SPIKE BOBBERMAN CUP 23-24: THE PREVIEW
Oct 23, 2023 19:04:53 GMT
Post by hatterinSW19 on Oct 23, 2023 19:04:53 GMT
The FA Cup 1st Round is only a couple of weeks away, meaning it’s also time to launch the 2023-24 Spike Bobberman Cup. If you take part in the Bobberman League, you’re automatically in the Cup, too, so read on for all the information you could possibly want...
Schedule
The Bobberman Cup rounds normally follow as far as possible the FA Cup dates, starting with the 1st Round proper. So, with 2 games needed for the qualifying round, the first Cup predictions will be for Liverpool at home on 5th November and Manchester United away on 11th November.
All Bobberman predictors are in the competition to begin with, the Liverpool and Man Utd predictions taking the form of a mini-league from which the top 64 will progress to the first round proper. From then on, players will be drawn against each other in a normal knockout cup format. As far as possible, round dates will mirror the FA Cup, so that when the Hatters are in FA Cup action, that will be the game used for predictions. Before they enter, and if/when they are knocked out, we’ll use the scheduled league game on the same or nearest date. If, once we’re out, we lose a fixture through being due to play an opponent still in, we’ll use a suitable alternative on a nearby date.
So the provisional Spike Bobberman Cup round dates will be:
Qualifying Round (2 legs) – all players - 5th Nov (Liverpool H) and 11th Nov (Manchester Utd A)
Round 1 - 64 players – 2nd Dec (Brentford A)
Round 2 - 32 players – 6th Jan (FAC3)
Round 3 - 16 players – either 27th Jan (FAC4) or 30th Jan (Brighton H)
Round 4 - 8 players – either 28th Feb (FAC5) or 2nd March (Aston Villa H)
Round 5 - 4 players – 16th March (FAC QF or Nottingham Forest H)
Final - 2 players – 20th April (FAC SF
or Brentford H)
How to predict
I’ll post an announcement no later than one week before a cup round and invite players to predict on that cup thread. Predictions should consist of:
- Your score prediction for the game
- Your score prediction for half-time
- Your scorers (3 in number, chosen from either team, with 1 reserve scorer in brackets to be used only in the event that one of your first 3 is neither in the starting XI nor named as a substitute)
- Your prediction for the attendance for that game.
As with the Bobberman League, the cut-off for posting your predictions will be one hour before the kick-off time.
If you should somehow miss the chance to post your score for the Cup on the Cup thread, then for the qualifying round I will attempt to use your routine Bobberman League prediction instead, but of course you then won’t benefit from the potential extra points available for the HT score plus attendance if a penalty shoot-out is required. For the knockout rounds, I will almost certainly be much stricter, but will make this clear when the predictions thread goes up.
Scoring
The scoring system is as follows:
Correct score: 5 points
Correct result: 3 points (note: if you get the correct score then you get the five points and NOT 5+3 points).
Correct score at HT: 2 points
Correct result at HT: 1 point
A correct scorer: 1 point for each goal scored by a player i.e. if you name for example Jacob Brown as a scorer and he scores twice, you get 2 points.
There are no replays: in the event of each player scoring equal points, the tie goes directly to a penalty shootout, with the winner being the player whose attendance prediction is closest to the published attendance for that game.
Feel free to post any questions below, but please note: this is the introduction and rules thread and NOT for predictions. I’ll post a predictions thread for the qualifying round next weekend.
Cheers, everyone!
Schedule
The Bobberman Cup rounds normally follow as far as possible the FA Cup dates, starting with the 1st Round proper. So, with 2 games needed for the qualifying round, the first Cup predictions will be for Liverpool at home on 5th November and Manchester United away on 11th November.
All Bobberman predictors are in the competition to begin with, the Liverpool and Man Utd predictions taking the form of a mini-league from which the top 64 will progress to the first round proper. From then on, players will be drawn against each other in a normal knockout cup format. As far as possible, round dates will mirror the FA Cup, so that when the Hatters are in FA Cup action, that will be the game used for predictions. Before they enter, and if/when they are knocked out, we’ll use the scheduled league game on the same or nearest date. If, once we’re out, we lose a fixture through being due to play an opponent still in, we’ll use a suitable alternative on a nearby date.
So the provisional Spike Bobberman Cup round dates will be:
Qualifying Round (2 legs) – all players - 5th Nov (Liverpool H) and 11th Nov (Manchester Utd A)
Round 1 - 64 players – 2nd Dec (Brentford A)
Round 2 - 32 players – 6th Jan (FAC3)
Round 3 - 16 players – either 27th Jan (FAC4) or 30th Jan (Brighton H)
Round 4 - 8 players – either 28th Feb (FAC5) or 2nd March (Aston Villa H)
Round 5 - 4 players – 16th March (FAC QF or Nottingham Forest H)
Final - 2 players – 20th April (FAC SF
or Brentford H) How to predict
I’ll post an announcement no later than one week before a cup round and invite players to predict on that cup thread. Predictions should consist of:
- Your score prediction for the game
- Your score prediction for half-time
- Your scorers (3 in number, chosen from either team, with 1 reserve scorer in brackets to be used only in the event that one of your first 3 is neither in the starting XI nor named as a substitute)
- Your prediction for the attendance for that game.
As with the Bobberman League, the cut-off for posting your predictions will be one hour before the kick-off time.
If you should somehow miss the chance to post your score for the Cup on the Cup thread, then for the qualifying round I will attempt to use your routine Bobberman League prediction instead, but of course you then won’t benefit from the potential extra points available for the HT score plus attendance if a penalty shoot-out is required. For the knockout rounds, I will almost certainly be much stricter, but will make this clear when the predictions thread goes up.
Scoring
The scoring system is as follows:
Correct score: 5 points
Correct result: 3 points (note: if you get the correct score then you get the five points and NOT 5+3 points).
Correct score at HT: 2 points
Correct result at HT: 1 point
A correct scorer: 1 point for each goal scored by a player i.e. if you name for example Jacob Brown as a scorer and he scores twice, you get 2 points.
There are no replays: in the event of each player scoring equal points, the tie goes directly to a penalty shootout, with the winner being the player whose attendance prediction is closest to the published attendance for that game.
Feel free to post any questions below, but please note: this is the introduction and rules thread and NOT for predictions. I’ll post a predictions thread for the qualifying round next weekend.
Cheers, everyone!