The 0-0 Challenge

[Jimmy Floyd]

Football season is almost here, so here's a little betting game I thought up which may be fun, or may be crap, time will tell.

Everyone starts with £10 (real or imaginary, the choice is yours).

Betting is open between 10pm Sunday and noon Saturday the following week (except Friday night kickoffs, for which you'll need to have posted before kickoff time).

All you do is post in this thread a fixture(s) that you think will finish 0-0 that weekend, and your stake for each one. To make all our lives easier, ALL matches will have odds of 10/1 for a 0-0 result - i.e. you win 10x your stake.

If you like, you can post an accumulator, i.e. a double would produce odds of 100/1 and a treble 1000/1 etc, but you can't use the same match twice. if you do this please clearly mark DOUBLE etc in your post. (nb: I don't care if these odds don't make mathematical sense, they are the odds I'm using).

There are two ways of going out of the game:
1. Running out of money
2. Not betting for a month

There are two ways of winning the game:
a. Being the last man standing after everyone else has succumbed to 1. or 2.
b. Having the most money at whatever point my arse runs out of grapes.

I will review bets and apply winnings to a league table on a Monday night, unless I'm busy (unlikely), in which case it'll be a Tuesday night etc.

Eligible leagues/tournaments are as follows (weekend games only as I'm not a magician):
- England: Premier League down to Conference National, and FA Cup
- Spain: La Liga and Segunda
- Italy: Serie A and Serie B
- Germany: Bundesliga 1 and Bundesliga 2
- France: Ligue 1 and Ligue 2
- Holland: Eredivisie (top flight only)
- Portugal: Primeira (top flight only)
- Scotland: SPL down to League Two, and Scottish Cup
- Internationals: All World Cup qualifiers

All interested parties please sign up here before noon Saturday (any bets for this weekend can also be placed before then). Any questions about the rules etc, ask me and I will make up an answer because I probably haven't thought it through properly.

[Offshore Toon]

I'm in

[Weaver]

Can I put my £10 on everyone being eliminated in the first round?

Count me in.

[SvN]

Some tosser (probably Mahow) will fluke a ridiculous lead by putting the full £10 on a 0-0 in the first week.

[Spoonsky]

That looks good, I'm in.

[Ian]

Yep, count me in Jimlad.

[-james-]

I shall participate.

[Reg]

Sounds fun, in.

[Baz]

Some tosser (probably Mahow) will fluke a ridiculous lead by putting the full £10 on a 0-0 in the first week.

£10 on Morecambe vs Cheltenham

[igor_balis]

yeah why not

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Some tosser (probably Mahow) will fluke a ridiculous lead by putting the full £10 on a 0-0 in the first week.

I'm more likely to put the full £10 on some five fold 0-0 and they all come in bar the last match thanks to a 96th minute goal.

I'm in.

[Spikey M]

As long as the tenner is very much imaginary, I'm in. Purely because I will likely be shit at this.

[Spikey M]

Oh, and great idea Jim.

[Ian]

I might put an actual tenner in my account and play along. Although this will be much more short-lived I enjoyed the £10 to £10k thread on the Titanic.

[bruhnaldo]

Awesome idea. In.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If you play along with real money then obviously the odds will be different, but there's no way I'm doing any tougher maths than shifting a decimal point along.

[Foe]

Sounds good to me.

[SincereTheRebel]

Im in.

The vCash in your avatar, that also has something to do with betting virtually?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I don't know, but not in this case.

[Jimmy Floyd]

By noon tomorrow if anyone wants on the Football League or whatever crap countries have started by now.

[Weaver]

I'll go for Crawley vs Port Vale.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Stake needed.

[SincereTheRebel]

We have a month from today to make our first bet?

[Kikó]

Bury Walsall.

[SvN]

Forest to beat Millwall 2-1

[Jimmy Floyd]

We have a month from today to make our first bet?

Yep. You all need to put stakes btw.

[SincereTheRebel]

Yep. You all need to put stakes btw.

OK. This isnt going to be easy. 0-0 are hard to predict. Im going to the wolves game tomorrow so it finishing 0-0 wouldnt be a bad idea.

[Pen]

I'll join too, but won't bet until the Premier league starts.

[Foe]

£1 Oldham - Oxford

Ten chances for get one right so i'll start with that.

[Weaver]

I'll go for Crawley vs Port Vale.

£2 for that one.

[Mellberg]

£2 on Villa/Hull.

[Baz]

Pussies.

[7om]

£0.50 on Ipswich v Birmingham

[Reg]

£1 Villa v Hull

[phonics]

If this lasts longer than a month I can set up the vBookie system to do this for you

[bruhnaldo]

2 quid on Forest Green Rovers - Barnet please

[Offshore Toon]

£10 on Nottingham Forest v Millwall

[Jimmy Floyd]

75p on Oldham/Oxford
75p on Wrexham/Macclesfield

[-james-]

£1 on Oldham vs Oxford
£1 on Angers vs Bordeaux

I'm just going to choose the game with the smallest overs line whenever I can. 365 make 0-0 a 13/2 shots here, which, given the 36% overround (lol), makes 10/1 just about value

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

£5 on Oldham/Oxford.

[mugbull]

this is the most boring thread ever and also, independently of that, the most jimmy floyd thread ever

[Kikó]

The full£10 on bury.

[Weaver]

Offy eliminated 35 minutes into the new season.

[Ian]

this is the most boring thread ever and also, independently of that, the most jimmy floyd thread ever

Regardless of whether you're right or not, I guess you win?

Well done. Off you pop.

[Offshore Toon]

Offy eliminated 35 minutes into the new season.

Screwed over by a fluke. Typical.

[7om]

£0.25 on Kilmarnock v St Johnstone

[SincereTheRebel]

£1 on wolves vs boro

[SincereTheRebel]

Just quickly looking through, i dont think anyone picked a correct 0-0. A few 1-0 and a score draw.

Angers vs wiltord still have to play.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Kinda glad that my second and third picks (Burton/Cardiff and PNE/Sheff Wed) also fucked up. I'd have been seething if one or both had come in.

[7om]

£0.25 on West Brom v Bournemouth
£0.25 on Cardiff v Aston Villa
£0.25 on Millwall v Bolton