h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

And it's all down to the final week

As is traditional in these circumstances; there are double rations up for grabs this week. So that means loads of points, so don't f*ck it up folks!


Chelsea v Wigan
Charlton v Sunderland
Crystal Palace v Wolves
Leeds v Cardiff
Barnsley v Scunthorpe
Southend v Bradford
Lincoln City v Chester
Torquay v Oxford Utd
Aberdeen v Dunfermline
Hearts v Inverness


All selections to be in by 12noon on Saturday, 10th December.

Chelsea v Wigan 3-2
Charlton v Sunderland 2-2
Crystal Palace v Wolves 3-2
Leeds v Cardiff 3-2
Barnsley v Scunthorpe 2-1
Southend v Bradford 2-3
Lincoln City v Chester 1-2
Torquay v Oxford Utd 2-2
Aberdeen v Dunfermline 3-2
Hearts v Inverness 3-1

andy

thought i may as well get em in early i may have no chance at all

Chelsea 1-0 Wigan (Lampard)
Charlton 1-1 Sunderland (Bent)
Crystal Palace 2-1 Wolves (Miller)
Leeds 3-1 Cardiff (Healy)
Barnsley 1-0 Scunthorpe (Devaney)
Southend 1-1 Bradford (Goater)
Lincoln City 0-1 Chester (Blundell)
Torquay 2-2 Oxford Utd (Kuffour)
Aberdeen 2-0 Dunfermline (Anderson)
Hearts 3-1 Inverness (Dargo)

Ooops! I've noticed that I've predicted the same W/L/D as Owly in 9 of the 10 matches. I promise you that this was not deliberate. I was looking at the various league tables and results of previous matches when I made my predictions.

For various reasons that I'm not going to go into just now, I need to make my predictions earlier in the week than is the norm for me. Also these various reasons might preclude me from marking up the results on Saturday, so sorry in advance if it all goes tits-up at my end.

So - looks like nobody's picked up the matches are up this week. makes an early visit.

No show from Riotact and 30 points for me and the mousemat's mine

Chelsea 3 - 1 Wigan - Drogba
Charlton 2 - 0 Sunderland - Murphy
Crystal Palace 2 - 1 Wolves - Johnson
Leeds 2 - 0 Cardiff - Healey (At Least ! Psycorps 8 would be better)
Barnsley 1 - 0 Scunthorpe - Hayes (Sorry B if your lurking.)
Southend 2 - 1 Bradford - Eastwood (Sorry Ormy)
Lincoln City 1 - 2 Chester - Lowe
Torquay 2 - 0 Oxford Utd - Sabin
Aberdeen 2 - 0 Dunfermline - Anderson
Hearts 2 - 0 Inverness CT - Skacel (Sorry DD)

And remember folks - I got friends in LOOOOOW places.

Chelsea 2-0 Wigan (Lampard)
Charlton 3-1 Sunderland (Bent)
Crystal Palace 1-0 Wolves (Freedman)
Leeds 2-1 Cardiff (Healy)
Barnsley 2-1 Scunthorpe (Shuker)
Southend 2-1 Bradford (Eastweed)
Lincoln City 0-2 Chester (Lowe)
Torquay 0-1 Oxford Utd (Sabin)
Aberdeen 2-0 Dunfermline (Anderson)
Hearts 2-1 Inverness (Skacel)

may the best man win!

Chelsea 4-0 Wigan (Lampard)
Charlton 2-1Sunderland (Bent)
Crystal Palace 2-1 Wolves (Morrison)
Leeds 2-1 Cardiff (Healy)
Barnsley 2-0 Scunthorpe (Shuker)
Southend 1-1 Bradford (Sean ‘you’re not famous anymore’ Goater)
Lincoln City 1-2 Chester (Nat Brown)
Torquay 2-2 Oxford Utd (Kuffour)
Aberdeen 2-1 Dunfermline (Jamie Smith)
Hearts 3-1 Inverness (Skacel)

Hmmphf, I did these earlier in the week and they're very similar to all so far
Still enough differences to possibly make up the points gap.
Trouble is, you can't really change them, because in the end, this is what I think is going to happen.

Chelsea 1 - 1 Wigan (Drogba)
Charlton 2 - 1 Sunderland (Bent)
Crystal Palace 3 - 1 Wolves (Freedman)
Leeds 0 - 1 Cardiff (Healy)
Barnsley 1 - 1 Scunthorpe (Mcphail)
Southend 2 - 0 Bradford (Eastwood)
Lincoln City 2 - 2 Chester (Brown)
Torquay 1 - 2 Oxford Utd (Basham)
Aberdeen 3 - 3 Dunfermline (Mackie)
Hearts 4 - 1 Inverness (Skacel)

Chelsea 2-1 Wigan - Lampard
Charlton 2-0 Sunderland - Bent
Crystal Palace 1-0 Wolves - Morrison
Leeds 2-1 Cardiff - Hulse
Barnsley 1-0 Scunthorpe - Shuker
Southend 2-0 Bradford - Eastwood
Lincoln City 0-2 Chester - Lowe
Torquay 0-1 Oxford Utd - Basham
Aberdeen 2-0 Dunfermline - Smith
Hearts 3-1 Inverness - Skacel

Thats it, thanks GD......
Bottletop

Chelsea 3 Wigan 1 Lampard
Charlton 3 Sunderland 0 Bent
Crystal Palace 3 Wolves 2 Freedman
Leeds 2 Cardiff 1 Jerome
Barnsley 4 Scunthorpe 1 Hayes
Southend 1 Bradford 1 Bentley
Lincoln City 1 Chester 3 Lowe
Torquay 1 Oxford Utd 0 Connell
Aberdeen 4 Dunfermline 0 Smith
Hearts 2 Inverness 3 Wyness

Chelsea 3-0 Wigan (Lampard)
Charlton 2-1 Sunderland (Bent)
Crystal Palace 1-1 Wolves (Cort)
Leeds 1-0 Cardiff (Healy)
Barnsley 2-0 Scunthorpe (Devaney)
Southend 0-1 Bradford (Windass)
Lincoln City 1-1 Chester (Lowe)
Torquay 2-1 Oxford United (Bedeau)
Aberdeen 1-0 Dunfermline (Crawford)
Hearts 1-0 Inverness (Skacel)

Chelsea 2 Wigan 0 Crespo
Charlton 3 Sunderland 1 Bent
Palace 2 Wolves 1 Morrison
Leeds 3 Cardiff 1 Hulse
Barnsley 1 Scunthorpe 1 Sharp
Southend 2 Bradford 0 Eastwood
Lincoln 0 Chester 2 Lowe
Torquay 0 Oxford 0
Aberdeen 4 Dunfermline 2 Smith
Hearts 2 Inverness 1 Hartley

SBE - happy to be in contention. Good luck all round.

I think that I've marked this up correctly. But with my track record in recent weeks, plus the fact there's double rations here, then it would be advisable for all players to check their points themselves.

Well, that's it then. I could say that overall the number of points got this week was a little disappointing. But I can't complain too much as I'm one of the week's joint winners with 14 points. I think what we'll do is blame it all on Scottish football for delivering a pair of nil-nils, and a grand total of 2 points awarded here. Yes, that'll do

As I said, I'm the joint winner this week. And alongside me stands our rookie, Orcus, who had a bit of charge on this week in his attempt to take the top spot. So well done us

Sadly for him, riotact hung on with a (in the circumstances) solid 11 points to win this, the fourteenth running of the Official h2g2 Fantasy Football League with a comfortable 5 points lead, and a final total of 124

Ormondroyd also put in a decent performance this week to consolidate his third place. Which means that he's made a top 3 finish in 12 of the 14 seasons that we've played. Now that's going some

So to the prizes. Riotact gets a mousemat (that'll be his second). And the badge for the thing that amused me most during the season goes to Owlatron for his cheeky behaviour back in weeks 3 and 4 when he was asking for extra points because his scorer had scored a hat-trick. So if the pair of you will drop me an e-mail at greydesk AT gmail DOT com with your postal addresses, I'll get the prizes out to you

Future news - there will be a season 15 starting in the new year. I'm not sure which weekend it will kick off yet. I'll be making an announcement both here and at the VSC, so keep your eyes peeled for it.

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The Results:

Chelsea 1-0 Wigan (TERRY)

Charlton 2-0 Sunderland (BENT, Ambrose)

Crystal Palace 1-1 Wolves (SEOL, Johnson)

Leeds 0-1 Cardiff (KOUMAS)

Barnsley 5-2 Scunthorpe (DEVANEY, Hassell, Richards, Shuker, Beagrie, Hayes, MacKenzie)

Southend 1-1 Bradford (SCHUMACHER, Gower)

Lincoln City 3-1 Chester (RICHARDSON, Logan, Mayo, Amamoah)

Torquay 3-3 Oxford Utd (SABIN, Lockwood, Bradbury, Hill)

Aberdeen 0-0 Dunfermline (--)

Hearts 0-0 Inverness (--)

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The Points:

GreyDesk - 14 points (Chelsea result & score; Charlton scorer & 1st scorer; Barnsley result, scorer & 1st scorer; Southend result & score; Torquay result)

Orcus - 14 points (Chelsea result; Charlton result, scorer & 1st scorer; Barnsley result & scorer; Southend result & score; Torquay result)

Ormondroyd - 13 points (Chelsea result; Charlton result, scorer & 1st scorer; Palace result & score; Barnsley result, scorer & 1st scorer)

Demon Drawer - 12 points (Chelsea result; Charlton result, scorer & 1st scorer; Barnsley result & scorer; Southend result & score)

McKay The Disorganised - 11 points (Chelsea result; Charlton result & score; Palace scorer; Barnsley result & scorer; Torquay scorer & 1st scorer)

riotact - 11 points (Chelsea result; Charlton result, scorer & 1st scorer; Barnsley result & scorer; Torquay scorer & 1st scorer)

Bottletop - 10 points (Chelsea result; Charlton full house ; Barnsley result & scorer)

Colonel Creachy - 9 points (Charlton result, scorer & 1st scorer; Leeds result & score; Aberdeen result)

summerbayexile - 8 points (Chelsea result; Charlton result, scorer & 1st scorer; Torquay result & score)

Owlatron - 6 points (Chelsea result; Barnsley result; Torquay result)

Personally I was quite glad one of the Scottish games ended with no goals although i would havepreferred some from Aberdeen to make my second have watching holding a 1 goal lead more enjoyable and less nerve racking.

for Riotact

Just watch out I've got no bye election distracting me to miss one week next season.

Well played Riotact, ....for you

and once again GD, thanks for another season...
looking forward to the next one.

Bottletop

Félicitations, riotact!

And I really can't complain at another top three finish.

The best news of all, however, is that the competition will be back in the new year. I know you've got a bit fed up at times during this season, GD, but your efforts really are much appreciated.

for Riotact

for GreyDesk

For me.

Well after seasons of solid appalling performances I am really chuffed with a top 4 finish!! I think that makes me the Wigan of season 14. *whispers* thought I might get the badge for most improved performance!! *ends whisper* The plaudits of any fellow competitors will have to do for now!!
GD A great season's work. Well done riotact, orcus and ormondroyd I just couldn't keep on your coat tails.
SBE