S9M14 & 15: Gloom & Doom

So Maureen's back. Loves a bit of drama does Mo. Comes in. Bish 3-0 up. Bosh. gives up 2 goals. Box Office.

Arsenal, on the other hand are not box office. They're more like a sitcom. Get the viewers and everyone knows the ending already. Car Crash. I've personally never seen anything like that Lacazette equaliser. He looked gutted to have got a point, knowing it would prolong the manager's dead reign. I'm gonna speak medically here. He is pulseless. No brain activity. Lungs have deflated. Only Arsenal would manage to balls up being good, being average and now being bad.

We then hit a run of 5 away wins, which is a nice little statistical streak. Wolves, Leicester, Liverpool, Norwich & Burnley all won away at 3pm on a Saturday. In fact, had Lacazette not scored with the last kick, it would have been a clean sweep of away wins. I have no idea of how rare that is, but it feels pretty rare. Like Epoch defining. We live in marvellous times.

Man City broke the streak with a vital win for them to keep up theoretical pressure on Liverpool over a resurgent Chelsea. Not to fear however, because the Mancunian comedy was, as ever these days, provided by their Salfordian neighbours who really are excellent human beings showing such empathy with their late 90s/early 00s rivals.

Aston Villa then won a game that everyone had forgotten about in the Steve Bruce return. Honestly, if 14 year old me had thought I'd be bored by 4 days of football...

Let's get statty:

This week, 23 people played
Most popular predicted results: Arsenal WIN & Liverpool WIN (23/23)
Most disputed result: Bournemouth vs Wolves (11-6-6 split respectively)

Highest odds: Steven Daniels (4937/1)
Lowest odds: Josh Daniels (539/1)
Average odds: 1193/1

Best predictors: Loads of you (6/10)
Worst predictors: Loads of us (3/10)
Average score: 4.5/10

Best predicted result: Liverpool WIN (23/23)
Worst predicted results: Arsenal vs Southampton DRAW & Norwich WIN (0/23)

Everyone's result:

On this: There's often a lot of consternation about this. For reasons that I don't know (and there may well be a simple fix), when you download this from google sheets, it only puts every other name on the x axis. You will see that there are bars with no names attached. As in previous years, it goes RD-Lawro-ECI-WSC and then in alphabetical order (First name-Last name). Your letter codes are the same as in the leaderboard. Because no shows are included in the graph to shame them, the order should stay the same every week, unless new players start. Hopefully this reduces some of the anxiety around receipt of your predictions. A message is displayed on the form to tell you that you have successfuly submitted.

Leaderboard (>2/3 available weeks; 9/13)

To this week's predictions...

I'm putting up the weekend predictions and the midweek predictions for next week because I'm organised and stuff. Blog up next week for the next weekend fixtures will hopefully have results, but can't promise I'll turn it around in time.

M14 Predos:

M15 Predos:



Good luck all