Round Eleven: 3rd, 4th & 5th November

Saturday, 03 November 2007

Arsenal v Man Utd, 12:45

Aston Villa v Derby, 15:00

Blackburn v Liverpool, 17:15

Everton v Birmingham, 15:00

Fulham v Reading, 15:00

Middlesbrough v Tottenham, 15:00

Newcastle v Portsmouth, 15:00

Wigan v Chelsea, 15:00

Sunday, 04 November 2007

West Ham v Bolton, 16:00

Monday, 05 November 2007

Man City v Sunderland, 20:00

Round Ten Weekly Round up

Once again the only change in the table this week has seen the fierce battle for third and fourth place between Tim & Andrew continue with Tim regaining third place. However, the gap between top and bottom has narrowed slightly with the top four contestants in the overall league all finishing in the bottom four places for the weekly round.

Finally John G has made his move after weeks of anonymity - he scored nine points this week, including correctly predicting the scores for three out of the four games on Sunday. This has left him as this week's guru. Andrew takes the Maize award for only scoring five points - the same as Joel but Joel managed to correctly predict a scoreline. Alastair put in an unusually good score of eight points, including two correct predictions. However, it was still not enough to lift him off the bottom of the table. A quiet week for James G has meant his lead at the top has been reduced to four points.

Tim continues to lead the way when it comes to predicting scorelines. This week he managed his sixth consecutive week of correctly predicting at least one scoreline. This has put his total up to fourteen for the season. Alastair is brining up the rear with only six correct scorelines. James G leads the way with fifty-five correctly predicted results - leading Tim by two. Again, Alastair is down the bottom of the table with forty-six points.

It has been a good week for some with their goal scorers. Despite only picking up five points from his predictions, Joel has kept the pressure on with two goals from Drogba and a further point from McCarthy. Despite dumping him for this coming week's fixtures, Tim got an extra two points from Tevez. James E profited from Rooney's good form with a bonus point. Andrew Robb has also been picking up the goal scorer bonus points thanks to another from Keane. Yakubu finally got on the score sheet for John G, completing a very successful week for him. Only one more week and then the transfer window closes and strikers score double points...

All transfers for the coming weekend fixtures must be in by the end of tomorrow. All transfers for the closure of the transfer window must be by 7th November (all transfers after this coming weekend's fixtures will take immediate effect, i.e. there is no five day standstill period).

The full league table can be found here.

Round Ten Points

Pos	Name	Cor Sc	Cor Re	Points
1	John G	3	6	9
2	Alastair	2	6	8
3	John N	2	5	7
4	James E	2	5	7
5	James G	1	5	6
6	Tim	1	5	6
7	Joel	2	3	5
8	Andrew	0	5	5

The overall table can be found here.

Transfer News

Tim has shipped out Tevez and brought in the league's current leading scorer Mwaruwari.

Tevez is now available to all.

Poll Result

The poll result has stipulated that James G can keep Van Persie by 60% to 40%.

In future to avoid anymore transfer scandals, all transfers must be made via email or on the blog directly for all to see. Strikers will still be secured on a first come, first serve basis however - by open email to all competitors.

A message from James G:

"I would like to thank all those who supported me through this unfortunately turn of events and believe that justice has been done.

To those voted for me to lose Van Persie, I respect you right to express your opinion by democratic vote but hope you lose this game big time!"

Round Ten: 27th & 28th October

Saturday, 27 October 2007

Birmingham v Wigan, 15:00

Chelsea v Man City, 15:00

Man Utd v Middlesbrough, 15:00

Portsmouth v West Ham, 17:15

Reading v Newcastle, 15:00

Sunderland v Fulham, 15:00

Sunday, 28 October 2007

Bolton v Aston Villa, 13:30

Derby v Everton, 14:00

Liverpool v Arsenal, 16:00

Tottenham v Blackburn, 15:00

Transfer News

Joel has transferred out the injured Van Persie and brought back in Blackburn's McCarthy.

James G has pounced on this and shipped out the Incredible Sulk, Anelka and replaced him with Van Persie.

Mwaruwari is still available...

Round Nine Weekly Round up

Another exciting round in the Amazing Football Prediction Game that has seen Tim record his fourteenth correct score prediction and finish with this week's guru award with a very respectable nine points - stealing the show from Joel who also managed nine points but predicted one less correct score. Once again Alastair has proved all his doubter right by picking up his sixth Maize award of the season!

It was a good week for strikers. James E has remained in seventh place this week, but has closed the gap on sixth placed John G to just one point. James E picked up eight points this week and a further three points from his strikers Martins and Rooney. That gave him his best week total for the season and leaves Alastair with a mountain to climb as he trails the rest of the pack by seven points. Though as we approach November there is still a very long way to go...

Andrew also had a good week. He picked up eight points plus a further striker point from Keane. This has secured third place in the money zone ahead of Tim who spent points in the transfer market last week. James G reached the 50 correct result predictions milestone - the first to do so this season, though Joel is only one behind him on 49.

While there has not been a great amount of movement in the table this week, expect some more movement next week as some key battles for positions in the table just got a lot tighter.

All transfers for this weekend must be in today. There are only two more weekends before the transfer deadline.

The full league table can be found here.

Round Nine Points

Pos	Name	Cor Sc	Cor Re	Points
1	Tim	2	7	9
2	Joel	1	8	9
3	Andrew	1	7	8
4	James E	0	8	8
5	James G	0	7	7
6	John G	1	5	6
7	John N	0	6	6
8	Alastair	0	4	4

The overall table can be found here.

Transfer Deadline

You have just three more weeks to get your striker selections right as the transfer deadline comes down on Friday 9th November.

After this time there will be no more transfers allowed and striker points will be worth double.

The only exceptions are that substitutes will be allowed for injury or players being sold out of the league. In this case you may bring in a temporary replacement of equal or lower value - but they will assume the same handicap cost of the striker they are replacing.

See full striker rules here.

Transfer News

Joel has dumped McCarthy and brought in the fit again Drogba.

Tim has had enough of that fat, lazy Mido after only a few weeks and decided to take on pretty boy & cheat, Ronaldo.

Both transfers were in in-time for this weekend's fixtures. As a result of picking a more expensive (though infinitely more talented) striker, Tim has slipped from third to fourth place moving Andrew up to third - and within the money zone.

Round Nine: 20th, 21st & 22nd October

Saturday, 20 October 2007

Arsenal v Bolton, 15:00

Aston Villa v Man Utd, 17:15

Blackburn v Reading, 15:00

Everton v Liverpool, 12:45

Fulham v Derby, 15:00

Man City v Birmingham, 15:00

Middlesbrough v Chelsea, 15:00

Wigan v Portsmouth, 15:00

Sunday, 21 October 2007

West Ham v Sunderland, 16:00

Monday, 22 October 2007

Newcastle v Tottenham, 20:00

Round Eight Points

Pos	Name	Cor Sc	Cor Re	Points
1	James G	3	8	11
2	Andrew	2	8	10
3	Tim	1	9	10
4	Alastair	1	6	7
5	John G	0	7	7
6	James E	0	7	7
7	Joel	0	6	6
8	John N	0	5	5

This week Lawro scored seven points with no correct predictions

The overall table can be found here.

Round Eight Weekly Round up

It has been the week of giants. Three people scored in the double figure this week for their predictions alone. Andrew & Tim both scored ten points each, but it was this week’s guru – James G – that went the extra mile and scored a season’s best eleven points, including three correct score predictions, equalling Tim’s season’s best. In doing so, James G has held his position at the top of the table, fending off Joel who only managed six points this week but picked up three bonus points from his strikers.

This week’s numbnuts is not Alastair. The Maize award for complete football score predicting ignorance this week goes to form player John N. As if to show what an unforgiving game The Amazing Football Prediction Game is, the winner of the guru award for the last two weeks was going for his hat-trick only to shamed with a maize award this week.

James E’s slow start to the season is showing signs of picking up – he is has crawled his way up to be level pegging with Alastair this week thanks to seven points and a striker bonus point. Tim still leads the way with an incredible twelve correct score line predictions and James G is still the man at predicting the outcome of a game racking up his forty-forth correct result prediction.

No mention for John G this week – he is the Aston Villa of TAFPG, hanging around mid table but really not worth talking about. Let’s hope he has a big week or terrible week next week and maybe then we can mention his name.

The full league table can be found here.

UPDATE!

I have just noticed that James E shared the numbnuts award this week with Alastair!

Round Eight 6th & 7th October

Saturday, 06 October 2007

Aston Villa v West Ham, 15:00

Man Utd v Wigan, 12:45

Sunday, 07 October 2007

Arsenal v Sunderland, 12:00

Blackburn v Birmingham, 15:00

Bolton v Chelsea, 15:00

Fulham v Portsmouth, 16:10

Liverpool v Tottenham, 15:00

Man City v Middlesbrough, 15:00

Newcastle v Everton, 15:00

Reading v Derby, 14:00

Round Seven Points

Pos	Name	Cor Sc	Cor Re	Points
1	John N	2	6	8
2	Joel	1	7	8
3	Andrew	1	6	7
4	Tim	1	5	6
5	James G	0	6	6
6	John G	0	5	5
7	James E	0	4	4
8	Alastair	0	4	4

This week Lawro scored 3 points and no correct predictions

The full league table can be found here.

Round Seven Weekly Round up

A trend appears to be forming in the Amazing Football Prediction Game. For the second week in a row and the third time this season John N has taken the Guru award with eight points including two correct scoreline predictions. Not only that, but Alastair is once again our football numbnuts scoring a lowly four points. That is the fifth time Alastair has been awarded the Maize of shame and we are only in week seven.

Incredibly, Alastair is still fending off James E from the bottom of the table - but James is closing the gap thanks to his dabbling in the transfer market and snapping up goalscorer from the weekend Martins. This week's top overall scorer was Joel scoring eight points (with one correct score) but he also picked up a point thanks to a goal from Van Persie. This puts Joel just three points behind league leader James G who is on thirty three points.

Tim is still the man at calling the correct scoreline - this week he knocked up his eleventh correct prediction. James G still narrowly leads the most correct result predictions with thirty six - only one head of John N on thirty five.

The full league table can be found here.

Striker points can be found here.