Hello everyone! This will be a new column where Craig Jones, the manager of the Carolina Cobras, and myself, Leo Martinez, the manager of the Arizona Scorpions will be predicting the results of the rest of the teams of the league each week. There are many different people doing predictions each week but this contest will be specifically between me and Craig. Craig has been my friend for a long time but while we are doing predictions our friendship is left at the door!
Unlike other predictors we are tallying up the team points as well as individual points. For each individual correct answer the predictor gets one point. For team points it is slightly more complicated. You get 2 points for the correct result. 1 bonus point for guessing the right point total at 2.5-1.5, 2 bonus points for guessing the right point total at 3-1 or 2-2 and 3 bonus points for guessing the correct point total at 3.5-1.5.
Also we will be guessing only other teams matches…not our own. You can see Carolina’s blog and Craig’s predictions here.
There are also prizes for each winner. Stay tuned for what the losers have to do!
| Monday Matches | Leo | Craig |
| Queens vs Boston | ||
| Stripunsky vs Christiansen | 1/2 | 1/2 |
| Vovsha vs Perehlysten | 1/2 | 0-1 |
| Zaremba vs Esserman | 0-1 | 0-1 |
| Smith vs Wang | 0-1 | 0-1 |
| Leo has Boston winning 3-1 Craig has Boston winning 3.5-0.5 |
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| Miami vs. Dallas | ||
| Becerra vs Bartholomew | 1-0 | 1-0 |
| Lopez vs Ludwig | 0-1 | 0-1 |
| Rodriguez vs Kiewra | 1/2 | 1/2 |
| Recio vs Lopez | 1-0 | 0-1 |
| Leo has Miami winning 2.5-1.5 Craig has Dallas winning 2.5-1.5 |
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| San Francisco vs Seattle | ||
| Friedel vs Serper | 1-0 | 1-0 |
| Pruess vs Tangborn | 1-0 | 1/2 |
| Donaldson vs Lee | 0-1 | 1/2 |
| Liou vs Sinanan | 0-1 | 0-1 |
| Leo and Craig predict a 2-2 Draw |
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| Wednesday Matches | Leo | Craig |
| New York versus New Jersey | ||
| Kacheishvilli vs Benjamin | 1/2 | 1-0 |
| Charboneauu vs Ippolito | 1-0 | 1-0 |
| Herman vs Shen | 0-1 | 0-1 |
| Norowitz vs Shen | 1-0 | 1-0 |
| Leo has New York winning 2.5-1.5 Craig has New York winning 3-1 |
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| Philadelphia vs Tennessee | ||
| Kudrin vs Shabalov | 1-0 | 1/2 |
| Lenderman vs Burnett | 1-0 | 1-0 |
| Smith vs Bereolos | 1-0 | 1-0 |
| Swaminathan vs Bick | 0-1 | 0-1 |
| Leo has Philadelphia winning 3-1 Craig has Philadelphia winning 2.5-1.5 |
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| Carolina vs. Baltimore | ||
| Schroer vs Kritz | 0-1 | |
| Zaikov vs Enkbhat | 1-0 | |
| Simpson vs Kaufman | 0-1 | |
| Jones vs Defibaugh | 1-0 | |
| Leo predicts a 2-2 draw | ||
| Arizona vs Chicago | ||
| Ramirez vs Mitkov | 1-0 | |
| Altounian vs Felecan | 1/2 | |
| Adamson vs Pasalic | 1/2 | |
| Adelberg vs Magness | 1-0 | |
| Craig has Arizona winning 3-1 |
Monday’s matches are complete. Leo has correctly predicted the outcome of each match (3-0) while getting only 3 of the individual games correctly. Craig missed the Miami/Dallas prediction (2-1) but leads the games count with 5.