'Pools Panel' decides leagues? (1 Viewer)

Is there any such thing as a pools panel now, do football pools still exist ?

The pools panel decided the outcome for the purpose of the pools only. If your game was postponed the pools panel judgement didn't count towards your league placing!

Paxman II said:

Not sure if this has been mentioned. If the season can't be finished then would a likely fairer outcome be a pools panel projecting the results? I know pools panels have sat before and decided results of postponed games (home win, away win, draw) Could this be the fairest way to finalise the tables?
How would we fair?

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I wouldn't want to trust the outcome of the season on so called experts. I have always felt that we as a club are under valued and that the likes of Sunderland and Portsmouth would be portrayed more favourably and that this might sway results in their favour because of their name and in spite of their inferior form compared to ours.
It still rankles with me that I had a bet on the old pools coupon, picking ten home wins. This was the season that Man Utd were in the old second division and were beating all and sundry. I had nine homes come in but the Man Utd game, home to Millwall was postponed. The pools panel then forecast a draw for that game scuppering my bet. Man Utd won the game when it was eventually played. Not that I am bitter and twisted about it!
I think there are far better ways to sort things out, the best of which is to wait until the games can be played and crowds can attend, however long that takes.

There are meetings this week to try and come to some decisions on what happens going forward I read somewhere that the FA are looking to somehow finish the season off which to me sounds like If they can’t be played under normal ways they will try a Behind Closed Doors possibility, racing is going down that road as we speak.

No effin chance...

Put it this way... the pools panel would have made us 1987 FA Cup runners up!

Some geezer's opinion is not going to determine results.

It would seem that the logical way is to restart in around May behind closed doors and finish late June (fixture congestion? Well everyone is in the same boat!) before contracts end, with loans being honoured until then. Maybe doing away with playoffs and going for top 3/4.

Keep well all!

In doing the football pools, you know in advance that the panel might have to sit. And of course the panel can have absolutely no knowledge of which individuals their decisions could benefit. Some random person gets lucky, other people lose out, but nobody can accuse them of bias.

It seems incredibly unlikely that they would put the prospects (even the financial survival) of clubs into the hands of a committee. Guessing the results of games that will never be played, condemning one club to ruin while another gets a leg up? Surely unfair, and wide open to legal action.

But if they did adopt this mad approach, we would definitely be promoted as champions.

All things have been mentioned. Eleventy billion threads on the same fucking topics.

Paxman II said:

Not sure if this has been mentioned. If the season can't be finished then would a likely fairer outcome be a pools panel projecting the results? I know pools panels have sat before and decided results of postponed games (home win, away win, draw) Could this be the fairest way to finalise the tables?
How would we fair?

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lol

Liquid Gold said:

All things have been mentioned. Eleventy billion threads on the same fucking topics.

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Makes me almost wish for a good old fashioned SISU court action.

Paxman II said:

Not sure if this has been mentioned. If the season can't be finished then would a likely fairer outcome be a pools panel projecting the results? I know pools panels have sat before and decided results of postponed games (home win, away win, draw) Could this be the fairest way to finalise the tables?
How would we fair?

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Not the fairest way. Current position or use form over, say, the last 6 games ( or 8, 10, 12 or 14) to predict future position.

Paxman II said:

Throw it into a comuter model sort of thing and get a predictor? Could work. Depends what peope think is fair.

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All a computer model would do is use form over the last few games. A comuter model wouldn’t be allowed as unnecessary travel is frowned on.

I really don't see what the issue is?
Rest of the matches behind closed doors, all players, ref and anyone involved on the touchline tested. 40 people together in an open air environment for 90 minutes is no major risk of spreading it considering more than that are in supermarkets and on public transport constantly.
People are acting like it is the bubonic plague!!
Just finish the feckin season off FFS!

Forget this season. It’s fuckingdone.

They just need to figure out a way to go forward (that isn’t going to cost them an arm, leg and left bollock in litigation)

The pools panel a load of pissed up unprofessional state the obvious twats , no pools panel stick Verons up your arse along with the spot the ball bollocks

No club will be relegated so this is utter bollocks

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Paxman II said:

So Norwich deserve to stay up? Not going to happen. A solution will be sought.

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If that ever happens then that beats all the great escapes the Sky Blues had.