Ok, full season picks below, to be made by Aug 31. I pasted from last year, and then made amendments. I changed some of the points awarded for some that seemed to big or too small, and added a couple of things at the bottom. Also, your picks do not have to marry up, you can hedge your bets. For example, you might place Arsenal below Spurs in your top 6 placings for the season, but still name a round for St Totts day, that's absolutely fine, I will tally up each pick on its merits.
When you make your picks, please number them as per the corresponding numbers, just to make it easier for me!
1) Top 6 (name in specific order): 3 points for each correct team in their correct spot, or 1 point for each team picked in the 6, but not in their correct spot
2) Relegation places (no particular order): 3 points for each
All of the following are 5 points:
3) Player with most Assists for the EPL (from any team)
4) Player with most Goals for the EPL (from any team)
5) Keeper with highest Number of EPL clean sheets (from any team)
6) Highest scoring Arsenal player for the season, in all comps
7) Highest scoring Liverpool player for the season, in all comps
8) Arsenal EPL GD at end of season (write as +16 etc)
9) Liverpool EPL GD at end of season
10) Arsenal finishing round for League Cup
11) Arsenal finishing round for FA Cup
12) Arsenal finishing round for Europa League
13) Liverpool finishing round for the Champions League
14) R19 and R38 Arsenal position in the EPL
15) R19 and R38 Liverpool position in the EPL
16) Round number for St Tott's Day confirmation (write NA if you believe this won't happen, NA will also be worth 5 points)
17) Highest scoring Chelsea player for the season, in all comps
18) Chelsea EPL GD at end of season
19) Chelsea finishing round for Europa League
Match Picking Rules:
Arsenal X Opposition X
Player 1, Player 2
Liverpool: Win/Draw/Loss
Chelsea: Win/Draw/Loss
Example:
Arsenal 7 Spurs 0
Iwobi, Mustafi
Liverpool: Draw
Chelsea: Loss
So you get:
- 1 point for correctly picking an Arsenal win
- 2 points for correctly picking an Arsenal draw
- 3 points for correctly picking an Arsenal loss
- 5 bonus points for picking the exact score
- 1 point for each player goal/assist, and 2 points if a defender/keeper gets a clean sheet
- 3 bonus points if one of your players gets the highest player rating on Whoscored.com i.e. they are effectively Arsenal's man of the match
- 1 point for correctly picking Liverpool's result
- 1 point for correctly picking Chelsea's result
AND when Liverpool and Chelsea play against "big 6" teams, we will have full score/player picks for those matches too. I'll try and remind everyone when that is happening, but if I forget, please just do it! Leighbo and Downey might want to be nice and remind us when they have those games coming up too. I'll also do double point rounds when Arsenal/Chelsea/Liverpool play each other.
All stats will be taken from Whoscored.com, just because it's a consistent system that is easy for me to check. Go check it out if you want to see what it's about. The player rating scores are pretty good. They give a little star to the player with the highest rating in the game. So that will be the MOTM, but if the player is from the opposition, I'll take the highest arsenal player to rate instead. And if it's tied, I'll give the points for both. FYI players who score/assist tend to get disproportionately high ratings, especially defenders, as a tip. For example when Monreal went on that hot scoring run a while back he was racking up MOTM's consistently.