Matchday 2 results & Matchday 3 bets!

Apologies one and all for the lateness of this blog...

I have no internet at home currently, and am going on holiday on Sunday, so next week's blogging will also be a little irregular. However, normal service will be resumed after that...

Let's talk last week's results first:

12 people played

Most popular predicted result: Chelsea win (100% concordance)

Most disputed result: Man Utd Vs Spurs (Home win: 6, Draw: 4, Away win:2)

Longest Odds: Joe Miller - 20,677/1 (2nd week in a row...)

Best Predictor: Feneley (7/10)

Worst Predictor: Hesham Zakai (2/10)

Best Predicted result: Chelsea WIN (12/12)

Worst Predicated result: QPR WIN (0/12)

I got 3 right - slow start to the season....getting my eye in!

No villain of the week this week!

Classified results below:

In future weeks, I'll add trends and average scores too...create a little leaderboard

Ok....now to Week 3!

This week, my bets are as follows:

Villa vs Wolves - WOLVES

Wigan vs QPR - DRAW

Blackburn vs Everton - EVERTON

Chelsea vs Norwich - CHELSEA

Swansea vs Sunderland - SWANSEA

Liverpool vs Bolton - LIVERPOOL

Newcastle vs Fulham - NEWCASTLE

Spurs vs Man City - DRAW

WBA vs Stoke - STOKE

Man Utd vs Arsenal - DRAW (not really, but can never bet against your own team!)

That's odds of 12,505/1 (Paddypower)

As per usual, put your bets/predos in the comments below! I'm not gonna really be able to publicise the blog too much for this round due to the lack of internet, so relying on you guys to RT, post on facebook and even do the old-fashioned thing of telling your friends!

As I said, the results blog will probably be delayed until after I get back....but luckily, there is an international weekend (never though I'd say those words) so there's a bit of extra time anyway!

Good luck guys!

Matchday 2 - Now we're warmed up....

Welcome Back!

Matchday 2 is upon us and now we'll get to see some patterns emerge...Will a new name leap to the top of the tree? Will my old uni mates get their predicting hats on?

Some big games this week - the first Sky 4 (6?) head to heads between Arsenal & Liverpool and Man Utd & Spurs, the NE derby at the Stadium of Light and Swansea & Wigan go head to head in the first ever PL game in Wales for the first relegation 6 pointer of the season!

Hopefully some new faces - although I've left it late this week due to internet issues. Hopefully from next week, I'll be back with the booming PR invading every space of the internet that my social media skills can reach. Of course, if you know people who would be interested....get them involved! Providing they have given their predictions by the 1st game's kick off, then I'll add them to the database for that week.

For any new players:

Full premiership accumulator (10 matches), 1p, bookie of your choice (or if a non-gambler, just leave predictions below).

Choose the winning team or a draw and leave the total odds behind too, so we can see who's statistically the safest and most renegade.

This week, my bets are:

Arsenal vs Liverpool - DRAW

Villa vs Blackburn - VILLA

Bolton vs Man City - CITY

Chelsea vs WBA - CHELSEA

Everton vs QPR - EVERTON

Man Utd vs Spurs - DRAW

Norwich vs Stoke - STOKE

Sunderland vs Newcastle - SUNDERLAND

Swansea vs Wigan - SWANSEA

Wolves vs Fulham - DRAW

Total odds: 3055/1 (paddypower)

Get the predictions in and spread the word!

Week 1 - Results/Stats Post

So this is where I get my geek on! Each week, I'll try to put together a few patterns that emerge in the predictions and create some comparisons for bragging rights!

This week:

9 people played

Most popular predicted result: Man City win (100% concordance)

Most disputed result: Fulham Vs Villa (Home win: 3, Draw: 4, Away win:2)

Longest Odds: Joe Miller - 63,500/1

Best Predictor: Naph/Will O'Doherty/Joe Miller (5/9)

Worst Predictor: Ryan Wain (don't worry about the fact you didn't put the bet on then....) (2/9)

Best Predicted result: Man City WIN (9/9)

Worst Predicated result: Liverpool vs Sunderland DRAW (0/9)

I got 4 right, which is not a great start....Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea....who'd have thought it...

Here are Week 1's results in full (just imagine me reading them like James Alexander Gordon doing the classified football results...):

Villain of the Week: This is the section held for individuals that ruin the betting slip. For example, the ref who disallows a perfectly good goal which changes the result. Individuals only qualify for villain status if they take away any genuine chance of winning the bet - so if you only get 3 matches correct anyway, then it's irrelevant what happened - so I'm imposing a strict 7+ correct predictions on someone's choices for their "villain" to qualify.

This week, no-one technically qualifies, but as it's my blog, my rules, I'm saying Joey Barton is for his disgraceful antics. Honourable mention goes to John Terry, for being John Terry.

Thanks for playing - spread the word and looking forward to having you all back next week! I'll be posting my bets on Thursday, so anytime after that, get involved! Spread the word - let's hope for better luck next week!

It's here - LIVE, after the break!

Ok, so in hindsight, starting a blog with a primary focus on football in the immediate period after the season finished wasn't the optimum timing...

However, hang all that now - the summer has been and gone, all 3 days of it. We've sat through hundreds of hours of reporters from SSN "understanding" knowledge of deals that are agreed, read thousands of words from "journalists" regurgitating rubbish off blogs and if you've been a Liverpool fan, enjoyed the feeling of a new signing or 5.

For us in the Red half of North London, it's been a particularly stressful break - we have signed 3 young lads to be firmly put in the box marked "Carling Cup/Future" and (an admittedly decent looking) Gervinho. However, the 2 soap operas of Cesc (perennial) and Nasri (hardly surprising) have been the main focus, much of it negative. The failure to bolster the traditional problem area of CB has meant that the tension that has enveloped much of the Emirates over the last few seasons hasn't dissipated with the optimism of a new season, as shown by the boos at a pre-season friendly...

Anyway, the point is, that all of this anticipation is about to be put to rest. In approximately 74 hours time, 3 referees in London and 3 referees in the Northwest will put their shiny new whistles to their lips and start the 2011/2012 Premier League season, and with it, kick off the new Impossibilitee game.

The rules are fairly simple: 1p accumulator bet for all the PL matches (Win/Draw/Lose) that weekend - and we try to see if anyone is any good at these things... (If people need greater insight into the rules, then more info here http://impossibilitee.blogspot.com/2011/05/rules-of-game.html)

My bets (with PaddyPower if anyone cares) are as follows:

Blackburn vs Wolves - DRAW

Fulham vs Villa - FULHAM

Liverpool vs Sunderland - LIVERPOOL

QPR vs Bolton - BOLTON

Spurs vs Everton - DRAW (*Update: Postponed)

Wigan vs Norwich - DRAW

Newcastle vs Arsenal - ARSENAL

Stoke vs Chelsea - CHELSEA

WBA vs Man Utd - MAN UTD

Man City vs Swansea -MAN CITY

1p will net £24.34 should that come in - not a princely sum, but a nice little earner!

So basically, get involved! Use comments below to add your bets, and hopefully (if I can work out the techy bit) then in a few weeks, I'll create some kind of table/graph so we can see who the top and bottom predictors/gamblers are...

Please feel free to repost/RT as necessary - let have as many people involved as possible...

Looking forward to it....best of British to everyone!

**UPDATE**

If you have trouble posting in the comments, then post as anonymous and put your name in the post. I've got my best techy people working on it....but as that's me, it might take a while to sort out!

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