Local 6 Prediction League 2017/18.

[iansheff 88]

Burton Albion 1-2 Barnsley

Hull City 2-2 Middlesbrough

QPR 1-1 Sheff Utd

Sheff Wed 2-1 Millwall

Sunderland 1-0 Bolton

Leeds Utd 2-2 Derby County

[Guest]

Link doesn't work Dave.

 

I assume it was to replace the 'n' with score so it adds em up for you?

 

Burton Albion 1-1 Barnsley

Hull City 1-2 Middlesbrough

QPR 1-1 Sheff Utd

Sheff Wed 1-1 Millwall

Sunderland 1-1 Bolton

Leeds Utd 2-1 Derby County

 

Thanks for letting me know *_ash_*. No. it's a bit more than that ! Do you have the same problem with the link that I stick in the Standings thread?

 

Is anyone else having problems with the link?

 

---------- Post added 29-10-2017 at 20:13 ----------

 

It seems that the link in my previous post is not working, so I've reproduced the content below:

 

A polite request

 

I maintain the Local 6 League system on an Excel spreadsheet. The spreadsheet is highly automated and one of its functions is to capture your predictions directly from SF webpages. All I do is point it to the page number and the starting and ending post numbers that I’m interested in (less any posts that are not prediction related) and it winds its merry way through, post by post, extracting and recording each prediction.

 

To enable this to happen, the process needs to be able to detect the lines containing the teams and scores. I’ve looked at how people present predictions, and there seems to be a few popular formats. Taking this week’s matches as an example, these are the more popular:

 

Format 1: Leeds Utd n-n Sheff Utd - scores separated by a dash

Format 2: Sheff Wed n Barnsley n

Format 3: Bury n:n Doncaster - scores separated by a colon

 

The software can detect any of the above formats and resolves the teams and scores accordingly.

 

All I would politely request is that you submit your predictions using any of the formats listed above. Please do not introduce any additional spaces or full-stops etc; this is important - just stick to the format. Feel free to mix and match: the process treats each set of matches in isolation. Please ensure that each set of matches is on a separate line, and use double spacing if that floats your boat. Note that “From the top – 2-0, 3-0” etc is beyond the scope of my software. The software is also very tolerant as to the order you submit your predictions so you can submit them in any order you like.

 

Knowing what this section is like for banter etc., I’m expecting a few submissions from certain quarters that are engineered to thwart the process. We all like a bit of banter and I’m certainly no exception to that, but bear in mind that whilst I may have a sense of humour, computer programs do not, and I may not notice that your predictions have not been able to be processed if you have not used one of the recognised formats. Please resist the temptation to shoot yourself in the foot.

 

Team Names

 

It would be unreasonable to insist that you keep to specific team names as we all have our own ideas of what each team should be called. To handle our idiosyncrasies, my software can resolve known aliases and nicknames and no doubt these will be expanded over time. For example, the 2 Sheffield teams are held in my system as follows:

 

System Team Name

 

Sheff Utd

Sheff Wed

 

Current Aliases for the above

 

Sheffield United, Blades, United

Sheffield Wednesday, Owls, Wednesday

 

Note that you can call that dirty team 40 miles north of Sheffield anything you like. I will happily manually input your prediction after I have donned my marigolds and thoroughly sanitised your submission………but you will never clean that lot up. Dirtiest team in living memory.

 

On a final note, I will be following the Southey owl example by not posting on any threads other than the Local 6 League. As I’m providing a service, I thought it wise to stay away from the banter to avoid those times when the moderators consider that you deserve a little holiday from the Forum.

 

Thank you for your co-operation and continue having fun !!

Edited October 29, 2017 by Guest

[barry-333 10]

Burton 1 Barnsley 2

 

HULL 2 Middlesboro 1

 

Qpr 1 Blades 2

 

Owls 1 Millwall 2

 

Sunderland 1 Bolton 2

 

Leeds 1 Derby 2

[*_ash_* 88]

Thanks for letting me know *_ash_*. No. it's a bit more than that ! Do you have the same problem with the link that I stick in the Standings thread?

 

Is anyone else having problems with the link?

 

 

<snipped rest but will comment>

 

The standing things works for me.

 

-snipped bit

 

Yes, I see how you're doing it.

 

perhaps a shorted version: Best thing is to encourage people to to copy and paste your original post and replace the 'n'. I've always used this method with southey, copy and paste and just add numbers, but I use a computer,

 

some might use phones and this isn't easy.

 

Perhaps post a shorterned version, and post it in next weeks results.

 

1. how to do it on PC

 

2. how to do it on phone or tablet type thing

 

Edited October 29, 2017 by *_ash_*

[Guest]

The standing things works for me.

 

-snipped bit

 

Yes, I see how you're doing it.

 

perhaps a shorted version: Best thing is to encourage people to to copy and paste your original post and replace the 'n'. I've always used this method with southey, copy and paste and just add numbers, but I use a computer,

 

some might use phones and this isn't easy.

 

Perhaps post a shorterned version, and post it in next weeks results.

 

1. how to do it on PC

 

2. how to do it on phone or tablet type thing

 

 

Thanks *_ash_*. It's lengthy because I believe my request deserved an explanation. Going the PC and smartphone etc route might result in something unwieldy, however I like your idea to suggest using copy and paste techniques. I'll adopt this for all future posts.

 

Thanks again:thumbsup:

Edited October 29, 2017 by Guest

[owl.66 209]

Burton 2-1 Barnsley

Hull 1-1 Midlesborough

QPR 1-1 Blades

Owls 3-1 Millwall

Sunderland 2-1 Bolton

Leeds 2-2 Derby

Edited October 30, 2017 by owl.66

[barmyowls 11]

Burton 1.2 Barnsley

Hull 1.2 Midlesborough

QPR 1.3 Blades

Owls 1.2 Millwall

Sunderland 3.1 Bolton

Leeds 2.3 Derby

[2tjohnston 10]

Burton 1 Barnsley 1

Hull 1 Boro 2

QPR 1 Blades 2

Owls 2 Millwall 0

Sunderland 2 Bolton 1

Leeds 1 Derby 2

Edited October 31, 2017 by 2tjohnston

[Southey owl 10]

Burton 1-1 Barnsley.

Hull City 2-1 Middlesbrough.

QPR 1-0 Sheff Utd.

Sheff Wed 2-1 Millwall.

Sunderland 1-1 Bolton.

Leeds 1-1 Derby.

Edited October 30, 2017 by Southey owl

[ALAN 58 10]

Burton 1-1 Reds

Hull 1-1 Boro

Qpr 2-2 Blades

Owls 1-0 Millwall

Sunderland 2-1 Bolton

Leeds 1-1 Derby.

[Guest]

Burton Albion 1-1 Barnsley

Hull City 1-2 Middlesbrough

QPR 0-2 Sheff Utd

Sheff Wed 1-2 Millwall

Sunderland 1-0 Bolton

Leeds Utd 2-1 Derby County

[Markstevo 10]

Burton Albion 1-2 Barnsley

Hull City 1-2 Middlesbrough

QPR 1-2 Sheff Utd

Sheff Wed 2-0 Millwall

Sunderland 0-1 Bolton

Leeds Utd 2-0 Derby County

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