HELLO
Welcome back all. Other than last week's blog, it's been a while.
I'm always nostalgic at this time of year. Thinking back to my desk in my uni bedroom, silly chats about accumulators and sitting down, dipping the virtual quill in the virtual ink and starting off on the voyage that's led to today. A bit like that Vasco da Gama bloke. He thought he was going to India. Which is sort of did. But what he really did is create a football team in Brazil (who beat Man Utd so that's nice) AND create the situation for a Portuguese colony in Mozambique, thus leading to the creation of Nandos 500 years later. The point is, you never know what ripples, the first oar stroke makes. Or something like that #Deep.
This year, there's also been a back-end tech stack update. Like a stadium refresh, the Board of Directors have improved the CapEx necessary to breathe new life into a stale process. The VP (Spreadsheets) has been quoted as saying "We hope that the behind the scenes work will bring immediate improvements to the blogging experience that we long overdue. We respect and appreciate all our players and want this to be an enjoyable escapade that they can be proud of. Finally, we have a process in keeping with our stature as one of the largest accumulator accumulator games in the world, fit for the 21st century. We look forward to this translating to success in the (spread)sheets. Forza Impossibilitee". Basically, the analytics will now be AI Assisted...
So - let's start with the formalities. If you've played before, skip this paragraph. If you haven't let me direct you to the Rules tab above. It's pretty simple. Each week, you choose which team you think will win the match, or whether you think it'll be a draw. Think Football Pools style for those of you over 60. Each corrrect prediction = 1 point. Scores are averaged out over the season in a leaderboard - best predictor at the end wins the coveted Impossibilitee trophy. Bylaw - if a matchweek has fewer than 7 games, we ignore it, if it has 7-9 games, it get's pro-rated.
That's it. That's the game. For those who like a flutter and want to share their 10 match accumulator odds, there's an *optional* field to fill in. DO NOT PUT YOUR NAME HERE. YOU WILL BREAK MY AUTOMATION.
We also have included a bunch of celebrity/tech-led predictors and models - just for fun and to benchmark yourself against.
Right, think that's that for now. Let's get predicting....
Pre-Season Predictions:
M1 Predictions:
As ever - would be lovely to expand the group again so please share with friends/relatives/colleagues. We had 27 players last year - would be great to get 30 playing this year - all on the leaderboard!
Good luck all!
