Predict the Championship table 22/23

[Elm Park Kid]

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

[blythspartan]

Any chance we could pay £5.00 or £10 into a PayPal account and we have a 1st, 2nd and 3rd payout?

[Snowflake Royal]

I'm not ok with handling money for this, sorry.

Briefly thought about setting a prize from my pocket, but there's a limited number of people on here I'd actually be comfortable meeting / transferring money to.

If you want to set something up for anyone who wants to play for cash, feel free. Happy to still run the scoring

[ILoveMoonPig]

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

[blythspartan]

I'm not ok with handling money for this, sorry.

Briefly thought about setting a prize from my pocket, but there's a limited number of people on here I'd actually be comfortable meeting / transferring money to.

If you want to set something up for anyone who wants to play for cash, feel free. Happy to still run the scoring

Yes, I didn’t really think it through and completely understand about not wanting to handle any money. I personally wouldn’t mind paying the winner £20 into their PayPal account if they have one. I assume that way people wouldn’t have to meet up face to face. Tbh I wouldn’t mind meeting anyone but fully understand that not everyone would want to do that. Anyway, I am happy to make a £20 pledge to the winner as it will be well earned.

[SCIAG]

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

Methodology:
- Randomised the list of teams
- Moved Reading to the top
- While I was typing up the randomised list to post, I accidentally randomised it again, and this time Reading were randomly at the top. I used that list instead.

[Snowflake Royal]

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

Methodology:
- Randomised the list of teams
- Moved Reading to the top
- While I was typing up the randomised list to post, I accidentally randomised it again, and this time Reading were randomly at the top. I used that list instead.

We have the standard to beat. Anyone who does worse than random choice should hang their head in shame.

[blythspartan]

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

[Ascotexgunner]

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

Methodology:
- Randomised the list of teams
- Moved Reading to the top
- While I was typing up the randomised list to post, I accidentally randomised it again, and this time Reading were randomly at the top. I used that list instead.

There's actually more chance of that table being upside down.

[SCIAG]

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

Methodology:
- Randomised the list of teams
- Moved Reading to the top
- While I was typing up the randomised list to post, I accidentally randomised it again, and this time Reading were randomly at the top. I used that list instead.

There's actually more chance of that table being upside down.

Think it would be a reasonable prediction if Reading and Hull were swapped with Watford and Burnley.

[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)

[YorkshireRoyal99]

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.

[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.

Burnley are in a financial mess so could have to sell all their best players. Expect they'll find it tough

[Loafer]

Any chance we could pay £5.00 or £10 into a PayPal account and we have a 1st, 2nd and 3rd payout?

Yeah that's fine with me, you can all put 10 into mine and I'll look after it

[NathStPaul]

I'm not ok with handling money for this, sorry.

Briefly thought about setting a prize from my pocket, but there's a limited number of people on here I'd actually be comfortable meeting / transferring money to.

If you want to set something up for anyone who wants to play for cash, feel free. Happy to still run the scoring

Yes, I didn’t really think it through and completely understand about not wanting to handle any money. I personally wouldn’t mind paying the winner £20 into their PayPal account if they have one. I assume that way people wouldn’t have to meet up face to face. Tbh I wouldn’t mind meeting anyone but fully understand that not everyone would want to do that. Anyway, I am happy to make a £20 pledge to the winner as it will be well earned.

I think that is a lot personally.

Would be more in favour of a pair of tickets to a 2023/24 match or a club shop voucher up to the same value, something club related. Doing that will mean those who want to put money in won't have to put in too much, you're looking at £40 between quite a few people. The prize also goes back into the club too making it a bit more Reading FC centric.

I did say just before Ian officially committed to the contest that I'd have been happy to run it and put up the prize myself so I will just commit to that for ease if Ian is happy with that.

[blythspartan]

I'm not ok with handling money for this, sorry.

Briefly thought about setting a prize from my pocket, but there's a limited number of people on here I'd actually be comfortable meeting / transferring money to.

If you want to set something up for anyone who wants to play for cash, feel free. Happy to still run the scoring

Yes, I didn’t really think it through and completely understand about not wanting to handle any money. I personally wouldn’t mind paying the winner £20 into their PayPal account if they have one. I assume that way people wouldn’t have to meet up face to face. Tbh I wouldn’t mind meeting anyone but fully understand that not everyone would want to do that. Anyway, I am happy to make a £20 pledge to the winner as it will be well earned.

I think that is a lot personally.

Would be more in favour of a pair of tickets to a 2023/24 match or a club shop voucher up to the same value, something club related. Doing that will mean those who want to put money in won't have to put in too much, you're looking at £40 between quite a few people. The prize also goes back into the club too making it a bit more Reading FC centric.

I did say just before Ian officially committed to the contest that I'd have been happy to run it and put up the prize myself so I will just commit to that for ease if Ian is happy with that.

That sounds more sensible tbf and as I said I am happy to put £20 towards the prize.

[Snowflake Royal]

FYI, if you don't pick a play off winner I'll take third place as your pick.

[BROB0T]

I might start a competing predicter league

Based on the games and the odds...the player table would be based on the betting balance

I actually need a little Blockchain project to work on. A smart contract could be used to alloc8 the funds to users' BTC address

[Hound]

1. Watford
2. WBA
3. Norwich
4. Middlesbrough
5. Sheff Utd (p)
6. Burnley
7. Swansea
8. QPR
9. Blackburn
10. Luton
11. Coventry
12. Blackpool
13. Millwall
14. Huddersfield
15. Cardiff
16. Reading
17. Stoke
18. Sunderland
19. Hull
20. Bristol C (points deduction)
21. Birmingham
22. Preston
23. Rotherham
24. Wigan

Trying to do this off my phone so forgive me a few edits if needed

[Hound]

The division looks pretty rubbish next year. Found it much easier to fill the bottom half than the top half