No more entries please, we are now logging everyone onto the big Sunderland automated computer programme. So what happens now? We’ve been asked a few times … so for regulars to recap once again, and for new readers to know what’s going on.
OK, we’ve waited till Saturday morning; in a couple of days (hopefully not much more) we go through all entries, bear in mind patience, it's literally hundreds of them (there always are mistakes such as having 2 Norwichs but no Stoke, having only 19 by forgetting a team etc so we have to get back to individual posters).
Then we make the forum average - every team placed by every contributor has a number position and we take the exact average. If, say, Swansea comes out average of 8.5 place and next West Ham 8.61 then we know we place the Hammers one position lower. We can't predict points gaps of course - if you think there will be a 15 gap between 6th and 7th we can't account for that! But all twenty teams come out in order ... and I will faithfully transfer your average list on this thread as soon as I can. Forums by entry coming up soon too so everyone knows how many on each forum have participated.
All forums will vary, that's the beauty - so we calculate the 'real' table with your vision of a your forum table and we calculate how far every team is out and thus give the points, probably from the second league match onwards or possibly the 3rd game if it takes us that long. A lot of astute guessing this year I can see. But the league positions will of course change all season so our forum table changes all season, and as stated in the initial post we award extra bonus points at the end of every month - and that really helps to sort out the top firing forums!
But it's all just a bit of fun, don't take it TOO seriously! Also we've had cases where a forum has been, well, almost dire one season but the next gone on to medal positions (e.g. Man Utd and Sunderland) !!
A reminder LAST SEASON – the top ten and their final points
Position – Total Points – ‘helping’ bonus points – name of forum + team
NATIONAL FORUM Honorary Gold Medal – Shared!!
• 1 37 11 DCFC Fans Derby County
• 1 37 9 Toffee Talk Everton
NATIONAL FORUM Honorary Silver Medal –
• 3 46 12 United Lounge Manchester United
NATIONAL FORUM Honorary Bronze Medal – shared!
• 4 48 2 Foxes Talk Leicester City
• 4 48 6 BlackCatChat Sunderland
NATIONAL FORUM Honorary Diploma of Honour I
• 6 51 3 BaggiesZone West Bromwich Albion
NATIONAL FORUM Honorary Diploma of Honour II – shared!
• 7 52 4 Not 606 Hull Board Hull City
• 7 52 2 ToonForum Newcastle United
Then …
• 9 53 1 WFC Forums Watford FC
• 10 58 0 Tottenham Hotspur Unofficial Supporters Site Tottenham Hotspur
Etc. etc.
Enjoy the first day of the league season!!!
daib0/David
