[Devongone]

The Lotus Accumulator

(I’ve already contributed to our crowd funding, but I’ve decided I can afford to give it a bit more impetus. For everyone who joins the free-to- enter Lotus Accumulator for this season I’ll give £1 to the fund. I reckon I can handle up to 50 entries.)

So what’s The Lotus Accumulator? It’s just a prediction game, which will run throughout the season. I hope it will help bring Babblers from every team together and isn't intended as competition for any other Prediction/Fantasy Leagues. It will start on Friday 9th August. It will include all Premiership, EFL, National League (not North and South!) and Scottish League teams in matches played each weekend (defined as Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday) together with English FA Cup and Scottish Cup games).

The simple aim is to get seven predictions correct each week …… or as near to it as you can, but these predictions are very specific:-

Prediction One - Name a team that will win AT HOME.
Prediction Two – Name a team that will win AWAY.
Prediction Three – Name a team to win AT HOME by TWO clear goals.
Prediction Four – Name a team that will be involved in a GOALLESS DRAW.
Prediction Five – Name a player who will score a goal.
Prediction Six – Name a team that wins by exactly THREE clear goals.
Prediction Seven – Name a team that concedes FOUR goals or more.

POINTS ARE SCORED in this way:-

Points accumulate as follows:-

If you get Prediction One right but Prediction Two wrong – that’s ONE POINT
If you get One and Two right but Three wrong – that’s TWO POINTS
If you get One, Two and Three right, but Four wrong – SIX POINTS
If you get Predictions 1 – 4 correct, but Prediction Five wrong – it’s 24 POINTS
If you get Predictions 1 - 5 right and fail on the Prediction Six – 120 POINTS
If you succeed on Predictions 1-6 and fail on Prediction Seven – 720 POINTS
Get all seven RIGHT and the score is a massive – 5,040 POINTS

+ Additionally each individual prediction you get right will also score you ONE POINT as well – so if you get your first prediction wrong and all the others come up you will get the consolation of SIX POINTS.

Individual prediction scores will be added to accumulator scores so getting all seven actually gets you 5,040 + 7 = 5,047 points.

Clear? As mud? Put your predictions in order, each week. (If you choose an obscure goal scorer it will help if you mention the team he plays for!) If you forget to do it one week I’ll use your previous week’s selections – the potential weekly scores are so big no-one can ever be too far behind. I'll update a League Table every week.

Entries by k.o. 9th August in reply to this

So once again your predictions in order every week are:-

ONE: Home Winning Team
TWO: Away Winning Team
THREE: Home Winning Team by 2 clear goals
FOUR: A Team involved in a 0-0 draw
FIVE: A Player who scores a goal
SIX: A Team that scores three goals
SEVEN: A Team that wins by four goals or more

[spireitematt]

ONE: Home Winning Team - Liverpool
TWO: Away Winning Team - Manchester City
THREE: Home Winning Team by 2 clear goals - Spurs
FOUR: A Team involved in a 0-0 draw - MK Dons
FIVE: A Player who scores a goal - Harry Kane
SIX: A Team that scores three goals - Leyton Orient
SEVEN: A Team that wins by four goals or more - Plymouth

[St Charles Owl]

ONE: Home Winning Team - West Brom
TWO: Away Winning Team - Celtic
THREE: Home Winning Team by 2 clear goals - Liverpool
FOUR: A Team involved in a 0-0 draw - Livingston
FIVE: A Player who scores a goal - Harry Kane
SIX: A Team that scores three goals - L**ds
SEVEN: A Team that wins by four goals or more - Portsmouth

[Devongone]

Oh well it looks like apathy is going to be the big winner here. Must be a crap game. Sorry.

I'll do my entry tonight and see if it's worth carrying on. Three pounds to the fund will be a bit pathetic though. I'll make it up to something decent.

[Amelia Chaffinch]

Its not crap. I just don't think many members look here. I did tweet it but, again, don't know how many of Twitter. I don't understand gambling myself.

[Lord Snooty]

Sorry Dev. Only just seen this. I'll give it a go.

[Lord Snooty]

Prediction One - Name a team that will win AT HOME. FC Halifax Town
Prediction Two – Name a team that will win AWAY. Huddersfield Town
Prediction Three – Name a team to win AT HOME by TWO clear goals. WBA
Prediction Four – Name a team that will be involved in a GOALLESS DRAW. Hull City
Prediction Five – Name a player who will score a goal. Mo Salah (Liverpool)
Prediction Six – Name a team that wins by exactly THREE clear goals. Man City
Prediction Seven – Name a team that concedes FOUR goals or more. Bolton

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Ow man! Just noticed that in number 7 that I've copied and pasted, it's a team who concede 4 goals, whereas everybody else has a team that wins by 4 goals.

[Devongone]

ONE: Home Winning Team: Watford
TWO: Away Winning Team: Man City
THREE: Home Winning Team by 2 clear goals: Mansfield
FOUR: A Team involved in a 0-0 draw: Stockport
FIVE: A Player who scores a goal: McCallum (Solihull)
SIX: A Team that scores three goals: Derby
SEVEN: A Team that wins by concedes goals or more: Aldershot

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PLEASE NOTE:-

THE IDIOT WHO INVENTED THIS GAME PUT DOWN TWO DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF PREDICTION SEVEN - SO IT HAS BECOME NAMING A TEAM WHICH EITHER WINS BY FOUR GOALS OR MORE ....... OR A TEAM WHICH CONCEDES FOUR GOALS OR MORE.

As the idiot concerned I don't think finding either is easy.

Dev

[Devongone]

So with 5,047 points available, the first week finished:-

Spirematt 7pts
St Charles Owl 3pts
Lord Snooty 2pts
Devongone 2pts

Plenty of opportunity for loads of people to join in late overtake our so-far under-impressive clear leader.

[St Charles Owl]

Wow, stellar start by all!!!!