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EPL 2014-15 WGOM Contests

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FANTASY LEAGUE

If you want in the fantasy league, click here and then look for league ID 392381-385243

PREDICTION CONTEST

Here are the 20 teams in the EPL this season. Copy/paste them, and then re-arrange them into the order you think the table will finish this year. Put a spoiler around your comment and submit. I'll compile the spreadsheet in the upcoming days.

Leicester City
Stoke City
Aston Villa
Tottenham Hotspur
Chelsea
Liverpool
Queens Park Rangers
Swansea City
Manchester City
Crystal Palace
Burnley
Sunderland
Everton
Newcastle United
West Ham United
West Bromwich Albion
Manchester United
Hull City
Arsenal
Southampton

Reminder of the scoring:

  • Correctly put the team in the spot they finish = 3 points
  • Correctly put the team +/- one spot they finish = 1 point
  • Correctly picking the champion = 1 point
  • Correctly picking a relegated team = 1 point/correct pick (3 max. possible)

50 thoughts on “EPL 2014-15 WGOM Contests”

  1. My picks

    'Spoiler' SelectShow

  2. Also, two more things

    1) No hard deadline on the prediction contest. If you're a bit late and get it in after a few of the fixtures have kicked off, that's not really going to give you an edge.

    2) You can make changes up until the announced deadline (probably midnight Saturday), Just leave a comment knowing you've updated your selections so I can update things.

  3. Did you just empty out last season's spreadsheet? I wanted to build off of what I accomplished in my rookie campaign...

    1. There's an element of the spreadsheet that's a web query, but the data on that page changes yearly, so the old query doesn't work. I went back and hardcoded last year's table into the spreadsheet so it should be better now.

  4. 'Spoiler' SelectShow

  5. And since we're predicting stuff in this thread, I figure I"ll put this here:

    Year 1: Fulham has mid-table "respectability" in the Championship
    Year 2: Championship playoffs, not promoted
    Year 3: Win playoffs, promoted
    Year 4: Barely not relegated.

      1. I certainly have, at least until year 4(see above). That decision is due to one man and one man only.

        1. I like Howard (dude, I'm an American), but so many of their outfielder players are also fun:

          Lukaku! Miralles is a cocky, cheeky dude. Osman is the grizzled, wise old man. Baines and Coleman go marauding up the flanks. Barkley has limitless potential. Plus, Roberto Martinez is going to be off coaching Barcelona within a few years, but they have a top-flight manager near the start of his career (the game plan he pulled out against Arsenal with Naismith as a False Nine was phenomenal. Wenger was completely befuddled.)

    3. Everton is definitely my fave "they're competitive and will land in the upper third of the table" teams. West Ham is the my fave "we're struggling to compete and may be relegated" teams. Chelsea is my fave "we expect hardward and nothing less" teams.

    4. “The reason anyone should care about Sunderland is because, quite simply, watching Sunderland is like setting off a rocket in a back alley. Will it hilariously ping-pong between the walls completely out of control? Will it blow itself up on a bin? Will it inadvertently kill Mrs. Miggins' cat down at number 17 as it innocently sleeps on the wall enjoying some sunshine? You have no idea at all what it's going to do, but you know it's only a matter of time before it does something completely and utterly self-destructively stupid.” -- Michael Graham, Roker Report

    5. If I had to have a team, I'd say "Hull" because when they were in a lower league, Steve Cobby from Fila Brazillia wrote them a fight song. And Fila Brazillia and their associated acts (Baby Mammoth, Bullitnuts, JSTARS, Heights of Abraham, Solid Doctor, Moss) and label (Pork) were all from Hull.
      My sister-in-law did her college year abroad in Lincoln, which is sorta nearby. (50 miles or so, Gmaps tells me.)
      Also, Hull is like England's version of "Flyoverland" right? (Except, why would anyone bother even flying over it?)

  8. Tea Leaves tell me... SelectShow

    1. Resubmitting without the numbers...

      Or were the numbers good? SelectShow

      I have pointless points predictions, too, if anyone wants to see them:

      So Pointless SelectShow
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    2. Southampton produce their kits in house. What does that mean, exactly? Because I like to imaging some sort of knitting circle of the players' grannies sitting around stitching everything together.

  10. Actual Spoiler SelectShow
  11. I'm trying reverse psychology on #8 and #13 SelectShow
  12. Last place right here! SelectShow
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        1. At the FIRE-SPURS game last month, tons of people were wearing Eriksen jerseys. Interestingly, lots of people were wearing Soldado jerseys too.

  15. People from last year who have no entry yet:

    HomerDome
    DK
    Spooky
    ubes
    Beau
    Philo
    nibbish (you only get one this year)
    JeffA
    hungry joe

    1. If it's not too late, here's my list, brought to you by random.org:

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      I have absolutely no idea if that's semi-reasonable or if it's totally ridiculous.

  16. Unlikely To Be An Actual Spoiler SelectShow
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  18. 'Is It Too Late?' SelectShow

  19. Howdy y'all - you have until the end of the day to get picks in. Anything not in the thread by the time I wake up tomorrow is out.

  20. 'Spoiler' SelectShow

    I've done so little research this year. Maybe it'll pay off.

  21. 'HEAVY ALGORITHMS INVOLVED' SelectShow

  22. My God, look at Chelsea's line-up for today: Courtois; Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry (c), Azpilicueta; Fabregas, Matic; Schurrle, Oscar, Hazard; Diego Costa.

  23. Tim Sherwood to Palace? I wish I could move them closer to the relegation zone now.

  24. 'Spoiler' SelectShow

    Huge dropoff between the Top 7 and everyone else.

    1. FTLT drops Totenham to 3 and now you have them 4? Where's the faith? Also good thing I never had to spring for those kits, this is the 3rd year in a row with a different shirt sponsor for the Spurs.

      1. I did so poorly last season that I will have to settle for Tottenham wildly exceeding my expectations.

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