I was thinking about adding a bonus round. Name one team each from the Championship, League 1 & League 2 between the final round of this competition and the start of the playoffs. If one of your chosen teams win their division play offs you get one bonus point If two of your chosen teams win their division play offs you get 4 bonus points If all three of your chosen teams win their division play offs you get 9 bonus points If you think it's a good idea, then vote yes, otherwise vote no I will accept a majority decision, I will abstain. Votes open to the other 19 participants for 7 days, they will be public so I can count only those involved.
My prediction is that those up near the top will vote no, and those with very little chance will vote yes...
I was going to vote 'no', as I think Otter deserves a break, but then I saw TVOR was against it and so I went all in for 'yes'
A break? He's getting a couple of months off after this. These prima dona overpaid competition organisers are what's ruining this sport.
Only if there are 10 or more votes for it before the poll closes on Thursday. If not we will lynch you in what will become Prediction League werewolf.
Seriously I've always hated the Rugby system when they have playoffs to decide who are Champions instead of the team finishing at the top of the league taking the title, that's why I am against it.
I see your point, and others may do too. However predicting play off winners is notoriously difficult, particularly as I imagine none of us are familiar with League 2. Quickly doing the sums such that each team in each league has a 25% chance of winning, the chances of any player getting any of the 3 correct is 42%, the chances of anyone getting exactly one right is also 42%. Extrapolating that out, statistically of the 20 participants 17 will get either 0 or 1 point. There's a 14% chance of getting exactly 2 right, earning 4 points. To get all 3 correct is a 1.5% chance of doing so. If it goes ahead the round will open after the three leagues have completed their seasons and it will close the day before the play offs start.
I think you have kind of backed my doubts about doing this, as you are basically saying it is almost Pot Luck. However it is your game and in the end it is up to you, but might I suggest an alternative? Go ahead and run it as a separate mini competition for a bit of fun and do not have it as part of the existing competition at all? That seems like a fair compromise to me
This could be our equivalent of the League Cup, then we will have a chance of doing the double of League Champions and League Cup Holder's
I think part of the problem it would finish 3 weeks after the end of the regular season and two weeks after the selections were made. It wasn't thought out too well. We will just end next week.
Sorry, I've just seen this. I'm also happy to do a playoff bonus, if it makes the game more interesting for everyone!
Fair enough and thanks for all the work this season , very enjoyable but frustrating. If it wasn't for Huddersfield either scoring or letting in goals in injury time.... Just for the hell of it: Brentford, Sunderland, Morecombe Bound to be none of them now!
For everyone who were involved, as Miked and foxy did just name one team from each of the divisions: Brentford / Swansea / Barnsley / Bournemouth and Blackpool / Sunderland / Lincoln / Oxford and Morecambe / Newport / Forest Green / Tranmere The deadline is this time next week, before any of the play off matches commence. 1 correct = 1 point, 2 correct = 4 points and all 3 = 9 points.