Now that we are less than three weeks away from the new campaign, I thought it about time to start up the predictor game thread for the coming season.
Last season, the prize was taken by Victor Anichebes Sweaty Anus, so I’d like someone else to step up and take his crown so I no longer have to conjure the imagery of the West Brom striker post workout. shudder
The rules remain the same as last year, but for those of you who didn’t play last year, here’s what you need to do:
Predict your final table – 1st to 20th (that may seem obvious but some people didn’t manage that last year), the PL top scorer, West Ham’s top scorer, Hammer of the Year, FA Cup winner, Carling Cup winner, Champions League winner, and the number of managerial changes in made in the PL (as of today (28/07/2014, so if someone doesn’t make the start of the season for whatever reason, that will count as one).
You score 5 points for getting a team in the correct position, and 2 points for being one place out (i.e. if I predict West Ham to finish 10th and they finish 9th or 11th, I get 2 points). You get a further 5 points for getting the correct result for any of the other categories, meaning the maximum points total is 135, but you’d have to be some kind of tea-leaf reading freak to manage that – Victor Anichebes Sweaty Anus managed 35 out of 135 to win it last year, so the bar is pretty low.
I will be on holiday from Friday until pretty much when the season kicks off, so I won’t be here to plug the game as often as I did last year. It would be great if some of the more regular visitors among you could share the link to this in the discussions of some of the other threads over the next couple of weeks, just so we get as much interest as possible – there were 65 of us last year, which was pretty decent.
Please post your predictions on this thread, and I’ll collate all the information. Anything predicted post kick off for the first game of the season will not be counted.
Good luck
Tom
PS: Here’s a little template for your comments to make life easier for me:
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
10th
11th
12th
13th
14th
15th
16th
17th
18th
19th
20th
top scorer (pl)
top scorer (wh)
hammer of the year
fa cup winner
carling cup winner
champions league winner
- managerial changes (PL)