Matchday 37 & FA Cup Final: CL places, relegation, shiny things and dosh

Let's start with Fergie. Congrats on a fantastic career. Undoubtably earned your place in the footballing pantheon. I'm not going to wax lyrical because others have done that, and I don't want to and it's my blog. He wasn't my manager; in fact, I've spent much of my life expressing reasons why I don't like him and that won't change because he's now retired. Respect, certainly. Like, certainly not. I am, however, rather excited for next season already...

Partly, that's because there is so little to play for - Chelsea's point last night makes them strong favourites for 3rd, so it's a straight shoot out for 4th between Arsenal & Spurs. If Arsenal make it, chances are that they will do so sending Wigan down, thus answering the final question of who will be the last team to miss out on the new TV deal lose their Premier League status.

It's the FA Cup final too this weekend, where the simpering City take on the welegation-distwacted Wigan (what?).

Meh, didn't get much sleep last night. Rooney, Luiz, Moyes - gone, did nothing wrong, not as terrible as everyone seems to be saying. That's your lot.

Let's get statty:

This week, 21 people played
The most popular predicted result was an Arsenal WIN (21/21)
The most disputed result was Norwich vs Aston Villa (8-10-3 split)

Interestingly, there was a lot of concordance this week...which may explain the rest

Highest odds: Who do you think? 6976/1
Lowest odds: Will O'Doherty 1381/1
Average odds: 3358/1

Best predictors: Jonathan Chernick & Martin Keown (5/10)
Worst predictors: Feneley & Eli Daniels (1/10)
Average score: A woeful 3 (season low of 3.09 in fact). Ride together, die together etc

Best predicted result: Arsenal WIN (21/21)
Worst predicted result: Chelsea & Reading WINS (0/21 - seriously, no-one had Chelsea to win!)

Everyone's results:

The leaderboard now, and the drama contineus:

Nick retakes top spot by the slimmest of margins, whilst there's a slight adjustment to the mid-table. Will O'Doherty will join the table if he plays in both remaining weeks, so there's the additional suspense of where he'll slip in. Will he blindside everyone at the top? Give Chernick some relief at the bottom? Let's see...

Now to look at the FA Cup Semis stats:

As per, 15 people played

The most popular results was Man City WIN (12/15)

The most disputed result was Wigan WIN (11/15) - err...yeah...only 2 matches.

The best predictors were Doron, Yanik, Tarek, Josh Gaon, Josh Daniels, Sam Ruback, Charlie Rawson, Nick Collins and Hesham Zakai (2/2)

The worst predictor was Ryan Wain (0/2)

The best predicted result was Man City WIN (12/15)

The worst predicted result was Wigan WIN (11/15)

Everyone's scores:

To the leaderboard now:

Josh Gaon looks to have guaranteed himself top prize, but it's all to play for between Charlie, Gaj & myself. Haven't done the maths, but I think Nick is too far out to catch up. 

Predictions for this week:

Matchday 37:

Aston Villa vs Chelsea - CHELSEA

Stoke vs Spurs - SPURS

Everton vs West Ham - EVERTON

Fulham vs Liverpool - LIVERPOOL

Norwich vs WBA - DRAW

QPR vs Newcastle - DRAW

Sunderland vs Southampton - DRAW

Man Utd vs Swansea - MAN UTD

Arsenal vs Wigan - ARSENAL

Reading vs Man City - MAN CITY

Total odds: 989/1 (PaddyPower)

FA Cup Final (for those in the FA Cup Game)

Man City vs Wigan - MAN CITY

Good luck guys, see you back next week for the final round of the season.