Here's how it works...

• Website users need to predict the finishing order of the 16 AFL clubs at the completion of the 2008 home and away season.
• Each week entrants are penalised points for every team that is in the wrong position. If a team is in the correct position you will receive zero points.
  • For example, if you have the Western Bulldogs in 12th position and they are in fact in 3rd position, you will be given nine penalty points - one point for each position you are out.
  • The position of every side will be taken into account when calculating scores.
  • Theoretically, the best possible score in a round is zero.
• At just over the half-way point of the season, entrants will have the opportunity to change the order of their predictions between 11am Wednesday 18th June and 6pm Thursday 26th June 2008. Entrants will be allowed to change the position of only two teams during this period.
• The entrant with the lowest score at the end of the 2008 home and away season wins.
• Entrants will also be asked to nominate the number of goals Matthew Lloyd will kick in the home and away season as a tie-breaker question. In the unlikely event that there are two or more entrants with the same score at the end of the home and away season, the entrant who is closest to predicting the number of goals Matthew kicks will be announced the winner.

We are now just over the half way mark of the 2008 season, and the ladder is really starting to take shape. You now have the opportunity to make two changes to your original ladder to try to reduce the number of points you score between now and the end of the season. For those who entered in time, click on the button below to revise your ladder.

The full rules of the competition are listed below.

2nd prize - Two tickets to the 2008 Crichton Medal

3rd prize - $100 Bomber Shop voucher

1. Website users need to predict the finishing order of the 16 AFL clubs at the completion of the 2008 home and away season and submit their entry using the form above.
2. At the completion of each round during the season, each entry will be given a score. The aim of the competition is to accumulate as few points as possible.
3. At the completion of each round entrants will receive zero points for each team that is in the correct ladder position.
4. Entrants will be given penalty points for each side that is out of position. For example, if you have the Western Bulldogs in 12th position and they are in fact in 3rd position, you will be given nine penalty points - one point for each position you are out.
5. The position of every side will be taken into account when calculating scores.
6. At just over the half way mark of the season (11am Wednesday 18th June and 6pm Thursday 26th June 2008) entrants will be able to recall their original entry and make two changes to their submitted ladder. They will then re-submit their ladder for the remainder of the season.
7. At the completion of each round a leaderboard will be published in Bomber.tv.
8. The entrant with the fewest points at the end of the 2008 home and away season will be declared the winner.
9. Entrants will also be asked to nominate the number of goals Matthew Lloyd will kick in the home and away season as a tie-breaker question. In the unlikely event that there are two or more entrants with the same score at the end of the home and away season, the entrant who is closest to predicting the number of goals Matthew kicks will be announced the winner.
10. Website users can only enter competition once.
11. Initial entries must be completed by 5pm on Thursday 20 March 2008.
12. The Essendon Football Club's decision shall be final, and no correspondence entered into.