To not clutter the forum, we're just gonna do ALL weeks in the same thread here. Mondays will be reserved for the weekend's postmortem discussion, then Tuesdays I'll officially open predictions for the following week's games. A reminder of weekly scoring: Predictions for this week's five games will open tomorrow!
Can I make another proposal: We typically have a thread per week for discussions, can we just combined everything in to 1? So one thread per week for predictions, pre, during, and post game discussions. Or does that make tabulating the predictions difficult?
Yeah I'd prefer for the predictions + their discussion to be separate from the pre/in/post discussion since that would be a lot harder for me to sort through.
Week 1 games! Times are ET HOU v CHI, Apr15, 2pm POR v ORL, Apr15, 3pm WAS v NC, Apr15, 3pm SEA v NJ, Apr15, 10pm KC v BOS, Apr16, 6pm Predictions for each game are due at their respective kickoffs
HOU 1 v CHI 2, POR 2 v ORL 2 WAS 1 v NC 2 SEA 1 v NJ 1 KC 1 v BOS 2 Thanks to Siberian ThunderT for setting this up ; I am back as 59Amerinorsk (my old Amerinorsk59 malfunctioned, likely it was user error !)
Houston 1, Chicago 1 Portland 2, Orlando 1 Washington 0, North Carolina 2 Seattle 1, SkyBlue 2 Kansas City 2, Boston 2
CHI 3 HOU 1 NC 2 WAS 0 POR 2 ORL 0 SEA 1 SB 1 KC 1 BOS 1 (it's okay if it doesn't count, I just wanna keep track)
I've seen this thread too late (blame the fact that the website has not been fixed yet to show unread posts in forums! ) Oh, well, I'll try to predict some other match-day! Wait: this means that we're not going to see anymore the "Uff Da" cup?
you can still predict todays game & potentially do better than half the people who picked all the games have.
Alright, so how'd we all do? 59Amerinorsk - 0+1+2+3+0 = 6pts BlueCrimson - 1+2+2+1+1+ = 7pts holden - 0+3+1+2+2 = 8pts CoachJon - 0+1+2+1+1 = 5pts Blaze20 - 0+3+2+1+1 = 7pts babranski - 1+0+3+1+0 = 5pts lil_one - 0+2+2+3+1 = 8pts lunatica - 0+3+3+3+2 = 11pts STT - 0+1+2+2+1 = 6pts Lucy - 0+2+1+1+2 = 6pts weelilbit - x+x+x+3+1 = 4pts Smallchief - x+x+x+x+1 = 1pt blissett - x+x+x+x+3 = 3pts lunatica takes the early lead in week 1 with 3 perfect predicts! And so far, everyone making at least 1PPG for the predictions they got in. As one note, since it's a good idea to state it each year: please list your predictions as home-away, as I do with each opening post. Much less likely I read your prediction backwards! It's a lot of games to look at so I tend to try going through quickly. =-)
LOL, I didn't actually do better than anyone else who predicted the whole match-day, but 3 points out of a single match is not bad at all! I've got a perfect record, so far. Edit: also, I am happy Mama Leroux came back and scored. Did she dedicate her goal to anyone special, in post-game interviews?
er, yea, I guess everybody did better than I expected. I recall in seasons past half the field would bomb & get no points at all in the first week... or maybe that was just me? In any case, still early enough in the season where 3 points is a big deal.
The +1's in this year's system make it a lot more forgiving on the low end; it's an experiment to try making the ladder predictions a bit more important. It used to be that the ladders were worth <10% of the total available weekly predictions, and with 0's and 4's in the weekly predictions it made a lot more separation, so I've tried curbing that this year. One thing I'm already noticing is that it's gonna make it harder for people to join midseason if everyone is making 1PPG already...
Almost forgot - it's Tuesday, so this weekend's games are now open for predictions! CHI v KC, Apr22, 4pm ORL v DC, Apr22, 4pm NC v POR, Apr22, 7:30pm SEA v HOU, Apr22, 10pm BOS v NJ, Apr23, 4pm