National Hurling League Pools 2014

Week Eight
Position|Poster|Prev. Score|Points|Bonus|Total
1st|Hanalei|162|2|0|164
2nd|Pandiani|158|4|1|163
3rd|jjjd|158|4|0|162
4th|Claw09|153|4|0|157
5th|Fireball07|149|2|0|151
6th|Pudders|149|0|0|149
7th|Stevecw|144|4|0|148
=7th|ShamoBuc|144|4|0|148
9th|toxicity234|147|0|0|147
10th|Red Crow|146|0|0|146
11th|padd b1975|139|4|1|144
12th|qwert55|140|0|0|140
=12th|KevIRL|140|0|0|140
=12th|Hammer Archer|136|4|0|140
15th|AbsentPonderer|139|0|0|139
=15th|eoins23456|135|4|0|139
17th|dastardly00|136|0|0|136
18th|cleaboy boy|135|0|0|135
19th|Midfield9|125|0|0|125
20th|North Cork Star|85|4|0|89
21st|patmac|80|4|1|85
22nd|markboyable|54|2|0|56
23rd|Agus|42|0|0|42


Results
Offaly by 14
Donegal by 14

If you see any mistakes, please let me know.

No one managed to get a perfect score mainly due to the big wins for both sides this weekend. However, Pandiani, padd b1975 and patmac went closest with 5 points.
Overall, Hanalei's lead is now down to the bare minimum from Pandiani with jjjd a further point behind. Claw09 looks to be the only other in with a slight chance being 7 points behind Hanalei. If the overall winner comes from anyone else, it'll be a massive surprise.

Next weekend's fixtures will be up soon.

Sunday April 20
NHL Division 1 semi finals
Kilkenny v Galway - Kilkenny by 7
Clare v Tipperary - Clare by 3

Hanalei wrote: »

Just adding a heads up on potential championship pools; Hurling Championship begins next weekend with the first round of the Leinster qualifying group and Preliminary round of the Rackard cup on Saturday.

Hanalei has kindly offered to take on the Hurling Championship Pools competition this season.
The competition can be found here.

NHL Division 1 Final
Sunday May 4
Kilkenny v Tipperary, Semple Stadium, 3.30pm

Note: If those challenging for the top spot wish to send their predictions to me via PM, I'll allow it for the final game in order to combat tactical predictions (i.e. waiting for a competitor to make their prediction before making yours based on theirs).
If you choose to do so, they still must reach me by throw in time or it won't be counted.
As usual, the score after 70 minutes will be counted as the result.

Final Week
Position|Poster|Prev. Score|Points|Bonus|Total
1st|Pandiani|168|0|0|168
2nd|Hanalei|167|0|0|167
3rd|jjjd|164|0|0|164
4th|Claw09|160|0|0|160
5th|Stevecw|153|0|0|153
=5th|ShamoBuc|153|0|0|153
7th|Pudders|152|0|0|152
8th|Fireball07|151|0|0|151
9th|toxicity234|147|0|0|147
10th|Red Crow|146|0|0|146
11th|KevIRL|145|0|0|145
12th|padd b1975|144|0|0|144
13th|eoins23456|142|0|1|143
14th|Hammer Archer|142|0|0|142
15th|dastardly00|139|0|1|140
=15th|qwert55|140|0|0|140
17th|AbsentPonderer|139|0|0|139
18th|cleaboy boy|135|0|0|135
19th|Midfield9|125|0|0|125
20th|North Cork Star|89|0|0|89
21st|patmac|87|0|0|87
22nd|markboyable|56|0|0|56
23rd|Agus|42|0|0|42
24th|kefflin|0|0|0|0


Result
Draw (after normal time)

Note: Hanalei PM'd me his prediction before the game which was a 3 point win for Tipperary.

Unsurprisingly, no one predicted the draw after 70 minutes in the Division 1 final. However, eoins23456 and dastardly00 got a point each for predicting a win of no more than two points. As a result, there wasn't much change in the overall leaderboard on the final week.
So this year's "provisional winner" is Pandiani with 168 points. He finishes one point ahead of fellow countyman Hanalei who led by a long way coming down the home stretch.
But all is not over. I've still the initial predictions to take into account which could change everything. I'll do those ASAP but I've got a lot of stuff to do (i.e. take over the championship pools, finish the NFL pools, start the SFC pools) so it may not be til tomorrow morning.

Just a note before I put up the final scores.

Despite the fact that they didn't come bottom of 1A and didn't actually get relegated, I will take the team that was "relegated" from 1B to be Offaly as they were involved in the 1B/2A playoff against Kerry.