Tag Archives: Liverpool

Predict 6 winners and win a book

Posted on May 6, 2018 by scoreboardjournalism

Around three years ago I met, in a virtual sense, David Sumpter, a professor of mathematics at the University of Uppsala in Sweden and a football nut like myself. He was writing a book called Soccermatics, which combined his work … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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Challenging the narrative: Brendan Rodgers in court

Posted on April 29, 2015 by scoreboardjournalism

Liverpool’s third successive Premier League away match without a win is their worst run since……well, since last season when manager Brendan Rodgers was perceived as a miracle worker in almost taking the club to the first league title since 1990. … 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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Sixty-two days, seventeen matches

Posted on February 10, 2015 by scoreboardjournalism

Sixty-one days ago – today is day 62 – Tottenham Hotspur lined up in Turkey to play their final Europa League group match against Besiktas which they went on to lose 1-0. Two days earlier, Liverpool drew 1-1 with FC … Continue reading →

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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 scoreboardjournalism

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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