End of August - One down, Eight to go.

Well after Skrtel's awesome back pass that had no bearing on our competition other than my feelings being hurt...

Tiki Taka is not for Skrtel

Congrats to Brett for his 18 points over the two weeks to win the trophy for a month.

Yay Brett!!

Since Arsenal is winning the Trophy for 4th .. I figured Derek should get a little something too..

Hopefully the one and only.

Pictures from Wednesday's game

For your anti-Chelsea viewing pleasure, gentlemen.

I don't know, he looks onside to me!

Week #2

Well, I can't think of a worse way for week #2 to start up than watching Chelsea come from behind on a clear offside Torres goal... Reading must feel violated.

Picks are in the bag as we anxiously await the weekend.  There's enough variation in our picks that Brett could surrender his lead or could rise above the fray triumphantly and shower guilty and shame upon those of us below.

I can't wait to score a perfect result on my Pool/City prediction...

August 18th

It is finally here.

The first weekend on the season.

Time to find out if City can repeat, or if United's new man can help them win #20. Will Chelsea's new boys fill out those gold lettered kits?

The real important question is, who will finish for the trophy of 4th?

Arsenal - Where the new motto has become, Captain today - Gone tomorrow. I'll take Vermaelen for 10million Wenger.

Tottenham - Why exactly did they hire AVB? I would say to fire him at the midway point just  to win the Champions League, but oof.

 or Liverpool - Tiki-Taka? I am not sure I like the sound of the "English Barcelona"



So here we go. We know the rules. We know what we are playing for..

And the added bonus to the overall winner..

I know I am hoping for a crazy season. Looking for some outrageous games to throw our picks out the window.

Good luck fellas. May the best picks win.

Formalizing points for picks each month

Second order of business: How to score monthly points.

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I know we've had a few conversations, but I've been working on a spreadsheet and I need a formula. I think it was 3 points for correct scoreline, 1 for correct result, and nothing for being wrong? Here is what I'm thinking. Each month someone duplicates the 'Month Template' sheet of the worksheet and names it the month in question. Postponed games get shifted to when they are played (I have a lot of space for extra games). We enter in who is playing for each match, and our picks. Then we publish the sheet for the current month so it shows up in the blog.

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I think there is a feature that we can use to then protect the columns that have our predictions so they can't be changed. It probably isn't necessary to do so.

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When the games are done, we enter in the scores and the points for each game and the month are automatically calculated.

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