Baz Lewis Prediction League 2018-19

Sal will love being branded 'seasoned'.

Be good to get this up and running.

scarletsrules wrote:

I'm happy to help out if someone gives me the rules etc

thought with your username you would have to as that josh.

30th june 1986- 30th june 2011.25 years roofing,i wouldn't call that dodgy.

Elmo, when the competition is posted, you make your predictions for matches that haven’t yet started. Whoever is organising the comp takes care of the rest.

Having run the competition for a bit, here are my observations on (some of) the elements and how it works, for what they’re all worth.

1. Posting the forthcoming weekend’s fixtures say on a Sunday or a Monday to give folks max chance to participate. Sometimes, work pressures stop this happening until later in the week, or occasionally not at all.

Setting the matches out in order of kick off times (in U.K. time) to make it easier for people to see what matches haven’t yet started when they make their predictions posted. The trickiest time is the European weekends.

2. After the weekend, check the results of each predictor to see how many were correct. It is traditional to note the number of attempts as the league has been run on a percentage success basis.

Sal had a spreadsheet that was quite helpful in this respect. Once you put the number correct and number of attempts into the document, it works out the percentages automatically. However, with updates on excel, it sometimes came up with weird answers.

3. Publishing the table periodically so people can see how everyone is doing.

To me, it seems that the job could be split between someone posting the fixtures that and someone else checking the accuracy of the predictions and updating the spreadsheet, whether Sal’s or anyone else’s, publishing the table say monthly.

Think that’s it from what comes to mind.

Hope it helps and there are enough willing volunteers to make it work for the forthcoming season.

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it's not hard, a weekly list of fixtures and you guess who will win the fixture.

the difficulty is keeping the league up to date lol.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance - Terry Pratchett

philturk wrote:

Just an idea to make updating this simpler.....if predictions are added to a Google Doc, shared spreadsheet which is pre-populated with the seasons fixtures then updating will be a simple task of just inputting the weekends results and locking the sheet so that nobody can alter predictions after the event.

A simple "if/truth" formula will give you the results and auto populate the league table

Sounds like progress and great thinking.

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