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Euro Club Index: Chelsea would win title in 2 seasons out of every 3 from here

Posted on January 12, 2015 by

With 17 matches remaining in this season’s Premier League, the race to the title currently involves just two teams, one of which has around twice the chance of the other of ending the season as 2014/2015 Premier League champions. Five … Continue reading →

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Guest post: A prediction update from Steve Lawrence

Posted on January 9, 2015 by

The Scoreboard Journalism challenge for points and place predictions from prominent media, stats modellers, fans and online publishers for both the Eredivisie and the Premier League has attracted considerable interest and the original posts can be found at: https://scoreboardjournalism.wordpress.com/2014/08/22/48-forecasts-the-eredivisie-predicted/ & … Continue reading →

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Europa League seedings do not separate best and worst

Posted on December 15, 2014 by

Due to basing the seedings for the Europa League draws on six matches within uneven groupings which were created by the UEFA coefficient systems, the seedings for today’s Europa League draw do not actually separate the best and worst remaining … Continue reading →

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Current Champions League team most likely to win Europa League

Posted on September 17, 2014 by

The Europa League kicks off on Thursday, 18 September and at this stage there is less chance of an eventual Europa League winner coming from one of the 48 teams starting the competition than there is from one of the … Continue reading →

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Predicting the Premier League

Posted on September 11, 2014 by

At the beginning of last season, I collected 26 pre-season predictions for the Premier League with one half coming from a variety of statistical models and one half from the experts in the media. As expected, the statistical models came … Continue reading →

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Europa League second favourites in pot 3

Posted on August 29, 2014 by

The 48 clubs in today’s Europa League draw have been divided into four pots based on UEFA coefficients. As explained in yesterday’s article, this can lead to misclassifications and potential groups of death. In this case, a group containing Napoli, … Continue reading →

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Updated: Is this season’s Manchester United really Everton in disguise?

Posted on March 20, 2014 by

There was an error in the second graphic in the original post. This has now been corrected and the post updated. It leads to a slightly different conclusion. I have also added the lines for the rest of the season. … Continue reading →

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