The Essential Details This blog post won't provide flowery explanations about how the various competitions work. Instead, it focuses on the key details regarding points and rules. It's a reminder of how everything operates, and you might find it worth your time to read through, although in truth, I’ve mainly put it in a document to remind me of what was going on in my head when I built this 😳🙄. So here goes. The competition consists of two parts: The GuessWork and The Picks

This blog post won't provide flowery explanations about how the competition works. Instead, it focuses on the key details regarding points and rules. It's a reminder of how everything operates, and you might find it worth your time to read through. 😳 Actually. You probably won’t, but, and it’s an important but, it does remind me of how it all works. The first thing to do though is make sure you are FOLLOWING my Footy Channel on WhatsApp, and, if you want to be nudged when

There has to be a World Cup competition, doesn’t there. And the build started earlier in the year, and as at now (April) is almost complete, just a few tweaks needed 👍👍 It all Kicks off on 11th June and then on 19th July, 104 games later, the Champions of the World will be crowned, and then immediately have to hand the trophy over to Trump for him to keep with all the other trophies he’s collected. It's going to be manic. There's 12 groups, 48 countries, and last I read F

After the inaugural season in 2024 when We Are Checking was top of the pile, we followed up with last year, and Haas Ta La Vista winning, whilst behind them both times, was Wax MeStrapOn Racing , Last year was dominated by the Hills. No not Graham and Damon, Simon and Nick. Wax MyStrapOn Racing and Haas Ta La Vista ruled the roost throughout the 2025 Campaign, swapping the lead position on a number of occasions, until the latter hit this ‘ALL BLUE’ weekend in Race 21 (ev

First year was just a trial, and Essex Wideboys (AKA Nobby's Nomads) took the acolades. In 2025 we expanded it, and RunningFox took all the honours. 2026, I'm going to change to format again, actually simplify it, and make it far more player choice centric than before. None of this how many runs, biggest partnership number of catches 'STUFF', just which 7 of the 22 on the pitch do you think will be 'the best'. It's going to be another year of 'LOADS' of cricket, lots of Engl

The focus for the Cup Competition has always been the FA Cup, but then last season we went all in with European competition games included in the later rounds as well as the domestic cup finals in France, Spain, Italy and Germany (and beyond) for The Final Round. There will be more of the same this time. There will be 7 rounds, 16 games in each, apart from the first which will have all 32 games in the FA Cup 3rd Round. These are the rounds Rd 1 - FA Cup 3rd Round - weekend

The Essential Details This blog post won't provide flowery explanations about how the various competitions work. Instead, it focuses on the key details regarding points and rules. It's a reminder of how everything operates, and you might find it worth your time to read through. Overview of the Competition Structure The competition consists of two parts: The GuessWork and The Picks . For The Picks , you must make selections for League Team, Cup Team, and Player Picks before t

The biggest challenge I had with this competition was somehow combining two completely different match formats into one ‘seamless’...

This is an update from the original post way back in July '24, explaining the above, well hopefully explaining the above. And. I'm going to use a World Cup '26 example to highlight what the hell I'm going on about, and how points are awarded for guessing correctly, or wrongly, and then ‘Banking’ on it Strap in. Let's start with what points are on offer every game. A win for a team is worth 10 points PLUS the margin of the win A loss carries a penalty of the margin of the los