Friday, July 29, 2011

Bundesliga 2011-2012 Season-Long Prediction Contest

The 2011-2012 season-long Bundesliga prediction contest is now open for entries. Get your entries in before the first game next week to participate.

To enter, in the comments below simply rank your prediction for the end-of-season table from 1 through 18.  The tie-breaker will be first selection of champion and then relegation.  I will at a few points through the season provide updates on standings and discuss the competition.

For those of you not fully up to speed on the Bundesliga (shame!), you can get more information here and here and here..

The metric of skill used as the baseline for evaluation in this competition will be the final table from last year (seen to the right, with promoted teams added in).  I have searched and request from several sources, with no luck, data on team salaries and player values.  If I can come across this information, I'll add it in as a second metric of skill (and pointers welcomed in the comments).  For those new here wanting to get up to speed on this notion of "skill" in prediction, please see the posts here and here.

The winner of the competition wins a signed copy of The Climate Fix, paperback edition.  Good luck!

PS. For those looking for the Premier League prediction contest, please tune back in in one week!

7 comments:

  1. 1. Bayern München
    2. Borussia Dortmund
    3. Bayer Leverkusen
    4. FSV Mainz
    5. Hannover 96
    6. Borussia Mönchengladbach
    7. HSV
    8. VfB Stuttgart
    9. 1. FC Nürnberg
    10. Schalke 04
    11. Hertha BSC
    12. 1. FC Kaiserslautern
    13. SC Freiburg
    14. Hoffenheim
    15. Werder Bremen
    16. VfL Wolfsburg
    17. 1. FC Köln
    18. FC Augsburg

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  2. 1. Bayern Munich
    2. Schalke 04
    3. Bayer Leverkusen
    4. Werder Bremen
    5. Monchengladbach
    6. Borussia Dortmund
    7. TSG Hoffenheim
    8. VfB Stuttgart
    9. Hannover 96
    10 Hertha Berlin
    11. VfL Wolfsburg
    12. Kaiserslautern
    13. SC Freiburg
    14. FC Cologne
    15. Mainz
    16. Hamburg SV
    17. FC Augsburg
    18. Nurnberg

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  3. Here are Der Spiegel's predictions.

    1. Bayern Munich
    2. Borussia Dortmund
    3. Bayer Leverkusen
    4. Schalke 04
    5. VfL Wolfsburg
    6. VfB Stuttgart
    7. TSG Hoffenheim
    8. Hannover 96
    9. Hamburg SV
    10 Werder Bremen
    11. Mainz
    12. Hertha Berlin
    13. Monchengladbach
    14. FC Cologne
    15. SC Freiburg
    16. Nurnberg
    17. Kaiserslautern
    18. FC Augsburg

    http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-71170.html

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  4. My selections:

    1. Bayern Munich
    2. Borussia Dortmund
    3. Bayer Leverkusen
    4. Schalke 04
    5. VfL Wolfsburg
    6. Hamburg SV
    7. Werder Bremen
    8. VfB Stuttgart
    9. TSG Hoffenheim
    10. Hertha Berlin
    11. Hannover 96
    12. Monchengladbach
    13. FC Cologne
    14. Mainz
    15. Kaiserslautern
    16. SC Freiburg
    17. FC Augsburg
    18. Nurnberg

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  5. 1. Bayern München
    2. Bayer Leverkusen
    3. Borussia Dortmund
    4. Schalke 04
    5. HSV
    6. VfB Stuttgart
    7. Wolfsburg
    8. Hannover 96
    9. FSV Mainz 05
    10. 1. FC Kaiserslautern
    11. SC Freiburg
    12. Hoffenheim
    13. Hertha BSC
    14. 1. FC Nürnberg
    15. Werder Bremen
    16. 1. FC Köln
    17. FC Augsburg
    18. Borussia Mönchengladbach

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  6. [1] Borussia Dortmund
    [2] Bayern München
    [3] Bayer Leverkusen
    [4] Hannover 96
    [5] FSV Mainz
    [6] VfB Stuttgart
    [7] VfL Wolfsburg
    [8] HSV
    [9] Schalke 04
    [10] Hertha BSC
    [11] 1 FC Kaiserslautern
    [12] SC Freiburg
    [13] Hoffenheim
    [14] Borussia Mönchengladbach
    [15] 1 FC Nürnberg
    [16] Werder Bremen
    [17] FC Augsburg
    [18] 1 FC Köln

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  7. 1) Borussia Dortmund
    2) Werder Bremen
    3) VfL Wolfsburg
    4) Hamburger SV
    5) Hannover 96
    6) Bayern München
    7) 1. FC Nürnberg
    8) Borussia Mönchengladbach
    9) SC Freiburg
    10) FC Augsburg
    11) Schalke 04
    12) Bayer Leverkusen
    13) FSV Mainz
    14) 1. FC Köln
    15) VfB Stuttgart
    16) TSG Hoffenheim
    17) 1.FC Kaiserslautern
    18) Hertha BSC

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