QPR Prediction Cup - FA Cup 2019/20 - Round 1 - Results
Jan 6, 2020 7:52:06 GMT
Post by northwesthoop on Jan 6, 2020 7:52:06 GMT
Here are the results from Round 1 of our FA Cup knockout prediction cup for 2019/20!
Who will follow in the footsteps of ashqpr who won the League Cup last month and is also the reigning FA Cup champion from last season. Can anybody stop him in the cups?
We only had 18 entries so some players from the main QPR Prediction League missed out, which means only 2 players exit in Round 1 to leave us with 16 players in head to head Round 2...
Match 1 was of course QPR's 5-1 masterclass against Swansea which nobody got exact but 8 players did not see another stellar R's performance coming; singlespeed, qprcammitch, qprallan, myself, QPRBex, MaxQPR, ranger-boy and MCM Hoop
Getting Hugill as first scorer was to prove influential and kingfisher, Ghost, stoatey, LurkR, myself, Rosco Bosco, CutePR and MaxQPR all got that excellent prediction correct. qprallan got BOS for a back up point.
kingfisher, qprallan, LurkR, stoatey, MaxQPR, ranger-boy, e17hoop, QPRBex, MCM Hoop and Ghost got the 16-30 first goal time
In Match 2 Liverpool's U23's beat Everton which ended up as status quo because every single player predicted the reds win for 3 points but nobody went for 1-0. Nobody got Jones as first scorer as nobody had ever heard of him and nobody got the 61-75 first goal time so it was just 3 points across the board which is a rare occurrence.
Match 3 saw West Brom win 1-0 away at Charlton. Nobody got the score but only qprallan, ranger-boy, CutePR and myself didn't predict a West Brom win
Only MCM Hoop and e17hoop and got the 31-45 first goal time
That left Match 4 which saw Crewe defeated 3-1 by Barnsley. Nobody got that exact but only Ghost, qprallan, QPRsmith, LurkR, e17hoop and singlespeed failed to predict the Barnsley win
There were just 6 bookings in the 4 games which had to be used to separate players across the table, but not at the bottom where @singlespeed and qprallan are the 2 players knocked out. It was pretty close with ranger-boy, QPRsmith and qprcammitch only just surviving.
singlespeed couldn't recover from a poor Match 1 when he only scored 1 against some big scores elsewhere whilst qprallan failed to score in Matches 3 and 4 when just 1 point would have been enough to stay in the competition.
Some scores and goal difference were level so then players with a higher individual match score placed higher. The top 2 scorers kingfisher and stoatey had everything equal so stoatey takes 1st place owing to currently being higher in the main Prediction League (4th to 10th).
ashqpr makes it through despite missing out the odd prediction in some categories.
Here is how Round 1 shaped up showing those eliminated:
Round 2
In Round 2 position 1 plays 16, 2 plays 15, 3 plays 14 and so on, as was the case in the FA Cup last season, illustrating no fixing of the draw and the higher placed players benefit by playing a lower ranked player (on paper!). It is all head to head battles from here on in!
That leaves us with the following Round 2 line up of 16 players still in with a chance of getting 10 bonus points for the QPR Prediction League:
Tie 1: stoatey V ranger-boy
Tie 2: kingfisher V QPRsmith
Tie 3: Ghost V qprcammitch
Tie 4: Rosco Bosco V QPRBex
Tie 5: LurkR V ashqpr
Tie 6: MaxQPR V minxymartin
Tie 7: CutePR V northwesthoop
Tie 8: MCM Hoop V e17hoop
An intriguing draw as Match 5 is a repeat of the League Cup final from just a few weeks ago between LurkR and ashqpr. Tie 3 between Ghost and qprcammitch is top of Division 1 against bottom of Division 2 in the current tables in a David Vs Goliath clash! MCM Hoop has never made it past Round 2 of a cup so has another chance to shake off that unwanted record, whilst ranger-boy and stoatey face off when neither has got past Round 2 in any of the cups since we did a trial 2 years ago so something has to give there
The points all reset to zero. Round 1 score and GD only come into play going forward if there is no separating the players in the next round.
Round 2 will be available to enter once the draw has taken place and dates have been set for the matches.
Thanks for playing and commiserations to singlespeed and qprallan
Who will follow in the footsteps of ashqpr who won the League Cup last month and is also the reigning FA Cup champion from last season. Can anybody stop him in the cups?
We only had 18 entries so some players from the main QPR Prediction League missed out, which means only 2 players exit in Round 1 to leave us with 16 players in head to head Round 2...
Match 1 was of course QPR's 5-1 masterclass against Swansea which nobody got exact but 8 players did not see another stellar R's performance coming; singlespeed, qprcammitch, qprallan, myself, QPRBex, MaxQPR, ranger-boy and MCM Hoop
Getting Hugill as first scorer was to prove influential and kingfisher, Ghost, stoatey, LurkR, myself, Rosco Bosco, CutePR and MaxQPR all got that excellent prediction correct. qprallan got BOS for a back up point.
kingfisher, qprallan, LurkR, stoatey, MaxQPR, ranger-boy, e17hoop, QPRBex, MCM Hoop and Ghost got the 16-30 first goal time
In Match 2 Liverpool's U23's beat Everton which ended up as status quo because every single player predicted the reds win for 3 points but nobody went for 1-0. Nobody got Jones as first scorer as nobody had ever heard of him and nobody got the 61-75 first goal time so it was just 3 points across the board which is a rare occurrence.
Match 3 saw West Brom win 1-0 away at Charlton. Nobody got the score but only qprallan, ranger-boy, CutePR and myself didn't predict a West Brom win
Only MCM Hoop and e17hoop and got the 31-45 first goal time
That left Match 4 which saw Crewe defeated 3-1 by Barnsley. Nobody got that exact but only Ghost, qprallan, QPRsmith, LurkR, e17hoop and singlespeed failed to predict the Barnsley win
There were just 6 bookings in the 4 games which had to be used to separate players across the table, but not at the bottom where @singlespeed and qprallan are the 2 players knocked out. It was pretty close with ranger-boy, QPRsmith and qprcammitch only just surviving.
singlespeed couldn't recover from a poor Match 1 when he only scored 1 against some big scores elsewhere whilst qprallan failed to score in Matches 3 and 4 when just 1 point would have been enough to stay in the competition.
Some scores and goal difference were level so then players with a higher individual match score placed higher. The top 2 scorers kingfisher and stoatey had everything equal so stoatey takes 1st place owing to currently being higher in the main Prediction League (4th to 10th).
ashqpr makes it through despite missing out the odd prediction in some categories.
Here is how Round 1 shaped up showing those eliminated:
Round 2
In Round 2 position 1 plays 16, 2 plays 15, 3 plays 14 and so on, as was the case in the FA Cup last season, illustrating no fixing of the draw and the higher placed players benefit by playing a lower ranked player (on paper!). It is all head to head battles from here on in!
That leaves us with the following Round 2 line up of 16 players still in with a chance of getting 10 bonus points for the QPR Prediction League:
Tie 1: stoatey V ranger-boy
Tie 2: kingfisher V QPRsmith
Tie 3: Ghost V qprcammitch
Tie 4: Rosco Bosco V QPRBex
Tie 5: LurkR V ashqpr
Tie 6: MaxQPR V minxymartin
Tie 7: CutePR V northwesthoop
Tie 8: MCM Hoop V e17hoop
An intriguing draw as Match 5 is a repeat of the League Cup final from just a few weeks ago between LurkR and ashqpr. Tie 3 between Ghost and qprcammitch is top of Division 1 against bottom of Division 2 in the current tables in a David Vs Goliath clash! MCM Hoop has never made it past Round 2 of a cup so has another chance to shake off that unwanted record, whilst ranger-boy and stoatey face off when neither has got past Round 2 in any of the cups since we did a trial 2 years ago so something has to give there
The points all reset to zero. Round 1 score and GD only come into play going forward if there is no separating the players in the next round.
Round 2 will be available to enter once the draw has taken place and dates have been set for the matches.
Thanks for playing and commiserations to singlespeed and qprallan