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Just a warning so you have time to change it. As per the rules if you predict more than 5 goals you get a penalty point for each goalscorer you get incorrect. So lets say it's a 3 - 0 win and Doyle scores all 3 you would get the following points

0 Points for Scoreline
2 Points for the Result
0 Points for goal scorers

-6 penalty points as none of the people you listed scored.

For a total of -4 points

Or if it was the same score but the goalscorers were Doyle. Palmer and Donaldson, it would be you would get

0 Points for Scoreline
2 Points for the Result
2 Points for goal scorers

-4 penalty points as only two of the 6 scored.

For a total of 0 points

That's to discourage people from predicting something like a 15-0 with 15 different goalscorers thus meaning any game City score in you are likely to pick up points.

If you want to stick with it then that's fine. It is a high-risk strategy but if it comes off its high reward (Would get you 11 points and pretty much guarantee the full 5 bonus points for best prediction)

 

The penalty is only on the scorers. Even if you predicted 100-0 you aren't gaining any advantage from making a crazy score prediction but naming 100 scorers you obviously are

 

There are a couple of issues with your submission. The first being 'Donaldson 2'. It should be 'Donaldson, Donaldson, otherwise, I have to manually add it to the system when I'm checking the scores have been calculated right after the game.

Now I would usually just edit it this time and inform you for future weeks but the second issue is you didn't provide a time of the first goal that we use as a tiebreaker.

So if you could resubmit the entry with the scorers in the right format and adding when you think the first goal will be scored that would be great

 

Almost right, the time needs to be on the 3rd line on its own. Anyway, I've fixed it for you.

Check over the change I made so you know the format for next weeks game so you can be sure you get all the points you are due

 

There are multiple City’s in the league which can cause confusion hence using just Bradford is not only clearer in the instructions but also for submissions is easier on my script that automates parsing the data for score calculations. There are some situations where I have to do a lot of manual fixes of people who just use city

 

Not the high scoring round I was expecting. I'll put the leaderboard up later today