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Leeds easily won a last match of this round against Bristol City and they are back on top with Burnley.
We already know this two teams are going directly to Premier League, but champion will be decided in next round.
Leeds is playing away against Plymouth, and Burnley at home against Millwall.

Quote from: morvillz7z on April 28, 2025, 12:06:03 PM

This is how SuperBru support responded to my question about whether the EFL Championship Predictor will include playoffs/final or not:

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Yes the playoffs and final are included in the predictions when we get there.

I presume those extra matches will be added right after Round 46 is completed.

This is good to know, it makes less complication for me.
Thanks for asking.

Congrats to Ulven for winning the Round 45 Yellow Cap

Good to know we will have play off and finals so 9 more points then to fight for for everyone and a slight twist but as @cryptofrka says probably top 3 are done, unless Hoody wants to forget his final round Wink

Easy win in the end for Leeds, I guess they want to end it with a high and just win this trophy

Ulven, well done mate. You went all the way into top 5 and pushed evil buwa out of the prize spots lol

Oh no Ulven have now more space to keep acelerating...... He comes with a lot of speed and inertia, are gonna have a turn and he is not gonna have breaks?

Seems like the top 5 is 80% close unless a super weird develop. We dont know the exact ending positions but is not gonna be so much diferent. The main battle is between myself, mafia and Ulven to see the final positions.

After win in previous round Ulven is now 19.5 points below top guy in leaderboard, and dont forget we have one regular round and few more play-off rounds in this season.
Dont give up early guys, next round is not the last one, and I am hoping for miracle comeback after collecting only 6.5 in previous round.

Sheffield United and Sunderland secured their spots in Play-offs, now we are waiting for two more teams.
Portsmouth have nothing to fight for and I hope they wont be motivated against Hull city.

I took like 10 minutes for this round - made some not so smart picks to be honest. It's the crucial one for the 3 of us fighting for bottom 3 paid spots - I doubt much action will happen in the playoffs.

It's always hard going against a team that's fighting for survival if the other team has nothing to play for, then again - you don't intentionally lose games at this level, especially last home games of the season.
I expect a lot of different picks from top players, hope I chose better than darxiaomi and Ulven

Quote from: cryptofrka on May 01, 2025, 07:05:16 PM

In my case i made it fast like im doing in the recents ones, but im expecting to see some crazy results, since some teams doesnt play for anything and others one play for all, some relegation games, some title games, and some fight for playoff promotion spots.

Let see if Ulven round out of gas or if he still having some NO2.

This is it guys, last regular round of Championship is played this weekend, and all matches are played tomorrow on May 3.
Make sure to post your predictions on time, this is very important for those of you still fighting for top positions.
Remember not to celebrate to early, we still have to play play-off semi-final matches in May 8/9 and May 12/13, and final match is on May 24, at Wembley Stadium.

I know this is early but you can already show your interest to join Championship Prediction Pool for next season.
We had 23 players this season and I expect to see more people joining for new season.
More people to join we are going to have bigger reward from our sponsors.

Well, that was that. A good way to whet the appetite for the remaining games in Prem League. Leeds the champion with a late strike, but both they and Burnley have 100 points -- worthy of their automatic promotions.

Superbru doing its thing so I won't know if I broke into the top 5. 2 more games to go so 6 points left, maybe there's a fight for me yet.

Confirming my participation for next season, of course. Hope to see all of you bastards back in play. Wrexham's entry will be curious for me. They will finally be a sort of underdog this time around (they've used the underdog label for the past 4 seasons but by no objective measure have they ever been in National, League Two or League One where they've always had the highest wage bill. They will have at least 4 or 5 teams with much more financial might in the Championship (including the three relegated teams who will receive 39m pounds each). So only now will I acquiese to their underdog label.

Quote from: morvillz7z on March 06, 2025, 01:45:28 PM

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Seen the annual wages of the teams in the Championship posted on Reddit. It's crazy to think that a team like Luton (second-highest payroll) is struggling so much after keeping the core of their team from last season. A mid-table team from Serie A, Bundesliga, and La Liga also operates with a similar wage budget. From Premier League down to League One in consecutive seasons is wild but also a real possibility for Luton.

Didn't think it would come to this, but it's a reality now, back-to-back relegations for Luton.

I'm rooting for Coventry to get through the playoffs/final, though the more likely outcome is Sheffield United, as they seem to be the strongest of the four. Coventry were either 17th or 18th when Lampard took over in November, and here they are now...close to promotion, incredible turnaround that was.

Hull stays, yay! Got that much-needed point against Portsmouth. I thought they had a more than a solid team not to be involved in the relegation battle, but hey, they can do better next season, why not push for a promotion?! Wink

Quote from: buwaytress on May 03, 2025, 01:34:24 PM

Two teams ending with 100 points, it's something what we haven't saw before - you can't be more deserved to get promotion.
I don't regret that I joined this pool, despite that I haven't achieved anything. 12th place with no chance to go up in playoffs, IIRC no yellow caps. Predicting Championship often is completely random guess after looking at table and recent team form, so, I didn't had any expectations. Will join anyway if we will have EFL pool next season.

Quote from: morvillz7z on May 03, 2025, 04:43:04 PM

Don't really know what to say about Luton relegation. Sheffield is most likely to win playoffs, but I don't want them in EPL. I want someone who haven't been there for a while, even if they will relegate again after one season.
Very interesting to see Wrexham in Championship next season after back-to-back promotions. Somehow I expect that they will have hard time there

vd309 wins the Round 46 Yellow Cap

Round 46 is completed but race is not finished and we have few more play-off rounds in Superbru website.
Hoody_Hoo remains in first place but we have 15 more points to change things in leaderboard.

Congrats to Leeds for winning the title, and to Hull City for surviving in Championship!
Luton, Plymouth and Cardiff are going to be relegated, and we can say for sure three new teams coming back to Championship are Ipswich, Leicester and Southampton.
Two teams coming from League One are Birmingham with Wrexham and we are waiting for one more team to get promoted from play-offs.

Ah, my mistake, I thought there were only points left for some reason, must have been unconscious to sum 6 from 5 more matches. I'll need some sort of small miracle to pip 5th, but I doubt there is any chance in the first two positions. I offer early congratulatory handshakes to morvillz7z and slaman29. Strong season, well done.

Quote from: LTU_btc on May 03, 2025, 06:29:33 PM

It's almost certainly more "random" than the bigger leagues. You hardly see strong favourites here sans the top 3 teams. Luton was a favourite for the majority of their games, including their last one where they lost 5:3. Plymouth, at one point, was stringing together goals.

Eventually, you win something everywhere. Apart from EFL, I think the only pool I haven't won anything (other than freebets) is Formula 1, World Cup, and Euro. I've only played three F1, and two seasons of the latter, so I'm thinking eventually something gives.

A good last round for me, magic of Ulven fortunately stopped.
I'll almost certainly be able to defend the position throughout the playoffs.

I'll be here next season too - I play almost all pools anyway.

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Great performances from Leeds and Burnley - I hope they'll have what it takes to battle it out in the PL - not be relegated with 10 games to go like it was a case this season.

Quote from: cryptofrka on May 04, 2025, 01:48:43 PM

Yes, finally Ulven lose some steam and we can breathe a little.

You have a very good round indeed, you make some gap against me this time.

Well, now its coming the last push of the season, only a few matches ahead, good luck to everyone who is still in the fight.

Quote from: buwaytress on May 04, 2025, 12:02:30 PM

Dont worry, if you dont finish in top 5 positions you are guaranteed to receive freebet bundle in Sportsbet, and than you can turn that into real money.
I have no chance of getting into top 10 but I would like someone to kick out Snake, we cant allow to have both Mafia members in top 10 of this pool.

Quote from: cryptofrka on May 04, 2025, 01:48:43 PM

Great performances from Leeds and Burnley - I hope they'll have what it takes to battle it out in the PL - not be relegated with 10 games to go like it was a case this season.

Lets see if they can improve their teams team with signing good new players, but it is not easy to survive in Premier League.
I am going to follow transfer market and news until new season kick-off.

Burnley had a big celebration singing with some 90s famous star. Down and back up, and all 3 who went up last season are back down, what a big game of music chairs in England right? Wink

Now Leicester must avoid the crazy destiny of Luton Town, what a disaster.

Quote from: buwaytress on May 04, 2025, 12:02:30 PM

Thanks for the message, yeah tbh I never expected anything, but to get 2nd place here and ALMOST snatch a great prize in BSFL, I think I will not complain.

Guys please pay attention, play-off semi-final matches are played in next two days, so make sure to post your predictions on time.

We have very tricky matches ahead of us, Bristol City is playing against Sheffield United tomorrow and odds are very even.
Sheffield has a better H2H record but young Bristol team is maybe the biggest surprise for me this season.
Second leg between this two teams is played on May 12.

That red card helped Sheffield United, but they dominated this match and deserved to win.
It is going to be very hard for Bristol City to avoid elimination in next leg, but I have seen stranger things in this sport.

One more match left for tomorrow is Coventry vs Sundertland.
Sunderland was in terrible form and they lost five matches but they somehow made it to play-offs.
Coventry is favorite, odds are in their favor, and they won last H2H match.
https://sportsbet.io/sports/event/soccer/england/championship/coventry-city-v-sunderland-afc-001078476500000000000000

Major win for Sunderland only few minutes before final whistle.
Now they have nice advantage for second leg, but this is still anybody match.
No major changes in leaderboard top, but it was terrible predictions for me and I won zero points in first play-off round Cry

Could we have a multi-team podium just like during the last race?
Verstappen did not look so great during the practice sessions yesterday and Lewis actually came out on top.
But Red Bull have a card up their sleeve with a slender rear wing approach for today's runs:

source: https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/verstappen-skinny-red-bull-wing-clouds-f1-spanish-gp-picture/10625919/

Let's see how that works out for them. Grin