Thursday 2 May 2013

Matchday 35 Results & Matchday 36 Predictions: Back at May already?

Einstein, widely regarded as one of the smartest blokes ever, missed a trick you know. Obviously, his below-average-weight brain had a neurone or two firing to come up with the theory of relativity, but I feel he went wrong with his explanation bit. Formulae and maths turn people off, and that train analogy is a tad twee for me. What he should have done, is utilise the popularity of the beautiful game and prove relativity by how fast time moves at differing stages of the season. Grossly speaking, August to May goes by faster than injury time spent in the backseat of a Spurs-supporting friend's car (and his Spurs-supporting dad) listening to BBC Radio 5 deciding to personally make the next few minutes of your life excruciating. The tension when Giggs broke in the closing moments was utterly exhausting, but taught me more about physics than Mr Lovemore Chiremba (didn't he play Right Back for Wigan?) ever could.

I digress (plus ca change...). In other football news, Reading & QPR confirm the inevitable, the captain of the GB Simian Soccer team wins some banana trophy or 3 and somewhere in Barcelona, Alex Song is sobbing softly to himself as he wears out el Sky+ remote watching the famous victory that he could have been a part of in the second leg of the Last 16 round. ITV made yet another booboo by cutting away from Jose just he was about to read a love sonnet to Roman, although in fairness, at least they didn't just press the "go to ads" button so prominent in their control booth.

That's the round-up of the football news, let's get statty:

This week, 21 people played.
The most popular predicted result was: Man City & Everton WINS (20/21)
The most disputed result was: Aston Villa vs Sunderland (6-9-6 split)

The highest odds were: Doron 17,662/1
The lowest odds were: Josh Daniels 1022/1
The average odds were: 5249/1

Best predictor: David Dinkin (8/10)
Worst predictors: Yanik Joshi & Doron (2/10)
Average score: 5/10

Best predicted result: Man City & Everton WINS (20/21)
Worst predicted result: WBA WIN (0/21)

Everyone's results:


To the leaderboard now,


Loads of little battles throughout the table mean that everyone has something to play for (except maybe Jonny Chernick, who would have to be the recipient of the miracle of all miracles to get off the bottom). Someone has to overtake Lawro - can we live with the disgrace of all being worse than him at predictions?

To this week's matches:

Fulham vs Reading - FULHAM
Norwich vs Aston Villa - ASTON VILLA
Swansea vs Man City - MAN CITY
Spurs vs Southampton - DRAW
WBA vs Wigan - DRAW
West Ham vs Newcastle - WEST HAM
QPR vs Arsenal - ARSENAL
Liverpool vs Everton - LIVERPOOL
Man Utd vs Chelsea - MAN UTD
Sunderland vs Stoke - DRAW

Total odds: 6063/1 (PaddyPower)

Good luck guys


16 comments:

Jonathan said...

Crosses fingers for miracle:

Fulham vs Reading - FULHAM
Norwich vs Aston Villa - ASTON VILLA
Swansea vs Man City - MAN CITY
Spurs vs Southampton - SPURS
WBA vs Wigan - WIGAN
West Ham vs Newcastle - NEWCASTLE
QPR vs Arsenal - ARSENAL
Liverpool vs Everton - LIVERPOOL
Man Utd vs Chelsea - MAN UTD
Sunderland vs Stoke - DRAW

Tarek said...

Fulham vs Reading - FULHAM
Norwich vs Aston Villa - ASTON VILLA
Swansea vs Man City - MAN CITY
Spurs vs Southampton - DRAW
WBA vs Wigan - WIGAN
West Ham vs Newcastle - DRAW
QPR vs Arsenal - ARSENAL
Liverpool vs Everton - LIVERPOOL
Man Utd vs Chelsea - MAN UTD
Sunderland vs Stoke - SUNDERLAND

Eli D said...

Fulham vs Reading - FULHAM
Norwich vs Aston Villa - DRAW
Swansea vs Man City - MAN CITY
Spurs vs Southampton - DRAW
WBA vs Wigan - DRAW
West Ham vs Newcastle - WEST HAM
QPR vs Arsenal - ARSENAL
Liverpool vs Everton - LIVERPOOL
Man Utd vs Chelsea - MAN UTD
Sunderland vs Stoke - SUNDERLAND

Nick said...

Fulham vs Reading - FULHAM
Norwich vs Aston Villa - DRAW
Swansea vs Man City - MAN CITY
Spurs vs Southampton - SPURS
WBA vs Wigan - WBA
West Ham vs Newcastle - DRAW
QPR vs Arsenal - ARSENAL
Liverpool vs Everton - LIVERPOOL
Man Utd vs Chelsea - MAN UTD
Sunderland vs Stoke - DRAW

Will O'Doherty said...

Fulham vs Reading - FULHAM
Norwich vs Aston Villa - ASTON VILLA
Swansea vs Man City - MAN CITY
Spurs vs Southampton - SPURS
WBA vs Wigan - WBA
West Ham vs Newcastle - WEST HAM
QPR vs Arsenal - ARSENAL
Liverpool vs Everton - LIVERPOOL
Man Utd vs Chelsea - DRAW
Sunderland vs Stoke - SUNDERLAND

Odds: 1381/1

Richard V said...

Fulham vs Reading - FULHAM
Norwich vs Aston Villa - ASTON VILLA
Swansea vs Man City - MAN CITY
Spurs vs Southampton - SPURS
WBA vs Wigan - DRAW
West Ham vs Newcastle - NEWCASTLE
QPR vs Arsenal - ARSENAL
Liverpool vs Everton - EVERTON
Man Utd vs Chelsea - MAN UTD
Sunderland vs Stoke - DRAW

Steven said...

Fulham vs Reading - FULHAM
Norwich vs Aston Villa - NORWICH
Swansea vs Man City - DRAW
Spurs vs Southampton - SPURS
WBA vs Wigan - W BROM
West Ham vs Newcastle - WEST HAM
QPR vs Arsenal - ARSENAL
Liverpool vs Everton - LIVERPOOL
Man Utd vs Chelsea - MAN UTD
Sunderland vs Stoke - DRAW

Total odds: 2293/1 (PaddyPower)

Feneley said...

Not sure how many of these are actually predictions and how many are just hoping that Arsenal get a Champions League spot now...

Fulham vs Reading - FULHAM
Norwich vs Aston Villa - DRAW
Swansea vs Man City - MAN CITY
Spurs vs Southampton - DRAW
WBA vs Wigan - DRAW
West Ham vs Newcastle - WEST HAM
QPR vs Arsenal - ARSENAL
Liverpool vs Everton - LIVERPOOL
Man Utd vs Chelsea - MAN UTD
Sunderland vs Stoke - SUNDERLAND

Odds of 3359/1 on MJ

Josh Gaon said...

Fulham vs Reading - FULHAM
Norwich vs Aston Villa - DRAW
Swansea vs Man City - MAN CITY
Spurs vs Southampton - SPURS
WBA vs Wigan - DRAW
West Ham vs Newcastle - WEST HAM
QPR vs Arsenal - ARSENAL
Liverpool vs Everton - LIVERPOOL
Man Utd vs Chelsea - DRAW
Sunderland vs Stoke - SUNDERLAND

Doron said...

Fulham vs Reading - FULHAM
Norwich vs Aston Villa - DRAW
Swansea vs Man City - SWANSEA
Spurs vs Southampton - SPURS
WBA vs Wigan - WIGAN
West Ham vs Newcastle - WEST HAM
QPR vs Arsenal - ARSENAL
Liverpool vs Everton - EVERTON
Man Utd vs Chelsea - MAN UTD
Sunderland vs Stoke - SUNDERLAND

6976/1

Menachem said...

Fulham vs Reading - Draw
Norwich vs Aston Villa - Norwich
Swansea vs Man City - Man City
Spurs vs Southampton - Spurs
WBA vs Wigan - WBA
West Ham vs Newcastle - Newcastle
QPR vs Arsenal - Arsenal
Liverpool vs Everton - Liverpool
Man Utd vs Chelsea - Draw
Sunderland vs Stoke - Sunderland

Sam Ruback said...

Fulham vs Reading - Fulham
Norwich vs Aston Villa - Villa
Swansea vs Man City - Draw
Spurs vs Southampton - Spurs
WBA vs Wigan - WBA
West Ham vs Newcastle - West Ham
QPR vs Arsenal - Arsenal
Liverpool vs Everton - Liverpool
Man Utd vs Chelsea - Man Utd
Sunderland vs Stoke - Sunderland

1944/1

Sam Ruback said...

Lovemore Chiremba! What a man

David Dinkin said...

Fulham vs Reading - FULHAM
Norwich vs Aston Villa - DRAW
Swansea vs Man City - MAN CITY
Spurs vs Southampton - SPURS
WBA vs Wigan - WBA
West Ham vs Newcastle - DRAW
QPR vs Arsenal - ARSENAL
Liverpool vs Everton - LIVERPOOL
Man Utd vs Chelsea - DRAW
Sunderland vs Stoke - SUNDERLAND

2011/1

Josh Daniels said...

Fulham vs Reading - FULHAM
Norwich vs Aston Villa - DRAW
Swansea vs Man City - MAN CITY
Spurs vs Southampton - SPURS
WBA vs Wigan - WBA
West Ham vs Newcastle - WEST HAM
QPR vs Arsenal - ARSENAL
Liverpool vs Everton - LIVERPOOL
Man Utd vs Chelsea - UNITED
Sunderland vs Stoke - DRAW
1493/1 on paddypower

Yanik said...

Fulham vs Reading - FULHAM
Norwich vs Aston Villa - ASTON VILLA
Swansea vs Man City - MAN CITY
Spurs vs Southampton - SPURS
WBA vs Wigan - WBA
West Ham vs Newcastle - NEWCASTLE
QPR vs Arsenal - ARSENAL
Liverpool vs Everton - EVERTON
Man Utd vs Chelsea - MAN UTD
Sunderland vs Stoke - DRAW