The Lone Ranger 2021/22 - Round 1
Jul 15, 2021 10:05:55 GMT
Post by northwesthoop on Jul 15, 2021 10:05:55 GMT
Welcome to the start of The Lone Ranger for 2021/22! It is our third season of The Lone Ranger and we've crowned woodork and SydneyR over the past 2 seasons!
Entry is FREE and couldn't be simpler. All the rules are below – for those who played last season there is a change to points lost for a draw!
You start the game with 10 lives and the aim of the game is to ensure you don't lose all your lives to avoid elimination. If you are the last player standing when all others have fallen by the wayside you will be crowned “The Lone Ranger”. The game has been played over 33 rounds in the past 2 seasons and the intention will be to have the same amount this season.
All you have to do it pick a team from The Premier League or Championship you think will win from the fixtures each week (available teams depends on the days the teams are playing and also who you have selected previously – more on this below). The team you select can be playing at home or away, you simply pick a team you think will win.
So entry literally consists of just typing 1 team name each week.
Each player who enters starts the season with 10 lives.
> If the team you picked wins you gain half a life
> If they draw you lose 1 life - this was previously half a life and has been changed to put more emphasis on securing a win
> If the team you picked lets you down and gets defeated you lose 2 of your lives
Lose all of your lives at any stage and you are out of the game. So players will drop out at various stages but it will be a month or two before anybody is eliminated.
The catch is you can only select each team once for the duration of the game. So if you choose QPR in Round 1 you can never select them again. You effectively have a choice of 44 teams at the start of the season, then 43, then 42 and so on from the Premier League/Championship selection pool. You can only select Man City and Liverpool once! There will be a separate Team Log in 'The Lone Ranger' section of the site that will be updated each week to remind you which teams you have already selected but please try to avoid selecting the same team twice.
If you forget to enter a week or enter a team you have already chosen in the past you will lose 2.5 lives as a penalty.
The game could end at any point later in the season but in the event that a number of players have avoided elimination by the last round of the season the winner will be the player with the highest remaining total of lives - so you need to keep totting up the wins regardless of whether you are close to elimination or not.
SydneyR was our champion last season who had an impressive 8.5 lives remaining at the end and we had 7 players who avoided elimination. Only QPRBex has made it through all 33 rounds in both seasons to date.
In the event that players are tied on lives, the player with the longest consecutive winning streak at any stage of the season will win. If that is still tied it will be the highest number of wins predicted and then fewest defeats predicted.
ENTERING THE GAME:
If you are not already a member you simply need to become a site member to play The Lone Ranger; it is FREE and takes literally a minute to get logged in by clicking HERE. Once registered you stay logged in whenever you visit the site in future and can also post your QPR views across the site. You will also be able to take part in our other prediction games... the QPR Prediction League and Win, Lose & Draw
Below are the fixtures available fixtures for Round 1. You simply need to choose any team you think will win, hit 'reply' above and post the team name to complete your entry. You'll need to repeat this each week throughout the season; each week of the competition will have it's own thread with available fixtures.
This competition will mainly just run each weekend with a midday Saturday deadline, but sometimes there may be midweek rounds to make sure we get the full quota of 33 rounds. I will try to make it clear in advance when these are coming up - this usually happens later in the season when the FA Cup kicks in.
Some rounds may have less teams available to choose from depending on the dates of fixtures and which leagues are active - for example Friday night matches will never be available to allow for a later entry deadline which will usually be on Saturday lunchtime. Round 1 this season only has Championship fixtures available as the Premier League starts a week later but this is the only round of the season when this will occur. There will be a week off each time it is the international round of fixtures.
I will usually put up a few weeks ready for entry in advance.
Here we go then...
Round 1 fixtures: - simply select one team you think will win and post their name below to enter
Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City
Bristol City v Blackpool
Cardiff City v Barnsley
Derby County v Huddersfield Town
Luton Town v Peterborough United
Preston North End v Hull City
Queens Park Rangers v Millwall
Stoke City v Reading
Sheffield United v Birmingham City
Fulham v Middlesbrough
Coventry City v Nottingham Forest
Points of note this week > No Premier League matches this week. Bournemouth V West Brom unavailable as they are playing on Friday night
Entries to be received by midday on Saturday 07 August 2021
Rule breakdown:
Entry is FREE and couldn't be simpler. All the rules are below – for those who played last season there is a change to points lost for a draw!
You start the game with 10 lives and the aim of the game is to ensure you don't lose all your lives to avoid elimination. If you are the last player standing when all others have fallen by the wayside you will be crowned “The Lone Ranger”. The game has been played over 33 rounds in the past 2 seasons and the intention will be to have the same amount this season.
All you have to do it pick a team from The Premier League or Championship you think will win from the fixtures each week (available teams depends on the days the teams are playing and also who you have selected previously – more on this below). The team you select can be playing at home or away, you simply pick a team you think will win.
So entry literally consists of just typing 1 team name each week.
Each player who enters starts the season with 10 lives.
> If the team you picked wins you gain half a life
> If they draw you lose 1 life - this was previously half a life and has been changed to put more emphasis on securing a win
> If the team you picked lets you down and gets defeated you lose 2 of your lives
Lose all of your lives at any stage and you are out of the game. So players will drop out at various stages but it will be a month or two before anybody is eliminated.
The catch is you can only select each team once for the duration of the game. So if you choose QPR in Round 1 you can never select them again. You effectively have a choice of 44 teams at the start of the season, then 43, then 42 and so on from the Premier League/Championship selection pool. You can only select Man City and Liverpool once! There will be a separate Team Log in 'The Lone Ranger' section of the site that will be updated each week to remind you which teams you have already selected but please try to avoid selecting the same team twice.
If you forget to enter a week or enter a team you have already chosen in the past you will lose 2.5 lives as a penalty.
The game could end at any point later in the season but in the event that a number of players have avoided elimination by the last round of the season the winner will be the player with the highest remaining total of lives - so you need to keep totting up the wins regardless of whether you are close to elimination or not.
SydneyR was our champion last season who had an impressive 8.5 lives remaining at the end and we had 7 players who avoided elimination. Only QPRBex has made it through all 33 rounds in both seasons to date.
In the event that players are tied on lives, the player with the longest consecutive winning streak at any stage of the season will win. If that is still tied it will be the highest number of wins predicted and then fewest defeats predicted.
ENTERING THE GAME:
If you are not already a member you simply need to become a site member to play The Lone Ranger; it is FREE and takes literally a minute to get logged in by clicking HERE. Once registered you stay logged in whenever you visit the site in future and can also post your QPR views across the site. You will also be able to take part in our other prediction games... the QPR Prediction League and Win, Lose & Draw
Below are the fixtures available fixtures for Round 1. You simply need to choose any team you think will win, hit 'reply' above and post the team name to complete your entry. You'll need to repeat this each week throughout the season; each week of the competition will have it's own thread with available fixtures.
This competition will mainly just run each weekend with a midday Saturday deadline, but sometimes there may be midweek rounds to make sure we get the full quota of 33 rounds. I will try to make it clear in advance when these are coming up - this usually happens later in the season when the FA Cup kicks in.
Some rounds may have less teams available to choose from depending on the dates of fixtures and which leagues are active - for example Friday night matches will never be available to allow for a later entry deadline which will usually be on Saturday lunchtime. Round 1 this season only has Championship fixtures available as the Premier League starts a week later but this is the only round of the season when this will occur. There will be a week off each time it is the international round of fixtures.
I will usually put up a few weeks ready for entry in advance.
Here we go then...
Round 1 fixtures: - simply select one team you think will win and post their name below to enter
Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City
Bristol City v Blackpool
Cardiff City v Barnsley
Derby County v Huddersfield Town
Luton Town v Peterborough United
Preston North End v Hull City
Queens Park Rangers v Millwall
Stoke City v Reading
Sheffield United v Birmingham City
Fulham v Middlesbrough
Coventry City v Nottingham Forest
Points of note this week > No Premier League matches this week. Bournemouth V West Brom unavailable as they are playing on Friday night
Entries to be received by midday on Saturday 07 August 2021
Rule breakdown:
| Everybody starts with 10 lives | Score |
| Win | +0.5 |
| Draw | -1 |
| Lose | -2 |
| Fail To Enter | -2.5 |
| Enter a previously used team | -2.5 |
