S6M10: Buzz

I believe I've previously alluded on these hallowed pixels to the BBC Sport app I have on my phone, and its instantly recognisable push-notification vibrations. I think I mentioned being woken by the late Cazorla winner against Southampton when I was on night shifts. Well, I have another story to share involving work & BBC Sport. Except this time, there was no vibration. My Saturday shift remained buzzless for 2 45 minute spells in the afternoon. You were sorely missed.

This was made worse by my colleague being a massive Liverpool fan - his phone seemingly didn't stop buzzing, as he was quick to point out. However, the important thing to note is that we were both very happy on Sunday evening, and that's the true Christmas miracle. Let's start backwards. Is there anything more schadenfreudey than Mourinho being a colossal sourpuss-hypocrite? Both my Scouse (from Coventry, natch) mate and I were also pretty happy with the City/Saints & Bournemouth/Spurs results from earlier in the weekend too.

Working does funny things to your brain, and I was convinced I'd had a shocker this week. Leicester getting back on track wasn't something I'd predicted nor Burnley beating Everton. Fortunately, you can always rely on Sunderland to lose. Stoke's good form continued and something happened between Watford & Swansea, but let's face it...no one cares. Now the Watford story is on faking a bank letter. School boy error. All they needed to do was provide proof that Pozzo's Nigerian uncle was stumping up the cash...

Don't really have much more to add today other than to share this with those of you who have yet to see it. CLICK IT. IT'S GOOD.

Let's get statty:

This week, 28 people played
Most popular predicted result: Arsenal WIN (28/28)
Most disputed result: Swansea vs Watford (9-10-9 split)

Highest odds: Me 4559/1
Lowest odds: Feneley 378/1
Average odds: 1909/1

Best predictor: Me (7/10)
Worst predictors: Doron, Joe & Aron (2/10)
Average score: 4.36/10

Best predicted result: West Ham WIN (26/28)
Worst predicted result: Arsenal vs M'Boro DRAW (0/28)

Everyone's scores:

Leaderboard (>2/3; 7/9)

To this week's predictions:

Sunderland vs Arsenal - ARSENAL
Man Utd vs Burnley - MAN UTD
Middlesborough vs Bournemouth - BOURNEMOUTH
Spurs vs Leicester - LEICESTER
Watford vs Hull - WATFORD
WBA vs Man City - MAN CITY (stuffing)
Crystal Palace vs Liverpool - LIVERPOOL
Everton vs West Ham - DRAW
Southampton vs Chelsea - SOUTHAMPTON
Stoke vs Swansea - STOKE

Total odds: 3021/1

Good luck guys

S6M9: Definitely on top of all this

2 weeks in a row eh.

That's what you call poor form. I'm not entirely sure where this week has gone - but thanks for the reminder messages. It's a great feeling to know you're waiting on tenterhooks for my weekly offering.

Just looked up what a tenterhook is. If I'm honest, I'm not entirely convinced by that phrase.

Last week, Chelsea continued their return to form, Arsenal deservedly won although really did their darndest to welcome Bob Bradley in friendly fashion. Bournemouth gained their best PL result, whilst Koeman continued to show up Martinez with an outstanding defensive display to take a point away from the Etihad. Sunderland added another datapoint to my hypothesis that they are genuinely the worst team ever, whilst Peak Pulisball was achieved at the expense of Spurs. West Ham are back amongst the winners - Cresswall's return the catalyst according to many, and Watford also had a fullback to thank for their win up in the northeast. Charlie Austin's hot streak continues and then we turn to Red Monday. And forget all about it - so nearly Peak Mourinho.

Anyway - a double stats blog to get through this week, so without further ado....

Matchday 7

This week, 27 people played
Most popular predicted result: Arsenal WIN (27/27)
Most disputed result: Sunderland vs WBA (6-10-11 split)

Highest odds: Josh Daniels (14,623/1)
Lowest odds: Feneley (432/1)
Average odds: 5632/1

Best predictor: Josh Gaon (9/10)
Worst predictors: Loads of ya (3/10)
Average score: 4.7/10

Best predicted result: Arsenal WIN (27/27)
Worst predicted result: Man Utd vs Stoke DRAW (2/27)

Everyone's results:

Matchday 8

This week, 27 people played
Most popular predicted result: Southampton WIN (27/27)
Most disputed result: Middlesborough vs Watford (7-11-9 split)

Highest odds: Feneley (1727/1)
Lowest odds: Me & Steven Daniels  (391/1)
Average odds: 1075/1

Best predictor: Aron Kleiman (9/10)
Worst predictor: Menachem Grunewald (3/10)
Average score: 5.48/10

Best predicted result: Southampton WIN (27/27)
Worst predicted result: Man City vs Everton DRAW (3/27)

Everyone's results:

To the leaderboard (>2/3; 6/8)

A new leader after 2 week's movement, plus the range has significantly reduced.

To this week's predictions:

Bournemouth vs Spurs - DRAW

Arsenal vs M'Boro - ARSENAL

Burnley vs Everton  - EVERTON

Hull vs Stoke - STOKE

Leicester vs Crystal Palace - CRYSTAL PALACE

Swansea vs Watford - DRAW

West Ham vs Sunderland - WEST HAM

Liverpool vs WBA - LIVERPOOL

Man City vs Southampton - DRAW

Chelsea vs Man Utd - CHELSEA

Total odds: 4559/1

Good luck guys.

Hopefully a little more organised next week....

S6M8: PPPPP (sort of)

I knew this week would be tough so (Tom) cleverly got all my ducks lined up. Did the statty bit last week so all I had to do was write & post this week. Even planned to use autopublish as I knew last night wasn't going to be a posting night.

Somewhere along the way however, there was a slight issue, a minor snag, un (Emmnauel) petit obstacle. The blog never actually got written.

To apologise in the fashion of a man unlikely to become America's next top president would be unworthy of all you folks, but obviously it wasn't my fault that this little hiccup occurred. That was down to the good folks at Rowan's bowling, beer & karaoke who essentially kidnapped me very much with my consent. So blame them. And if you're them, I don't blame you and feel free to throw a free game my way for the plug AND the promise of the sexennial Impossibilitee Christmas party....

A full results blog will be uploaded shortly, but here are some predos before the weekend and please accept my humblest apologies for the delay in arrival of your blog.

This week's predos:

Chelsea vs Leicester - CHELSEA
Arsenal vs Swansea- ARSENAL
Bournemouth vs Hull - BOURNEMOUTH
Man City vs Everton - MAN CITY
Stoke vs Sunderland - STOKE
WBA vs Spurs - SPURS
Crystal Palace vs West Ham - PALACE
Middlesbrough vs Watford - DRAW
Southampton vs Burnley - SOUTHAMPTON
Liverpool vs Man Utd - LIVERPOOL

Full odds to follow

Good luck guys!