Happy New Year for a slightly belated first write-up of 2016.
From today's early kick-off Matthartlane was the only player to tip West Ham to beat Liverpool 2-0. All Of Me, clm2071, Cluedon657, Darren Lethem, fatsi, InTheLoop, MinkyJoe, Renegade Master, tonypennys and topgooner100 all went for the home win to get 2 points each.
From the 3pm kick-offs:
All Of Me and Renegade Master both went for Arsenal to beat Newcastle 1-0. 59 of the other 60 players who predicted also went for an Arsenal win.
No-one went for a 0-0 draw between Leicester and Bournemouth. Only DartGuru, DDRickyDD and lauro went for a draw here.
Croctacus, digiremote, DimbleBurbleby, dyer24, eugenespeed, fatsi, Katie-Jane, Mal_Practice, Scratchy., willrelf92 and WoodsMonk all went for Man United to beat Swansea 2-1. A further 42 players also got 2 points from the home win.
DartGuru, DimbleBurbleby and willrelf92 went for Norwich to beat Southampton 1-0. davethecue, dazc, InTheLoop, lauro, Watcher #1 and yakutz were the other players who went for a Norwich win.
No-one backed Sunderland to beat Aston Villa 3-1. The third Sunderland goal was scored in the 92nd minute, meaning that the players who went for a 2-1 win (daleman, DDRickyDD, dyer24, Mal_Practice, Realale, Simon1984 and Thebenster) all suffered a -3 cowpat. In total 36 players had gone for the home wina nd scored 2 points each.
Chris MacL, tso and U.R.Correct went for West Brom to beat Stoke 2-1. The winning goal was a 93rd minute cowpat, so they each gain a +5 pat. daleman, digiremote, Hayden and Tokyo were the only other players to go for a home win, scoring 2 points in the main competition and gaining a +2 cowpat. bazzaroo, clarky323, davethecue, dean michael, DimSum, Hibs-kid-2007, lauro, Mal_Practice, Matthartlane, MinkyJoe, neilwatson, Simon1984, taurus_67, TruffleShuffle, Watcher #1 and yakutz had all gone for a 1-1 draw and so suffered a -5 pat for their efforts. anap, Cluedon657, Darren Lethem, DartGuru, DDRickyDD, InTheLoop and Xavier Quebeck had also gone for a draw and so suffered a -2 cowpat.
There were 19 players who went for a 2-1 Man City at Watford in the evening kick-off: Benny Johns, charlieparr, cheeks, Chris MacL, clm2071, Cluedon657, DDRickyDD, DimSum, Hayden, Hibs-kid-2007, Mark F, Partyanimal, taurus_67, Thebenster, Tokyo, tonypennys, tso, willrelf92 and WoodsMonk all scored 5 points from this match. 23 others had also gone for an away win here.
From the 8 matches today the leading scorers were:
willrelf92 17
tso 16
clm2071 13
Cluedon657 13
DDRickyDD 13
fatsi 13
Hayden 13
Tokyo 13
tonypennys 13
Chris MacL 12
DimbleBurbleby 12
WoodsMonk 12
willrefl92 ends the longest consecutive stretch of weeks without an exact this season (he had gone 9 weeks without a max or an uber - no-one else has predicted more than 5 consecutive weeks without an exact) by top scoring courtesy of 3 maxes today. Chris MacL, DimbleBurbleby, tso and WoodsMonk all managed 2 maxes.
No-one scored points in more than 5 matches, but clm2071, Cluedon657, daleman, Darren Lethem, DDRickyDD, fatsi, Hayden, lauro, Tokyo, tonypennys and tso did each gain something from 5 games