S12M21: Proverbial

We all love an aphorism. That shot of distilled wisdom cutting through much of the tumult of life. You hear it and think "yeah, that works". It's lifting.

Proverbs on the other hand are irritating. Glib. Easily disproven. Supercilious nonsense. I appreciate it's not mandatory to have strong feelings regarding linguistic devices, but this, I assume, is why you all check in.

You'll be no doubt waiting with bated breath to find the segue to football. To be honest, there wasn't one. PUNDITS LIKE PROVERBS, there you go. I just fell down a Google pit after wanting to discuss the whole London Bus waiting thing*. Basically, I was looking for an intro to explain why there was no blog last week, and have just irritated myself instead.

So, sorry. Stuff unexpectedly came up late last week - lots of stuff - and basically the blog was the thing to get guillotined. 

To be honest, it hasn't all dissipated just yet - so whilst I'd love to write a nice gloaty blog, bathing in the schadenfreude, I'm just going to get to the boatload of results below and repost the form for this week's predos.

Hopefully, normal service to be resumed next week.

*Someone has actually worked this stuff out. I fully plan to memorise this and regurgitate it when someone next uses the saying.

Let's get statty:

Matchday 18

18 people played

Most popular predicted result: Man City WIN (18/18)
Most disputed prediction: West Ham vs Brentford (7-6-5 split)

Highest odds: Aron Kleiman (444/1)

Lowest odds: Steven Daniels (348/1)

Average odds: 407/1

Best predictor: WhoScored.com (8/10)

Worst predictor: Raffi Kleiman (3/10)
Average score: 5.89/10

Best predicted result: Man City WIN (18/18)

Worst predicted result: Newcastle vs Leeds DRAW (0/18)

Matchday 19

18 people played

Most popular predicted result: Man Utd & Arsenal WINS (16/18)
Most disputed prediction: Everton vs Brighton (6-5-7 split)

Highest odds: Josh Daniels (2272/1)

Lowest odds: Steven Daniels (1571/1)

Average odds: 1967/1

Best predictor: Raffi Kleiman (7/10)

Worst predictors: Nicholas Taylor-Collins & David Silverman (1/10)
Average score: 3.5/10

Best predicted result: Man Utd WIN (16/18)

Worst predicted result: Notts Forest WIN (1/18) - Josh Daniels with the dub

Matchday 20

17 people played

Most popular predicted result: Newcastle WIN (16/17)
Most disputed prediction: Wolves vs West Ham (7-4-6 split)

Highest odds: Steven Daniels (6173/1)

Lowest odds: Andrew Feneley's Mother (3329/1)

Average odds: 4751/1

Best predictor: Josh Daniels (8/10)

Worst predictor: Raffi Kleiman (3/10)
Average score: 5.65/10

Best predicted result: Newcastle WIN (16/17)

Worst predicted result: Southampton WIN (1/17) - I am a literal GENIUS

Everyone's results:



Leaderboard (>2/3; 14/20)

This week's predos:



Good luck all!