2018 All Ireland SFC Pools

So folks, the 2018 Championship gets up and running next weekend (in London and The Bronx!). Now, in previous years, the New York fixture has been left out of the pools for reasons that would have been obvious at the time. However, due to the fact that there is also the London v Sligo game on the same day, added to the possibility that a seemingly improving New York might actually be competitive with Leitrim, I've decided to include it.

Rules are as follows;

1. Each Monday I will post up the fixtures for the coming week and by Tuesday or Wednesday I should have the league table of posters and points for the previous week just gone.

2. Late comers will be accepted but points will be forfeited for any games missed.

3. Predictions will be accepted and valid by throw-in time of the first game of the weekend. The first game this season is at 3.30pm on May 6th. Any predictions for this game made after this time will not count (but any predictions made for other games not yet started will still count).

4. The points system I am using is similar to that used in the League pools. You get 2 points for predicting the winner of the game.
Should a poster predict within 2 points of the winning margin,that poster will receive 1 bonus point.
Should a poster correctly predict a draw, the poster will receive 3 points. Where a poster predicts a team to win but the result is a draw, the poster will get 1 point ONLY if the poster has predicted a winning margin of no more than 1 point.
I'll award one point if a person predicts a draw yet the result is a one point win for either side.
Needless to say if you predict a team to win and they lose you get no points.

Note: Only the result after 70 minutes will be counted. For example, if Donegal beat Cavan after extra time in the first game, only those who predicted a draw will get full points.

5. Bonus points will be awarded at the end of the championship for predicting the 4 provincial champions, the other 4 quarter finalists (or 'Super 8' competitors), as well as the All Ireland winners and runners up. 2 points will be awarded for each correct prediction.
Note: Zero points will be awarded if you choose a team to win their provincial title and they fail to do so but still make the quarter finals and vice versa.

6. Posters must predict provincial champions/quarter finalists/AI winners/runners up in their first post with their first round of predictions.
If a poster wishes to join after the first week has finished, they may post these predictions but a 20% penalty for each week missed will apply to the initial predictions.

7. To cut out a lot of time, if posters consistently fail to post their weekly predictions, I'll remove them from the overall tables.

8. If a poster makes two (or more) predictions for the same game week, the latest of these sets of predictions will count regardless of the score of each set.