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Introducing logic into title-race predictions

Posted on February 12, 2016 by

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

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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USA, Germany, Japan and Canada favoured for World Cup semis

Posted on June 24, 2015 by

The FIFA World rankings for women’s football have provided a good basis for forecasting the Women’s World Cup so far with seven of the eight favourites in the second round progressing through to the quarter-finals. In addition, our pre-tournament forecast … Continue reading →

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Predicting the Eredivisie: A guest post by Steve Lawrence

Posted on August 25, 2014 by

Last season, I collected 13 forecasts before the 2013/2014 Eredivisie season, the results of which can be found here. Throughout last season, Relative Age Effect expert Steve Lawrence, an Englishman living in Amsterdam, sent me all sorts of graphs relating to … Continue reading →

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Eredivisie 2013/2014 predictions: how did they fare?

Posted on August 6, 2014 by

This time last year, Scoreboard Journalism embarked on an exercise to collect Eredivisie predictions from various sources to be assessed to discover how these predictions actually fared. A similar exercise has already begun in time for Friday’s big kick-off for … Continue reading →

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What is analytics? A response to Chris Anderson

Posted on March 20, 2013 by

The excellent Chris Anderson has posted a blog asking what analytics actually is. This struck me immediately as an important question, particularly given the way that the word has become so overused that it is perhaps difficult for people to … Continue reading →

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