I posted this in the Matchday 6 thread, but figured I'd better do a new thread so everyone will see it. How do you want to do the 2nd round of the Predictions League? Do you want to start over and have the 2nd round be a whole new competition? That would be fairest to the guys that have come in over the last 3 matchdays. Or do you want to continue the competition and have a 2nd phase champ and an overall champ? It doesn't matter to me. I purposely didn't put this as a poll because I want to SEE who is voting. If you haven't played before and you vote to start over with a clean slate, I'd expect that you'd be stating your intentions of participating in the 2nd phase, correct???
I'd say the most logical thing to do is both. For the newcomers we can do a new 2nd round and for the people who have been playing longer we could also continue where we left off. If you can have it both ways why not? (OK it means more work for you maybe, so it's your decision I guess)
I'll stuff the ballot with my 123,342,532,107 votes for BOTH! It'll be like the Tour de France in which each stage there is a winner and an overall winner for the whole kit-n-caboodle
I also say both....but since there are less games should we change the scoring at all? It'll be rather hard to make up ground if there aren't points to be had, and plus you should get rewarded for predicted well because it'll be MUCH harder. I mean ManU vs Barca, Inter vs Depor, how the hell do you predict those games with any certainties? We'll have 4 groups of death
I was thinking about this exact thing. There are 9 players who played all 6 rounds in the 1st phase. Plus 2 others who played 5 rounds but did well enough to be close -- I shown them below. Then there is a 20 point drop after that. Brihodge............ 152 AFCA................ 150 kc123............... 149 Dr. Wankler......... 145 KiQuE............... 142 bocatuna............ 131 Spartak............. 127 IASocFan............ 125 appooOnU............ 122 Belgian_guy......... 118 jd6885.............. 117 If we leave the scoring the same for the 2nd phase, there's very little chance for the bottom 6 to make up ground and have a realistic shot at winning overall. I think I agree with appoo on this one. There are half as many games in the 2nd phase. Should we just double the points -- 10 points for correct score and 6 points for correct result? Or should we do it more like 8 and 5? By the way, I'd say it's pretty much unanimous, we'll do both -- have a 2nd Phase champion and keep an overall champion.
Yes, we welcome new players. We'll crown a Phase 2 champion, so you can compete for that. We also had several players start in the 3rd game or so that stuck it out in Phase 1, so they'll have a shot at competing for the Phase 2 championship.
Are you worried that newcommers will catch you up. If those at the top are good enough, they should not feel threatened by a points increase. Keep getting your picks right, and you'll get to keep your lead.... Stumble, and you'll get overtaken.
Re: CL Predictions? See the MATCHDAY 7 prediction thread -- which is where you'd need to post your picks anyway.
I can think of 2 reasons -- 1) Because given the closer level of play, it SHOULD be harder to pick and therefore, you should be rewarded more for picking correctly. 2) To give a chance for those that didn't do as well in the first phase to regain lost ground in the second phase. For point 1... The biggest "predictions" thing I've ever been involved in is the NCAA tournament pools that a lot of us have either done or seen. In almost every pool I've ever been in, you get more points for correctly picking 2nd round, 3rd round, etc. than you do for the 1st round. There was one time when I was in one that had a straight 3 points per game -- throughout the tournament. Well, you know what, someone did VERY well in the first round games (yours truly) and half way through the second round, I had the pool sewed up. Kind of took the fun out of being in the pool. For point 2... Basically, everyone so far has had 96 games to earn their points and to earn the lead that they have. Now there's only 48 games in the 2nd phase. If you remember, I said that after Matchday 5, there was the top 4 and then a 20 point drop back to the next group. There was no way anyone could make up that 20 point deficit in one matchday. Well, if we left the points the same and we'd be looking at no more than 5 or 6 people really effectively competing for the overall championship. IMO, it'd be more fun to have more people involved and realistically eligible to challenge for the overall.