Wrexham 7-0 Cardiff Met, 18 Oct: Seven, and this time you saw it coming
Wrexham beat Cardiff Met 7-0 at The Rock on Sunday. A week after nobody got near eight at Swansea, 21 of you went to seven or beyond, and two of you landed on the exact score.
The league went bigger
Last week the crowd learned something about this Wrexham side. At Swansea the most popular prediction gave them three goals and they scored eight. So when Cardiff Met came to The Rock, the league adjusted its sights.
Sixty-eight of you made a prediction, and 67 backed a Wrexham win. Nobody went for a draw and one brave soul backed Cardiff Met. The favourite number for Wrexham this time was five, on 18 picks, with 14 more going for six. The single most popular scoreline was 5-0, picked by 10 of you.
Then Wrexham scored seven. That is still two more than the league's favourite, but this time the crowd was in range: 21 of you gave Wrexham seven or more, and 13 went past it. It was the second 7-0 of the league season, after Barry Town on 20 September, and Wrexham have now scored 15 in their last two league games.
Where the points went
With Wrexham's tally out of most people's reach again, the points were settled by the clean sheet. Twenty-five of you had Cardiff Met kept to nil with a different number at the other end, and six had Wrexham on exactly seven but let Cardiff Met score. All 31 took 3 points. Another 34 had the win with both numbers off and took 2. Only the one Cardiff Met backer came away with nothing.
And two of you got it bang on.
Prediction of the Week goes to Mad_Al, who put Wrexham 7-0 on the board on 9 October, nine days before kick-off, and never touched it. That was before Swansea had even been played. NYHC44 also called 7-0 exactly, getting there the night before the game, so it is a shared five points and a shared On the Nose badge. Mad_Al simply had it first.
Plenty of you were still thinking right up to kick-off: 16 picks were made or changed in the final 24 hours.
The Full Time Crew
The Full Time Crew had a very good Sunday. Matt went 7-0 and took the full five points, the only one of the three to call it. Del went one bigger at 8-0, which had the clean sheet and earned 3 points. Welshtechie's 4-1 had the win and took 2.
That puts Matt joint top of the whole league on 8 points, level with Mad_Al, with Del on 5 and Welshtechie on 4. It also flips the head-to-head. A week ago the league was narrowly ahead on points per pick. After Cardiff Met the Crew are averaging 2.83 a prediction across their six picks, and the league as a whole 2.48. There is plenty of season left to take that back.
The table after two games
The league table has started to pull apart, slowly. Mad_Al leads on 8 alongside Matt, and NYHC44 is third on 7 after their own exact call. Behind them, 16 fans sit on 6 points, and another 22 are on 5.
It is far too early for a title race. Everybody near the top has played both games, and the three players with an exact score this season are the three at the very front, which tells you where the next separation is going to come from. Most of the league is also on a run: 57 of you have called the right result in both games, which puts you one away from the Honour Roll badge for three in a row.
Badges and new faces
Sunday was a busy night in the badge cabinet. Calling the win earned 67 of you the Cardiff Met badge and Reading the Rock, for your first right result at home. The two exact callers picked up Cardiff Met Exact and On the Nose. The full badge list has the rest, including Honour Roll.
Eight new players joined after Swansea, half of them on Sunday itself, and every one of them earned Founding Member, which stays open to anyone who joins before the end of October. The league now stands at 69.
Match ratings are open on the site now too. If you watched Sunday's seven, you can mark the players out of ten and see what the rest of the league made of them.
Next up: Barry Town, again
Wrexham go to Barry Town United on Sunday 25 October at 2pm. The last time these two met, at The Rock in September, it finished 7-0. Forty-seven of you have already predicted it, 45 backing an away win, and the early favourites are 5-1 and 6-0 on five picks each.
On this season's evidence, nobody will blame you for aiming a little higher. Squads are open as well if you want a private table for you and your mates inside the league. Predictions close at kick-off, so get your Barry Town pick in while there is still time.