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Post by bubba on Aug 11, 2018 22:46:10 GMT
Welcome to our 4th annual final placings prediction thread.
As per feel free to post comments anywhere but after a few days I'll remove all posts that aren't an actual prediction, it's just too big a pain in the arse to scroll down to find them then move onto pages 3,4,5 etc, don't take it personally.
Same rules as always, you score a point for every place out you are for individual team predictions, so if you predict Blues to finish 1st and they finish 5th you'll score 4 points and the winner will be the poster with the LOWEST points total (the nearest to predicted finishing position) at the end of the season.
The thread will be LOCKED at midnight on 31st August, NO EXCEPTIONS, until then you are free to change an already posted prediction.
IMPORTANT
If Blues are deducted points any finishing position will take that points deduction into account, so if results have us finishing 14th but a points deduction means we're placed 22nd, it's the latter that will be used for calculating final scores.
Two favours to ask can you number your predictions, it makes it a lot easier for me when totalling up the scores, to save you doing it you can even copy and paste the below and fill in the blanks  Also can you check that you have entered a prediction for every championship team, most seasons one or two posters accidentally miss a team out and double enter another team, if I notice I'll inform the poster but if I don't before the cut off it will be deemed an invalid entry.
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Monkeyman won our first two comps and tilts broke his run and is the current reigning champ, good luck to you all.
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Post by expatjohn on Aug 13, 2018 5:31:03 GMT
1. Leeds Utd
2. Stoke City
3. WBA
4. Middlesboro
5. Nott'm Forest
6. Swansea
7. Brentford
8. Aston is Vile
9. Derby County
10. Bristol City
11. Ipswich Town
12. Millwall
13. Sheffield Wednesday
14. Wigan Athletic
15. Preston NE
16. Birmingham City
17. Sheffield Utd
18. Blackburn Rovers
19. Norwich City
20. Reading
21. Bolton Wanderers
22. Hull City
23. QPR
24. Rotherham
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Post by bruminoz on Aug 15, 2018 1:17:29 GMT
1 Leeds United
2 West Bromwich Albion
3 Nottingham Forest
4 Derby County
5 Stoke City
6 Middlesbrough FC
7 DVB
8 Swansea City
9 Birmingham City
10 Brentford FC
11 Preston North End
12 Sheffield United
13 Bristol City
14 Wigan Athletic
15 Queens Park Rangers
16 Reading FC
17 Millwall FC
18 Rotherham United
19 Blackburn Rovers
20 Norwich City
21 Sheffield Wednesday
22 Ipswich Town
23 Bolton Wanderers
24 Hull City
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Post by coopobot on Aug 15, 2018 15:40:14 GMT
1. Middlesborough
2. vile
3. Forest
4. Leeds
5. Brentford
6. Swansea
7. Derby
8. Stoke
9. Wba
10. Preston
11. Bristol city
12. Norwich
13. Wednesday
14. Sheff utd
15. Milwall
16. Blackburn
17. Qpr
18. Hull
19. Reading
20. Bolton
21. Birmingham
22. Ipswich
23. Wigan
24. Rotherham
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Post by BluenoseB on Aug 16, 2018 18:28:22 GMT
1.leeds
2.boro
3.vile
4.swansea
5.brentford
6.stoke
7.forest
8.albion
9.derby
10.preston
11.bristol city
12.sheff united
13.norwich
14.milwall
15.ipswich
16.blackburn
17.wigan
18.blues
19.sheff wed
20.reading
21.qpr
22.hull
23.bolton
24.rotherham
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Post by jazzzy786 on Aug 23, 2018 14:51:56 GMT
Updated table. Maybe shouldn't read too much into the early results but ...
1 Leeds
2 Boro
3 WBA
4 Vile
5 Derby
6 Brentford
7 Swansea
8 Stoke
9 Forest
10 Bristol City
11 Preston
12 Norwich
13 Sheffield Utd
14 Millwall
15 Bolton
16 Wigan
17 BLUES
18 Sheffield Wed
19 Blackburn
20 Ipswich
21 Hull
22 Reading
23 QPR
24 Rotherham
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2018 17:12:44 GMT
1 Boro
2 WBA
3 Brentford
4 Leeds
5 Swansea
6 Wigan
7 Vile
8 Millwall
9 Forest
10 Preston
11 Stoke
12 Ipswich
13 Bolton
14 Bristol City
15 Blues
16 Derby
17 Sheff Utd
18 Sheffield Wed
19 Hull
20 Norwich
21 Reading
22 Blackburn
23 QPR
24 Rotherham
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2018 14:40:21 GMT
1. Leeds 2. Middlesborough 3. Vile 4. West Brom 5. Swansea 6. Stoke
7. Forest
8. Sheffield Utd 9. Derby 10. Bolton 11. Norwich 12. Brenford 13. Wigan 14. Sheffield Weds 15. Blues 16. Bristol City
17. Blackburn 18. Milwall 19. Preston 20. Ipswich 21. Reading 22. Hull 23. Rotherham 24. QPR |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2018 10:52:40 GMT
This is my effort. Still can't work Blues out because we play like a team capable of top 8 but we are becoming a soft touch at the back.
1 Middlesbrough
2 West Brom
3 Leeds
4 Vile
5 Stoke
6 Derby
7 Brentford
8 Swansea
9 Bristol City
10 Nottingham Forest
11 Sheff Utd
12 Norwich
13 Preston
14 Millwall
15 Blackburn
16 Sheff Wed
17 Bolton
18 Hull
19 Wigan
20 Birmingham
21 Ipswich
22 Reading
23 Rotherham
24 QPR
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Post by monkeyman on Aug 27, 2018 20:23:23 GMT
1. Leeds 2. Vile (sorry  ) 3. Boro 4. WBA 5. Brentford 6. Stoke 7. Derby 8. Forest 9. Sheff Utd 10. Bristol City 11. Millwall 12. Preston 13. Swansea 14. Sheff Wed 15. Norwich 16. Blackburn 17. Blues 18. Bolton 19. Wigan 20. QPR 21. Reading 22. Ipswich 23. Hull 24. Rotherham |
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Post by brightside on Aug 29, 2018 7:28:55 GMT
Thanks for doing this Bubba
Here’s my entry
1 West Brom
2 Middlesbrough
3 Leeds
4 Vile
5 Stoke
6 Derby
7 Swansea
8 Brentford
9 Bristol City
10 Nottingham Forest
11 Preston
12 Sheffield Utd
13 Norwich
14 Millwall
15 Blackburn
16 Sheff Wed
17 Bolton
18 Hull
19 Wigan
20 Birmingham
21 Ipswich
22 Reading
23 QPR
24 Rotherham
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Post by bubba on Aug 31, 2018 20:41:58 GMT
1. M'BORO
2. VILE (spawny b'stards)
3. LEEDS
4. W.B.A
5. STOKE
6. FOREST
7. DERBY
8.BRNTFRD
9. SWANS
10.SHF.U
11.BLKBRN
12.PRES
13.BRIST
14.NRWCH
15.SHF.W
16.WIGAN
17.BLUES
18.REDING
19.Q.P.R
20.M'WALL
21.BOLTN
22.IPSWCH
23.HULL
24.ROVRUM
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Post by bubba on Aug 31, 2018 20:46:38 GMT
Mine makes 11, less than usual, easier for me.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2018 21:39:40 GMT
1. M'BORO 2. VILE (spawny b'stards) 3. LEEDS 4. W.B.A 5. STOKE 6. FOREST 7. DERBY 8.BRNTFRD 9. SWANS 10.SHF.U 11.BLKBRN 12.PRES 13.BRIST 14.NRWCH 15.SHF.W 16.WIGAN 17.BLUES 18.REDING 19.Q.P.R 20.M'WALL 21.BOLTN 22.IPSWCH 23.HULL 24.ROVRUM Your spelling is fecking terrible. |
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Post by bubba on Aug 31, 2018 22:59:07 GMT
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Post by bubba on Dec 23, 2018 16:38:29 GMT
The half way scores are in with some ahem, interesting results.
11th tiltoncaravan - 167 - long way behind 10th and a very long way from everybody else, the wooden spoon appears to be in the bag. Also joint worst individual team guess with Norwich being 18 places out. However the second closest position on blues.
10h EPJ - 134 - weirdly despite finishing so low, has more teams than anyone else (4) in their exact position, also Norwich the worst prediction being 17 places out. Was closest positioning vile. 
Joint 8th
Coopo and bluenoseb - both 122 - Coopo the most pessimistic bluenose having blues 13 places lower, nothing of bluenoseb's picks stands out (sorry) long way to go yet though
7th jazzy - 113 - worst team pick QPR being 13 places out, despite being 7th is only 15 points behind the leader
joint 5th
Bosch and briteside - both 112 - Bosch the only poster not double figures away with Norwich, also the joint 2nd least double figure away picks, briteside 2nd most pessimistic on blues his 2nd worst pick after QPR.
Nobody was more than 3 places out on Leeds
8 of the 11 posters had wba within 1 place, coopo, bluenoseb and briteside being the other 3
Nobody had boro more than 3 places out
Nobody had Forest more than 4 places out
Only 3 posters were less than double figures out on QPR, Coopo, Oz and yours truly
Nobody more than 4 places out on Bristol or Sheff Weds or Rotherham
8 of the 11 posters had Reading within 1 place, Coopo, Oz and yours truly being the others
Top 4 to follow
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Post by bubba on Dec 23, 2018 16:54:10 GMT
14 teams had nobody picking their exact position.
By far the team most accurately predicted are Leeds, 6 posters picked them to be top, EPJ, OZ, BLUENOSEB, JAZZY, BOSCH and MM
3 teams caught nearly everybody out, Norwich a combined 139 places out and QPR and Brentford both a combined 122 places out, Bosch the least out on 2 of these
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Post by bubba on Dec 23, 2018 17:20:11 GMT
OK top 4 and it has a familiar look to it.
4th - tilts - 108 - current champion just 10 points off the lead, worst 4 picks the 3 mentioned above that caught virtually everybody out and blues being the joint second most pessimistic on us (disciplinary panel pending though)
3rd - mm - 106 - two time champion bidding to reclaim the crown, the Norwich, QPR, Brentford trinity amongst his worst 4 picks along with Millwall, he don't get them Laandaners
2nd - bubba - 100 - never finished outside top 3, never won it, always the bridesmaid. Only poster to not have picked a single team at least 13 places away from current position and joint second least amount of double figure away picks with bosch (2) Norwich and Brentford, bosch's were QPR and Bolton.
1st - BruminOz - 98 - despite poor last season usually around the upper reaches and blazing the trail this time. The only poster to have just 1 team double figures away, but here's where it gets weird, that team Norwich is the joint worst pick along wth the 11th placed caravanman being 18 places out, 2 other teams just 8 places out and astonishingly every other pick all within 6 places or less of their current position.
Cheers all, will do one update in February or March and remember we're only half way.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2018 22:15:51 GMT
Cheers Bubbs, Well done so far Mr Oz.
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Post by bubba on Dec 23, 2018 23:02:41 GMT
Yep only 2 ahead of me but the fact he's no more than 6 places out on 21 of 24 teams is quite stunning.
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Post by monkeyman on Dec 24, 2018 11:13:17 GMT
Me an Tilts are in the running again. I want my title back!
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Post by bubba on Mar 3, 2019 16:46:35 GMT
Have done a preliminary totalling up but excluded Leeds and Sheff Utd until the outcome of the Sheffield deby tomorrow. Unfortunately forgot that Wednesday getting a positive result could change a lot of figures of teams just above them aswell as their own so will possibly have to do it all over again tomorrow. 
Nevertheless, I don't anticipate the placings I have thus far being massively changed whatever happens and without giving too much away, I will say we definitely will have a new leader with Oz having been hammered since the last count, but that at least 8 of the 11 are still in with a shout of winning, especially given the congested nature of the middle of the championship and the potential for significant movement still, though we do have a very clear new leader, until tomorrow then...
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Post by bubba on Mar 4, 2019 21:57:28 GMT
Scores are in and will skip the analysis this time.
11th CARAVAN 180
10TH EPJ 140
9TH BLUENOSEB 130
7TH BOSCHY 122 7TH BRUMINOZ 122 5TH COOPO 120 5TH JAZZY 120
I'd say everyone below bluenoseb still in with a chance but work to do, top 4 to follow
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Post by bubba on Mar 4, 2019 21:59:43 GMT
Before getting to the top 4 I will be doing one more update before the last one due to the congested nature of the championship and the potential for blues to be deducted points, guessing before the baggies game at the end of the month or maybe a weeek or so after baggies.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2019 22:00:39 GMT
Does Caravan smell? Just wondering why the big gap to EPJ  |
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Post by bubba on Mar 4, 2019 22:01:32 GMT
I was being mischevious because he's so far behind everybody else.  |
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Post by bubba on Mar 4, 2019 22:05:41 GMT
TOP 4
4th place BRITESIDE - 114
3RD place TILTS - 112
2nd place BUBBA - 110
1st place MONKS - 102
It's a good lead but tilts was 10 behind Oz last time and is now 10 ahead of him, plenty of games left to change things especially with how tight 6th to 15th is still.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2019 22:08:56 GMT
Still in the hunt for the DOUBLE DOUBLE!!! That is the aim, it's a tough ask but it will be a great auto sign |
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Post by bubba on Mar 4, 2019 22:09:02 GMT
I know I said no analysis but just one thing, before tonight's game Monks had 7 (SEVEN) teams in their exact positions, never seen that before, I think 5 is the most either during or at the end of the season which is how many he has after Wednesday swapped places with Swansea.
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Post by bubba on Mar 4, 2019 22:09:58 GMT
Still in the hunt for the DOUBLE DOUBLE!!! That is the aim, it's a tough ask but it will be a great auto sign I'd like a single, always 2nd or 3rd |
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Also can you check that you have entered a prediction for every championship team, most seasons one or two posters accidentally miss a team out and double enter another team, if I notice I'll inform the poster but if I don't before the cut off it will be deemed an invalid entry.
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