9th August sees the New Season kick off, and I thought you might want to know how you can score points, or lose them, on each of the 12 games you'll be predicting scores on each round.
Let's start with what points are on offer every game.
A team that wins, gets 11.7, plus the number of goals scored in the game, plus bonus points for players scoring more than once and an extra point for a clean sheet. If it's away from home there's a further small increase
The points are then adjusted by the club coefficients set at the beginning of the season. They are based on the teams performance last season, Arsenal's rating is much higher than West Ham's, for example.
In Season 24/25 predicting an Arsenal 2-1 win at The Emirates against the 'Ammers will be worth 9.32 points, a repeat of last season's scoreline will be worth 15.45 points
If you go home win though, and West Ham do win at The Emirates again, then you're going to lose 1.29 points for getting that so wrong. Saying West Ham would win, and they lose, will cost you 0.78 points. You see in my head, that reflects the expected outcome, and rewards the un-expected.
That's the points for getting the score right, or wrong.
Get the result right, but the score wrong, you still get points.
Results with correct Margins are worth 4 plus the extras for goal scorers and clean sheets, Results worth 2.
If you say Arsenal will win 3-2, then you you got the result, and the margin of the result right, then you'll get 3.11 points, if you said 3-1, you got the result right only, not the margin of the win, you get 1.55 points.
Predict a draw, the points are split and the coefficients then adjust the final points awarded. If the game is drawn 1-1, and you guess that, then it's worth 10.52 points.
Coefficients work in every game. Including cup games, so if Southend (5.17) beat Chelsea (1.22) in the Cup, the increase is huge!!!
And then you can 'Bank' on games if you want to. You don't have to use any, or all of your banker points each week. You can do what you want with them. But you have the option of using 5 points each weekend, to increase your points haul.
There are two Banker options
The Enhanced Banker costs you 1 Point, and doubles any points you win
The Guaranteed Banker costs you 2 Points and trebles any points you win
You can use a combination of the bankers, so 1 Guaranteed and 3 Enhanced, but the total points you spend can't exceed 5.
Therefore if it is 2-1 to Arsenal this season against West Ham, and you Enhance it, you'll get 17.64 points, (double minus the point for placing it), if you Guarantee it, 25.96 points will be coming your way.
Get your bankers wrong though, and penalties kick in.
Narrowly miss, you go home win and it's a draw, then the penalty will be smaller than getting it completely wrong, and as always, wrong Guaranteed Bankers will be punished harder than wrong Enhanced Bankers.
So make sure you get them right.
Of course that doesn't always happen, there are always a few big upsets in the season that end up with loads of points being lost.
Hopefully that's all clear.
Getting Bankers right will help you move in the right direction, be careful though, getting them wrong will hurt.
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