[deanashtonsfoot]

Welcome to the FM-B Predictions Cup 2010/11.

The reason for this is to fill the gap left by Keefa's winter break from the predictions league. He claims it necessary because of "bad weather causing problems with the fixtures", but I suspect he's just bunking off to watch the cricket.  ;)

Anyway, because of the possibility bad weather, I've decided to try to stick to mostly top flight games; those which are least likely to be postponed. There will be 6 fixtures per week, comprising of 2 games from 3 different leagues/cups.

So, as there was no one new who signed up on top of those in the Predictions League, that left me with 15 people. Not ideal, but I've decided to go with 4 groups to start with - 3 of 4 and 1 of 3. With this in mind I decided to seed the draw based on league position and split everyone into 4 pots:

Pot 1
keefa
juvehero
poseidoN
big_evil

Pot 2
kin_lin
rodderas
deanashtonsfoot
geoff

Pot 3
JP
Ben O'Bagels
TomTwice
Sesquipedalianist

Pot 4
Deus
7Bestie7
Fids

Using a random number generator, the draw placed everyone in the following groups:

Group A
big_evil
geoff
Ben O'Bagels
Fids

Group B
juvehero
kin_lin
JP
7Bestie7

Group C
poseidoN
deanashtonsfoot
TomTwice
Deus

Group D
keefa
rodderas
sesquipedalianist

So everyone will play each once in the group stage. Obviously though, those in Group D will only predict in 2 of the 3 weeks during the group stage.

The top 2 in each group will go through the 1/4 finals, then semis and the final.

The first round of the fixtures will be over the weekend of the 18th/19th December. The final will be over the weekend of the 22nd/23rd January.

Same rules for points scoring as the predictions league. 3 points for a correct scoreline, 1 point for a correct result.

Anyway, good luck everyone and I'll be posting the first week's fixtures in  the next day or two to get things moving.  :thup:

[keefa]

Good work daf  :thup:

[Sesquipedalianist]

Terrible work daf. I thought I gave you specific instructions not to put me in with keefa? :D

[keefa]

This is where you rediscover your form and go back to winning ways.

You're like the Preston of the Predos set-up. First to do the double, but likely never to do it again on recent form  ;D

[deanashtonsfoot]

Ok, let's get things started then.

Fixtures to predict for the first week will take place on both the 18th and 19th December:

Week 1 - 18th/19th December

England (Premier League) - Sunderland vs Bolton
England (Premier League) - Chelsea vs Man Utd
Italy (Serie A) - Cesena vs Cagliari
Italy (Serie A) - Chievo vs Juventus
Spain (La Liga) - Real Sociedad vs Valencia
Spain (La Liga) - Levante vs Athletico Bilbao

The ties for the first week are as follows:

Group A
big_evil vs fids
geoff vs Ben O'Bagels

Group B
juvehero vs 7Bestie7
kin_lin vs JP

Group C
poseidoN vs Deus
deanashtonsfoot vs TomTwice

Group D
rodderas vs sesquipedalianist

*keefa misses out this week because of the Group D only having 3 people.

Please submiot your predictions in this thread by midday (GMT) on 18th December 2010.

[TomTwice]

Week 1 - 18th/19th December

England (Premier League) - Sunderland 1-1 Bolton
England (Premier League) - Chelsea 2-2 Man Utd
Italy (Serie A) - Cesena 3-1 Cagliari
Italy (Serie A) - Chievo 0-1 Juventus
Spain (La Liga) - Real Sociedad 0-1 Valencia
Spain (La Liga) - Levante 1-1 Athletico Bilbao

[juvehero]

Week 1 - 18th/19th December

England (Premier League) - Sunderland 2 vs 1 Bolton
England (Premier League) - Chelsea 1 vs 1 Man Utd
Italy (Serie A) - Cesena 0 vs 1 Cagliari
Italy (Serie A) - Chievo 0 vs 2 Juventus
Spain (La Liga) - Real Sociedad 0 vs 2 Valencia
Spain (La Liga) - Levante 1 vs 2 Athletico Bilbao

[geoff]

Week 1 - 18th/19th December

England (Premier League) - Sunderland 1 vs 1 Bolton
England (Premier League) - Chelsea 2 vs 1 Man Utd
Italy (Serie A) - Cesena 0 vs 1 Cagliari
Italy (Serie A) - Chievo 0 vs 1 Juventus
Spain (La Liga) - Real Sociedad 1 vs 2 Valencia
Spain (La Liga) - Levante 0 vs 2 Athletico Bilbao

[deanashtonsfoot]

Sorry guys, as most of us were locked out for most of the week until today and at least one of the matches was postponed I'm going to have to scrap this week.

I'll sort something out tomorrow - either I'll just shift the competition back one week or I'll get some midweek fixtures up.

[deanashtonsfoot]

Ok, let's try again. Because most of us couldn't get onto the forum last week I've shifted the competition back one week.

Week one's fixtures will now all be played on 26th December. Let's just hope the snow doesn't cause havoc as I've had to dip into the Championship to make up the 6 fixtures for this week. Even if there is snow, there will at least be 2 fixtures that I'm fairly sure won't be called off because of it.

Week 1 - 26th December

England (Premier League) - Everton vs Birmingham
England (Premier League) - Wolves vs Wigan
Australia (A League) - Central Coast Mariners vs Adelaide Utd
Australia (A League) - Melbourne Victory vs Newcastle Jets
England (Championship) - Portsmouth vs Millwall
England (Championship) - Crystal Palace vs Norwich

The ties for the first week are as follows:

Group A
big_evil vs fids
geoff vs Ben O'Bagels

Group B
juvehero vs 7Bestie7
kin_lin vs JP

Group C
poseidoN vs Deus
deanashtonsfoot vs TomTwice

Group D
rodderas vs sesquipedalianist

*keefa misses out this week because of the Group D only having 3 people.

Please submiot your predictions in this thread by midday (GMT) on 25th December 2010.

[kin_lin]

(need to get these emoticons fixed) A-League

Jets

EDIT - DAF we may not have snow at the moment but we have had above average rainfall

http://wwos.ninemsn....aspx?id=8185802

This post has been edited by kin_lin: Yesterday, 01:15 AM

[TomTwice]

kin_lin, on 19 December 2010 - 10:04 PM, said:

(need to get these emoticons fixed) A-League

Jets

EDIT - DAF we may not have snow at the moment but we have had above average rainfall

http://wwos.ninemsn....aspx?id=8185802

Yeah, we already had a game called off last round...


Edit: Mariners \o/

This post has been edited by TomTwice: Yesterday, 04:03 AM

[juvehero]

Week 1 - 26th December

England (Premier League) - Everton 1 vs 1 Birmingham
England (Premier League) - Wolves 1 vs 2 Wigan
Australia (A League) - Central Coast Mariners 1 vs 1 Adelaide Utd
Australia (A League) - Melbourne Victory 2 vs 1 Newcastle Jets
England (Championship) - Portsmouth 2 vs 1 Millwall
England (Championship) - Crystal Palace 0 vs 2 Norwich