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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: baldrick on January 15, 2008, 12:05:45 PM
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I sent this to ideas4alty. Anyone got an opinion good or bad?
I have had an idea similar to the Saturday yankee. The club nominate four football matches each Saturday. Whenever possible Altrincham will be one of the four and the others will come from the BSP or whatever division Altrincham are in at the time. The following choices are offered
Home win 1 - 0
Home win 2 - 0
Home win 2 - 1
Home win 3 - 0
Home win 3 - 1
Any other home win
Away win 1 - 0
Away win 2 - 0
Away win 2 - 1
Away win 3 - 0
Away win 3 - 1
Any other away win
Draw 0 - 0
Draw 1 - 1
Draw 2 - 2
any other draw
Players register a username and pay £1 each week to play. The player has to choose which of these results he thinks will apply to each game. One point is awarded for each correct selection and the kitty is split like this
20% is kept by the club as profit
50% is paid weekly to whoever gets the most points. Split if more than one winner
20% is awarded as a bonus to anyone who gets all four correct. Split if more than one winner. This rolls over weekly if nobody gets all four
10% is kept each week and paid at the end of the season to the players who have the 1st 2nd and 3rd highest points total for the season
This has several advantages over the yankee
1. It is football instead of racing
2. Altrincham FC are involved
3. It can be played online
4. The end of season bonus encourages people to play regularly
5. Players choose their own scores
6. The rollover will encourage entries from people who normally wouldn't play
7. Fans of other clubs can join in as it is played online
Anyone who does not have internet access can play by filling in an entry coupon available at the club during the week or in the bar on matchdays before a deadline of 2pm
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Too complicated and most people consider the current Yankee unwinnable and therefore realistically a donation
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Thanks for the latest Peakes Jacqui & Phil xxx
As for your assertion that the Yankee is little more than a donation by its members, I think the amount of money paid out to winners since it started would suggest otherwise. The Yankee is struggling like hell at the moment and the last thing it needs is negative publicity!
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Why is it unwinnable?
Myself and my family have had a number of trebles (i.e 1 number away from the Jackpot) over the years, possible as many as 7-8 wins of £60 plus.
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does sound like a good idea, may take off.
Simplified
Pay a pound a week and register your name
You are given four matches and you predict them.
You score a point for a correct guess and prizes are as follows:
Out of the total paid for a week
the person with the most weekly points wins 50%
20% goes to someone who correctly guesses all 4 results, but is rolled over every week it is unclaimed
10% a week is kept and awarded as end of season prize money
Simple, really
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Thanks for the latest Peakes Jacqui & Phil xxx
As for your assertion that the Yankee is little more than a donation by its members, I think the amount of money paid out to winners since it started would suggest otherwise. The Yankee is struggling like hell at the moment and the last thing it needs is negative publicity!
I have no intention or desire to reopen old differences Ian but I have to say the following.
You still seem obsessed with both the number of Peakes you recieve and also from whence you percieve them to have come.
I have today Peaked eight people, of whom you were one (this was entirely due to your preoccupation with Peakes I have to say) I have also Goodwinned three people.I would suggest that more than two people are responsible for your Peake level, as it would probably require any two such people to Peake at 0.4hr intervals for about three days to get to your level and I for one have better things to do like earn a salary to pay my Mortgage. I am also intrigued to know why you never thank anybody for Goodwins
(This is becoming such a bizarre post I think I'll sell it to Monty Python)
Being serious for a second. I know a number of people who no longer take part in the Yankee and also a fair few who, as TA put it, treat it as a sort of donation.
I've tried to get people at work and in my Local Pub to join and the canvassers have in the past been round where I live but sadly people seem not to understand it or to prefer to put their £1 on the national lottery where they could win Millions.
You, TA, Ecky, Ballers, myself and others, all of whom do participate are Alty fans with the best interests of the Club at heart. Sadly not everyone is as enlightened as we so they don't take part and cannot be persuaded so to do.
We all know that you're devoted to the Club, just chill out, you'll give yourself an ulcer
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Too complicated and most people consider the current Yankee unwinnable and therefore realistically a donation
I bet the peson in Oldfield Brow who has just won £2250 on it this week didn't think that.
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I honestly find the whole Goodwin/Peake thing completely tedious and it's just a way for sad, cowardly people to have a go at someone when they can't be man enough to do it face to face. I feel I am above such cowardice.
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I think you would see an increase in yankee players if it could be played online. As for these Peakes, I seem to get more than my fair share but i have never really thought about who keeps doing it. Life is too short to worry about things like that.
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i've said it once i've said it again i like peaking people for fun, they have no real meaning and when people react it makes me laugh for being so petty!
note: i have not peaked you for a while 365 but ATS you got one on thursday oh and duke and daycare i'm coming for you mother lickers!
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i've said it once i've said it again i like peaking people for fun, they have no real meaning and when people react it makes me laugh for being so petty!
note: i have not peaked you for a while 365 but ATS you got one on thursday oh and duke and daycare i'm coming for you mother lickers!
I agree entirely - chill out world!!!
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I think you would see an increase in yankee players if it could be played online. As for these Peakes, I seem to get more than my fair share but i have never really thought about who keeps doing it. Life is too short to worry about things like that.
What annoys me is when bitter people like TA come on here with their vendettas slagging off fundraising ideas and different aspects of the club at every opportunity. I have been trying to help the club come up with ways of reviving the Yankee over the last week or so and when "Mrs Political" comes on here slating it I find that really annoying. I know for a fact that she has been "Peakeing" me for ages and the point I'm making is that maybe she should have the guts to tell me what her problem is. However, I know she hasn't and won't.
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i've said it once i've said it again i like peaking people for fun, they have no real meaning and when people react it makes me laugh for being so petty!
note: i have not peaked you for a while 365 but ATS you got one on thursday oh and duke and daycare i'm coming for you mother lickers!
I agree entirely - chill out world!!!
That coming from the world's most humourless person.
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"I honestly find the whole Goodwin/Peake thing completely tedious and it's just a way for sad, cowardly people to have a go at someone when they can't be man enough to do it face to face. I feel I am above such cowardice
Am sorry but i'm a newbee. What is Goodwin/Peake that people are getting a tad sensitive about?
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"I honestly find the whole Goodwin/Peake thing completely tedious and it's just a way for sad, cowardly people to have a go at someone when they can't be man enough to do it face to face. I feel I am above such cowardice
Am sorry but i'm a newbee. What is Goodwin/Peake that people are getting a tad sensitive about?
The people know who they are. I have no time for cowardly sneaky people and I just wish that the people concerned would grow spines and tell me to my face what their problem is.
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Altry 365.
Still non the wiser?
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Alty365,
Just a quick thought.
As 2008 is a Leap Year, do you need to change your name (albeit temporarily) to Alty366?
Sorry.....my mind is wandering this evening.
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Alty365,
Just a quick thought.
As 2008 is a Leap Year, do you need to change your name (albeit temporarily) to Alty366?
Sorry.....my mind is wandering this evening.
I'm not sure - I might leave it as "365" and have a day off instead. ;)
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i've said it once i've said it again i like peaking people for fun, they have no real meaning and when people react it makes me laugh for being so petty!
note: i have not peaked you for a while 365 but ATS you got one on thursday oh and duke and daycare i'm coming for you mother lickers!
exactly, it is just meaningless fun. Have a peake:)
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I got 8 peakes for using the word chink the other day, that after we'd established via Alan Partidge and Micheal that it was actually allowed! :( :'(
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I got 8 peakes for using the word chink the other day, that after we'd established via Alan Partidge and Micheal that it was actually allowed! :( :'(
Too many Guardian readers out there!!!!!
Any Partridge quote is worth a Goodwin in my book.
I was only thinking that when house hunting the otherday as I wanted to use the Buck Rogers toilet!
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i've said it once i've said it again i like peaking people for fun, they have no real meaning and when people react it makes me laugh for being so petty!
note: i have not peaked you for a while 365 but ATS you got one on thursday oh and duke and daycare i'm coming for you mother lickers!
I agree entirely - chill out world!!!
That coming from the world's most humourless person.
Rosie,
I know at least seven people who find me very humorous, even entertaining
and Three of them aren't related to me ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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i've said it once i've said it again i like peaking people for fun, they have no real meaning and when people react it makes me laugh for being so petty!
note: i have not peaked you for a while 365 but ATS you got one on thursday oh and duke and daycare i'm coming for you mother lickers!
I agree entirely - chill out world!!!
That coming from the world's most humourless person.
Rosie,
I know at least seven people who find me very humorous, even entertaining
and Three of them aren't related to me ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Quite correct, Phil.
I used to watch you play football at Alty Grammar and you never failed to make me laugh.
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Oh right, thanks Mr Cult
That's eight now then...I'm on a roll (Bacon please) ;D
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i've said it once i've said it again i like peaking people for fun, they have no real meaning and when people react it makes me laugh for being so petty!
note: i have not peaked you for a while 365 but ATS you got one on thursday oh and duke and daycare i'm coming for you mother lickers!
I agree entirely - chill out world!!!
That coming from the world's most humourless person.
Rosie,
I know at least seven people who find me very humorous, even entertaining
and Three of them aren't related to me ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
They must all be mentally ill
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Am sorry but i'm a newbee. What is Goodwin/Peake that people are getting a tad sensitive about?
Well, it started out (and please correct me if I'm wrong GW) as a bit of fun I think for people to reward good posts and give negative marks for poor posts. A Goodwin is issued for a good posting or one you find humerous (named after our very own Geoff Goodwin) and a Peake is issued for a poor, negative, or bad taste posting (after FGR's very own Colin Peake who did not exactly cover himself in glory over our points deduction two seasons ago). From these you get your positive and negative karma rating that you see below your username on any of your posts. Just click on Goodwin to give a positive point to a poster or Peake to give a negative point. Problems start with this system for a whole host of reasons:
- People getting overly upset over some ridiculous and ultimately meaningless rating system....it's not worth the stress people. I only hope you have nothing more serious to worry about
- Personal vendettas and personality clashes
- Who knows, maybe even false positives because some forum members want to jump the bones of others
- Tit-for-tat ratings
Personally, I think it would probably have been better if there were no negative ratings and then you would get a more true reflection of what people thought of your posts. If they appeal you reward, if they don't, you don't. Simple. If you disagree with a positing then you reply to it. I see no point in peaking someone unless you are prepared to back it up with a posting explaining what you don't like.
Anyway, I'm sure, as stated earlier, this was meant to be just a bit of fun and NOT to be taken seriously.
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p.s. This has gone very off topic.
I actually quite like Baldricks idea and anything that could be achieved online or via email would be a bonus for those of us exiled beyond blighty's shores. I am still a mmember of a couple of similar competitions from places where I used to work in the UK (just for fun rather than fundraising).
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Thanks Uncle. Have a Goodwin.
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The fact that people even comment when Goodwin or Peake rating changes perplexes me.
It means nothing
Move on