City
 
I can't remember the last time Merseyside didn't have a top six side, it could happen next season.
 
Spurs have finished above Liverpool for five of the past six seasons too.
 
1. Chelsea
2. Manchester City
3. Manchester United
4. Arsenal
5. Tottenham Hotspur
6. Liverpool
7. Southampton
8. Stoke City
9. West Ham United
10. Crystal Palace
11. Aston Villa
12. Newcastle United
13. Everton
14. Swansea City
15. Norwich City
16. West Bromwich Albion
17. Sunderland
18. Watford
19. Leicester City
20. Bournemouth
 
1. Chelsea
2. Manchester Utd
3. Manchester City
4. Arsenal
5. Tottenham Hotspur
6. Southampton
7. Liverpool
8. Swansea City
9. West Ham United
10. Crystal Palace
11. Stoke City
12. Everton
13. Newcastle United
14. Aston Villa
15. Norwich City
16. Sunderland
17. West Bromwich Albion
18. Bournemouth
19. Leicester City
20. Watford
 
1. Arsenal
2. Chelsea
3. Man City
4. Man Utd
5. Tottenham
6. Everton
7. Stoke
8. Liverpool
9. Swansea
10. West Ham
11. Southampton
12. Newcastle
13. Crystal Palace
14. Norwich
15. Sunderland
16. Aston Villa
17. West Brom
18. Watford
19. Bournemouth
20. Leicester City
 
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