2016 MLS Attendance Prediction Contest: Round 9 - New Players Welcome - Deadline: Apr 27 7:00PM ET

Week 8 Results
Last Week's winner was ken0sha
Last Week's crowd ranked by easiest to predict:

• Sporting Kansas City @ San Jose Earthquakes - 18000
  
• FC Dallas @ Vancouver Whitecaps - 22120
  
• Toronto FC @ Montreal Impact - 20801
  
• Real Salt Lake @ LA Galaxy - 25867
  
• New York City FC @ Philadelphia Union - 18681
  
• New England Revolution @ DC United - 16005
  
• Houston Dynamo @ Columbus Crew - 17705
  
• Seattle Sounders @ Colorado Rapids - 17294
  
• Orlando City @ Red Bull New York - 18238
  

 

Individual Results
Full results are available here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FIUA_t7T_7e6tpIp6jX0QxmWGKOUWqxAzYIYQwKx6VI/edit?usp=sharing

Rank	BigSoccer Username	Total
1	@ken0sha	6275
2	@Last Line of Defense	6346
3	@lufty	6973
4	@Beerking	6984
5	@LINCOLN CITY FC	7414
6	@chudbeagle	7525
7	@firefan2001	7847
8	@KTown222	8229
9	@Paul Berry	8433
10	@jayd8888	8758
11	@AZUL GALAXY	9180
12	@Revolt	9434
13	@sedlie	9625
14	@TWiz	11261
15	@edwardgr	12608
16	@IowaClone	15833

 

Season Standings
Full season standings are available here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pIpSKtJ_0pXF2bt-l8XfrVwmMGN0GrtF6RetAhkZzGE/edit?usp=sharing

Rank	BigSoccer Username	Points
1	@AZUL GALAXY	81
2	@Last Line of Defense	73
3	@TWiz	69
4	@Beerking	62
5	@sedlie	60
5	@ken0sha	60
7	@Revolt	57
8	@KTown222	55
9	@america piojo7	53
10	@LINCOLN CITY FC	51
11	@lufty	49
12	@Grave27	47
13	@chudbeagle	46
14	@jayd8888	40
15	@firefan2001	39
16	@IowaClone	37
17	@Darkwing McQuack	25
18	@RealFutbol	18
18	@Paul Berry	18
20	@edwardgr	15
21	@T.M. Anthony	6

 

Weekly Winners

Week 1 – AZUL GALAXY

Week 2 – TWiz

Week 3 – Grave27

Week 4 – RealFutbol

Week 5 – lufty

Week 6 – TWiz

Week 7 – sedlie

Week 8 – ken0sha

 

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

 

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 http://goo.gl/forms/Ok1YNPbCUO

Submitted Predictions for this week are available at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mDthgL2pYR8yc39XTYlArcZO5U7jccjfxstbA1-8RDE/edit?usp=sharing

Guesses are due by 7:00pm Eastern on Wednesday, April 27th. 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.

 

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