Predict the Championship table 22/23

[Snowflake Royal]

Definitely fancy keeping this up over several seasons to see if this is a particularly unpredictable Championship year. Obviously the table could change a lot still, it's early days.

Feels like there's more teams than normal at the opposite end to where you'd expect.

[Snowflake Royal]

Update at ~23 games on the way. Bumping this to make it easier to find when I'm finished doing it.

The table seems to be looking more like what people were expecting, some big points improvements on show so far.

Teaser - SCIAG's random selection (except Reading in 1st) may have been clear best at 10 games... it has not stood the test of time though.

Also, royal_jimmy is likely to get the nod for biggest improvement, having been last and second last with his two predictions previously.

[Snowflake Royal]

Standings after 23 (mostly) games

134 Maximum Score
1st: (3rd) YorkshireRoyal99 (early) -24
2nd: (9th) NewcorkSeth -32
3rd: (=6th) MrAngry -34
4th: (11th) Gunny Fishcake (early) -35
=4th: (15th) Simon's Church -35
6th: (=4th) Snowflake -36
7th: (8th) Snowflake (early) -41 (6th)
8th: (16th) Zip -44
9th: (13th) Paultheroyal (early) -51
10th: (14th) Hound (early) -53
11th: (6th) MorganB (early) -54
=11th: (12th) NathStPaul -54
13th: (20th) Royal_Jimmy -56
14th: (18th) ILoveMoonPig (early guess) -70
15th: (2nd) Seahawk -77
16th: (16th) Pepe (early guess) -79 (16th)
17th: (4th) Elm Park Kid (early guess) -89
18th: (9th) Blythspartan (early guess) -98
19th: (1st) SCIAG (early) -103
=19th: (21st) Royal_jimmy (early) -103
21st: (19th) Elrey -106
-214 Minimum Possible Score

[YorkshireRoyal99]

Standings after 23 (mostly) games

134 Maximum Score
1st: (3rd) YorkshireRoyal99 (early) -24
2nd: (9th) NewcorkSeth -32
3rd: (=6th) MrAngry -34
4th: (11th) Gunny Fishcake (early) -35
=4th: (15th) Simon's Church -35
6th: (=4th) Snowflake -36
7th: (8th) Snowflake (early) -41 (6th)
8th: (16th) Zip -44
9th: (13th) Paultheroyal (early) -51
10th: (14th) Hound (early) -53
11th: (6th) MorganB (early) -54
=11th: (12th) NathStPaul -54
13th: (20th) Royal_Jimmy -56
14th: (18th) ILoveMoonPig (early guess) -70
15th: (2nd) Seahawk -77
16th: (16th) Pepe (early guess) -79 (16th)
17th: (4th) Elm Park Kid (early guess) -89
18th: (9th) Blythspartan (early guess) -98
19th: (1st) SCIAG (early) -103
=19th: (21st) Royal_jimmy (early) -103
21st: (19th) Elrey -106
-214 Minimum Possible Score

Cheers. Just out of interest, have you got a copy on my table anywhere? Can't remember where I posted it that's all.

[Snowflake Royal]

Standings after 23 (mostly) games

134 Maximum Score
1st: (3rd) YorkshireRoyal99 (early) -24
2nd: (9th) NewcorkSeth -32
3rd: (=6th) MrAngry -34
4th: (11th) Gunny Fishcake (early) -35
=4th: (15th) Simon's Church -35
6th: (=4th) Snowflake -36
7th: (8th) Snowflake (early) -41 (6th)
8th: (16th) Zip -44
9th: (13th) Paultheroyal (early) -51
10th: (14th) Hound (early) -53
11th: (6th) MorganB (early) -54
=11th: (12th) NathStPaul -54
13th: (20th) Royal_Jimmy -56
14th: (18th) ILoveMoonPig (early guess) -70
15th: (2nd) Seahawk -77
16th: (16th) Pepe (early guess) -79 (16th)
17th: (4th) Elm Park Kid (early guess) -89
18th: (9th) Blythspartan (early guess) -98
19th: (1st) SCIAG (early) -103
=19th: (21st) Royal_jimmy (early) -103
21st: (19th) Elrey -106
-214 Minimum Possible Score

Cheers. Just out of interest, have you got a copy on my table anywhere? Can't remember where I posted it that's all.

YorkshireRoyal99
Watford 0
Norwich 0
West Brom -10
Sheff Utd 1
QPR 3
Burnley -2
Middlesbrough -3
Millwall 3
Blackburn -3
Swansea 5
Coventry 0
Luton 0
Sunderland 3
Blackpool -5
Preston -5
Stoke 3
Cardiff 0
Huddersfield -3
Reading -5
Hull 3
Bristol C 0
Wigan 5
Birmingham -12
Rotherham -2

[Snowflake Royal]

There are a couple of entries I missed in competitions because everyone was using this one. Will add them at some point in the week.

Apologies.

YR your's and Pepe's look like they were on what ever discussion thread inspired the idea and I made a note when I set it up, rather than posted on either of the threads I started. No idea what or where that was now.

[Snowflake Royal]

Standings after 10 games (mostly)

132 Current Highest Score Possible
1st: -64 - (randomised early guess) SCIAG
2nd: -69 - Seahawk
3rd: -73 - (early guess) YorkshireRoyal99
4th: -77 - (early guess) Elm Park Kid"
=4th: -77 - Snowflake Royal
6th: -80 - (early guess) MorganB
=6th: -80 - MrAngry
8th: -81 - Snowflake Royal (early guess)
9th: -86 - Vision
10th: -90 - (early guess) Blythspartan
=10th: -90 - NewCorkSeth
12th: -91 - (early guess) Gunny Fishcake
13th: -94 NathstPaul
14th: -96 - Tinpot
15th: -99 - (early guess) paultheroyal
16th: -101 - (early guess) Hound
17th: -106 - Simons Church
18th: -107 - (early guess) Pepe the Horseman
=18th: -107 - Zip
20th: -108 - (early guess) ILoveMoonPig
21st: -130 - Elrey
22nd: -134 - (early guess) Royal_jimmy
23rd: -136 - Royal_jimmy
-214 Lowest Score Possible

Corrected 10 game standings including Tinpot and Vision.

[Snowflake Royal]

Standings after 23 (mostly) games

134 Maximum Score
1st: (3rd) YorkshireRoyal99 (early) -24
2nd: (=10th) NewcorkSeth -32
3rd: (=6th) MrAngry -34
=3rd: (14th) Tinpot -34
5th: (12th) Gunny Fishcake (early) -35
=5th: (17th) Simon's Church -35
7th: (=4th) Snowflake -36
8th: (8th) Snowflake (early) -41
9th: (=18th) Zip -42
10th: (15th) Paultheroyal (early) -51
11th: (9th) Vision -52
12th: (16th) Hound (early) -53
13th: (6th) MorganB (early) -54
=13th: (13th) NathStPaul -54
15th: (22nd) Royal_Jimmy -56
16th: (20th) ILoveMoonPig (early guess) -70
17th: (2nd) Seahawk -77
18th: (18th) Pepe (early guess) -79
19th: (4th) Elm Park Kid (early guess) -89
20th: (10th) Blythspartan (early guess) -98
21th: (1st) SCIAG (early) -103
=21st: (23rd) Royal_jimmy (early) -103
23rd: (21st) Elrey -106
-214 Minimum Possible Score

Corrected 23 game standings

[YorkshireRoyal99]

There are a couple of entries I missed in competitions because everyone was using this one. Will add them at some point in the week.

Apologies.

YR your's and Pepe's look like they were on what ever discussion thread inspired the idea and I made a note when I set it up, rather than posted on either of the threads I started. No idea what or where that was now.

Me either when I was looking for it the other day - least you've got it to hand though and kept hold of it.

[Snowflake Royal]

There are a couple of entries I missed in competitions because everyone was using this one. Will add them at some point in the week.

Apologies.

YR your's and Pepe's look like they were on what ever discussion thread inspired the idea and I made a note when I set it up, rather than posted on either of the threads I started. No idea what or where that was now.

Me either when I was looking for it the other day - least you've got it to hand though and kept hold of it.

That's what spreadsheets are for!

[Elm Park Kid]

Bump for Snowflake to give us final scores next week.

Tbf - I had Reading to finish 19th, and we probably would do without points deduction.

[Snowflake Royal]

Yep, no worries. On my mind to do the number crunching, thanks for saving me the effort digging up the thread.

[Royal_jimmy]

Cheers Ian! I think league one will be far easier to predict the table than the championship this season

[Snowflake Royal]

Do people want to wait for potential play off winner points or scrap that bit and just get it done?

Ignoring POs, I'm at around a third of the way through scoring the competitors and the best score so far is currently -32 ( ), with the worst -108.

[Royal_jimmy]

1. Watford (P)
2. Norwich (P)
3. WBA (P)
4. Coventry
5. Middlesbrough
6. Millwall
7. Cardiff
8. Sheffield United
9. Swansea
10. Wigan
11. Luton
12. QPR
13. Hull
14. Preston
15. Sunderland
16. Blackburn
17. Huddersfield/Forest
18. Blackpool
19. Burnley
20. Stoke
21. Birmingham
22. Bristol City (R)
23. Reading (R)
24. Rotherham (R)

Swap Burnley and Wigan and that's probably not a half bad prediction to be fair.

I got a Coventry v Middlesbrough playoff prediction correct

[Snowflake Royal]

1. Watford (P)
2. Norwich (P)
3. WBA (P)
4. Coventry
5. Middlesbrough
6. Millwall
7. Cardiff
8. Sheffield United
9. Swansea
10. Wigan
11. Luton
12. QPR
13. Hull
14. Preston
15. Sunderland
16. Blackburn
17. Huddersfield/Forest
18. Blackpool
19. Burnley
20. Stoke
21. Birmingham
22. Bristol City (R)
23. Reading (R)
24. Rotherham (R)

Swap Burnley and Wigan and that's probably not a half bad prediction to be fair.

I got a Coventry v Middlesbrough playoff prediction correct

Spoiler, the rest of your prediction was shit.

[Snowflake Royal]

OK, here it is, excluding play offs.

Scoring reminder
Exact position +5
One place out +3
Two places out +1
Three places out +0
For every place out beyond three cumulative -1
Successfully predicting promotion +2
Successfully predicting Champions +2
Successfully predicting relegation +2

132 Max Score
1st New Cork Seth -24
2nd Snowflake Royal -32
=3rd Gunny Fishcake (early guess) -33
=3rd Zip -33
5th YorkshireRoyal99 (early guess) -38
6th RoyalJimmy -39
7th Tinpot -40
8th Vision -44
9th Snowflake Royal (early guess) -49
10th Hound (early guess)-59
11th Mr Angry -61
12th Simon's Church -63
13th Seahawk (randomised prediction) -68
14th NathstPaul -72
=15th RoyalJimmy (early guess) -75
=15th Blythspartan (early guess -75
=17th IloveMoonPig (early guess) -76
=17th Paultheroyal (early guess) -76
19th Morganb (early guess) -78
20th Elrey -79
21st Pepe the Horseman (early guess) -90
22nd Elm Park Kid (early guess) -99
23rd SCIAG (early guess, auto-generated except Reading) -108
-214 Minimum possible score

Winning Prediction

Watford
Norwich
Burnley
West Brom
Sheff Utd
Middlesbrough
Blackburn
Coventry
Millwall
Stoke
Huddersfield
Preston
Swansea
QPR
Luton
Bristol C
Cardiff
Sunderland
Reading
Hull
Birmingham
Wigan
Rotherham
Blackpool

Worst Prediction
SCIAG
Reading
Norwich
West Brom
Hull
QPR
Blackburn
Middlesbrough
Sunderland
Rotherham
Swansea
Burnley
Stoke
Sheff Utd
Bristol C
Huddersfield
Blackpool
Luton
Watford
Birmingham
Cardiff
Wigan
Millwall
Coventry
Preston

[Snowflake Royal]

I accept no responsibility for incorrect calculations. Or incorrectly copied down predictions.

Happy to do this again next season. I'd probably be a bit more generous on the scoring... +1 for 2-3 places out, +0 for 4-5 places out, +1 for predicting a PO team. Maybe.

[Pepe the Horseman]

I submitted a revised prediction which you didn't publish. Would've had me top by some distance.

[Pepe the Horseman]

Also, all Seth does is play Football Manager 24/7 so he was bound to come second.