S12M25: Enough

I pride  myself on, for the most part being a rationale actor. Logic is beautiful. Easily deconstructed narratives are silly. As previously discussed, I'm a footballing snob. 

I know and enjoy being swept up in an emotive maelstrom, but equally, enjoy the post-hoc backtracking as the brain takes over from the spleen, which I'm sure is the part of the the body responsible for venting abuse at referees.

If some historic civilisation had come up with an apocryphal story about the organs fighting for supremacy, I'd want to know that they'd put the brain at the bottom. Stuck up stupid organ. Because when push comes to shove, the heart always comes out on top. With TDD. With highs and lows. With massive overreactions to single events - anecdote triumphing over data. 

Whilst I'm at it, evolution is stupid too.

Anyway, the point of all this, is that we're not even 2/3 of the way through this season and so there is literally everything to play for.

Well, not literally. Arsenal and Man City are not getting relegated. Southampton and Leeds will not win the league. But LITERALLY everything else.

As we saw. Arsenal rescued 1 point and then 2 more at the expense of Emi Martinez. Brentford got a similarly late goal to rescue a point at home to Palace. The high scoring weekend continued with single goal victories for Fulham (great late goal against the run of play), Southampton (great free kick for JWB) and Everton who I think we can call safe now. Bournemouth also got a very valuable 3 points at Molineux.

The other late goal was at the City Ground where Forest scored with their only shot on target with 5 to play to hold Man City to a draw. Momentum swinging like the cradle of Sir Isaac.

Newcastle pressed self-destruct on entering the pitch vs Liverpool - 2 goals and a GK red card inside 22 mins. Liverpool kindly then took the button off them so it didn't get too embarrassing, but then forgot to give it back before they went home and ....well...Tuesday happened.

Comfortable home wins on the Sunday for Man Utd & Spurs. Nothing much to say there.

Let's get statty:

This week, 17 people played
Most popular predicted result: Man Utd WIN (17/17)
Most disputed prediction: Newcastle vs Liverpool (5-4-8 split)

Highest odds: Steven Daniels (493/1)
Lowest odds: Josh Daniels (322/1)
Average odds: 408/1

Best predictor: Zoe Daniels (6/10)
Worst predictor: WhoScored.Com (1/10)
Average score: 3.88/10

Best predicted result: Man Utd WIN (17/17)
Worst predicted result: Fulham WIN (0/17)

Everyone's results:


Leaderboard (>2/3; 17/24)

This week's predos (8 games because of LC final - pro-rated):

Good luck all!