QPR Prediction Cup - FA Cup 2019/20 - Round 2 - Results
Jan 28, 2020 14:47:13 GMT
Post by northwesthoop on Jan 28, 2020 14:47:13 GMT
16 players faced off in 8 head to head battles for a place in the Quarter Finals of our FA Cup knockout competition
Match 1 involving QPR was spectacularly low scoring with only 8 points picked up in total as everybody went for a QPR win. Nobody got Fox as first scorer but e17hoop, ashqpr and CutePR got Wells for a back up point
Surprisingly only 1 player - qprcammitch - got the 31-45 first goal time
e17hoop and LurkR picked Sheffield Wednesday to open the scoring for another single point
Match 2 saw Arsenal beat Bournemouth 2-1 which kingfisher, QPRBex, qprcammitch, stoatey and myself predicted for a critical 6 points. Only QPRsmith didn't predict an Arsenal win. Nobody got Saka as first scorer and nobody picked the early first goal time.
Match 3 was Leicester's 1-0 win over Brentford. A surprising amount of players - Rosco Bosco, CutePR, myself, ranger-boy, LurkR, e17hoop and stoatey - failed to pick the Leicester win whilst nobody who did predict Leicester went for 1-0.
QPRsmith, myself and minxymartin got the early first goal time in that match
Pompey beat Barnsley 4-2 in the final match which was nigh on impossible to get exact so only 3 points were really on offer for predicting the Pompey win which QPRsmith, kingfisher, minxymartin, stoatey, e17hoop, Ghost, QPRBex, ranger-boy and LurkR all bagged.
There were only 5 bookings across the 4 games but only 1 match went down to goal difference and that was the big match of the round - the repeat of the League Cup Final from earlier this season - between ashqpr and LurkR. LurkR predicted 7 bookings, ashqpr 11 and so LurkR was closer and goes through. ashqpr has won back to back cups so was the reigning FA Cup champion but by the finest of margins he is out.
In the other ties stoatey, kingfisher and qprcammitch all beat their opponents ranger-boy, QPRsmith and Ghost respectively by 3 points so there wasn't much in most of the ties, one goal time being different here or there could have changed everything. That means that the current prediction league leader and 2 time prediction league champion Ghost has been knocked out by qprcammitch who is currently well adrift at the bottom of Division 2; a true Giantkilling!
In the other ties e17hoop pipped MCM Hoop by just 2 points whereas QPRBex was safely through ahead of Rosco Bosco 12 to 3. minxymartin was 6 clear of MaxQPR and I make it past CutePR with a 5 point cushion.
ranger-boy somehow maintains a record of having been knocked out in Round 2 for 5 cups in a row now whilst MCM Hoop has never made it past Round 2 of any cup we've ran in 6 attempts.
Here is how Round 2 shaped up:
Quarter Finals
Round 3 - the Quarter Finals - sees the remaining 8 players going head to head again. As mentioned before Round 2 the winner of Tie 1 plays the winner of Tie 5, 2 plays 6, 3 plays 7 and 4 plays 8. This is the same pre-set draw order as previous cups.
That leaves us with the following Quarter Final line up with 8 players still in with a chance of getting 10 bonus points for the QPR Prediction League:
Tie 1: stoatey Vs LurkR
Tie 2: kingfisher Vs minxymartin
Tie 3: qprcammitch Vs northwesthoop
Tie 4: QPRBex Vs e17hoop
The points all reset to zero. Round 1/2 score and previous goal difference only come into play going forward if there is no separating the players in the next round.
The Quarter Finals will be available to enter once the dates have been set for the matches. Remember the next round of the FA Cup will be played midweek at the start of March!
Match 1 involving QPR was spectacularly low scoring with only 8 points picked up in total as everybody went for a QPR win. Nobody got Fox as first scorer but e17hoop, ashqpr and CutePR got Wells for a back up point
Surprisingly only 1 player - qprcammitch - got the 31-45 first goal time
e17hoop and LurkR picked Sheffield Wednesday to open the scoring for another single point
Match 2 saw Arsenal beat Bournemouth 2-1 which kingfisher, QPRBex, qprcammitch, stoatey and myself predicted for a critical 6 points. Only QPRsmith didn't predict an Arsenal win. Nobody got Saka as first scorer and nobody picked the early first goal time.
Match 3 was Leicester's 1-0 win over Brentford. A surprising amount of players - Rosco Bosco, CutePR, myself, ranger-boy, LurkR, e17hoop and stoatey - failed to pick the Leicester win whilst nobody who did predict Leicester went for 1-0.
QPRsmith, myself and minxymartin got the early first goal time in that match
Pompey beat Barnsley 4-2 in the final match which was nigh on impossible to get exact so only 3 points were really on offer for predicting the Pompey win which QPRsmith, kingfisher, minxymartin, stoatey, e17hoop, Ghost, QPRBex, ranger-boy and LurkR all bagged.
There were only 5 bookings across the 4 games but only 1 match went down to goal difference and that was the big match of the round - the repeat of the League Cup Final from earlier this season - between ashqpr and LurkR. LurkR predicted 7 bookings, ashqpr 11 and so LurkR was closer and goes through. ashqpr has won back to back cups so was the reigning FA Cup champion but by the finest of margins he is out.
In the other ties stoatey, kingfisher and qprcammitch all beat their opponents ranger-boy, QPRsmith and Ghost respectively by 3 points so there wasn't much in most of the ties, one goal time being different here or there could have changed everything. That means that the current prediction league leader and 2 time prediction league champion Ghost has been knocked out by qprcammitch who is currently well adrift at the bottom of Division 2; a true Giantkilling!
In the other ties e17hoop pipped MCM Hoop by just 2 points whereas QPRBex was safely through ahead of Rosco Bosco 12 to 3. minxymartin was 6 clear of MaxQPR and I make it past CutePR with a 5 point cushion.
ranger-boy somehow maintains a record of having been knocked out in Round 2 for 5 cups in a row now whilst MCM Hoop has never made it past Round 2 of any cup we've ran in 6 attempts.
Here is how Round 2 shaped up:
Quarter Finals
Round 3 - the Quarter Finals - sees the remaining 8 players going head to head again. As mentioned before Round 2 the winner of Tie 1 plays the winner of Tie 5, 2 plays 6, 3 plays 7 and 4 plays 8. This is the same pre-set draw order as previous cups.
That leaves us with the following Quarter Final line up with 8 players still in with a chance of getting 10 bonus points for the QPR Prediction League:
Tie 1: stoatey Vs LurkR
Tie 2: kingfisher Vs minxymartin
Tie 3: qprcammitch Vs northwesthoop
Tie 4: QPRBex Vs e17hoop
The points all reset to zero. Round 1/2 score and previous goal difference only come into play going forward if there is no separating the players in the next round.
The Quarter Finals will be available to enter once the dates have been set for the matches. Remember the next round of the FA Cup will be played midweek at the start of March!