http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/predictor/default.stm
Well, just done the BBC Championship Predictor and it works out that 70 points is the cut off for guaranteed playoff places. I have us missing out on goal difference to Leicester.
As a bare minimum we have to get a point against Cardiff on Saturday. If we get beat then its all over for another year unless Forest get all 3 points against Leicester on the last day of the season. Its all really tight, but 72 points guarantees a playoff against Brighton and 70 points is a sneak in to the top 6 with a playoff match against Watford. To close to call. Nerves over the next 2 weeks are going to get frayed!
BBC Championship Predictor
posted on 22/4/13
I did the predictor using the Championship mental results rule and had us 6th even with a defeat to Cardiff - For the record I recon we'll draw.
On another note I also did the Premier League predictor and Stoke join Reading & QPR in the Champo. All in all I hope I suddenly become good at predicting.
posted on 22/4/13
Personally i'll be keeping my eye on the Forest and Leicester games and hoping they both get beat. That way anything we get out of Cardiff is a bonus. As long as they both lose we're in the driving seat. I think we can get something out of Cardiff but i also think Leicester and Milwall could do us a big favour. It certainly isn't all over if we lose, it could be but its not for certain. Its gonna be a tense fortnight thats for sure!
posted on 22/4/13
I have us in sixth but I am an optimistic guy Hopefully Sordell and Craig Davies can get a bit of time together also. Nervous times.
posted on 22/4/13
I don't think Leicester and Forest will reach 70 points so a win and a draw just might do it!
posted on 22/4/13
NO ONE MAKE ANY PREDICTIONS. If any of you jynx it, I'm gonna beat you all up
posted on 22/4/13
Big big weekend which starts on Friday with the Leicester/Watford game. The whole scenario will have changed come ten o' clock.
Hope we can spring a shock at Cardiff although not expecting it really, hope I am wrong fellas.
posted on 23/4/13
I hope we do it but not banking on it. We will just have to wait and see.
C.O.Y.W.M.
posted on 23/4/13
I did it and have it all over this weekend, we lose and Forest and Leicester win.
posted on 23/4/13
In this crazy season, right now before tonight's match kicks off with two weekends of the season left, Millwall could be either promoted or relegated. Bonkers!
OK, it would take a pretty rum sequence of results for Millwall to make it now. Same goes for Charlton. So we focus on Forest and Leicester: well the good news is that they cannot both win on the last day of the season, and the bad news is that they cannot both lose either. I reckon it will go like this:
Forest win one and draw one
Leicester draw two
We win one and draw/lose the other
That puts us in the play-offs with the lowest ever points total to achieve such a thing. I get to attend the away leg in the semis (all three options in range for me) and the final, because Mrs Essex owes me big time after I went to see Il Divo with her on Friday for the SECOND TIME and that's what you call taking one for the team!
posted on 23/4/13
Squeaky bum time indeed.