Tag Archives: prediction

The 76 predict the Championship play-offs

Posted on May 16, 2017 by scoreboardjournalism

As I discussed here, I received 76 predictions for the winners of six finals or end of season competitions last week. Those 76 can perhaps be seen as “the crowd” and therefore it is interesting to analyse whether that crowd … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Championship, Euro Club Index, Fulham, Huddersfield Town, Play-offs, prediction, Reading, Sheffield Wednesday, The 76 | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | 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 | 1 Comment

How are your prediction skills?

Posted on May 17, 2016 by scoreboardjournalism

The competition is now closed but you can still order David’s book and get a 25% discount with the link in this article. Around a year ago I met, in a virtual sense, David Sumpter, a professor of mathematics at … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Champions League, Europa League, FA Cup, League One, League Two, playoffs, prediction, Soccermatics | 2 Comments

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Arsenal, Bill Edgar, Colin Trainor, Euro Club Index, football, Goal Projection, Leicester City, Manchester City, Manchester United, prediction, Premier League, SCORE, Teouch Analytics, The TImes, Tottenham Hotspur | 3 Comments

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | 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 | 6 Comments

How did we do? Assessing Eurovision forecasting

Posted on May 24, 2015 by scoreboardjournalism

With the Premier League finishing, the result of the pre-season predictions competition will be announced here later today but yesterday’s interlude of a Eurovision Song Contest forecast also needs to be assessed and compared to others. We therefore scoured the internet … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Data driven, Eurovision Song Contest, forecast, Italy, prediction, Russia, Sweden | Leave a comment

Who were the best Eredivisie predictors of 2014/2015?

Posted on May 17, 2015 by scoreboardjournalism

Back in August 2014, we collected 48 pre-season predictions for the Eredivisie. These forecasts came from fans, statistical models, online media as well as a group of prominent media experts. The majority of entries gave the order of the 18 … Continue reading →

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Predicting the Eredivisie: A guest post by Steve Lawrence

Posted on August 25, 2014 by scoreboardjournalism

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged coefficient of variation, Eredivisie, football, mean, prediction, PSV, Soccermetrics, Standard deviation, Steve Lawrence, Twente, Utrecht | 1 Comment

48 Forecasts: The Eredivisie predicted

Posted on August 22, 2014 by scoreboardjournalism

Following on from last year, we have again collected Eredivisie predictions (you can download them all here) but instead of 13 to follow through the season, we now have a total of 48 from online media, fans, statistical models and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ADO Den Haag, Ajax, AZ, Eredivisie, Excelsior, fans, FC Dordrecht, FC Groningen, FC Twente, FC Utrecht, Feyenoord, Forecasting, Go Ahead Eagles, Heracles Almelo, NAC Breda, online media, PEC Zwolle, prediction, prominent media, PSV, SC Cambuur, sc Heerenveen, statistical models, Vitesse, Willem II | 4 Comments

Eredivisie 2013/2014 predictions: how did they fare?

Posted on August 6, 2014 by scoreboardjournalism

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Eredivisie, football, forecast, prediction, Soccermetrics | 2 Comments