Prediction League Game 1; Aldershot (home)
 

The News

We’re up and running ………….

Although I stuck my head above the parapet first, I’m delighted to say that I’ve been joined in running the game by Chimer, who knows more about spreadsheets than I’ve had hot dinners. The division of labour will be that I’ll start the game each time (league matches only), and Chimer will collate the results at the close, and prepare and post the ‘league table’.

The Rules

Are more or less what they always were (we think!), namely

• You post a guess as to what the full time score will be for each Stanley league game. You can enter every one of the 46 games, or just when you remember to post (but you may not top the table at the end of the season if you only enter once ………..)
• If you guess the score correctly, you get 5 points
• If you get the score wrong but the result right, you get 3 points
• If you get the result wrong but get the number of goals scored by one of the teams right, you get 1 point
• At the end of the season, the person with the most points wins the league. There isn’t a prize (yet, but we’ll see what we can do)

A Request

It would really help Chimer (he says) if you could post your guess with Stanley’s score first (easier to check), but we won’t shout if you forget …………

• “Stanley 2 Aldershot 0” is perfect
• “Stanley to win 2-0” is perfect, as is “2-0 to the Stanley” (or “the Mighty Reds”)
• “2-2” is as well
• “Stanley to lose 1-3” would help Chimer (as above)

The only change is that this season we’ll accept “2-0 to us” provided you are an established forum member (ie a Stanley supporter, actual or deemed) whose name we know

We won’t accept “4-1” without an identified / identifiable winner. Any posts that won’t otherwise count I’ll try to identify and post a ‘reminder’ to the person concerned, so that it can be corrected before the cut off time; we aren’t out to disqualify guesses unless we have no choice ………

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Accrington Stanley



V


Aldershot Town



Prediction League – Game 1; v Aldershot (home)

Aldershot Town FC has had a busy summer of signings (sound familiar?), manager Kevin Dillon having added former Ashford Town winger Jermaine McGlashan, centre half Clayton Fortune from Conference South side Weston-Super-Mare, 20-year-old right-sided defender Aaron Morris from Cardiff City, winger/striker Wade Small , who played last season with League 2 rivals Chesterfield, striker Damien Spencer from Kettering Town, Manny Panther (who played for Morecambe last season on loan), Luke Gutteridge from Northampton, left back Jamie Vincent from Swindon and centre half Darren Jones from Hereford Utd to their squad.

We met 6 times in the Conference between 2003 and 2006; in 03/04 it was one win each, 04/05 it was two draws, but in 05/06 we did the double, 3-2 at our place and 4-1 at theirs. Excluding Conference games, we’ve played them four times since they returned to the league two seasons ago; in 08/09 we lost on the opening day of the season 1-0, and then lost the return game at the end of February 3-1 (Craig Lindfield scoring our goal); last season we again lost 3-1 at the EBB Stadium (Phil Edwards), but beat them 2-1 on a Tuesday night at the end of January with goals from Proccie and Billy Whizz. They finished the season 6th on 72 points (9 places and 11 points above us) but lost both legs of the Play Off games against Rotherham; they scored 69 (joint 5th) and conceded 56 (9th). We scored 62 (joint 9th) and conceded 74 (beaten only by Darlington’s 87)

As always the deadline for entries is scheduled kick-off time, that is 3pm on Saturday 7th August.

Good luck to eveyone ………… and thanks for playing!

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1 - 0 Stanley

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2-1 to stanley, ta lads.:)

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1-1 draw

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2-1 to the Stanley please, Div3North...and hats off to you and Chimer for taking up the baton!

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Stanley 2 Aldershot 2

Thanks for taking this on :-)

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:) Accrington Stanley 2 - 1 Aldershot Town :) pleases for me, and thankyou for doing the prediction league:D

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Stanley 2 Shots 0 please guys, and fair play for doing it :)

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2-0 to Stanley.

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3-0 to the shots but i would love to be wrong.

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0-0 Draw please

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2-1 win for Stanley and thanks guys, it wouldn,t be the same without the prediction league

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3-1 to The Stanley, Please chaps.

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1-1
and thanks to both for taking this on.

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Stanley 3 -1 shots please

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2-1 Stanley please!!

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2-1 to Stanley please

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3-2 to Stanley.

Onwards & Upwards

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3 - 1 to The Shots...

Thanks to you two for keeping it going!!!! :) :) :)

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3 - 2 to Stanley please

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3-2 to stanley

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1-1 draw for me.

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1-1 and thanks.

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I'm starting my predictions with a positive 4-2 win to Stanley please.

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2-1 To Stanley please

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Stanley 0 Aldershot 2

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I'll throw my hat into the ring and go along with......


Stanley 3.......Shots 1 !!!!:D

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Accrington Stanley 2
Aldershot Town 2

Cheers

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im gunna go for an optimistic 3-1 to stanley! come on you reds!

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Accrington Stanley 0 - 2 Aldershot Town please.

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Stanley 2 Aldershot 0

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2-1 stanley thanks

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Accrington Stanley 2-2 Aldershot Town


:D:D

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Stanley 2 Aldershot 1

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stanley win 4-0

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1 - 1 draw for me

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one apiece for me pls and thanks for picking up the mantle

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Stanley 0 - Aldershot 3

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accrington 2
aldershot 0.....................thanks

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Stanley 0 Aldershot 1

Sorry

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Stanley 0 - 2 Aldershot

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Accrington Stanley 2 v 1 Aldershot Town
For me please and add my thanks for doing this :-)

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Start of the season, so they'll both be a bit cagey I reckon

Stanley 1 - Aldershot 1

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stanley to win 3-1 please

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Hi D3N. Wouldn't want to disappoint !!!!
Accrington Stanley 2 Aldershot 1, please

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Accrington 2 Aldershot 0

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Accrington Stanley 2-1 Aldershot

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Sorry can I change my mind to 0-2 to Aldershot cant seem to modify posts :confused: Thanks

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2 2

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Just as well mate - if you'd modified a post I'd already seen, I'd never have spotted it :)

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firstly cheers fellas for taking this over it's always good post match to realise that despite thinking you are pretty knowledgeable about football you do in fact know chuff all

stanley 2 aldershot 1

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Stanley 1 Shots 2 please chaps

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2 1 Stanley please

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3-2 to the Stanley please.

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3 - 1 to stanley :D bird poop luck :)
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0-0 please

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2 - 1 to the mighty stanley

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Stanley 3 Aldershot 1 for me please.

Oh yes bring it on.



:rolleyz8::rolleyz8::rolleyz8::rolleyz8:

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I suppose I'd better remember to play, since I'm involved setting the game up ..........

Stanley 3 Aldershot 0, methinks, if you please Chimer ..........

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Stanley 0 Aldershot 2

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Stanley 1 Aldershot 2

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Suppose I'd better not forget myself - Stanley 2 Shots 1, a firm maybe.

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Good Luck today lads and have a fantastic season.

2 - 1 to Stanley please. On, Stanley On!

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Game 1 Results:

Didn't we do well (not) :cool:

61 entries - pre-season optimism leading to 37 opting for a Stanley win, 12 rational people going for the draw and another 12 pessimists voting against.

So - 12 correctly predicting the draw, but only 2 with the correct 0-0 scoreline.

So take a bow, :jimbo:bdc and CmonStanley :jimbo:

When I first put the result into my spreadsheet it put Teach on top of the table with 102 points, but I decided not to believe that :o

I'll look to publish a full table after 3 games - which gives me a bit longer to work out how to do it.

Thanks for playing, hope to hear from you all next week.

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That's a little joke right?:confused:

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..... to work out how to persuade Bill Gates' magic to do it for me instead of doing it by hand .....

It'll be ready next week :p (or the week after :()

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If you want to save time just use Jimbo's format, he used Word, simple layout but it worked, it will give you some time to sort your own out.

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Hi Baggy

I probably will use Jimbo's format but what takes the time is working out how to compare the actual score with 60 odd guesses recorded over the previous week, score them according to the rules and produce a table covering all the weeks of the season to date, all automatically. Word doesn't do any of that for you.

It's easy to do it by hand as a one-off but over 46 games the effort to automate is well worth it. Excel can do what's needed, if I get it right, and the fun for me is in getting it right (I know, I should get out more). So far I've got to the stage where I can get your names and the total points out in the right order, but I also want to be able to add the extra columns Jimbo provided.

Which will take a little longer ...

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Cart on Chimer! :D

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Chimer tell me about it, I run a fantasy football comp with over 60 enteries so I know what you're doing, get them macros set up right lol

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Chimer - believe the spreadsheet!!! 102 points!!!

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Seems like just last week.............


:)

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Not to me ….. :-)

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Time flies!
Massive thanks to Div 3 North and Chimer for keeping us busy over the years!