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Tag Archives: Manchester United
Predict 6 winners and win a book
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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Tagged Aston Villa, Atletico Madrid, Champions League, Championship, Charlton Athletic, Chelsea, competition, Coventry City, David Sumpter, Derby County, Exeter City, FA Cup, Fulham, League One, League Two, Lincoln City, Liverpool, Manchester United, Middlesbrough, Notts County, Olympique Marseille, Outnumbered, Play-offs, Real Madrid, Rotherham United, Scunthorpe United, Shrewsbury Town, Soccermatics
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The 76: Predicting the big end of season matches
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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Tagged Ajax, Arsenal, Blackpool, Bradford City, Carlisle United, Champions League, Championship, Chelsea, Europa League, Exeter City, FA Cup, Fulham, Huddersfield Town, Juventus, League One, League Two, Luton Town, Manchester United, Millwall, prediction, Predictions, Reading, Real Madrid, Sheffield Wednesday
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Win a great book by predicting the 3 English play-offs & a bit more
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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Tagged Ajax, Arsenal, Atletico Madrid, Blackpool, Bradford City, Cambridge United, Carlisle United, Celta de Vido, Chelsea, Exeter City, Fulham, Huddersfield Town, Juventus, League One, League Two, Luton Town, Manchester United, Millwall, Olympique Lyon, Play-offs, Predictions, Reading, Real Madrid, Richard Foster, Sheffield Wednesday, The Agony and the Ecstasy
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How are your prediction skills?
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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Tagged Ajax, Arsenal, Blackpool, Bradford City, Carlisle, Champions League, Championship, Chelsea, competition, Europa League, Exeter City, FA Cup, finals, Fulham, Huddersfield Town, Juventus, League One, League Two, Luton, Manchester United, Millwall, Play-offs, Reading, Real Madrid, Sheffield Wednesday, Soccermatics
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The Premier League season no one saw coming
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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Tagged Chelsea, Leicester City, Liverpool, Manchester United, Predictions, Premier League, Soccermatics, Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United
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Introducing logic into title-race predictions
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
Again no FA Cup third round shock
This year’s FA Cup third round is now complete and, for the second year in a row, there hasn’t been a genuine shock result at this stage of the competition. This season and last join 2004/2005 and 2011/2012 as the … Continue reading
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Tagged Everton, FA Cup, Leeds United, Major Shocks, Manchester United, Oldham Athletic, Shocks, Third round, upsets
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Premier League rich but performs below par
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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Tagged Arsenal, Chelsea, football, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Premier League
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Hot streaks likely to push points higher than model forecasts?
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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Tagged Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Premier League
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Assessing the Premier League predictions
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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Tagged Arsenal, Aston Villa, Burnley, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Everton, forecast, Hull City, Leicester City, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle United, prediction, Premier League, Queens Park Rangers, Southampton, Stoke City, Sunderland, Swansea City, Tottenham Hotspur, West Bromwich Albion, West Ham United
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