Round Fourteen Fixtures 1st, 2nd & 3rd December

Saturday, 01 December 2007

Aston Villa v Arsenal, 17:15

Blackburn v Newcastle, 15:00

Chelsea v West Ham, 12:45

Portsmouth v Everton, 15:00

Reading v Middlesbrough, 15:00

Sunderland v Derby, 15:00

Wigan v Man City, 15:00

Sunday, 02 December 2007

Liverpool v Bolton, 15:00

Tottenham v Birmingham, 16:00

Monday, 03 December 2007

Man Utd v Fulham, 20:00

Round Thirteen Weekly Roundup

Another week with little change to the table, but do not be deceived. Tim has not only claimed another Guru award, but he has closed the gap at the top to just one point. Tim bagged nine points, including yet another correct prediction. John G & Alastair also had successful weeks both pulling in 8 points a piece. John G also reaped the rewards from Yakubu's brace of goals. Is this the titanic revival from Alastair we have all been waiting for? Is this the week John G makes his move and charges up the table? Only time will tell (though common sense does suggest otherwise).

Bottom of the pile this week is the ever erratic Andrew Robb - sublime one week and desperately bad the next. He only pulled in five points this week, something he should be deeply ashamed about.

The table is much the same with James G (82 points) narrowly ahead of Tim (81 points) and Joel (78 points). Despite his heroics this week, Alastair still props up the table on 62 points while James E is doing his best to fend him off with 64 points. John N has moved up to fourth spot, though shares 74 points with Andrew who is in fifth spot - the main battle of the past few weeks is once again the only change in the table. John G holds sixth position in 69 points.

No prizes for guessing that Tim is still the leader of the pack with his incredible 19 correct score predictions. The root of James E's problems can be found in the fact that he has only correctly predicted 7 games correctly. James G is top of the pile for correct results - 74. Alastair can only muster up 64.

The draw for the Chimay Cup has been made - and what a belter it is too. Each tie is full of intrigue and mystery. The pick of the round is James G versus Joel - one of these two giants will have to fall. James E has been drawn against John G in the mentor versus pupil battle. Tim has the plumb draw, he is up against struggler Alastair - is there a giant killing feat on the cards... you never know with the cup. The final tie sees John N go up against Andrew which promises to continue their needle fight from the league.

The full league table can be found here.

The Chimay Cup draw can be found here.

Round Thirteen Fixtures Points

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

The Chimay Cup Draw

The AFPG & Chimay Cup Awards Ceremony

Friday 1st February has been designated as the official date for the Amazing Football Prediction Game & Chimay Cup awards ceremony.

The £40 winners prize money is up for grabs, as well as second and third place prize money. There will also be the awarding of the prestigious Chimay Cup. There will also be one or two further awards being handed out on the night.

The venue is yet to be confirmed, but as is traditional with these things The Buckingham is as good a place as any if I can't book the Albert Hall for the evening.

1st February - put in your diaries!

The Chimay Cup

The countdown to the most famous cup competition in prediction football is ticking away to the big kick off.

The draw takes place this Friday at the Buckingham Arms at 5:30pm

The competition will take the form of two legs per round, home and away legs. The name drawn out of the hat first for each tie will be the home team first.

There will be no striker points for the matches, prediction scores only. The usual scoring system is in place – one point for a correct result, two for a correct score. If there is no clear winner after the two legs the player with the most correct scores goes through. If there is still no outcome, the away points rule counts. i.e. if a player scores more points in their away leg than their opponent does in their away leg they go through. If there is still no winner, the away points rule only counts for correct score lines. If there is still no winner, striker points will then come in to play. Finally, the result will be decided by the toss of a coin.

The competition does of course take the traditional knock out format, with only the winner over two legs going through to the next round.

The dates for the rounds are as follows

Round One:

Leg One – 1^st & 2^nd December

Leg Two – 8^th & 9^th December

Round Two:

Leg One – 15^th & 16^th December

Leg Two – w/e of 12^th January

The Final:

Leg One – w/e of 19^th January

Leg Two – 29^th & 30^th January

There will be a small entrance fee (whatever the cost of a Chimay pack is divided by 8).

Round Thirteen Fixtures 24th & 25th November

Saturday, 24 November 2007

Arsenal v Wigan, 15:00

Birmingham v Portsmouth, 15:00

Bolton v Man Utd, 15:00

Derby v Chelsea, 17:15

Everton v Sunderland, 15:00

Man City v Reading, 15:00

Middlesbrough v Aston Villa, 15:00

Newcastle v Liverpool, 12:45

Sunday, 25 November 2007

Fulham v Blackburn, 16:00

West Ham v Tottenham, 13:30

Round Twelve Weekly Roundup

It has been an unprecedented week for correct scoreline predictions. Three people correctly predicted three or more scorelines and in total fourteen correct predictions were made. It also meant that Sunderland v Newcastle became the most predictable scoreline of the season so far with five people correctly predicting it would finish 1-1. But what does this all mean? Well, John N had a monstrous week predicting four scorelines correctly and racking up eleven points. Andrew and Tim were not too far behind predicting three correct scorelines and racking up nine points.

The bad news falls upon James E and John G unfortunately. Neither of them predicted a correct scoreline and both of them will be sharing the Maize this week with only five points a piece.

It was also a good round for goal scorers. Ronaldo's brace ensured that Tim jumped over Joel and grabbed second place in the overall standings - showing that all his bravado and big talk of last week was not entirely ill-founded. Torres did a good job for Andrew, Adebayor ensured a bonus point for James G and Drogba's goal meant that Joel has the most productive strike force in the game.

Tim is still the magic man when it comes to predicting scorelines correctly. He is now up to 18 - three times as many Alastair. James G is the daddy at predicting the outcome of a game still with 68 - eleven more than last placed Alastair.

The table looks much the same. James G still leads, but Tim has leap frogged Joel and cut James G's lead to just three points. Apparently he is not too worried about it though as he doesn't rate Tim and think he has been very lucky up to now. Apparently. Andrew and John N are also closing the gap on the top three. However Alastair still has much work to do to get back in the game - he is three points adrift of the rest of James E who is two points adrift of John G who is a massive seven points adrift of John N.

The full league table can be found here.

Round Twelve Points

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

The full league table can be found here.

Spreadsheet

I have no internet access this afternoon, hence no spreadsheet was sent out. Here are my predictions for the weekend:

Saturday, 10 November 2007
Derby v West Ham, 15:00 0-1
Liverpool v Fulham, 17:15 3-0
Sunderland v Newcastle, 12:45 1-1

Sunday, 11 November 2007
Birmingham v Aston Villa, 13:00 0-1
Bolton v Middlesbrough, 15:00 2-1
Chelsea v Everton, 14:00 3-1
Man Utd v Blackburn, 15:00 3-0
Portsmouth v Man City, 16:00 2-1
Tottenham v Wigan, 15:00 2-0

Monday, 12 November 2007
Reading v Arsenal, 20:00 3-0

Van Persie is also injured for the weekend, so I will sub him for Derbyshire.

Transfer Deadline

The transfer dealine kicks in tomorrow at 4pm. Below are all the strikers - those in red have scored 4 or more goals this season.

Remember, you can offer your striker and extra points (which will be deducted from your total) if you want to transfer from another player.

Drogba Chelsea 10 - Joel

Rooney Man. United 10 – James E
Ronaldo Man. United 10 - Tim

Torres Liverpool 9 - Andrew
Tevez West Ham 9 - Alastair
Kuyt Liverpool 9 – John N
Berbatov Tottenham 9
Eduardo Arsenal 9
McCarthy Blackburn 9 - Joel
Saha Man. United 9

Martins Newcastle 8 – James E
Keane Tottenham 8 - Andrew
Owen Newcastle 8
Shevchenko Chelsea 8
Anelka Bolton 8
Johnson Everton 8
Crouch Liverpool 8
Bent D Tottenham 8

Adebayor Arsenal 7 – James G
Van Persie Arsenal 7 – James G
Babel Liverpool 7
Carew Aston Villa 7
Kalou Chelsea 7
Pizarro Chelsea 7
Voronin Liverpool 7
Yakubu Everton 7 – John G
Viduka Newcastle 7 – John N
Defoe Tottenham 7
Bellamy West Ham 7
Ashton West Ham 7
Agbonlahor Aston Villa 7
Bianchi Man. City 7
Mwaruwari Portsmouth 7 - Tim
Helguson Bolton 7
Tuncay Middlesbrough 7

Doyle Reading 6
Young Aston Villa 6
Forsell Birmingham 6
Nonda Blackburn 6
Roberts Blackburn 6
Diouf Bolton 6
Beattie Sheffield Utd. 6
McBride Fulham 6
Vassell Man. City 6
Sibierski Aston Villa 6
Smith Man. United 6
Ameobi Newcastle 6
Nugent Portsmouth 6
Mido Tottenham 6
Rigters Blackburn 6
Davies Bolton 6
Bouazza Fulham 6
Santa Cruz Blackburn 6 – John G

Walcott Arsenal 5
Vaughan Everton 5
Kanu Portsmouth 5
Kamara Fulham 5
Mpenza Man. City 5
Samaras Man. City 5
Solskjaer Man. United 5
Aliadiere Middlesbrough 5
Utaka Portsmouth 5 - Alastair
Lita Reading 5
Heskey Wigan 5
Bojinov Man. City 5
Bendtner Arsenal 5

Derbyshire Blackburn 4
McFadden Everton 4
Anichebe Everton 4
Healy Fulham 4
Corradi Man. City 4
Luque Newcastle 4
Lua-Lua Portsmouth 4
Kitson Reading 4
Zamora West Ham 4
Jutkiewicz Everton 4
Maloney Aston Villa 4
Miller Man. City 4
Camara Wigan 4

Moore Aston Villa 3
Jerome Birmingham 3
O'Connor Birmingham 3
Vaz Te Bolton 3
Howard Derby 3
Sinclair Chelsea 3
Earnshaw Derby 3
John Fulham 3
Dickov Man. City 3
Dong Man. United 3
Lee Dong-Gook Middlesbrough 3
Cole Portsmouth 3
Long Reading 3
Murphy Sunderland 3
Connolly Sunderland 3
Chopra Sunderland 3
Harewood West Ham 3
Folan Wigan 3
Mbela Douala Portsmouth 3
Aghahowa Wigan 3

Forssell Birmingham 2
Sahar Chelsea 2
Campbell Birmingham 2
Vine Birmingham 2
Gallagher Blackburn 2
Jeffers Blackburn 2
Harsanyi Bolton 2
Fagan Derby 2
Macken Derby 2
Runstrom Fulham 2
Sturridge Man. City 2

Elliott S Sunderland 1
John Sunderland 1
Stokes Sunderland 1
Cole West Ham 1
Cotterill Wigan 1

Poll Result

Striker points will count as double for the final six weeks of the competition.

Therefore, strikers who score goals in matches from the 22nd December onwards will receive double points.

Case closed.

Round Twelve Fixtures 10th, 11th & 12th November

Saturday, 10 November 2007

Derby v West Ham, 15:00

Liverpool v Fulham, 17:15

Sunderland v Newcastle, 12:45

Sunday, 11 November 2007

Birmingham v Aston Villa, 13:00

Bolton v Middlesbrough, 15:00

Chelsea v Everton, 14:00

Man Utd v Blackburn, 15:00

Portsmouth v Man City, 16:00

Tottenham v Wigan, 15:00

Monday, 12 November 2007

Reading v Arsenal, 20:00

Transfer News

Alastair has got rid of Berbatov and replaced him with Tevez.

Poll

You have until tomorrow afternoon to decide whether to go with the double striker points or not. Poll on the right...

Round Eleven Weekly Round Up

A weekend of no movement in the table - it is as you were. The lead leader, James G, and second place Joel finished the round as the gurus scoring eight points (including two correct scores) a piece. This week's hero to zero is John G who has fallen from the heights of being last week's guru to the shameful depths of being this week's Maize award winner pulling in, a quite frankly, pathetic four points.

John was saved from having James E seriously cause him trouble thanks to a Yakubu goal. However, it was Tim who profited mostly this week from strikers - both Mwaruwari and Ronaldo getting on the scoresheet at the weekend. Alastair also picked up a bonus point thanks to Utaka.

Despite not scoring any goal scorer points, James G stretched his elad at the top of the table by a further point to lead Joel by four. Alastair is still propping up the table with 47 points.

Tim continues his incredible run of correctly predicting scores, despite only scoring five points this week. He is now up to 15 in total. James G still leads the way with correctly results his 61st. Joel is second place with 57.

The full league table can be found here.

Round Eleven Points

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

The full league table can be found here.