Monthly Archives: May 2016

The Premier League season no one saw coming

Posted on May 20, 2016 by scoreboardjournalism

The maths that shows that football can’t be predicted. By David Sumpter, Professor of Applied Mathematics and author of Soccermatics With assistance from Simon Gleave, author of the Scoreboard Journalism blog The Premier League has been turned upside down this … Continue reading →

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How are your prediction skills?

Posted on May 17, 2016 by scoreboardjournalism

The competition is now closed but you can still order David’s book and get a 25% discount with the link in this article. Around a year ago I met, in a virtual sense, David Sumpter, a professor of mathematics at … Continue reading →

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Eurovision: Impressive highlights but the full story?

Posted on May 16, 2016 by scoreboardjournalism

Just like last year, a Scoreboard Journalism team convened to publish a prediction for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest. This forecast not only selected the correct top-3 nations again but also the bottom-3. The associated blog suggested that Ukraine had a … Continue reading →

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Forecasting Eurovision: Russia to win

Posted on May 14, 2016 by scoreboardjournalism

Well, there is nothing like predicting the 1-2-3 of something in the correct order to put the pressure on the next time you have to forecast the same thing. However, last year’s Eurovision Song Contest projection included the use of … Continue reading →

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