Week 37: What a Nana!

What a great time for Nick Romero to post a big score. Not only does his 224 win him the penultimate £50 of the season, but it moves him to within only 17 points of the title. But he still has 2 opponents to beat, with Matthew Jenns and Nick Scraggs swapping positions at the top. I don't ever recall 3 players being in with a shout in the last week before! As you can see, It's not inconceivable that those from 4th down to 7th could also still win with a big score, but with prize money down to 8th, are they really prepared to risk some unexpected last day predictions?

PREV	POS	NAME	WEEK	BONUS	TOTAL
2	1	MATTHEW JENNS	142	0	4031
1	2	NICK SCRAGGS	70	0	4023
5	3	NICK ROMERO	224	0	4014
3	4	ANDY LECK	96	0	3911
4	5	LAURA HOLMES	99	0	3892
10	6	RICHARD TAGGART	204	20	3872
6	7	PAUL BARNARD	99	0	3865
8	8	ROB PARKER	106	0	3809
7	9	MATT FOOTE	77	0	3794
9	10	YAD LUTHRA	79	0	3776

BONUS TEAM: Man Utd, 3 mins v West Ham. Surely this was as obvious as they come? I think we can safely say the favour has been returned! (sorry Blues fans!) I thought more than 41 of you have got this. Then again, there were only 20 pts available, and this might explain why 52 of you went for the max 60 via Sunderland at Bolton (though the 65 who went for Blackburn v Derby was the highest)

PREDICTIONS CUP: Week 37 saw the 2 semi finals played, and they lived up to the billing! Dan Skipp beat Oli Holland 149 to 135 in the highest scoring semi. Oli can consider himself a bit unlucky as he would have the won the other tie! But that couldn't have been closer with Peter Barrett edging out Philip Cox by 90-89! Hard luck to both losers. Well done to Peter and Dan, who will meet in Week 38, with the winner getting £100.

SEMI FINALS - Week 37	PTS	FINAL - Week 38
PETER BARRETT	90	PETER BARRETT
PHILIP COX	89
DAN SKIPP	149	DAN SKIPP
OLIVER HOLLAND	135

MINILEAGUES: Just a quick round up of those that are too close to call as we go into the final week:

- James Trice has a 77 pt lead to defend over David Taylor in the Blue Arrow League

- Ian Dennis has a 48 pt advantage over Phil Wye in the Broadcasters League

- Simon Taylor leads Danny Collington by 22 in the Polytechnic League (with Mick Delaney a further 16 behind)

- Neil Dowling has reduced the gap to Peter Barrett in the Fujitsu League to just 11 pts

- 11 pts is the same gap that Ian Shaw has over Mark Alborough in the Jon Cuff All Stars League (with Nik Patel also in close contention).

- Meanwhile, the smallest lead sees Daniel Kenton with only 1 pt to protect over Bobby Reeve in the Bankers League.

- But probably the most wide open League is the Soccer Six League, where the top 6 of Lino Carbosiero, Ben Shephard, Ant McPartlin, Gary Mabbutt, Robbie Williams and Jonny Wilkes are separated by only 108 pts.

Godd Luck to you all! Ciro