2017 MLS Attendance Prediction Contest: Round 2 - New Players Welcome - Deadlines: Mar 11 4:00PM ET

Week 1 Results
Last Week's winner was IowaClone
Last Week's crowd ranked by easiest to predict:

• Minnesota United @ Portland Timbers - 21144
  
• New York City FC @ Orlando City - 25527
  
• Montreal Impact @ San Jose Earthquakes - 18000
  
• Toronto FC @ Real Salt Lake - 19519
  
• Seattle Sounders @ Houston Dynamo - 20758
  
• Red Bull New York @ Atlanta United - 55297
  
• New England Revolution @ Colorado Rapids - 16126
  
• Sporting Kansas City @ DC United - 18268
  
• FC Dallas @ LA Galaxy - 23554
  
• Chicago Fire @ Columbus Crew - 15023
  
• Philadelphia Union @ Vancouver Whitecaps - 19083
  

 

Individual Results
Full results are available here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lUlePyDSUl3cPDaIoNvAwZceeAyNCMK5ja9Dll2H1r0/edit?usp=sharing

Rank	BigSoccer Username	Total
1	@IowaClone	9840
2	@KTown222	10441
3	@Beerking	11083
4	@LINCOLN CITY FC	11445
5	@Ron36pc	11720
6	@AZUL GALAXY	12305
7	@firefan2001	12684
8	@Rampage	13172
9	@jayd8888	13416
10	@chudbeagle	13446
11	@nlsanand	14102
12	@lufty	14584
13	@sedlie	14901
14	@Darkwing McQuack	15563
15	@Paul Berry	17044
16	@RoleModel83	17697

 

Season Standings
Full season standings are available here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fkFUElICgFMK0yl0mSLaFOSF0gGXdOOfbTX0BDpCVFs/edit?usp=sharing

Rank	BigSoccer Username	Points
1	@IowaClone	15
2	@KTown222	14
3	@Beerking	13
4	@LINCOLN CITY FC	12
5	@Ron36pc	11
6	@AZUL GALAXY	10
7	@firefan2001	9
8	@Rampage	8
9	@jayd8888	7
10	@chudbeagle	6
11	@nlsanand	5
12	@lufty	4
13	@sedlie	3
14	@Darkwing McQuack	2
15	@Paul Berry	1
16	@RoleModel83	0

 

Weekly Winners

Week 1 – IowaClone

 

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
2014 sedlie
2015 AZUL GALAXY
2016 AZUL GALAXY

 

Game Rules Etc.
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 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 https://goo.gl/forms/5ZQkxsGNrx3W4EJt1

Submitted Predictions for this week are available at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TueOtGTJNXx3zlUNwY7q6Vld8W4C-EM6Tn-SqXKiSiA/edit?usp=sharing

Guesses are due by 2:00pm Eastern on Saturday, March 11th. As always all newcomers are welcome to play.

 

NOTE: Please try to match your username exactly as it appears on BigSoccer. (capitalization, punctuation, accents, the numbers at the end of your username, extra spacebar keystrokes (especially at the end of the username where they are not obvious)) My macros do not handle these common variations, so I have to manually check for each of them. Your cooperation is greatly appreciated.

 

@Paul Berry ?

 

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