MABS

Tottenham @ 1.44
Dortmund @ 1.57
Juventus @ 1.83
Half bank please

Here are the odds for week 1 of the new FREE Punters Lounge Football Tipster competiton 2023/24.  You must use these odds for your bets (single, double or treble combination) which have been taken from the William Hill site this morning.   Deadline is a strict 3pm (15.00BST) Saturday for all bets, any later and your whole bet is disqualified and you count as a no show for the week.  If you pick an earlier match you must post before kick off or that game will be discounted and your bet reduced.   The season will run for 10 weeks and you must play at least 7 weeks or you are eliminated. 
I'll set up the Selection threads for Divisions during Thursday and I'll tag you all so you know which to post in.
I've included the Women's World Cup games this weekend along with our usual leagues.  Remember any cup games are settled at the '90 minute' result, no extra time or penalties.
Here's to a fun 10 weeks, good luck everyone, let's make a virtual profit!
 

All resuscitated and back in
 
@silver fox @Procalc @Astleavista @Artie77 @MrForce @Gazza's United @mickyftm32 @ivailobg  please post in here if you want back in for another go

Hello everyone,
My name is Siamor, and I have a deep passion for betting, with a focus on horse racing. Over the years, I've devoted a lot of time to understanding the intricacies of the sport and have developed a successful strategy around laying horses. This approach has consistently provided profitable outcomes and I'm excited to share my insights with this community

I didn't follow up on the replies that were offering yet. I'm not sure how it could be done without having to input all the selections somehow, copy and paste I suppose but relies on everyone using the right format every week (which is probably never going to happen!) Manually I can dismiss a lot pretty quickly once I get a few common results in my head. It's a fairly basic spreadsheet (I made) and I just overkey the relevant odds in the formula for the winners.  The odds are from the screenshot at the time I snap it, so are not in a database format.
Based on your username, Data, you probably have a far better theory how it could be done!

Hi,
I went all in, lost but would like to play again this season... 

This seemed to work well and was used by quite a few so I'll make it a permanent option. 

Thanks @CzechPunter
Big shout out to you as well as your tipping has been brilliant over the years I have been looking at the forum. 
Keep up the great work 👍

I demand random drug tests! I’d be top in every other division, they must be cheating in some way. 

We still have spaces left to join in this season so as we have an enforced break next week I'll leave it open to join until leg 2 beginning of April.  There will be no penalty for a no show in leg 1 so elimination rule will apply if you don't play in 6 weeks of the 9 following legs.

Thank you for all the input, it's been really helpful.  I think we all deserve a week's rest so we will restart on weekend of 17/18/19/20 March. 
We'll have to take a 1 week break the week after due to the unfortunate timing of the International Break, but it looks like we can then run through to end of May and have another 10 week competition.  We will lose the Scottish Prem league half way in, but I can put the Championship in for a couple of weeks after that.   We'll have 7 weeks of EFL and then presumably a few weekend play off matches at least.  I'll add in Portuguese Primeira Liga from May.

Bear in mind some of those 'gameweeks' are mid-week fixtures.
If we count the next two weekends before the international break,
there are 11 weekend sets in the Prem (5 in April, four in May).
8 in the Championship (2 in March, 5 in April, ONE in May). They're
jamming a lot of matches mid-week.
9 in League 1 (3 in March, 5 in April, 1 in May). Ditto on the mid-weeks.
9 in League 2 (3 in March, 5 in April, 1 in May). Same, same.
Scotland has 5 (ONE in March, 4 in April)
Bundesliga has 11 (2 in March, 5 in April, 4 in May)
La Liga has 10 (2 in March, 5 in April, 3 in May)
Ligue 1 has 12 (2 in March, 5 in April, 4 in May, 1 in June)
Serie A has 12 (2 in March, 5 in April, 4 in May, 1 in June)
Info from soccerstats, just trawl through 'matches'.
 
Bloody hell, I need a cup of tea after that.

Here we Go kicking off a New Season,
one rule I have that I hope you all abide too ,
 your only requirement is to have less points than me at the end of it all!?
£25 Double
Brentford to beat Leciester @1.95
Monaco to beat Ajaccio @ 1.83
 
Bon Chance! ?
 
 

Half Bank treble please
Leyton Orient 1.91
Livingston 2.20
Union Berlin 1.95

Carlisle @ 1.65
£50.70 win

We are really getting going now, we beat our previous week's winners total with 35 winning bets, with some nice singles and combinations coming up.  4 of our Divisions made a profit.
Bet of the week goes to @Like A Roughie with a magnificent 26/1 treble which takes him straight to the top of the overall too.   Next best is @Paperclip with a lovely 7/1 double.
So a change at the top of the overall, @fischer21 also wakes up with a winning half bank bet to jump straight into the top 5.  We now have 2 on treble bank and 6 on double.
@Superscrumpy keeps up his winning run, the only one of us with 4 wins out of 4.

 

brilliant!

Disclaimer: I know nothing about French football but assume they have cup upsets like we do! 
Strasbourg Koenigshoffen v Angers (1) 26.00
£10 Single 

Eintracht Frankfurt @ 1.36
Atletico Madrid @ 1.40
Union Berlin - Hoffenheim over 2,5 goals
Half bank please

Valencia-Anadolu Efes
Date: 11.01.2023.
Sport: Euroleague
Start time: 20:30 cet
Pick: Efes-4.5 @1.961
Bookmaker: Pinnacle
Stake: 1 unit
 
Teamnews: adv Efes 2, total -1 (Van Rossom out, Hermannsson out, Claver out, Harper out, Rivero out / Larkin quest)
Model: Anadolu Efes  4.3   165
Robo number: Anadolu Efes  4   165
Final number: Anadolu Efes  6   164
Picks: Efes -4.5 @1.961 (min price Efes-4.5 @1.91)
Comment: Valencia without Harper (bench player, 1st game out), Rivero (bench player/starter, 1st game out), Claver (bench player/starter, one game out), Van Rossom (bench player, out 5+ games), Hermannson (long term absent). Questionable for Efes Larkin (key player, played only one game in season)
 
Date
Home
Away
Tpts
Srsp
HPts
APts
11/01/2023
Valencia
Anadolu Efes
165.0
-4.3
80.3
84.6

@MABS @Shaunbear @Sterphyle reminder to join in Division 1

Payments have been sent, barring a couple I've messaged.
Going to have a look at next years fixture dates and get the next comp up and running after the Christmas fixtures are out of the way. 

Thank you @avongirlfor your great work.

Awesome @BBBC
And congrats to all the top of the table finsihers.
 
Thanks @Fader for the admin' and the regular publishing.  No mean task.