2018 Ladder Prediction Competition

Posted March 19, 20187 yr

Every nuffie in the media is having their say so it's time we football forum nuffies have a go.

This is the final ladder at the end of the home and away season.

Point scoring system:

Three points if you correctly guess a top eight team's position
Two points if you correctly guess a team outside the top eight's position
One point if you correctly guess a team finishing in the top eight but you don't get their correct position

The winner will be showered with compliments and the loser will be forced to watch Mark Neeld's pre-game speeches on repeat.

I think there will be just a handful of points separating the top and bottom teams, such a lottery this year.

Sydney
GWS
Richmond
Melbourne
Adelaide
Geelong
Western Bulldogs
Port Adelaide
Essendon
Hawthorn
West Coast
Fremantle
St Kilda
Carlton
Brisbane
Collingwood
Gold Coast
North Melbourne

Edited March 19, 20187 yr by Clint Bizkit

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March 19, 20187 yr

I like anything competitive so will give this a go.....

1. GWS

2. Adelaide

3. Sydney

4. Richmond

5. Port Adelaide

6. Melbourne

7. Geelong

8. Western Bulldogs

9. Essendon

10. Collingwood

11. Hawthorn

12. St Kilda

13. West Coast

14. Fremantle

15. Brisbane

16. Carlton

17. Gold Coast

18. North Melbourne

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March 19, 20187 yr

Oh well my fatally flawed prediction.

1. Ricmond 2. Port Adelaide 3. GWS 4. Sydney 5. Melbourne 6. Adelaide 7. St.Kilda 8. Essendrug 9. Geelong 10 Hawthorn 11 Bulldogs 12 Fremantle 13 Brisbane 14 Collingrub 15 Gold Coast 16 West Coke 17 Carlton 18 North Melbourne

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March 19, 20187 yr

1. Adelaide

2. Richmond

3. Melbourne

4. Geelong

5. GWS

6. Port Adelaide

7. Sydney

8. Western Bulldogs

9. Essendon

10. Collingwood

11. Hawthorn

12. Fremantle

13. West Coast

14. St. Kilda

15. Brisbane

16. Carlton

17. Gold Coast

18. North Melbourne

Cant see Geelong missing top 4 unfortunately, not with Danger, Hawkins, Selwood and Ablett plus a ridiculous home ground advantage that any other team would kill for.

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March 19, 20187 yr

The downside of coming last makes this a significant exercise you'd want to consider carefully.

I did my tips for the year on the weekend and only picked us to lose twice. On this basis, I'm not willing to risk it. Watching Mark Neeld on repeat would have me calling lifeline afterwards.

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March 19, 20187 yr

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3 hours ago, small but forward said:

The downside of coming last makes this a significant exercise you'd want to consider carefully.

I did my tips for the year on the weekend and only picked us to lose twice. On this basis, I'm not willing to risk it. Watching Mark Neeld on repeat would have me calling lifeline afterwards.

Go on, you can do it.

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March 19, 20187 yr

3 hours ago, small but forward said:

The downside of coming last makes this a significant exercise you'd want to consider carefully.

I did my tips for the year on the weekend and only picked us to lose twice. On this basis, I'm not willing to risk it. Watching Mark Neeld on repeat would have me calling lifeline afterwards.

Agree 100%

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March 19, 20187 yr

1. Melbourne

2 downwards: Dont care

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March 19, 20187 yr

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This is going well.

Good idea, Clint.

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March 19, 20187 yr

16 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

This is going well.

Good idea, Clint.

I’ll throw you a bone, fella.

1. GWS

2. Richmond

3. Sydney

4. Adelaide

5. Dees

6. Geelong

7. Port

8. Footscray

9. Essendrug

10. Hawks

11. Freo

12. St. Kilda

13. Weagles

14. Brisbane

15. Gold Coast

16. Carlton

17. Collingwood

18. Norf

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March 19, 20187 yr

1. GWS

2. Geelong

3. Sydney

4. Adelaide

5. Richmond

6. Melbourne

7. Port Adelaide

8. Western Bulldogs

9. Essendon

10. Hawthorn

11. West Coast

12. Collingwood

13. St. Kilda

14. Fremantle

15. Brisbane

16. Carlton

17. North Melbourne

18. Gold Coast

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March 19, 20187 yr

1. Port Adelaide

2. Richmond

3. Sydney

4. GWS

5. Melbourne

6. Adelaide

7. Essendon

8. Western Bulldogs

9. Geelong

10. Collingwood

11. Fremantle

12. Gold Coast

13. West Coast

14. Carlton

15. St Kilda

16. Hawthorn

17. Brisbane

18. North Melbourne

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March 19, 20187 yr

1. GWS

2. Port

3. Sydney

4. Adelaide

5. MELBOURNE

6. Richmond

7. Geelong

8 . St Kilda

9. Essendon ( By percentage)

10. Western Bulldogs

11. Collingwood

12. Hawthorn

13. West Coast.

14. Fremantle

15. Gold Coast

16. Carlton

17. Brisbane

18. North Melbourne

Edited March 19, 20187 yr by Demon77

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March 19, 20187 yr

1.Sydney

2. Port

3.Richmond

4. Essendon

5. Adelaide

6. Melbourne

7. Geelong

8. GWS

9. Collingwood

10. Freo

11. Hawks

12. Bulldogs

13. Saints

14. Carlton

15. Brisbane

16. North

17. Meth Coast

18.Suns

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March 19, 20187 yr

1. GWS

2. Sydney

3. Adelaide

4. Richmond

5. Melbourne

6. Geelong

7. Port Adelaide

8. Western Bulldogs

9. Hawthorn

10. Essendon

11. Collingwood

12. St Kilda

13. Fremantle

14. Gold Coast

15. West Coast

16. Brisbane

17. North Melbourne

18. Carlton

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March 19, 20187 yr

Ladder 2018

Sydney
Adelaide
Melbourne
Richmond
GWS
Port Adelaide
Geelong
Essendon
Western bulldogs
Hawthorn
St Kilda
Collingwood
Carlton
West Coast
Brisbane
Fremantle
Gold Coast
North Melbourne

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March 19, 20187 yr

I reckon the ladder will look like:

GWS
Sydney
Adelaide
Port Adelaide
Richmond
Melbourne
Geelong
Essendon
Fremantle
St Kilda
Western Bulldogs
Collingwood
Carlton
Brisbane
Hawthorn
West Coast
North Melbourne
Gold Coast

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March 19, 20187 yr

My cheroot is alight Clint so here goes...

1. Melbourne

2. GWS

3. Sydney

4. Richmond

5. Adelaide

6. Geelong

7. Hawthorn

8. Collingwood

9. Western Bulldogs

10. Essendon

11. Port Adelaide

12. Carlton

13. St Kilda

14. Fremantle

15. Gold Coast

16 North Melbourne

17. Eagles

18. Brisbane

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March 20, 20187 yr

1 hour ago, grey wolf said:

Hey, Clint. Checking these out is fun. Lotsa good picks, but this is the one I liked the best, so put me down for this one, please.

Rather than re-type it, I copied and pasted it from Grey Wolf.

1. Melbourne

2. GWS

3. Sydney

4. Richmond

5. Adelaide

6. Geelong

7. Hawthorn

8. Collingwood

9. Western Bulldogs

10. Essendon

11. Port Adelaide

12. Carlton

13. St Kilda

14. Fremantle

15. Gold Coast

16 North Melbourne

17. Eagles

18. Brisbane

Hey, Clint. Checking these out is fun. Lotsa good picks, but this is the one I liked the best, so put me down for this one, please.

Rather than re-type it, I copied and pasted it from Grey Wolf.

1. Melbourne

2. GWS

3. Sydney

4. Richmond

5. Adelaide

6. Geelong

7. Hawthorn

8. Collingwood

9. Western Bulldogs

10. Essendon

11. Port Adelaide

12. Carlton

13. St Kilda

14. Fremantle

15. Gold Coast

16 North Melbourne

17. Eagles

18. Brisbane

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March 20, 20187 yr

Sydney
GWS
Richmond
Melbourne
Adelaide
Geelong
Port Adelaide
Essendon
Western Bulldogs
West Coast
Hawthorn
Fremantle
St Kilda
Carlton
Brisbane
Collingwood
Gold Coast
North Melbourne

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March 20, 20187 yr

1. Sydney

2. Geelong

3. Richmond

4. Adelaide

5. Melbourne

6. Port Adelaide

7. Western Bulldogs

8. Hawthorn

9. GWS

10. Essendon

11. St Kilda

12. Fremantle

13. West Coast

14. Collingwood

15. Brisbane

16. Carlton

17. Goldcoast

18. North Melbourne

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March 20, 20187 yr

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4 hours ago, Deemania since 56 said:

Hey, Clint. Checking these out is fun. Lotsa good picks, but this is the one I liked the best, so put me down for this one, please.

Rightio.

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March 20, 20187 yr

Some random thoughts

Interesting that this is one year where the interstate teams cannot "bank" two wins against their cross town opponents.

In the past it is normal for one of the interstate teams to be up and its cross city rival is down.

Looking at them for 2018 the largest disparity is probably between Freo and the Eagles but neither is a definite winner or loser.

This year we have Freo in Darwin. It's a must win for the Dees as one can expect that the rest of the teams fighting for the 8 will register home wins against Freo.

We have two games against Adelaide including one being our home game in Alice. Split those and we can be top 4. Lose both and it gets harder.

13 wins for the 8 and 16.5 for 4th is my prediction.

Strangely as others have mentioned we could turn at the bye at 9-2 and still only end up with 13 wins given our tough schedule in he second half of the year.

Saints could be our new North .. we just have to beat them twice.

As to the final ladder I have no idea but North for the spoon is probably a good bet unless they can turn Tassie into their fortress and pick up say 4 wins down there.

For number 1 my pick is GWS. They were nearly there last year but they had a bad run with injuries.

Richmond's game plan like ours can win any game on a given day but it is high maintenance and high risk. Somewhere between 3 and 6 for the Toiges.

The Bulldogs are my conundrum team. Sure 2016 was a lucky premiership (oh we could have that luck) but the fact remains that they were easily in the 8 that year.

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March 20, 20187 yr

I normally like to start with which teams I think are certainties to play finals then the teams I think certainly won't, then fill in the middle. Every year this gets more and more difficult. My top 3 I think make it easily and are a step above everyone else and from 12 down aren't finals material. Geelong are the hardest to pin, Selwood Dangerfield and Abblet may be the best starting 3 midfielders of the modern era. (I'm 30 so hard to comment before 2000's).

1. Richmond

2. GWS

3. Sydney

4. Geelong

5. Melbourne

6. Adelaide

7. Essendon

8. Port Adelaide

9. Western Bulldogs

10. Fremantle

11. West Coast

12. Hawthorn

13. Collingwood

14. St Kilda

15. Briabane

16. Gold Coast

17. Carlton

18. North Melbourne

Edited March 20, 20187 yr by Josh

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March 20, 20187 yr

Adelaide
Sydney
Richmond
Geelong
GWS
Melbourne
Essendon
Hawthorn
Bulldogs
St. Kilda
Port Adelaide
Collingwood
West Coast
Fremantle
Brisbane
North Melbourne
Carlton
Gold Coast

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