It’s that time again, time to get the predictions game up and running again. I know last season was a bit of a mismatch with a few speed bumps, but hopefully, they didn’t cause too many problems. You all know what the game is about, so let’s just jump right into it...
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SEASON PREDICTIONSLike last season, the season predictions are the first cab off the rank. As always, required to be locked in by Regular Season Game 1 sim, so change them as many times as you need to or want to until then.
1. Name each division winner (1 point each, total 8 points)
2. Name the winner of the Fail Brigade Conference (4 points)
3. Name the winner of the Bad Company Conference (4 points)
4. Name the league champion (6 points)
5. Name the team that will host the league championship game (2 points)
Here’s a bonus, whoever names the most division winners will get an additional 2 points added to their score. If multiple people get the same number of correct division winners, then they will all get the additional 2 points. Division winners' points will be given out following the regular season and are based on what the game says, with the other points given out after the games in question have been run.
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TEAM PREDICTIONSWe move on to talking about your own team now, and the teams around you fight it out for postseason dominance and some other things. These points will be given out in full after the regular season is finished. If for some reason, you end up with a tie in your regular season result, then I'll be generous and give you 2.5 points as long as you are within 1 game of your original prediction.
6. How many victories will your team get this year? (5 points)
7. Which three teams from Bad Company will get a wildcard berth? (1 point for every team correct, maximum of 3 points)
8. Which three teams from Fail Brigade will get a wildcard berth? (1 point for every team correct, maximum of 3 points)
9. Which team will have the best offence (i.e., most points scored) (2 points)
10. Which team will have the best defence (i.e., least points conceded) (2 points)
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WEEKLY PREDICTIONSOK, now onto the fun part. The weekly predictions. It’s as it has been for seasons now, one (or two) games each season of the regular season, along with all postseason games for you to predict the winner and the margin of victory. To make it easier this season, I’ll outline the point structure, which hopefully this year will be a lot more simpler to understand and to avoid any issues that may arise.
Correctly predicting the winning team (1 point)
Correctly predicting the winning team as well as the margin of victory (3 points)
Correctly answering the question of the week (1 point)
N.B. I’ve decided to remove the point for getting just the margin of victory, which made things a little complicated.With regards to the question of the week, as with last year, if there is clarification needed on a question, it will be provided alongside the question. As we had in previous editions of the game, you will all have an available
JOKER to use in the regular season. There is no need to use the joker if you don’t want to use it but it is there for you to use. Rules on the joker are below:-
a. Everyone will have the use of ONE (1) joker that can be used throughout the predictions game.
b. You must clearly indicate your intention to use the joker in a particular gameweek. Should the gameweek involved have two games, you will need to clearly indicate which game it is being used for, otherwise, the joker will be ignored and returned for use later on.
c. When a joker is used, points for both the game of the week and the question of the week will be doubled.
d. Jokers cannot be used in any postseason game, they must be used (if you wish to) during the regular season only.
As before, all postseason games are going to be part of the weekly predictions, so there will be at minimum 29 games to predict this season. I will try my hardest after the midweek sim to get a notification out in the #sportsball channel to remind those who haven’t made their predictions that they have only 24 hours (or 48 hours in the case of a Sunday) to get their predictions in.
So, in closing... best of luck everyone and let’s have some predicted fun!!!
2026 PREDICTIONS LEADERBOARD (as of Conference Championship Weekend)
Last edited at 6/26/2023 12:12 am
