Tag Archives: Arsenal

The 76: Predicting the big end of season matches

Posted on May 15, 2017 by scoreboardjournalism

Last week, I invited people to predict the winners of the Champions League, Europa League, FA Cup and the three Football League play-off finals this season to win a copy of one of two books, Soccermatics or The Agony and … Continue reading →

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Win a great book by predicting the 3 English play-offs & a bit more

Posted on May 9, 2017 by scoreboardjournalism

The competition is now closed but you can still order Richard’s book by following the link in this article. Two years ago, I met writer Richard Foster (virtually) who, at that time, was working on his definitive history of the English … Continue reading →

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How are your prediction skills?

Posted on May 8, 2017 by scoreboardjournalism

The competition is now closed but you can still order David’s book and get a 10% discount with the link in this article. Around two years ago I met, in a virtual sense, David Sumpter, a professor of mathematics at … Continue reading →

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Introducing logic into title-race predictions

Posted on February 12, 2016 by scoreboardjournalism

During my trip to London this week, I picked up a copy of The Times and discovered that the newspaper’s resident stats man Bill Edgar had predicted the remaining 13 matches of the Premier League season for the current top-five … Continue reading →

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Premier League rich but performs below par

Posted on January 21, 2016 by scoreboardjournalism

The Deloitte Money League has been released and unsurprisingly, the Euro Club Index ranking, which rates clubs based on performance, is highly correlated with this annual ranking of wealth. Four of the top-five clubs on the Deloitte list are also … Continue reading →

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Hot streaks likely to push points higher than model forecasts?

Posted on January 12, 2016 by scoreboardjournalism

Alexej Behnisch and Constantinos Chappas have both produced excellent articles over the last few days outlining Premier League predictions at approximately the halfway stage of the season. The six models contained in Alexej’s analysis have their Premier League champions this season … Continue reading →

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Can Leicester continue to surprise?

Posted on January 2, 2016 by scoreboardjournalism

Leicester City enter 2016 in second position in the Premier League, level on points with leaders Arsenal. The Foxes are the 10th “surprise” team of the 20 club era to reach the halfway point of the season in the top four … Continue reading →

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Assessing the Premier League predictions

Posted on May 26, 2015 by scoreboardjournalism

At the beginning of the Premier League season, and also at the end of the transfer window, we collected a total of 60 predictions for the final rank order of this season’s Premier League. Some were submitted to us with … Continue reading →

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Boring Premier League? That ship sailed long ago

Posted on May 2, 2015 by scoreboardjournalism

An article appeared in the Daily Telegraph this week suggesting that the Premier League is at risk of being boring. The key quote was, “The point is this: the Premier League has become predictable. And that predictability is in danger … Continue reading →

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Are Liverpool really the Premier League’s most in-form team?

Posted on February 28, 2015 by scoreboardjournalism

Liverpool lead the Premier League form table based on the last 10 matches with 24 points out of a possible 30 but does this really make the Reds the most in-form team? Scoreboard Journalism investigated….

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