Accybeme And Taypot Hit The Ground Running ……
By landing the only two maxis
, with the accompanying 5 points, on the first day of the new season. Whether this will help them get over the disappointment of the result is obviously a matter of some doubt – hopefully not!
5 other pessimists
profited from the Reds misfortunes, with Monkey Hanger, Nige B and Stevie R scoring 4 with a single bonus point, and Stanley Josh and Valairian just picking up the basic 3 points. And just 5 of the optimists and drawmongers managed a bonus point. So the top of the table looks like this:
Posn..Player...............P.....W......D......L.. ....BP......Pts
1=…..Accybeme...…….1......1......0...….0...….2...… ...5
1= Taypot 1 1 0 0 2 5
3= Monkey Hanger 1 0 1 0 1 4
3= Nige B 1 0 1 0 1 4
3= Stevie R 1 0 1 0 1 4
6= Stanley Josh 1 0 1 0 0 3
6= Valairian 1 0 1 0 0 3
8= Div3North + 4 1 0 0 1 1 1
13= Everybody Else 1 0 0 1 0 0
Oh booger that looks dreadful
- I'll see if I can improve it by editing after initial posting.
The +4 on 8= being Ossy Kid, Outback Ozzy, Revived Red and Smudgie. Nobody else troubled the scorer.
Maybe after 9 years it’s worth explaining how the scoring works
. Basically, you get three points
if you forecast the correct result, i.e. Stanley to win, lose or draw regardless of the score, and a bonus point
for each team score you get right. So Accybeme and Taypot get 3
for the correct result, 1
for “Stanley 0” and 1
for “Lincoln 2”, so 5 altogether, which is a “maxi”. This also shows up in the table as a “win”.
Monkey Hanger and his mates, who’d all forecast a 2-1 defeat, get 4 points, that’s 3 for the correct result, plus a single bonus point for “Lincoln 2”. Anyone who’d predicted a 1-0, 3-0, 4-0 etc defeat would also have got 4 points, but no-one did. Stanley Josh and Valairian both went for 3-1 down, so they got 3 for the correct result but no bonuses. And all 5 are shown in the table with a “draw”, which is a correct result without a perfect score.
Div3North and Outback Ozzy went 3-2 Stanley, so despite getting the result wrong got a bonus point for “Lincoln 2”. Ossy Kid and Smudgie went for 0-0 and Revived Red for 2-2, so they all get a bonus point for one side or the other. And these 5, along with everybody else who missed out completely
on the points, are shown in the table as a “loss”.
Anyway roll on ….
erm
…. the Wombles in a fortnight as far as this competition’s concerned. But there’s the minor matter of Sunderland in the League Cup first …. On Stanley On!!