This was a tough week to score points with a series of surprise results. Only 9 points were scored in total.
5 got Palace's win over Burnley: Jalfrezi R's, northwesthoop, qprfcfromwhitecity, Ricardo Rangers & singlespeed. CutePR & jimjams got Cardiff's win over Stoke. NoahHoop got Leeds's win over Leicester. ranger-boy got Sheff Wed's win over Bristol City.
Those were all home wins. No-one got any of the 3 away wins, all of which looked pretty unlikely before kick-off.
With so few points scored, there was little impact on the table. moldyhoop remains 4 points clear at the top. Ricardo Rangers moves into 2nd ahead of kensalr on goal difference. kingfisher remains 2 points adrift at the bottom.
Finally, a quick word on the Friday deadline. I try to avoid early deadlines but sometimes that is hard with the way the fixtures fall. On this occasion, a few of you entered late but restricted your selections to matches for which the teams had not yet been announced. I am ok with that.
What a game this is, 1 correct prediction a week is enough for the top 6 but even that is so difficult!
The wins make such a difference but getting 2 correct predictions is so much harder than it looks!
When is the cut off for the top 8?
This game has been so difficult this season with so many surprising results.
The timings for the rest of the season are as follows. We have 5 more rounds of the regular season, finishing with 2 rounds over the Easter weekend. At that stage the top 8 will take part in the play offs over 5 weeks, finishing with the grand final on the last week of the Championship season on 4th May.
At the moment Rosco Bosco is 8th with 25 points. The table is so tight that most of us still have a realistic chance of the play-offs. CutePR is 16th but only 2 points behind Rosco Bosco. ashqpr in 19th is only 3 points behind. Jalfrezi Rs in 21st is only 4 behind.