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| Introduction |
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Premier League Pickem is a fairly standard pickem game. For each of the 380 games in the Premier League schedule, submit your predicted score line. Your predicted result will automatically by determined based on the scores you submit. Your predicted scores and result will then earn you points based on their accuracy. Unlike MLB Day-to-Day Pickem, there is no end of season playoff period for the game.
What is the Premier League? It is the top level soccer league in England and considered by most to be the best club soccer league in the world. It's also known as the Barclays Premier League for sponsorship reasons and those abroad may refer to it as the English Premier League. Throughout the game pages, it will simply be referred to as the Premier League. There are twenty teams in the league, but each season the bottom three are relegated with three new teams being brought in. |
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| How it Works |
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To participate you need to go to the "Sign Up" page and register. The game is free for all participants. If you are an ASFL2 member, make sure you're entering your name as it appears on the ASFL2 members database. When registering you can choose to receive an email reminder to make your picks at noon the day before a game if you have yet to. You can change your email or password after registering by using the appropriate links on the game's front page.
Once registered you can submit your weekly picks via the "Submit Your Picks" link on the game page and review them via the "Review Your Picks" link. You can submit your pick for all games up to their scheduled start as recorded on the various game pages. To keep track of all game scoring you can follow the "Game Standings" link.
To help you make your decision, we've provided the full Premier League schedule and team schedules that can be viewed by week, month or the entire season. The game also provides detailed Premier League Standings including full league, home/road, monthly, half and head-to-head standings as well as standings against the top four, top half, bottom half and bottom three and in a team's last four, six or ten games. Once the season begins, Premier League Pickem specific stats will also be available via the "Game Stats" link.
To help enchance the interaction, I strongly encourage discussion of the game and the Premier League season on the league message board. |
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| Game Scoring |
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| Correct Pick: |
3 Pts |
| Correct Score: |
1 Point |
| Perfect Game: |
1 Point |
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Example 1: |
Actual Score: |
2-1 |
Picked Score: |
1-0 |
Example 2: |
Actual Score: |
3-1 |
Picked Score: |
2-1 |
Example 3: |
Actual Score: |
1-1 |
Picked Score: |
0-1 |
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There are five possible scores that can be earned for any game pick:
- 0 Pts: earned for either not picking, not having the correct result, or not having either score correct.
- 1 Point: earned for only having one correct score, but getting the other score and result incorrect.
- 3 Pts: earned for correctly picking the result of the game, but not having either score correct.
- 4 Pts: earned for correctly picking the result of the game, and having one of the two scores correct.
- 6 Pts: earned for correctly picking the result and both scores. An extra point is awarded for it being a perfect game.
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-Example 1 is worth three points as the pick correctly had the left team winning, but didn't get either score correct.
-Example 2 is worth four points as the pick correctly had the left team winning and had one correct score.
-Example 3 is worth one point with a correct score picked despite the wrong result.
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| Deadlines & Postponed Games |
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The deadline to make a pick for each game is the scheduled start time of that game as given on the various game pages. All times on the website are denoted as ET which is UTC-4 during US daylight savings and UTC-5 otherwise. This can be four or five hours behind the time in England depending on the different daylight savings schedule between the US and Europe.
If a game is postponed, all picks made before the postponement will go unchanged. The deadline will simply be moved back to the new game time. |
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| 2012-2013 Game Schedule |
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The 2012-2013 Premier League season begins on August 18th and ends on May 19th, a span of nine months (and a day). Each team plays 38 games over the course of that time frame. Some weeks won't see any games due to international breaks or FA Cup games while there will also be at least three weeks with a team playing two games. Each game week begins on Saturday and ends on Friday. |
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| Bonus Points |
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Premier League Pickem follows the standard ASFL2 scoring formula of  , where n is the number of members, m is the maximum point value and r is the member's rank. The full member total is also used in the calculations for the picks percentage standings.
The maximum values for both are given as the default values in the text boxes above. To return to the default values, leave the field blank when submitting. The member total is also calcuated based on the current standings. |
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| Season Finish |
| 1st: | 25.00 Pts | | 2nd: | 23.91 Pts | | 3rd: | 22.83 Pts | | 4th: | 21.74 Pts | | 5th: | 20.65 Pts | | 6th: | 19.57 Pts | | 7th: | 18.48 Pts | | 8th: | 17.39 Pts | | 9th: | 16.30 Pts | | 10th: | 15.22 Pts | | 11th: | 14.13 Pts | | 12th: | 13.04 Pts | | 13th: | 11.96 Pts | | 14th: | 10.87 Pts | | 15th: | 9.78 Pts | | 16th: | 8.70 Pts | | 17th: | 7.61 Pts | | 18th: | 6.52 Pts | | 19th: | 5.43 Pts | | 20th: | 4.35 Pts | | 21st: | 3.26 Pts | | 22nd: | 2.17 Pts | | 23rd: | 1.09 Pts | Correct Picks Rank |
| 1st: | 6.00 Pts | | 2nd: | 5.74 Pts | | 3rd: | 5.48 Pts | | 4th: | 5.22 Pts | | 5th: | 4.96 Pts | | 6th: | 4.70 Pts | | 7th: | 4.43 Pts | | 8th: | 4.17 Pts | | 9th: | 3.91 Pts | | 10th: | 3.65 Pts | | 11th: | 3.39 Pts | | 12th: | 3.13 Pts | | 13th: | 2.87 Pts | | 14th: | 2.61 Pts | | 15th: | 2.35 Pts | | 16th: | 2.09 Pts | | 17th: | 1.83 Pts | | 18th: | 1.57 Pts | | 19th: | 1.30 Pts | | 20th: | 1.04 Pts | | 21st: | 0.78 Pts | | 22nd: | 0.52 Pts | | 23rd: | 0.26 Pts | Non-0 Picks Rank |
| 1st: | 3.00 Pts | | 2nd: | 2.87 Pts | | 3rd: | 2.74 Pts | | 4th: | 2.61 Pts | | 5th: | 2.48 Pts | | 6th: | 2.35 Pts | | 7th: | 2.22 Pts | | 8th: | 2.09 Pts | | 9th: | 1.96 Pts | | 10th: | 1.83 Pts | | 11th: | 1.70 Pts | | 12th: | 1.57 Pts | | 13th: | 1.43 Pts | | 14th: | 1.30 Pts | | 15th: | 1.17 Pts | | 16th: | 1.04 Pts | | 17th: | 0.91 Pts | | 18th: | 0.78 Pts | | 19th: | 0.65 Pts | | 20th: | 0.52 Pts | | 21st: | 0.39 Pts | | 22nd: | 0.26 Pts | | 23rd: | 0.13 Pts | Others |
| Week Win (WW)^: | 0.5 Pts |
| 4 Points Per Game in a Week*: | 0.5 Pts |
| 3.75 Points Per Game in a Week: | 0.4 Pts |
| 3.5 Points Per Game in a Week: | 0.3 Pts |
| 3.25 Points Per Game in a Week: | 0.2 Pts |
| 3 Points Per Game in a Week: | 0.1 Pts |
| Monthly High Score: | 0.5 Pts |
| Monthly Second Place: | 0.4 Pts |
| Monthly Third Place: | 0.3 Pts |
| Monthly Fourth Place: | 0.2 Pts |
| Monthly Fifth Place: | 0.1 Pts |
| Making a Pick: | 0.03 Pts |
| Making all 380 Picks: | 0.1 Pts |
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| ^The Week Win (WW) is an-ASFL2 wide relic remaining from league's days with all games being run through Yahoo!. Back then, the number of groups determined the number of week wins available. Now, the number of ASFL2-member participants is divided by fifty and rounded up to arrive at the same number as if the game had never left. |
| *Points are not cumulative, if your points per game for a week is 3.25, you earn 0.2 points; not 0.2 plus the 0.1 for being better than 3/game. |
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Tiebreakers*: |
| (1) Number of Correct Picks. |
| (2) Number of Perfect Games. |
| (3) Number of Picks Made. |
| (4) Number of picks made that scored at least a point. |
| (5) Number of picks made that scored 4 points. |
| (6) Number of picks made that scored 3 points. |
| *The correct picks and non-0s tiebreakers are Points, Picks Made then the opposite stat (non0s for correct picks and vice versa). |
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