World Cup Prediction Game

You have till Saturday for these...

Germany v Argentina
Italy v Ukraine
England v Portugal
Brazil v France

Good luck

Alex S-H sticks with his belief that France are good and it pays off as they make the quarters, Pete Timothy was the only other person to pick up a point for this game making this the joint second most unpredicted game after Ghana 2-0 Czech Republic (joint with Poland-Ecuador).

Incidently France were involved in the highest scoring game when they beat Togo 2-0. (47 points).

Joff, Pete Cox and Paul Ferris all picked up 3 points for the Brazil game.

Pos Name     Pts  tms  scrs unique*
 1 Alex Cass 113   57   56   3.03
 2 Paul W    112   54   58   2.40
 3 Paul F    112   54   58   2.24
 4 Dave S    107   57   50   2.11
 5 John D    103   54   49   2.57
 6 BBC       102   54   48   1.99
 7 Mark      101   54   47   1.88
 8 Monkey    101   54   47   1.74
 9 Joff       99   48   51   2.18
10 Mike       99   54   45   1.95
11 Martyn     98   51   47   2.07
12 Pete S     98   57   41   2.07
13 Dave L     97   51   46   2.08
14 Pete C     97   51   46   1.78
15 Pete L     96   48   48   1.75
16 Adair      93   54   39   1.72
17 Dave J     89   45   44   1.76
18 Pete T     89   51   38   1.91
19 Phill      89   51   38   1.89
20 Martin     89   51   38   1.40
21 Dave H     88   63   25   2.12
22 Alex SH    87   42   45   2.63
23 Damon      87   48   39   1.44
24 Jon B      87   60   27   1.23
25 Darren     86   51   35   1.51
26 Rob S      86   51   35   1.41
27 Phil R     82   42   40   3.62
28 Alex Chase 82   54   28   1.52

*these scores are calculated by giving each game a weighting of 1 which is distributed among the people who scored points for that game. i.e. if 1 person qot the score correct and 7 people got the result corect then the 1 person would score 0.3 and the others 0.1 each.

The more points you get on this score is determined by how many games you get points for and by how unlikely the result is that you predicted. So in predicting a Ghana win against the Czech Rep Phil picked up 1 point.

4 people reach the 100 point mark with only 10 games left to play its still anyones game (except Switzerland who can't take penalties for chocolate)

Mike and Phil Richardson pick up 6/6 for todays games and for those of you fortunate to forget to give me a score for the Switzerland Ukraine encounter, you all got 0-0's entered and therefore 3 points.

Spain v France scores still needed.

It was 2 of my former housemates, Joff and Martin who correctly guessed an England 1-0 win but noone had Portugal down as 1-0 winners against Holland.

7 people had Ukraine down to reach the quarters (Only Phill has them through to the Semis)
and 2 people had Switzerland reaching the last 8 (Martyn and Phil R).

The table below includes the number of correct results (both 3/1 points) which results puts Alex Cass 2 clear of me*.

Pos Name     Pts  tms  scrs  Rlts
 1 Alex Cass 106   51   55    39
 2 Paul W    105   48   57    35
 3 Paul F    103   48   55    35
 4 Dave S    100   51   49    37
 5 BBC        99   51   48    32
 6 John D     96   48   48    34
 7 Mark       95   48   47    35
 8 Monkey     94   48   46    32
 9 Martyn     94   48   46    30
10 Pete S     94   54   40    30
11 Mike       92   48   44    34
12 Joff       90   42   48    30
13 Dave L     90   45   45    35
14 Pete L     89   42   47    33
15 Pete C     88   45   43    31
16 Adair      86   48   38    28
17 Damon      83   45   38    28
18 Dave J     82   39   43    31
19 Martin     82   45   37    27
20 Phill      82   45   37    31
21 Rob S      82   48   34    26
22 Dave H     82   57   25    13
23 Pete T     81   45   36    24
24 Jon B      81   54   27    23
25 Alex SH    79   36   43    33
26 Darren     79   45   34    28
27 Phil R     78   39   39    27
28 Alex Chase 76   48   28    20

*notice Dave Sheffield's use of 1st person there Martin?

Congratulations to 'Old' John Duncan who got both today's scores correct moving him up to 4th. 'Grange' Phil Richardson was the only other person to get the Argentina Mexico score correct.

4 other people got the Germany 2-0 score (both Alexs* and both Pauls)

Alex 'Hair' Cass moves to the top of the table as Paul 'Martin's Dad' White fails to predict Argentina going through to the quarter finals.

The table below includes which country each person has predicted to win the tournament.

Pos Name     Pts  Tms  Scrs  Winners
 1 Alex Cass  97   45   52   Brazil
 2 Paul W     95   42   53   Brazil
 3 Paul F     93   42   51   Brazil
 4 John D     92   45   47   England
 5 Dave S     90   45   45   Brazil
 6 BBC        89   45   44   Brazil
 7 Joff       86   42   44   Brazil
 8 Monkey     86   45   41   Brazil
 9 Mark       85   42   43   England
 = Martyn     85   42   43   Argentina
 = Dave L     85   42   43   England
12 Pete L     84   39   45   Brazil
13 Pete S     84   45   39   Brazil
14 Mike       82   45   37   Brazil
15 Pete C     77   39   38   England
16 Dave J     76   36   40   England
17 Adair      76   39   37   Brazil
18 Damon      75   39   36   England
19 Alex SH    74   33   41   France
20 Rob S      74   42   32   England
21 Martin     73   42   31   Brazil
22 Pete T     71   39   32   Brazil
23 Phill      70   36   34   England
24 Dave H     70   48   22   Brazil
25 Jon B      69   45   24   Brazil
26 Darren     68   39   29   Brazil
27 Alex Chase 67   42   25   Brazil
28 Phil R     65   33   32   Paraguay

*I'm reliably informed by a Warwick English student that this is the correct plural form of Alex - please let me know if this is not correct so I can name and shame them!

Now it gets exciting as here is the league tables including the teams going through scores.

The best effort was by Dave Hawkes who got 14 / 16 of the teams whose only mistakes were Poland and Czech Republic.

Dave Jennings scored most points yesterday with 8 out of a possible 12. Alex Cass and Paul Ferris both got 7.

Need scores for Saturday from some of you still.

Switzerland v Ukraine
Spian v France

Pos Name     Pts    teams  scores
 1 Paul W     89     39     50
 2 Alex Cass  88     39     49
 3 Paul F     87     39     48
 4 Dave S     83     39     44
 5 Mark       82     39     43
 = BBC        82     39     43
 7 Pete L     80     36     44
 8 Martyn     80     39     41
 = Monkey     80     39     41
 = John D     80     39     41
11 Joff       79     36     43
12 Dave L     78     36     42
13 Pete S     78     39     39
 = Adair      76     39     37
15 Mike       75     39     36
16 Dave J     72     33     39
17 Damon      72     36     36
18 Pete C     70     33     37
19 Rob S      67     36     31
20 Martin     66     36     30
21 Alex SH    65     27     38
22 Pete T     64     33     31
23 Phill      63     30     33
24 Dave H     63     42     21
25 Darren     62     33     29
26 Jon B      62     39     23
27 Phil R     61     33     28
28 Alex Chase 60     36     24

Send predictions (90 minutes only) for these games...

Germany v Sweden
Argentina v Mexico
England v Ecuador
Portugal v Holland
Italy v Australia
Brazil v Ghana

And when these are sorted out...

Switzerland/South Korea/France v Spain/Ukraine/Saudi Arabia/Tunisia
Spain/Ukraine v Switzerland/South Korea/France

Everyone (who gave scores) went for a Brazil win but only Rob Stevens said the margin would be 4-1.

Pete Swan and Alex S-H said 2-2 for the Australia Croatia game and 5 people got the Ghana USA result correct.

Noone predicted Ghana would progress (these scores will be added tonight).

The days winners with 5 points were Alex Cass, Darren and Pete Swan.

Pete Timothy, Dave Hawkes, Jon Brombley and Alex Chase have failed to give me scores recently so have been given 0-0's for the last games. As you can see this does not gain you too many points!

Pos Name     Pts (3pts)
 1 Paul W     45  (8)
 2 Alex Cass  42  (5)
 3 Paul F     41  (6)
 4 Dave S     40  (5)
 = Mark       40  (5)
 6 Dave L     39  (5)
 = Pete L     39  (6)
 8 Martyn     38  (7)
 = Joff       38  (7)
10 BBC        37  (6)
 = Pete S     37  (5)
12 Monkey     36  (5)
 = Alex SH    36  (4)
14 John D     35  (4)
15 Pete C     33  (4)
16 Pete T     31  (5)
 = Dave J     31  (3)
 = Damon      31  (4)
 = Adair      31  (4)
20 Mike       30  (2)
21 Phill      29  (3)
 = Rob S      29  (4)
23 Darren     28  (2)
24 Martin     27  (3)
25 Alex Chase 24  (3)
26 Jon B      23  (1)
27 Phil R     22  (2)
28 Dave H     21  (5)

Noone got more than 1 score exact yesterday but 14 people did get 1 score correct. Martin and his dad both got 5 points as did Adair, Pete Swan and Dave Sheffield.

This means that Paul White is now 5 points clear at the top and the proffesional Mark Lawrenson is 13th.

Pos Name     Points
 1 Paul W     44
 2 Paul F     39
 3 Dave L     38
 = Pete L     38
 = Dave S     38
 6 Martyn     37
 = Alex Cass  37
 8 Joff       36
 = Mark       36
10 John D     34
 = Monkey     34
 = Alex SH    32
13 BBC        32
 = Pete S     32
15 Pete C     30
 = Pete T     30
 = Dave J     30
18 Mike       29
 = Damon      29
20 Phill      28
21 Adair      27
22 Rob S      26
 = Martin     26
24 Darren     23
 = Alex Chase 23
 = Jon B      23
27 Phil R     20
 = Dave H     20

A high scoring day sees Martyn pushed off the top spot by the Paul's. However Joff took the most points today with 3 correct scores.

Joff (9 points), Alex Cass (8 Points), Dave Leach, Paul Ferris and Paul White (6 points)
Pete Lefort also got all 4 results right but all the scores wrong.

18 people went for a draw in the England game but only Adair, Joff and Damon went for 2-2.

Pos Name    Points
 1 Paul W     39
 2 Paul F     37
 3 Martyn     36
 = Dave L     36
 5 Pete L     35
 = Alex Cass  35
 7 Dave S     33
 = Joff       33
 9 Mark       32
10 John D     31
11 Monkey     30
 = Alex SH    30
13 BBC        29
14 Mike       28
 = Damon      28
 = Phill      28
17 Pete C     27
 = Pete S     27
19 Pete T     26
 = Dave J     26
21 Rob S      25
22 Darren     23
23 Adair      22
24 Martin     21
25 Phil R     20
26 Alex Chase 19
27 Jon B      18
28 Dave H     16

The best day for points go to Phil Richardson picking up 3 points for the Ukraine game - well done Phil (7 points in all) and also Pete Lefort and Mark Washington who got the other 2 games correct.

Well done to Adair for making it to 24 (years not points that is) Happy Birthday.

Pos Name    Points
 1 Martyn     35
 2 Paul W     33
 3 Paul F     31
 = Pete L     31
 5 Dave L     30
 6 Mark       29
 7 BBC        28
 = Dave S     28
 = Monkey     28
10 Alex SH    27
 = Alex Cass  27
12 Pete C     26
 = John D     26
14 Pete T     25
 = Mike       25
16 Damon      24
 = Joff       24
 = Dave J     24
 = Pete S     24
20 Phill      23
 = Rob S      23
22 Darren     22
23 Adair      19
 = Martin     19
 = Phil R     19
26 Alex Chase 18
27 Jon B      17
28 Dave H     15

Starting on Tuesday:

Ecuador v Germany
Costa Rica v Poland
Sweden v England
Paraguay v Trinidad & Tobago
Portugal v Mexico
Iran v Angola
Holland v Argentina
Ivory Coast v Serbia & Montenegro
Czech Republic v Italy
Ghana v USA
Japan v Brazil
Croatia v Australia
Saudi Arabia v Spain
Ukraine v Tunisia
Togo v France
Switzerland v South Korea

Sorry this has been a while - was on a boat in the Solent / Southampton Water...

Friday: Argentina scored 6 and Joff was the closest predicting 4 goals. 5 people went for 2-1 to Holland against Ivory Coast (Dave L, Darren, Dave S, Rob and the Monkey).

Saturday: 40 points were scored off the Portugal Iran game (2nd highest after Italy Ghana) but the 2 shock results for Ghana and USA only provided 11 points between them. Only Phil Richardson went for a Ghana win. Mike and Alex S-H got the Italy, USA 1-1 draw correct - Rob would have had it right but changed his prediction to an Italy win last minute.

Sunday: Paul White and Martyn start to pull away at the top, both picking up 6 points today. John Duncan also got the France draw correct. Pete Cox and Lawro also got the Brazil Australia result correct. Phill got the Italy Croatia result spot on.

Pos Name    Points
 1 Martyn     31
 2 Paul W     30
 3 Dave L     27
 4 Paul F     26
 = BBC        26
 6 Alex SH    25
 = Pete C     25
 = Dave S     25
 9 Pete L     24
 = John D     24
11 Pete T     23
 = Mike       23
 = Monkey     23
14 Mark       22
 = Alex Cass  22
 = Damon      22
17 Joff       21
18 Phill      20
 = Dave J     20
 = Darren     20
21 Pete S     19
22 Rob S      18
 = Adair      18
 = Alex Chase 18
25 Martin     17
26 Jon B      16
27 Dave H     15
28 Phil R     12

Germany, Ecuador and England are through (i will be adding on the team points at the end of the group games)

8 people said England would win 2-0 and picking up 3 points. Rob was most optimistic with 5-0 to England but still picks up a point.

6 people got the Sweden 1-0 Paraguay score spot on but no-one said Ecuador 3-0 Costa Rica.

Todays winners were Pete Cox (6), Paul Ferris (6), Pete Timothy (6), Paul White (6), Lawro (6), Dave Leach (5) and John Duncan (5).

This puts Paul F joint lead with Paul W 1 point behind.

Pos Name    Points
 1 Martyn     22
 = Paul F     22
 3 Paul W     21
 4 BBC        20
 5 Alex SH    19
 6 Mark       18
 = Pete L     18
 = Alex Cass  18
 = Dave L     18
 = Pete C     18
11 John D     17
 = Pete T     17
13 Damon      16
 = Dave S     16
 = Mike       16
16 Pete S     15
 = Monkey     15
18 Rob S      14
 = Phill      14
 = Adair      14
 = Joff       14
 = Martin     14
23 Dave J     13
24 Jon B      12
25 Darren     11
26 Alex Chase 10
27 Dave H      7
28 Phil R      6

A good day for the Martyn/Martin's both picking up 4 points today, but an even better day for the Paul's with both Paul Ferris and Paul White getting 5 points each. Mark also got 5 points correctly getting the Tunisia, Saudi Arabia 2-2 draw.

Damon and Adair are the only 2 people to pick up no points today.

The best predictions of the competition so far has to go to Phill for his optimistic 11-0 for Tunisia against Saudi Arabia.

C'mon England.

Pos Name    Points
 1 Martyn     19
 2 Alex SH    16
 = Mark       16
 = Paul F     16
 5 Pete L     15
 = Alex Cass  15
 = Paul W     15
 8 Damon      14
 = BBC        14
 = Dave S     14
 = Pete S     14
 = Monkey     14
13 Dave L     13
 = Rob S      13
 = Phill      13
 = Mike       13
17 John D     12
 = Pete C     12
19 Adair      11
 = Joff       11
 = Pete T     11
 = Martin     11
23 Alex Chase 10
 = Dave J     10
 = Jon B      10
26 Darren      9
27 Dave H      7
28 Phil R      6

The second round of matches begin Wednesday Evening with Germany against Poland so some of you will need to send new predictions and the rest of you may want to revise the old ones...

Germany v Poland
Ecuador v Costa Rica
England v Trinidad & Tobago
Sweden v Paraguay
Argentina v Serbia & Montenegro
Holland v Ivory Coast
Mexico v Angola
Portugal v Iran
Czech Republic v Ghana
Italy v USA
Japan v Croatia
Brazil v Australia
France v South Korea
Togo v Switzerland
Saudi Arabia v Ukraine
Spain v Tunisia

Joff and Damon correctly said that South Korea would beat Togo 2-1.

Pete Swan, Martyn and Dave Hawkes (who is still in Germany) said that France and Switzerland would be involved in a bore draw.

No one correctly got the 1-0 win to Brazil although 25 people got the result correct.

Mark, Rob and Dave Sheffield were the only people to get points from each of todays games.

Pos Name    Points
 1 Martyn     15
 2 Pete L     14
 = Alex SH    14
 = Damon      14
 5 BBC        13
 = Alex Cass  13
 = Dave S     13
 = Pete S     13
 9 Dave L     12
 = Monkey     12
 = Phill      12
 = Rob S      12
13 John D     11
 = Adair      11
 = Paul F     11
 = Mike       11
 = Mark       11
18 Pete C     10
 = Paul W     10
 = Joff       10
21 Alex Chase  9
 = Dave J      9
 = Pete T      9
24 Darren      8
25 Jon B       7
 = Martin      7
27 Dave H      6
28 Phil R      5

With a terrific win for Australia, Czech Republic and Italy today the leaderboard has changed somewhat...

Mike Mayes, Alex Shapland-Howes and Phill Monk all pick up 5 points (Phill the only person to suggest 3-0 Czech win)

11 people correctly guessed the correct Italy score including the Monkey (the average of all the scores).

Dave Hawkes has the lowest score due to not giving me any predictions (but he is in Germany), He and Darren were the only people to fail to pick up points today.

Ps Name   Points
 1 Pete L   12
 = Alex SH  12
 3 BBC      11
 = Alex Ca  11
 = Martyn   11
 6 Damon    10
 = Dave S   10
 = Dave L   10
 = Monkey   10
 = Phill    10
11 Pete S    9
 = Rob S     9
 = John D    9
 = Adair     9
 = Paul F    9
 = Mike      9
17 Pete C    8
 = Mark      8
 = Paul W    8
20 Alex Ch   7
 = Dave J    7
 = Pete T    7
23 Darren    6
 = Jon B     6
 = Joff      6
26 Martin    5
 = Phil R    5
28 Dave H    3

Thanks to correctly predicting both the Argentina and Portugal matches, Mark Lawrenson has stormed into the lead. With all the big guns winning their matches it looks like it could be a high scoring competition.

Pos Name (from)        Points
 1  Motson/Lawrenson     10
 2  Pete L (Warwick)      8
 =  Damon (Horsham)       8
 =  Dave S (Organiser)    8
 5  Alex Cass (Reading)   7
 =  Martyn (Housemate)    7
 =  Pete S (Warwick)      7
 =  Rob S (Warwick)       7
 =  Alex SH (Warwick)     7
10  Dave L (Westwood)     6
 =  Pete C (Southampton)  6
 =  Mark (Reading)        6
 =  Darren (Horsham)      6
 =  John D (Reading)      6
 =  Alex Chasee (Reading) 6
 =  Monkey (Stat'l Ave)   6
17  Adair (Housemate)     5
 =  Paul F (Westwood)     5
 =  Dave J (Reading)      5
 =  Phill (Reading)       5
21  Mike (Westwood)       4
 =  Martin (Reading)      4
 =  Pete T (Warwick)      4
 =  Paul W (Martin's Dad) 4
 =  Jon B (Southampton)   4
26  Phil R (Housemate)    3
 =  Dave H (Warwick)      3
28  Joff (Reading)        2