Hello and welcome to the sign up thread for the 2014/2015 ToonForum Prediction League. Previous predictors and new predictors are very welcome to participate this season. We aim to start the season after the international break, the Southampton v Newcastle Utd round of Premier League fixtures on the weekend of the 13th September. Therefore the deadline to sign up is 23:59 on Tuesday 9th September 2014.
The Prediction League has been completely revamped from last season. We have looked to improve it wherever we could. As a result we have come up with streamlined structure that will be simpler for predictors. The changes are as follows:
Firstly we will be scrapping the League Cup and the Europa League as last season we had too many competitions which caused confusion for predictors not knowing when or where they needed to predict. We will also be getting rid of the PLS League, the MF League and the Championship. Instead we will just have one league running the entire season, predictors will play each other twice.
There are a few reasons for the changes. Firstly we didn't think there was that much difference in prediction ability between predictors in the Championship and Premiership therefore a merge would be sensible. Secondly it will be easier to manage and easier to predict on for the predictors as everyone will just need to predict in the same place. Finally it will allow us to avoid situations like we had with the ranking points last season, as all members of the panel will now have access to the league tables and will therefore have the ability to update tables. Last season only PLS had access to the Premiership table meaning that when he disappeared the rest of us were unable to update it for him, with the changes there is no chance of this happening again.
The new streamlined Prediction League structure will simplify things for predictors, avoid confusion, allow for quicker updates to the leagues and avoid the problems of last season.
Last season final rankings can be found here: http://www.toonforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=6775" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
To sign up for the new season express your interest in this thread.
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Signed up so far:
TJR
CheickyTiote
Cisse's Overheating Torso
Pull the Arfa One
ALF
Donkey Toon
beardface
Bodacious Benny
CryMeARiviere
Paco
Minty Fresh
Yacob
