32. Real Madrid 31. Milan 30. Arsenal 29. Sevilla 28. Chelsea 27. Manchester United 26. Valencia 25. Liverpool 24. Marseille 23. Barcelona 22. PSV 21. Inter Milan 20. Lyon 19. Roma 18. Bremen 17. Celtic 16. Schalke 04 15. Benfica 14. Porto 13. Sporting 12. Lazio 11. Rangers 10. Fenerbace 9. Stuttgart 8. Besiktas 7. Shaktar 6. CSKA Moscow 5. Dynamo Kiev 4. Steaua 3. Slavia 2. Rosenborg 1. Olympiacos
The scoring sheet is up at the website: http://bspsoccer.googlepages.com/predictionleague (please bookmark, i wont give you this link everytime) It is up to you to double check that I entered your picks correctly. It took me a while and im not error proof (actually quite the opposite). (also you can check that I entered my picks correct) I havent double checked to make sure people didnt choose a team twice (yet), other than the times it jumped out at me. Fry36 chose Valencia and Rangers twice, and omitted Roma and PSV. So i put those at the bottom of his list. I will post scores tomorrow, it would be useless for me to post between Tuesday and Wednesday games, but the sheet is up there if you want to gloat for the time being (Winston Wolf - you're in first). PLEASE please double check that I entered your picks correct under the "Everyones Inputs" tab.
OK we are all set to go with 30 players this year as compared to 29 last year goodluck to all, and thanks for bspsoccer for preparing the scoring spreadsheet: 1. The_ChelseaSupporter 2. 4-3-3 3. Chess_Panther 4. cro werder 5. frasermc 6. I-Got-The-BLUES 7. Fry36 8. Sand im Kopf 9. goliath74 10. The Mighty Frog 11. IASocFan 12. Spartak 13. muchacho 14. ITALIA1982 15. BSjanitor 16. episkeptis 17. BusbyBabes 18. irishwhisper 19. ilovemanu_1999 20. Força Sporting 21. Sapphire 22. dangle 23. Ze Pereira 24. premier1 25. Winston Wolf 26. Vinnievin 27. vilafria 28. bspsoccer 29. cockney 30. spoonman
Top 3 after today's games: 1. Winston Wolf---------------163.5 pts 2. Chess_Panther--------------161.5 3. frasermc--------------------161 3. spoonman-------------------161 will post the full results after tomorrow's games.
So, I left out The_ChelseaSupporter from the first sheet, so redownload the sheet if you already took it. Also, this just shows that I do, in fact, make mistakes, so please check my work.
a big thanks for the effort put into the spreadsheet. it's outstanding. and to ITALIA1982 for starting it up.
32. Milan 31. Barcelona 30. Arsenal 29. R.Madrid 28. Chelsea 27. M. United 26. Inter 25. Liverpool 24. Valencia 23. Lyon 22. Fenerbahçe 21. Porto 20. W.Bremen 19. Roma 18. Sevilla 17. Benfica 16. PSV 15. Schalke 14. Lazio 13. Marseille 12. S. Lizbon 11. Stuttgart 10. Celtic 9. Steau B. 8. CSKA 7. S. Donetsk 6. Rangers 5. D.Kiev 4. S. Prag 3. Olympiakos 2. Besiktas 1. Rosenborg
Stuttgart and Sevilla both disappointed. I honestly expected them to come out stronger. Also, I was pleasantly surprised by Wenger's side, I honestly thought that they would crash and burn without Henry, but football is beautiful in its unpredictability. Congratulations Sapphire. And Chelsea without the special one, JM, how will they fare? Roman Abramovich better have a plan for one of the greatest teams ever assembled because they are number 31 on my list. An early exit for Makele and company would be unfair to fans worldwide.
Results after matchday 1: 1 Sapphire-------------316 2 4-3-3----------------308.5 3 Winston Wolf---------307.5 4 spoonman------------306 5 The_ChelseaSupporter-302.5 6 BusbyBabes-----------302 7 ilovemanu_1999-------299 8 I-Got-The-Blues-------297.5 9 cockney---------------296 10 episkeptis-------------295 11 IrishWhisper-----------293 11 goliath74--------------293 13 Ze Pereira-------------292.5 14 Spartak---------------292 15 Vinnievin--------------291.5 16 ITALIA1982------------290 17 frasermc---------------289 18 Chess_Panther---------288.5 18 Sand im Kopf-----------288.5 20 muchacho--------------287.5 21 dangle-----------------286.5 22 IASocFan---------------285.5 22 bspsoccer--------------285.5 22 Forca Sporting----------285.5 25 The Mighty Frog---------284 26 vilafria------------------282.5 27 cro werder--------------277 28 BSjanitor----------------275 29 premier1-----------------270 30 Fry36--------------------266 Sapphire is in the lead overtaking Winston Wolf, in second place jumps 4-3-3 and Winston Wolf drops to 3rd.
I couldn't fall asleep...so I'm curious to find out how many participants picked Milan to repeat (rank #32) this year. It's nice when my 15 month old baby and my wife are in deep sleep. Milan = 6 (20.00%) Barcelona = 6 (20.00%) Man United = 6 (20.00%) Real Madrid = 4 (13.33%) Liverpool = 4 (13.33%) Chelsea = 2 (6.66%) Inter = 2 (6.66%) Out of the 32 teams in CL, only 7 teams were chosen to win it all by our participants. And rightly so, probably the seven richest football clubs in the world. No one picked Arsenal to win it all. However, one participant placed Arsenal in the #31 slot. Highest rank teams outside the big 7 above: Arsenal #31 = 1 participant Arsenal #30 = 1 Arsenal #29 = 1 Sevilla #31 = 1 Sevilla #30 = 1 Sevilla #29 = 2 Porto #30 = 1 Lyon #29 = 1
interesting, nice analysis. Being a milan fan myself, i couldnt sleep at night if I didnt put them 32. i was wondering if next year we should include some sort of point system for goals. eg. a 2-0 win would be worth more than a 2-1. just thinkin out loud. we can explore some things, or keep it the exact same way as now.
This system is better, because if you start adding things like goal differential as a factor, it just gets too complicated and there's bound to be error.
After matchday 2: 1 Busbybabes 2 Winston Wolf 3 spoonman 4 vilafria 5 4-3-3 updated sheet on the website.
goddammit!! i'm down to 20th!?!! after a good start last week i'm dropping quicker than a concrete block taped to an anvil which is attached to a brick wall and dropped from a plane flying 4,000 ft up in the sky...
From the Spreadsheet: Code: Rank Poster Currently Group[b] 1 BusbyBabes 1 604.5 2 Winston Wolf 2 601.5 3 spoonman 3 597 4 vilafria 4 592 5 4-3-3 5.5 591.5 5 ChelseaSpporter 5.5 591.5 7 ilovemanu_1999 7 589.5 8 cockney 8 589 9 Sapphire 9 588 10 I-Got-The-Blues 10 583[/b] 11 IrishWhisper 11.5 580 11 The Mighty Frog 11.5 580 13 episkeptis 13 579 14 Spartak 14.5 577 14 dangle 14.5 577 16 Vinnievin 16.5 576 16 Chess_Panther 16.5 576 18 muchacho 18 575.5 19 ITALIA1982 19 575 20 frasermc 20 574.5 21 goliath74 21 569 22 Sand im Kopf 22.5 568.5 22 IASocFan 22.5 568.5 24 Ze Pereira 24 568 25 bspsoccer 25.5 567.5 25 Forca Sporting 25.5 567.5 27 Fry36 27 560 28 premier1 28 559.5 29 cro werder 29 548.5 30 BSjanitor 30 539.5
Scores after M3 posted to the website http://bspsoccer.googlepages.com/predictionleague Sheet has been updated. To the right on the "everyones inputs" tab are the averages of where people selected teams. Top 5 (until someone else posts the full standings): spoonman 4-3-3 The_ChelseaSupporter BusbyBabes cockney im sitting in 23rd... ive got you right where i want you... or not.