Back by popular demand: the Phoenix Rising Attendance Prediction League.

For those of you who missed out on the fun last season, this game doesn’t test your knowledge of the players or the team’s tactics.

Instead, it’s all about working out what the attendance will be at Rising’s regular season home games.

So how does it work?

Every home game, you take a guess at how many people are going to show up. The closer you are to the official attendance, the more points you score. It’s as simple as that.

The five closest predictions each game are awarded 10, 8, 6, 4 or 2 points respectively. There are also bonus points. If you guess the exact attendance, you get 20 bonus points. If you’re within 1% of the actual figure, you get 6 bonus points. Everybody else guessing within 5% of the attendance gets 3 bonus points.

As the season progresses, we add up each week’s points to create an overall table. In 2019, there were even prizes for our winners (John McPherson and Phil Berman).  The Billy Forbes Wooden Spoon of Shame for last place, though, was declined!

To join the attendance prediction league, send over your prediction for the Timbers 2 game to fromtheashesphxr@gmail.com or send a tweet to @PHXRisingBlog by 5.30pm Arizona time on Saturday March 7. For all other home games in 2020, you then have until 2 hours before each kick-off to submit your prediction.