LLPG (formerly SLPG) - Lower Leagues Prediction Game - Season 2

[Jackson Harrison]

Time to get season 2 on the road:

General Rules

1. Any kassiesa.net Forum member is allowed to take part.

2. Each week, the game-list consists of 10* matches picked from around the European leagues ranked 21 and below, mainly including teams with recent European participation or holding top league positions at that time. Additionally games from the 2nd Division of the top 20 countries may be included from time to time.

3. Predictions are made on games taking place on weekends (Saturday & Sunday) + Monday.
In a very special case, Friday games may also be included (players will be informed in time).
The deadline is the last second before the game starts. Sometimes start time of games is changed after the game list is published, so be careful not to miss a possible new deadline, even announced wrongly.

4. The games are picked by the game administrator.
However, any player may recommend a game & his/her suggestion would be certainly considered.

5. Points are awarded according to the official (final) result of each game.
If on Sunday night a game is under investigation for any reason (cancellation – postponement – interruption – rescheduled, etc.) then we wait until Monday night. If yet, there is no official result, then that game is not taken into account, and the result of the bonus game is used. No matter it was the 1st minute or last minute, no matter if it is 3-0 or 0-3, it does not count.

6. Predicting the correct outcome of a match is rewarded with 2 points. Predicting the exact score is awarded one additional point. Each player must select a 'joker' game which, if the outcome is predicted correctly, will be awarded one additional bonus point. A result is considered a shock if less than 25% of players predicted a said outcome. Predicting a shock is awarded one bonus point. The maximum number of points obtainable is thus 41 points.

7. In all competitions, the player's score is equal to the points obtained during the week.

8. Players are allowed to predict via private messages (PM). Players are recommended to announce it each time they send a PM.

9. Shuffling the game order is prohibited.

10. Copying predictions of an opponent is prohibited & punishable by the cancellation of predictions.

11. All predictions must be sent in one single post. In the case of a double post latest one counts, and predictions for games already started are cancelled. When posting their week 1 predictions players must specify a 'default score' (e.g. 1-0, 2-1, 0-0 etc.) which is taken as their prediction for matches they didn't post their predictions for in time.

12. Changing predictions after the deadline is prohibited & punished with the cancellation of whole matchday predictions.

13. If someone is unable to predict on a certain week, but really wants to, the player can inform the administrator & request for the list of all possible games to predict in advance.

[Jackson Harrison]

Competitions

1. General Ranking

Format: General Ranking runs the whole season. The points of a player are the sum of points from all the weeks. The one with the most points is declared overall FEPG champion.

Tie-breakers:
- most times MVP of the week
- more 2nd places, 3rd places etc.

Start: week 1

Entry: No restrictions. Once you've posted predictions, you get automatically enrolled.

[Jackson Harrison]

2. Leagues (general rules)

General format: All players participate in one league with the format and number of matchdays depending on the number of entrants

Point system: 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss.

Tie-breakers (league):
- goal difference
- goals for
- head-to-head points
- head-to-head goal-difference
- general ranking
- season 1 league standings
- season 1 general ranking
- drawing of lots (or play off(s) if the League Champion is to be decided)

Start: tbc (week 1/2)

[Jackson Harrison]

3. Champions League

Format: There will be formed 2 groups of 3/4 players coming from 3/4 pots according to the seeding list (based on general ranking after week 1). Top 2 from each group advance to semi-finals, where group winners meet the runner-up from the opposite group. Knockout matches are played over 2 legs, save for the final.
Draws are based on the seedings list. Group stage draw will mimic draw for 2024 AFC Women's U-20 Asian Cup ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_AFC ... _Asian_Cup) – defending champion takes host's slut. Players will take place of one of the teams based on seedings list. Draws for any qualifiers rounds will be random for 2 pots (seeded and unseeded).

Tie-breaker (group stage):
- head-to-head points
- head-to-head goal difference
- head-to-head goal for
- goal difference
- goals for
- general ranking
- seeding list
- drawing of lots

Tie-breaker (final stages):
- total points over all CL weeks
- group finishing position (group winners above group runners-up) - semi-finals only
- seedings list

Start: tbc

Seedings list will be based on Season 1 CL results according to the following formula:

Match points:
Win - 2 points
Draw - 1 point

Bonus points:
Semi-finalist - 1 point
Finalist - 2 points
Champion - 3 points

[Jackson Harrison]

4. Cups

FA Cup

Format: The competition is a knockout tournament with pairings for each round based on actual FA Cup from season 2019/20 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019–20_FA_Cup ). All players qualified for the certain round will be sorted by current general ranking position and will be assigned one actual FA Cup team (they will be sorted by their final league position). This will be used from the quarter-finals – draws for preliminary rounds (if necessary) will be random.
Each tie is played as a single leg.

Tie-breakers:
- general ranking
- season 1 ranking

Start: tbc (based on number of participants)

Entry: Based on the number of participants, a certain number of best-ranked players will gain byes. Best ranked players are determined by the General Ranking table before the week competition is scheduled to start.

League Cup

Format: The competition is a 'Swiss style' competition. There will be 4 round of Swiss pairs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss-system_tournament) followed by a classification stage of divisions of 4 with each consisting of SF, 3rd place match and a final. The division A winner will be crowned the champion. Players are ranked on wins in Swiss-stage - draws are allowed.

Swiss stage Tie-breakers:
- points over 4 weeks
- general ranking
- season 1 ranking

Divisional stageTie-breakers:
- general ranking
- season 1 ranking

Start: tbc (based on number of participants)

Super Cup

Format: The competition is contested between the winner of the League and FA Cup of the previous season.

Tie-breakers:
- general ranking of season 1

Start: week 1

[Jackson Harrison]

All players of Season 1 are automatically enrolled. Division 1 will be expanded to 8 players and the season will last 15 weeks.

The highest ranked new player of week 1 will enter Division 1 whilst the remaining players will enter Division 2.

Any player of last season who doesn't wish to participate this season should inform me of their intention to withdraw by 15:00 CET, Friday 22 December 2023 in writing by Private Message (PM) with a reason (for my reference to improve the game))

[Jackson Harrison]

Calendar:

[Jackson Harrison]

League Fixtures:

MATCHDAY 1
Nunoalexfcporto v Jackson Harrison
TommyChat v RuudFeijernoord
Renard207 v LukaszBoz

MATCHDAY 2
Nunoalexfcporto v RuudFeijernoord
Renard207 v TommyChat
LukaszBoz v Jackson Harrison

MATCHDAY 3
Nunoalexfcporto v Renard207
Jackson Harrison v RuudFeijernoord
LukaszBoz v TommyChat

MATCHDAY 4
RuudFeijernoord v Renard207
TommyChat v Jackson Harrison
LukaszBoz v Nunoalexfcporto

MATCHDAY 5
Jackson Harrison v Renard207
RuudFeijernoord v LukaszBoz
TommyChat v Nunoalexfcporto

MATCHDAY 6
Jackson Harrison v Nunoalexfcporto
RuudFeijernoord v TommyChat
LukaszBoz v Renard207

MATCHDAY 7
Renard207 v Nunoalexfcporto
TommyChat v RuudFeijernoord
Jackson Harrison v LukaszBoz

MATCHDAY 8
Renard207 v Nunoalexfcporto
RuudFeijernoord v Jackson Harrison
TommyChat v LukaszBoz

MATCHDAY 9
Renard207 v RuudFeijernoord
Jackson Harrison v TommyChat
Nunoalexfcporto v LukaszBoz

MATCHDAY 10
Renard207 v Jackson Harrison
LukaszBoz v RuudFeijernoord
Nunoalexfcporto v TommyChat

Same format as last season - @Greyn didn't show up so is replaced by @TommyChat who did!

[Jackson Harrison]

Ok. This will restart this weekend. I'm doing admin tonight.

The bonus points have been abolished so the standard system will apply and general rules are amended accordingly.

[Jackson Harrison]

Updated Calendar:

[Jackson Harrison]

Champions League Coefficients
Jackson Harrison - 9
Nunoalexfcporto - 6
Renard207 - 5
LukaszBoz - 3

[Jackson Harrison]

Champions League - Group Stage draw

Group A

1. Jackson Harrison
2. LukaszBoz
3. RuudFeijernoord

Group B

1. Nunoalexfcporto
2. Renard207
3. TommyChat

The draw was done per 2024 AFC Women's U-20 Asian Cup draw ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_AFC ... _Asian_Cup), so you can check it yourself if you want.


The schedule will be:
MD1: 1vs4 and 2vs3
MD2: 1vs3 and 2vs4
MD3: 1vs2 and 3vs4
MD4: 4vs1 and 3vs2
MD5: 3vs1 and 4vs2
MD6: 2vs1 and 4vs3


Matchday 1
Jackson Harrison v Virtavg
LukaszBoz v RuudFeijernoord

Nunoalexfcporto v Virtavg
Renard207 v TommyChat

Matchday 2
RuudFeijernoord v Jackson Harrison
Virtavg v LukaszBoz

TommyChat v Nunoalexfcporto
Virtavg v Renard207

Matchday 3
Jackson Harrison v LukaszBoz
RuudFeijernoord v Virtavg

Nunoalexfcporto v Renard207
TommyChat v Virtavg

Matchday 4
Virtavg v Jackson Harrison
RuudFeijernoord v LukaszBoz

Virtavg v Nunoalexfcporto
TommyChat v Renard207

Matchday 5
Jackson Harrison v RuudFeijernoord
LukaszBoz v Virtavg

Nunoalexfcporto v TommyChat
Renard207 v Virtavg

Matchday 6
LukaszBoz v Jackson Harrison
Virtavg v RuudFeijernoord

Renard207 v Nunoalexfcporto
Virtavg v TommyChat

[Jackson Harrison]

FA Cup - seedings

62 LukaszBoz
59 TommyChat
54 Jackson Harrison
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52 RuudFeijernoord
44 Renard207


Preliminary Round
RuudFeijernoord v Renard207

Draw for semi-finals will be based on real FA Cup SF draw made Sunday 17th March.

Team Assignments
Manchester United/Liverpool -> LukaszBoz
Manchester City/Newcastle-> TommyChat
Waves/Coventry -> Jackson Harrison
Chelsea/Leicester City -> PR winner