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HTAFC Prediction League 2024 Matchday 2 - Lord Snooty - 09-01-2024
2 points for correct result
4 points for correct score
2 points for each correct scorer
Correct joker doubles your score
(correct score on a joker would give you 8 points)Wrong joker result gives you minus 2
Correct Random Badger gives you 2 points
The random badger
is used for any random prediction used once in each matchday sequence. For instance, a scorer at a particular match, the number of red cards in the matches or yellow cards or own goals or owt you want really within reason, I do need to be able to check whether it's correct or not. Please don't put stuff like....."Commentator says...." 
The joker
is played for one match in each sequence and if correct you get double points. So if you've predicted 1-0 and it finishes 2-0, you get 4 pts, but if you've predicted 2-0, that's 8 pts. But if you get it wrong, it's minus 2.Jokers and badgers are optional. You don't have to play one if you don't want.
The prize for winning the league is one rep point.
Cup games: In the event of a draw, it's half the points if you've predicted a draw when it gets to 90 mins and the full points if it's still a draw after extra time. Half the points will be awarded for correctly predicting the winner of the match if it goes to penalties. Similarly with the badger, if your random prediction is affected by this, it'll be half the points.
Random score generator: I will be using the random score generator again for those who miss predicting, so we shouldn't get some people too far behind that after missing a couple of weeks they lose all interest, because I know it's not easy getting on here every week.
To be fair to everybody, this is going to be like, say if three people in one week miss their predictions, the first one in the table will be given all 0-0, the second one down the line will get 1-0 and the third will get 0-1 and so on, like if there's four missing the 4th will get 1-1, then 5th 2-1, 6th 1-2. and if there are so many missing, might as well pack in.
And if you miss two weeks on the trot, I'll stop until you come back on again. Not doing it for half a season like I did t'other year.
End of season Play Offs: The one who finishes top of the league will still be champion, but after the season finishes there will be Play Offs between the top 4, with 1st v 4th and 2nd v 3rd. This will take in stuff like the EFL Play Offs, FA Cup Final, final day of Prima Donna League, European Finals etc. It will be one matchday for the semis and one for the Final. It will be the individual scores for each matchday against the allotted opponent, with some kind of tie breaker for a drawn match.
The prize for winning will be enormous. Another rep point.
So we have a new format for this season, which I put forward as an idea at the end of last season. Nobody offered any objections so here it is explained......
Firstly, I thought it was getting a bit boring towards the end with the league format as it was with the champion being so far ahead and everybody else not much to play for apart from the push for a play off spot, which was a bit of an anticlimax anyway. The most exciting bit was the tussle for 8th, 9th and 10th positions with Shep, Ritchie and Amelia.
So I'm splitting the group up into two groups with the top six from last season in the top group and the bottom six in group 2. At the end of the season, the winner of group 2 and the bottom of group 1 will swap places in what is commonly known as "promotion" and "relegation". It's something that most football fans will be familiar with, unless you're a fan of Liverpool or Arsenal or one of those other fashionable clubs.
The second placed player in group 2 will then have a play off with the player who finishes second from the bottom in group 1 to decide whether they will be going up, down or staying where they are.
We're going to have two seasons in one though, just to try and make it a bit more interesting and not so long drawn out. The first season will end on the Boxing Day fixtures, with the play offs being on the dates of the Twixtmas fixtures and the NYD fixtures.
The second season will start the following week, finishing on the last game of the Championship season. Then another period of relegation/promotion play off games, taking in such fixtures as the EFL play offs, FA Cup Final, UEFA finals and such like.
Each group will have it's own set of fixtures. Both groups will have the Town games, with scorers to predict as before. Then it will be a split of Championship fixtures and bonus matches. And not as many fixtures to go at. Hopefully around ten, eleven or twelve games per Matchday.
The rest of the rules will be the same as before apart from the
which will still be in use, but I'm going to get arsey about it. Sometimes in the past, I've been able to just award two points immediately because it was such a nailed on thing to happen. Not accusing anyone of cheating. Far from it. I didn't put any boundaries on it, so anything was alright. So now I'm restricting it to three goal scorers in any of the games in your group. Sorry to all our more adventurous badgerers.Here's how that will appear at the end of the fixture list. All you have to do is fill in the blanks.......
*** scores for *** *** scores for *** *** scores for ***Any of those will score two points if correct. No minus points for getting it wrong.
The joker
will still be the same as before, ie doubling your points for a correct prediction or minus 2 for getting it wrong.Postponed matches will only count if the match is re-played before the next Matchday is under way. Abandoned matches will be awarded half the points for the score at the time of abandonment, so 1 point if you have the correct result, 2 points if you have the correct score.
Substitute
:- These will be only be allowed if you change them before the match involved has kicked off. Division One table after Matchday 1:
- jjamez = 32 pts
- ritchiebaby = 32 pts
- St Charles Owl = 30 pts
- themaclad = 30 pts
- Baggiebob(BBB) = 26 pts
- Lord Snooty = 24 pts
Friday 12th January:
Hull City v Norwich City
Saturday 13th January:
Town v Plymouth
Town scorers:
Plymouth scorers:
Coventry City v Leicester City (12:30)
Birmingham City v Swansea City
Preston North End v Bristol City
Southampton v Sheffield Wednesday
West Bromwich Albion v Blackburn Rovers
Bonus matches:
Premier League:
Saturday:
Newcastle United v Manchester City (17:30)
Sunday:
Manchester United v Tottenham Hotspur (16:30)
FA Cup 3rd round replays:
Tuesday:
Bolton Wanderers v Luton Town
Eastleigh v Newport County
Wednesday:
Blackpool v Nottingham Forest
Everton v Crystal Palace
*** scores for *** *** scores for *** *** scores for ***FA Cup dates may change for tv purposes.
Division Two table after Matchday 1:
- SHEP_HTAFC = 42 pts
- theo_luddite = 34 pts
- Devongone = 30 pts
- neonfoxinthebox = 26 pts
- Amelia Chaffinch = 12 pts
- WakeyTerrier = 8 pts
Saturday 13th January:
Town v Plymouth
Town scorers:
Plymouth scorers:
Cardiff City v Leeds United
Millwall v Middlesbrough
Rotherham United v Stoke City
Ipswich Town v Sunderland (17:30)
Sunday 14th January:
Queens Park Rangers v Watford (12:00)
Bonus matches:
Premier League:
Saturday:
Chelsea v Fulham (12:30)
Sunday:
Everton v Aston Villa (14:00)
FA Cup 3rd round replays:
Tuesday:
Birmingham City v Hull City
Bristol City v West Ham United
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Brentford
Wednesday:
Bristol Rovers v Norwich City
National League:
Tuesday:
Chesterfield v Altrincham
*** scores for *** *** scores for *** *** scores for ***FA Cup dates may change for tv purposes.
Loads of players are away at the Africa Cup of Nations and also the Asia Cup. Town's Yuta Nakayama is among them, but also the likes of Mo Salah and Heung-Min Son are missing for the next month or so. For a full list of players not to pick for your badgers, here's a link. https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13039129/which-premier-league-players-will-miss-january-action-through-the-africa-cup-of-nations-and-the-asia-cup
RE: HTAFC Prediction League 2024 Matchday 2 - ritchiebaby - 10-01-2024
Friday 12th January:
Hull City 2 v 1 Norwich City
Saturday 13th January:
Town 3 v 2 Plymouth
Town scorers: Thomas, Rudoni, Radulovic
Plymouth scorers: Whittaker, Hardie
Coventry City 1 v 2 Leicester City (12:30)
Birmingham City 1 v 1 Swansea City
Preston North End 1 v 1 Bristol City
Southampton 3 v 1 Sheffield Wednesday
West Bromwich Albion 2 v 0 Blackburn Rovers
Bonus matches:
Premier League:
Saturday:
Newcastle United 1 v 3 Manchester City (17:30)
Sunday:
Manchester United 2 v 2 Tottenham Hotspur (16:30)
FA Cup 3rd round replays:
Tuesday:
Blackpool 2 v 1 Nottingham Forest
Bolton Wanderers 1 v 3 Luton Town
Eastleigh 3 v 1 Newport County
Wednesday:
Everton 2 v 1 Crystal Palace
Sharp scores for Hull City Adam Armstrong scores for Southampton Richarlison scores for Spurs
RE: HTAFC Prediction League 2024 Matchday 2 - WakeyTerrier - 10-01-2024
Sorry, I missed week 1 for some reason. Anyway I’m here now.
Saturday 13th January:
Town v Plymouth 3-1
Town scorers: Rudoni,Helik,Thomas
Plymouth scorers: no idea so let’s say number 8
Cardiff City v Leeds United 0-2
Millwall v Middlesbrough 1-1
Rotherham United v Stoke City 1-1
Ipswich Town v Sunderland (17:30) 2-1
Sunday 14th January:
Queens Park Rangers v Watford (12:00) 1-1
Bonus matches:
Premier League:
Saturday:
Chelsea v Fulham (12:30) 2-2
Sunday:
Everton v Aston Villa (14:00) 1-2
FA Cup 3rd round replays:
Tuesday:
Birmingham City v Hull City 1-2
Bristol City v West Ham United 1-2
Bristol Rovers v Norwich City 2-1
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Brentford 2-2
National League:
Tuesday:
Chesterfield v Altrincham 2-0
RE: HTAFC Prediction League 2024 Matchday 2 - Lord Snooty - 10-01-2024
Friday 12th January:
Hull City 3-0 Norwich City
Saturday 13th January:
Town 2-2 Plymouth
Town scorers: Helik, Radulovic
Plymouth scorers: Whittaker, Hardie
Coventry City 0-2 Leicester City (12:30)
Birmingham City 1-1 Swansea City
Preston North End 0-1 Bristol City
Southampton 4-0 Sheffield Wednesday
West Bromwich Albion 3-1 Blackburn Rovers
Bonus matches:
Premier League:
Saturday:
Newcastle United 0-2 Manchester City (17:30)
Sunday:
Manchester United 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur (16:30)
FA Cup 3rd round replays:
Tuesday:
Blackpool 1-3 Nottingham Forest
Bolton Wanderers 1-2 Luton Town
Eastleigh 1-0 Newport County
Wednesday:
Everton 2-0 Crystal Palace
Kevin de Bruyne scores for Citeh Jordan Rhodes scores for Blackpool Phil O'Gene scores for Hull City Tigers
RE: HTAFC Prediction League 2024 Matchday 2 - themaclad - 11-01-2024
Friday 12th January:
Hull City2 v0 Norwich City
Saturday 13th January:
Town1 v0 Plymouth
Town scorers:Thomas
Plymouth scorers:
Coventry City0 v 1Leicester City (12:30)
Birmingham City1 v1 Swansea City
Preston North End1 v1 Bristol City
Southampton2 v1 Sheffield Wednesday
West Bromwich Albion2 v 1Blackburn Rovers
Bonus matches:
Premier League:
Saturday:
Newcastle United 1v2 Manchester City (17:30)
Sunday:
Manchester United1 v1 Tottenham Hotspur (16:30)
FA Cup 3rd round replays:
Tuesday:
Blackpool0 v2 Nottingham Forest
Bolton Wanderers 1v0 Luton Town
Eastleigh1 v2 Newport County
Wednesday:
Everton1 v0 Crystal Palace
Badger Rhodes scores for Blackpool
Badger Alcarez scores for Man C
Badger Delap scores for Hull
RE: HTAFC Prediction League 2024 Matchday 2 - theo_luddite - 11-01-2024
Saturday 13th January:
Town 2v1 Plymouth
Town scorers: Helik, Radulovic Kasumu
Plymouth scorers: Whitaker
Cardiff City 0v1 Leeds United
Millwall 1v2 Middlesbrough
Rotherham United 1v1 Stoke City
Ipswich Town 2v1 Sunderland (17:30)
Sunday 14th January:
Queens Park Rangers 1v2 Watford (12:00)
Bonus matches:
Premier League:
Saturday:
Chelsea 2v1 Fulham (12:30)
Sunday:
Everton 1v2 Aston Villa (14:00)
FA Cup 3rd round replays:
Tuesday:
Birmingham City 1v2 Hull City
Bristol City 1v3 West Ham United
Bristol Rovers 1v2 Norwich City
Wolverhampton Wanderers 1v0 Brentford
National League:
Tuesday:
Chesterfield 2v1 Altrincham
Whitaker scores for Plymouth Chaplin scores for Ipswich Watkins scores for Villa
RE: HTAFC Prediction League 2024 Matchday 2 - Lord Snooty - 11-01-2024
The two Emirates FA Cup third round replay matches chosen for live television broadcast in the UK by the BBC and ITV are detailed below:
TUESDAY 16 JANUARY 2024
Bristol City v West Ham United at 7.45pm GMT on BBC One, BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport
WEDNESDAY 17 JANUARY 2024
Blackpool v Nottingham Forest at 7.45pm GMT on ITV4 and ITVX
RE: HTAFC Prediction League 2024 Matchday 2 - Amelia Chaffinch - 11-01-2024
Saturday 13th January:
Town 3-2 Plymouth
Town scorers: Hudlin, Helik, Lees
Plymouth scorers:
Cardiff City 5-0 Leeds United
Millwall 1-1 Middlesbrough
Rotherham United 1-2 Stoke City
Ipswich Town 2-0 Sunderland (17:30)
Sunday 14th January:
Queens Park Rangers 0-2 Watford (12:00)
Bonus matches:
Premier League:
Saturday:
Chelsea 2-2 Fulham (12:30)
Sunday:
Everton 1-0 Aston Villa (14:00)
FA Cup 3rd round replays:
Tuesday:
Birmingham City 0-2 Hull City
Bristol City 1-0 West Ham United
Wolverhampton Wanderers 2-1 Brentford
Wednesday:
Bristol Rovers 3-0 Norwich City
National League:
Tuesday:
Chesterfield 3-1 Altrincham
RE: HTAFC Prediction League 2024 Matchday 2 - jjamez - 12-01-2024
Friday 12th January:
Hull City 2-2 Norwich City
Saturday 13th January:
Town 2-1 Plymouth
Town scorers: bojan, koroma
Plymouth scorers: Whittaker
Coventry City 1-3 Leicester City (12:30)
Birmingham City 1-1 Swansea City
Preston North End 1-0 Bristol City
Southampton 3-0 Sheffield Wednesday
West Bromwich Albion 2-1 Blackburn Rovers
Bonus matches:
Premier League:
Saturday:
Newcastle United 1-2 Manchester City (17:30)
Sunday:
Manchester United 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur (16:30)
FA Cup 3rd round replays:
Tuesday:
Bolton Wanderers 1-3 Luton Town
Eastleigh 0-2 Newport County
Wednesday:
Blackpool 1-2 Nottingham Forest
Everton 1-0 Crystal Palace
Badger dewsbury-hall scores for Leicester
Badger haaland scores for man city
Badger a Armstrong scores for Southampton
RE: HTAFC Prediction League 2024 Matchday 2 - Baggiebob(BBB) - 12-01-2024
Division One table after Matchday 1:
- jjamez = 32 pts
- ritchiebaby = 32 pts
- St Charles Owl = 30 pts
- themaclad = 30 pts
- Baggiebob(BBB) = 26 pts
- Lord Snooty = 24 pts
Hull City v Norwich City 1-O
Saturday 13th January:
Town v Plymouth 2-3
Town scorers: rudini Karama
Plymouth scorers: whittaker x 2 Hardie
Coventry City v Leicester City (12:30) O-1
Birmingham City v Swansea City 1-1
Preston North End v Bristol City O-1
Southampton v Sheffield Wednesday 2-1
West Bromwich Albion v Blackburn Rovers 2-1
Bonus matches:
Premier League:
Saturday:
Newcastle United v Manchester City (17:30) O-2
Sunday:
Manchester United v Tottenham Hotspur (16:30) O-1
FA Cup 3rd round replays:
Tuesday:
Bolton Wanderers v Luton Town 2-O
Eastleigh v Newport County 2-O
Wednesday:
Blackpool v Nottingham Forest O-2
Everton v Crystal Palace O-1
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