After a particularly heavy night on the couscous last night, I overslept and decided to give myself a morning off! I'd like to thank those of you who pay your taxes for funding my hours of self-directed learning. As well as spending hours on the phone to various medical institutions around the globe who don't pick up the phone (ever, seriously annoying), it's also given me the time to get a result post done on time this week!
Great results for Arsenal, Newcastle and Man City. Great game at Stamford Bridge. Great controversy at Anfield, Stoke and at Loftus Road. Due to the snow, I sacked off any half-arsed plans to go into town and watched MOTD at it's natural time for the first time in months, and actually enjoyed it for once too!
It was a pretty exciting finish to the game here too - those who follow the "live" twitter updates (@ccdaniels65) will know that the lead was yoyo-ing between several people on Saturday and Sunday. It came down to last night's game between Liverpool and Spurs to see who'd win this week - or whether we'd have a 4 way tie. Intriguingly, the game was split 6-6-6 but to find out who won, you'll have to wait a few more lines.
Honestly - I'm like Chris Tarrant for creating suspense.
One new addition to the blog this week - Lawro has taken a lot of stick over the years for his predicting skills, and by including him in this game, I've scientifically concluded that he's as shit as the rest of us. That's not to say he's terrible, or we're great - just that it's highly unpredictable. Obviously, 2/3 of a mad season isn't the strongest backdrop, but I felt that another control was needed.
Whoscored.com also offer a prediction for the outcome of each match, so from this week onwards, they too will be participating unknowingly. This means that we can test/compare ourselves to 2 "professional" predictors, and see how bad Lawro is compared to his peers.
Enough waffle. To the results:
This week, 18 people played
Most popular predicted result: Man City WIN (18/18 or 100% concordance)
Most disputed result: Liverpool vs Spurs (6-6-6 split)
Longest odds: Ryan Wain 16,220/1
Shortest odds: Doron Salomon 910/1
Best predictor (The moment you've all been waiting for...): Me!!! (7/10)
Worst predictor: In no particular order, Dan Davis, Naphtali Torrance and the new boys at whoscored.com (3/10)
Best predicted result: Man City WIN (18/18)
Worst predicted result: Wolves WIN (1/18 - well done JT)
Villain of the week: Technically no villain, but did anyone else like seeing Tony Pulis rant and rave over Huth's red card. A disease eh? Tell it to Ramsey, see if he cares.
Everyone's results:
UPDATE: Josh Daniels actually got 4 - my mistake. If I get your scores wrong, please let me know and I'll change it ASAP. This makes no difference to the leaderboard however.
To the leaderboard:
Joe Miller's lead at the top is cut, although the top 3 remain unchanged. Mid-table sees a lot of movement, showing just how close it is - 1 good week, (or conversely, 1 bad week) can make all the difference. No change at the bottom, but Ryan is due to return to the leaderboard next week, so the question is will he reclaim the bottom, or has he done enough in his absence to have moved up the board?
That's all for now. New post with the predictions will go up on Thursday. Have a good week!
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