S9M4: First Blood to the Pelican

3 games in and the only 100% record left belongs to the runners up from last season. A long way left to go still, and more crucially from a personal perspective than points on the board at present is the fact that only 4 teams retain a 0 in the L column. Of course - Liverpool and Man City account for 2 of those, so that's still quite worrying but let's see where we go with that....

Friday night's game saw Villa get their first points on the board with a win over Everton. Fellow newcomers Norwich looked to be on their way to a plucky result against Chelsea until Abraham scored his second with a quarter of the game to go thus hopefully buying him a longer spell in the Chelsea side...

As an aside, he looks nothing like his son....
(cracking joke there for the Russian linguists amongst you....)

Brighton's bright start has been tempered with a home defeat to Southampton and frankly, Saturday was awaywintastic - Leicester and West Ham also cashing in. The dramatic result came at Old Trafford in one of those delightful moments for everyone who's not a Man Utd fan - a brilliant finish in the last minute from newboy James looked to have rescued a point after Rashford missed a penalty earlier, only for Palace to flood up the other end and smash one right through De Gea to take all 3 points. The Ecstasy to Agony journey is delicious when it's not yours to make...

More away wins on Sunday for Man City and Newcastle before last gasp penalty equaliser stopped the visiting clean sweep. 7/10 for the weekend...

Let's get statty:

This week, 29 people played
Most popular predicted results: Man Utd, Spurs & Man City WINS (29/29)
Most disputed prediction: Watford vs West Ham (12-12-5 split respectively)

Highest odds: Feneley (965/1)
Lowest odds: Aron Kleiman (525/1)
Average odds: 592/1

Best predictors: Gaj Thiru & Josh Gavzey (6/10)
Worst predictor: David Silverman (1/10)
Average score: 3.86/10

Best predicted result: Man City WIN (29/29)
Worst predicted result: Newcastle & Crystal Palace WINS (0/29)

Everyone's score:

And now....for the first time in 2019/20 - the leaderboard! For those new to the game this season, to qualify, you have to play >2/3 of matchweeks - this is to prevent you smashing a 9/10 on week one and then not playing for the rest of the season. It's your average score over all games played. It'll roll all season and at the end, whoever's sitting pretty on top gets the Impossibilitee trophy to keep for next season, engraved with their name on it....

Here it is after Matchday 3:

Obviously early days, small samples etc so will be a lot of movement in the next few weeks. This is fortunate for me....

To this week's predictions:

So that's it for this week, good luck all. Remember if you want to get twitter/email or whatsapp reminders (in a group with no other chat) then let me know and will add you accordingly. You know where to find me...or if you don't, someone who guided you here does....