2017 MLS Attendance Prediction Contest: Round 8 - New Players Welcome - Deadlines: Apr 19 7:30PM ET

Week 7 Results
Last Week's winner was KTown222
Last Week's crowd ranked by easiest to predict:

• FC Dallas @ San Jose Earthquakes - 18000
  
• LA Galaxy @ Orlando City - 25527
  
• Sporting Kansas City @ Portland Timbers - 21144
  
• New England Revolution @ Chicago Fire - 16914
  
• DC United @ Red Bull New York - 20104
  
• New York City FC @ Philadelphia Union - 16553
  
• Real Salt Lake @ Colorado Rapids - 15087
  
• Seattle Sounders @ Vancouver Whitecaps - 22120
  
• Minnesota United @ Houston Dynamo - 16125
  
• Toronto FC @ Columbus Crew - 12319
  
• Atlanta United @ Montreal Impact - 17144
  

 

Individual Results
Full results are available here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EOYC_dcBgnMNo-0AIZoVqKRxqc_exNmjJp6aeEizOiQ/edit?usp=sharing

Rank	BigSoccer Username	Total
1	@KTown222	9727
2	@Beerking	12821
3	@firefan2001	13292
4	@Rampage	13383
5	@chudbeagle	14428
6	@lufty	14642
7	@LINCOLN CITY FC	14673
8	@Last Line of Defense	15583
9	@AZUL GALAXY	17031
10	@Paul Berry	17328
11	@jayd8888	17735
12	@IowaClone	19533

 

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

Rank	BigSoccer Username	Points
1	@Rampage	85
2	@lufty	77
3	@AZUL GALAXY	75
4	@KTown222	74
5	@firefan2001	72
6	@LINCOLN CITY FC	70
7	@Beerking	68
8	@chudbeagle	56
9	@Last Line of Defense	49
10	@Paul Berry	44
11	@Darkwing McQuack	38
11	@IowaClone	38
11	@jayd8888	38
14	@sedlie	16
15	@nlsanand	15
16	@Ron36pc	11
17	@RoleModel83	0

 

Weekly Winners

Week 1 – IowaClone

Week 2 – firefan2001

Week 3 – AZUL GALAXY

Week 4 – lufty

Week 5 – LINCOLN CITY FC

Week 6 – firefan2001

Week 7 – KTown222

 

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/eMjgNzXs9q9VFuD33

Submitted Predictions for this week are available at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16LJdLaGb5OHJA4STYIbf311OVY-H9VR1l2-8eLJOaV8/edit?usp=sharing

Guesses are due by 7:30pm Eastern on Wednesday, April 19th. 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.

 

I keep forgetting to put in my submissions before the deadline. I blame it on moving from the Central to Pacific time zone in the offseason. If I had gotten my guesses in, I would have placed first the past two weeks.

 

IN IN IN !!!