2014 MLS Attendance Prediction Contest: Round 8 - New Players Welcome - Deadline: Apr. 23 7:30PM ET

Week 7 Results

Last Week's winner was firefan2001

Last Week's crowd ranked by easiest to predict:

Vancouver - 21000
Philadelphia - 17301
Dallas - 17406
Kansas City - 20306
Salt Lake - 20496
Chivas - 7499
New York - 14768
Chicago - 15743
Colorado - 12306
Columbus - 11437

 

Individual Results

Full results are available here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T7Ig0hZzgrUszpmnBnRRDL4z4TBjtBvgVcs1jZrFtmE/edit?usp=sharing

Rank	BigSoccer Username	Total
1	@firefan2001	9205
2	@AZUL GALAXY	9507
3	@sedlie	9871
4	@Last Line of Defense	10284
5	@flem16	10664
6	@KTown222	11325
7	@Rampage	11660
8	@T.M. Anthony	11751
9	@chudbeagle	12274
10	@LINCOLN CITY FC	13576
11	@Beerking	13586
12	@edwardgr	14216
13	@Darkwing McQuack	14465
14	@ManuSooner	15600
15	@eejit	16136
16	@Revolt	16174
17	@tbitm	17540
18	@IowaClone	17825
19	@revsrock	18541
20	@FlashMan	19877
21	@Sounder	28732

 

Season Standings

Full season standings are available here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ah1SImy-OPnbdFB4MmpQY2dfTFI0WHo5enFvYXJURkE&usp=sharing

Rank	BigSoccer Username	Points
1	@sedlie	85
2	@chudbeagle	66
3	@Rampage	53
4	@AZUL GALAXY	49
5	@Revolt	48
6	@T.M. Anthony	47
7	@flem16	46
8	@jayd8888	45
9	@yo soy otro	43
10	@Last Line of Defense	41
11	@Beerking	39
12	@firefan2001	38
13	@justboy	35
14	@revsrock	24
15	@LINCOLN CITY FC	22
16	@hymeskillet	21
17	@edwardgr	18
18	@revsfan603	17
18	@tbitm	17
20	@BringSoccerToIndy	16
21	@therealsdf	14
22	@Daniel from Montréal	12
22	@eejit	12
24	@ManuSooner	11
25	@FlashMan	10
25	@KTown222	10
27	@Darkwing McQuack	3
28	@IowaClone	0
28	@Chowda	0
28	@lawrenceterp	0
28	@alty1443	0
28	@nlsanand	0
28	@jamus4545	0
28	@Centennial	0
28	@Miamifan1400	0
28	@Sounder	0

 

Weekly Winners
Week 1 - revsfan603
Week 2 - Revolt
Week 3 - jayd8888
Week 4 - Rampage
Week 5 - sedlie
Week 6 - Revolt
Week 7 - firefan2001

 

Past Season Champions
2005 mbar
2006 Cleazer
2007 Cleazer
2008 Cleazer
2009 Cleazer
2010 KTown and jayd8888
2010 playoff cup firefan2001
2011 Ron36pc
2011 playoff cup sedlie
2012 jayd8888
2013 sedlie
2013 playoff cup firefan2001

 

Game Rules Etc.
New 2014 submission instructions. Please read.
Short version of submission instructions:
1) Click link to submission form.
2) Enter predictions and click "Submit".
3) Post in forum to confirm submission. ("Submitted", "In!", "You're all going to lose to me!" Anything along those lines will do.)

Long Description:
The person who can closest predict the total weekly attendance added from each of the absolute values from each game, IE the lowest score, will be declared the winner. Predictions must be submitted to a Google Form linked from the thread each week. Guesses larger than 80000 or smaller than 4000 (except in the case of Chivas USA home games where the limits are 30000 and 1000) will not allow the form to be submitted. (Some web browsers cause an error to be shown, even when a legal guess is entered. In this case, try submitting the form anyway.) Once submission of the Google Form has occurred, the player must post to the weekly game thread that they have submitted predictions. Have fun and enjoy. Guesses for all of the week’s games are due by game time of the week’s first game.

15 points will be given to the weekly winner, followed by 14 points for second place, continuing to 1 point for 15th place.

All new players are welcome and a player can jump in and out any week. Edwardgr and TopDogg are examples of players who have had strong showings after joining the game later on in the season. Points will tally throughout the season and the player with the most weekly points will be declared the season champion, so the player who plays more often will have an edge. A player may change his/her guesses anytime before the week’s first match. To change your guesses, simply re-submit the Google Form with the changed guesses and post in the weekly thread that you have submitted changes. You do not have to resubmit a guess for every game; you can leave blank the games that you do not want to change.

Only after the player has posted in the forum that they have submitted predictions/changes, will the predictions be marked off as confirmed (seen in the second column of the submitted predictions spreadsheet)

Early submission of predictions is permitted by submitting the relevant form and indicating in the current weekly thread that an early submission for week X has been submitted.

Links to all submission forms, submitted predictions, weekly results, and season standings can be found at http://z.umn.edu/prediction

this week’s games

The Submission Form for this week's games is at http://www.tc.umn.edu/~sedl0033/BigSoccerPredictionContest/2014Season/week08.html

Submitted Predictions for this week are available at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ah1SImy-OPnbdFFIZmthcFA3d3RTd2JCaWNJRDh3MHc&usp=sharing

Guesses are due by 7:30pm Eastern on Wednesday, April 23rd. As always all newcomers are welcome to play.

 

This was proposed during the last season, but given that I took over running the game a week before Week 1, I was mainly concerned with just getting the game organized and my scorekeeping macros written. So the rules stayed the same as last season.