OTW LCFC PREDICTION LEAGUE-FINAL

Apologies for late posting - not long back from a weekend in Windsor. Exacerbated by not having recorded Dublin’s predictions in the book, necessitating research of original postings from the start of the season. Not that I needed to have bothered as it turned out! 😂

Well, what a brilliant end to the Premier League season, with both the title and the final relegation place going to the death.

Thanks to those who have already remarked on this year’s prediction league. I have thoroughly enjoyed doing it and will be running it next season. The Premier League kicks off on the weekend of August 6/7th but I will be unable to help myself by then and will no doubt get you all up and running the weekend before when the Championship begins. The season will pause on the weekend of November 12/13th for the World Cup and resume on Boxing Day. I will also run a prediction league for that, in a similar fashion to the Euro’s last summer.

Round 58 results:
1 Dublin Fox 53+25=78
2= Harbury Fox 51+15=66
2= True Blue 51+15=66
4= Foxello 46+6=52
4= Nuneaton Fox 46+6=52
6 Son of Villa 45
7 OWF 44
8 Kenilworth Fox 43
9 Appleton 41
10= Lone Groover 39
10= Tottington Kopite 39
10= YWF 39
13 MITLBC 38
14 Bowstring 33

Congratulations to Dublin for his second consecutive first place. Augurs well for next season! He is also to be congratulated, as is True Blue for scoring points in every game.

Table after Round 58, but before bonuses are added!
1 Nuneaton Fox 2756
2 Tottington Kopite 2636
3 MITLBC 2562
4 Lone Groover 2546
5 Appleton 2543
6 YWF 2493
7 Son of Villa 2485
8 OWF 2464
9 Foxello 2448
10 Harbury Fox 2443
11 True Blue 2335
12 Kenilworth Fox 2209
13 Bowstring 2185
14 Dublin Fox 2116

However, the addition of the following bonuses do make quite a difference. Bonuses were awarded for the following:
Final league position 50 (-10 per place out)
Total goals scored 100 (-10 per goal out)
Goal difference 100 (-10 per goal out)

These related to nominated clubs: for Tottington (Liverpool) and for Son of Villa (Aston Villa). For the rest of us that was Leicester.

Golden Boot winner - number of goals, shared this season by Son and Salah 23

Relegated clubs 25 each correctly predicted.

Your bonuses scored were as follows:
Appleton 190
Nuneaton Fox 190
Lone Groover 150
Kenilworth Fox 148
Son of Villa 145
Foxello 115
Harbury Fox 100
Tottington Kopite 100
True Blue 70
OWF 60
YWF 60
Bowstring 35
MITLBC 25
Dublin Fox 0

If any of you would like to know the breakdown with a reminder of what you predicted, just let me know.

Thus, the final table with bonuses added is this:
1 Nuneaton Fox 2998
2 Tottington Kopite 2775
3 Appleton 2774 (how close was that?!)
4 Lone Groover 2735
5 Son of Villa 2675
6 MITLBC 2625
7 Foxello 2615
8 Harbury Fox 2609
9 YWF 2592
10 OWF 2568
11 True Blue 2471
12 Kenilworth Fox 2400
13 Bowstring 2253
14 Dublin Fox 2194

Congratulations to Nuneaton Fox! A brilliant campaign. Well done everybody else for providing excellent competition throughout the season and for not abandoning it when we delved into Leagues One and Two! Heartfelt thanks to all who had a go and I hope you’ll all come back to play next season. Together with some notable absentees from previous seasons. Any anybody new, of course!

Enjoy the summer and UTF!
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