Updated predictions championship scores (provisional)
5th September 2009, 1:34 by Keith Collantine 45 Comments »
I’ve almost finished moving the Predictions Championship over from the old system to Ian Haycox’s terrific new plugin.
However because some people used slightly different names in the last round compared to the previous ones, some of the points totals aren’t complete.
Here are the standings as they look at the moment. If you seem to have a zero score for the Spa round and were expecting to get points, check further down the list to see if there’s a slightly different version of your name. If you think your score isn’t right, leave a comment below and I’ll take a look into it.
Thanks again to Ian for the excellent plugin, which will hopefully make this much quicker and more accurate at the next race.
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wasiF1 said on 5th September 2009, 4:01
This was my Spa pridection
wasiF1
Vettel
Raikkonen
Hamilton
Vettel
Shouldn’t I be scoring 25 points other than 10
Keith Collantine said on 5th September 2009, 11:22
Hi Wasi,
I have your prediction down as:
Vettel
Raikkonen
Hamilton
Webber
Which scored ten. Did you definitely enter Vettel as the fourth name when you submitted it via the form?
Damon said on 5th September 2009, 12:15
It’s easy to forget what your prediction was and think it was different.
Austin said on 5th September 2009, 13:51
A suggestion for you, Keith and Ian, this can be easily solved by having a email sent to the email address entered on the form. This will show what they entered and confirm their entry at the time. This should stop any disputes of what was entered. Ian should be able to easily incorporate it into his plugin. More work for Ian and less for you.
ianhaycox said on 6th September 2009, 0:35
Good idea. I’ll see if I can add this as an option to the next version.
The latest version installed here does have a new option to show the predictions for a specific race, so from Monza on you should be able to check your predictions.
wasiF1 said on 6th September 2009, 3:33
I guess it was Vettel as the fourth name when you submitted it via the form.Its hard to remember. But anyways pleas check it again if I am wrong then let it be the way it is.
wasiF1 said on 6th September 2009, 3:34
I guess it was Vettel as the fourth name when I submitted it via the form.Its hard to remember. But anyways please check it again if I am wrong then let it be the way it is.
wasiF1 said on 7th September 2009, 2:46
Hi Keith
Have you seen my prediction.Is it fix or its in the same way
J-Canada said on 5th September 2009, 5:29
Hi Keith,
I made a mistake for the Hungary round. Instead of listing my name as J-Canada I posted it as J_Canada. I know its only for 10 points but this is a serious championship!
Damon said on 5th September 2009, 10:52
“Only” 10 points?!? Dude, that’s huuuuge!!
Sush Meerkat said on 5th September 2009, 11:59
i’d like to change my prediction to the podium finishers please!
Damon said on 5th September 2009, 12:13
And I d’like to change my prediction to the podium finishers in the right order, please
Austin said on 5th September 2009, 14:19
Keith, another suggestion would be to have us register first with a name and email address for the competition. Then this can be automatically checked with the database whether they are correct at the time of entry. It should solve the above problems.
To Ian this can be done with AJAX and the javascript XMLHttpRequest object.
ianhaycox said on 6th September 2009, 0:46
There is an option within the plugin to only allow registered users to make predictions. However the original version, and the latest version currently installed have this option turned off by default. Registered blog users do not need to enter a username or e-mail address because it is in their profile.
My reasoning for leaving that option off was that I am sure Keith did not want 500 people to register a couple of days before Spa and have to approve all the registrations. Also being halfway through the season it seem the path of least resistance.
Hopefully I chose the best ‘middle’ way and if it has caused a little pain for Keith or any predictors then I apologise.
If it’s any consolation I got zero points for my prediction
Keith Collantine said on 6th September 2009, 8:09
I think that’s something we’ll look into for the future. In general I’m not keen in making people register for stuff. Perhaps this should be an exception though.
Austin said on 7th September 2009, 20:16
To Keith, the person is registering the first time they enter the competition. If its a open solution your looking for rather than a “register here” then the name and email they enter the first time should be saved to your servers database. Ian’s plugin should be doing this already and can be checked transparently with the javascript XMLHttpRequest object when they make their next entry. This will check with the server whether their name and email match on the fly without submitting first. Ian should know what i’m talking about.
Keith Collantine said on 6th September 2009, 19:28
J-Canada, your score should be fixed now.
Taypicala said on 5th September 2009, 7:05
Hi Keith,
For the European GP I correctly predicted that Barrichello would win, but I haven’t received any points it. As J-Canada already stated: this is a serious championship!
Cheers
Keith Collantine said on 5th September 2009, 21:39
Haven’t fixed this one yet as it’s a little complicated, but will post here when it’s done.
Keith Collantine said on 6th September 2009, 19:27
OK that one’s fixed now.
Tommyb said on 5th September 2009, 11:08
I put tommyb89 instead of tommyb! So I have no points for spa when I had kimi for the win
Keith Collantine said on 5th September 2009, 21:22
I’ve fixed it – be glad I’m not as tough as Brakius…
matt said on 5th September 2009, 13:27
I missed 3 races when I didn’t have internet and another when I was on holiday
Damon said on 5th September 2009, 13:31
I see one error, Keith.
There is ‘Pawelf1′ on the 15th place in the standings, who scored 0 points in that round.
But, there is also ‘pawelf1′ – the same nickname without a capitalized initial letter, who scored 5 points.
This is obiously the same person.
The system shouldn’t differentiate between the higher and the lower case.
[There might be more cases of that error.]
Keith Collantine said on 5th September 2009, 21:24
Done that one too!
159Tom said on 5th September 2009, 13:39
Did anyone predict Fisichella on pole or 2nd?
Keith Collantine said on 5th September 2009, 21:48
Just one person predicted Fisichella second (no-one put him on pole position), who entered with the name ‘Adrian Sutil’!
Thanks to Ian’s cool plugin you can review the predictions here: http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2009/08/28/make-you-belgian-gp-predictions-now/
Mike "the bike" Schumacher said on 5th September 2009, 14:26
Well nobody got 60 points, and I think it was 150/1 for Fisi getting pole
Brakius said on 5th September 2009, 17:36
Seriously people, if you can’t remember the name you have your points under or can’t put it in the same way week after week, you should get 0 points.
Keith, you sure are generous, as I know this is a lot of work, and problems like this make it much more difficult. Personally, I’d make it the team owners responsibility to make sure everything is correct before hitting submit.
Thanks for all your effort.
Dougie said on 5th September 2009, 20:09
100% with Brakius on that one!
Great effort by Keith and Ian!
StrFerrari4Ever said on 5th September 2009, 18:40
Mmm 70 Points off first place it’s still early days
Well I’ll need a 60 for Monza and a string of good predictions in order to still be in it.
Dominic said on 5th September 2009, 21:13
is this some fantasy thing? it looks cool!
ianhaycox said on 6th September 2009, 0:51
Yep, sure is.
Self promotion time
See http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/motor-racing-league/ for details of the plugin to make fantasy predictions.
Austin said on 7th September 2009, 21:07
Well done on creating this plugin. I have downloaded it and will check it out on my Wamp server workstation. If I find any bugs I will let you know.
By the way your plugin is getting a lot of downloads, over 100 according to the stats on your plugin page on wordpress.org with 46 downloaded last week, probably due to you linking it here. 
Fer no.65 said on 6th September 2009, 7:31
I named Vettel for 3rd, didn’t I?
Shouldn’t i get 25 points instead of 10?
Keith Collantine said on 6th September 2009, 9:32
You predicted Hamilton for pole, then Webber-Hamilton-Vettel. So you get ten points for correctly naming one person on the podium (Vettel).
You can check your predictions here (click ‘Show predictions’ and select ‘Spa’):
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2009/08/28/make-you-belgian-gp-predictions-now/
brouard21 said on 6th September 2009, 15:57
Hi Keith, at the time of posting i mistakenly put my real name of Ben Brouard instead of brouard21 into the calculation. You kindly said you would fix this but you must have missed it because ‘Ben Brouard’ appears with 5 points, and ‘brouard21′ scored nothing at the weekend.
Thanks in advance
Ben
Keith Collantine said on 6th September 2009, 21:27
Hi Ben – Sorry, that’s now been fixed.
ukk said on 6th September 2009, 19:36
Hi Keith,
I have 0 points for Spa and my entry was:
ukk HAM HAM VET RAI 2009-09-01 21:59:18
Can you please check what’s wrong?
Thanks!
Keith Collantine said on 6th September 2009, 21:29
That’s because your username previously has been UKK but for the last round you used ukk. I’ve changed that to UKK and now your points should be correct.
Arun.India said on 11th September 2009, 17:09
I have 75 points and this is with no participation in the first 4 races cause of problem with user name….
Keith Collantine said on 15th September 2009, 21:24
I’ve updated your scores now and you’re right in the hunt!