S15M17-21: Results only

This is a monthly blog. Anyone who says anything to the contrary is a liar, a charlatan and a fraud and you should dissociate yourselves from them, immediately.

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Let's get statty:

Matchday 17

This week, 20 people played
Most popular predicted result: Man City WIN (20/20)
Most disputed predicted result: Leeds vs Crystal Palace (5-7-8 split)

Highest odds: Feneley (1,500/1)
Lowest odds: Josh Daniels (927/1)
Average odds: 1,168/1

Best predictors: 4 of you (7/10)
Worst predictors: Joseph Machta & Chris Sutton (3/10)
Average score: 5.45/10

Best predicted result: Man City WIN (20/20)
Worst predicted result: Bournemouth vs Burnley DRAW (1/20 - Well done Zoe Daniels)

Matchday 18

This week, 22 people played
Most popular predicted result: Liverpool & Man City WINS (22/22)
Most disputed predicted result: West Ham vs Fulham (5-8-9 split)

Highest odds: Josh Daniels (4,355/1)
Lowest odds: Feneley (2,841/1)
Average odds: 3,406/1

Best predictor: Geoffrey Skolnick (7/10)
Worst predictor: WhoScored.com (2/10)
Average score: 5.09/10

Best predicted result: Liverpool & Man City WINS (22/22)
Worst predicted result: Sunderland vs Leeds DRAW (3/20)

Matchday 19

This week, 23 people played
Most popular predicted result: Man Utd, Chelsea & Newcastle WINS (23/23)
Most disputed predicted result: Brentford vs Spurs (8-10-5 split)

Highest odds: Hannah Daniels (2,914/1)
Lowest odds: Feneley (276/1)
Average odds: 1,112/1

Best predictors: Loads of you (4/10)
Worst predictors: Loads of you (2/10)
Average score: 3.05/10

Best predicted result: Newcastle WIN (23/23)
Worst predicted result: Chelsea vs Bournemouth & Man Utd vs Wolves DRAW (0/23)

Matchday 20

This week, 21 people played
Most popular predicted result: Aston Villa WIN (21/21)
Most disputed predicted result: Leeds vs Man Utd (8-6-7 split)

Highest odds: AFM (4,230/1)
Lowest odds: Aron Kleiman (1,164/1)
Average odds: 2,589/1

Best predictors: AFM & Zoe Daniels (6/10)
Worst predictor2: Eli Daniels (2/10)
Average score: 4.14/10

Best predicted result: Aston Villa WIN (21/21)
Worst predicted result: Man City vs Chelsea DRAW (0/21)

Matchday 21

This week, 22 people played
Most popular predicted result: Man City WIN (22/22)
Most disputed predicted result: West Ham vs Nott(s) Forest (7-6-9 split)

Highest odds: Geoffrey Skolnick (2,791/1)
Lowest odds: Feneley (1,008/1)
Average odds: 1,768/1

Best predictors: Daniel Wigman & Me (5/10)
Worst predictors: David Brickman & Geoffrey Skolnick (1/10)
Average score: 3.18/10

Best predicted result: Newcastle WIN (20/22)
Worst predicted result: Man City vs Brighton DRAW (0/22)

Everyone's score:

Leaderboard (>2/3; /)

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Blog on Friday with M22 results & new predos. I promise. Maybe.

S15M17: Nothing to see

This is a weekly blog. Anyone who says anything to the contrary is fake news. Don't bother checking.

S15M12: Snoods out for the lads

As is tradition, post-international break blogs are short. Mainly because I can't remember what happened, outside of one specific match.

I'm not really one for international football but my word did my Irish & Scottish heritage kick in this week. By which I mean trips to both countries to sample their liquid culture. Wonderful stuff. Troy Parrott should now retire as he'll never have a better week, and I can't decide which Scottish worldie is my fav goal - McTominaldo's overheard, KT inverting to curve one past klubmate Kaspar from 20 yards or the pump-fake from halfway. Obviously, given my real heritage, which is Set Piece FC, I'm going for their second goal...class

But we're back in it now. Temperature drops. Passions rise. Lezgo....

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Let's get statty:

This week, 22 people played
Most popular predicted result: Chelsea WIN (21/22)
Most disputed predicted result: Spurs vs Man Utd (10-7-5 split respectively)

Highest odds: AFM (6,632/1)
Lowest odds: Josh Daniels (1,434/1)
Average odds: 3,301/1

Best predictor: David Brickman (8/10)
Worst predictor: Hannah Daniels (2/10)
Average score: 5.14/10

Best predicted result: Chelsea WIN (21/22)
Worst predicted result: Sunderland vs Arsenal DRAW (2/21)

Everyone's score:

Leaderboard (>2/3; 8/11)

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To this week's predos:

Good luck all

S15M11: We're safe (for now)

Its's 2025. I'm a busy man. So I did what anybody would do. I asked ChatGPT to lighten my load.

My load is not lightened.

After four attempts, it’s clear that asking ChatGPT to write a football blog is like asking a goldfish to explain offside. The enthusiasm’s there — lots of words, plenty of confidence — but somewhere between the algorithmic optimism and the “irreverent tone” brief, it loses the plot. One version started musing about kettles, another reviewed imaginary teams, and by the third, we’d entered full existential crisis territory. So, rather than risk another 400 words of synthetic banter and misplaced metaphor, we’re cutting our losses. The AI’s gone back to its data cave, and we’re sticking to what it can’t ruin — the results. Cold, clean, factual results. No tangents, no tortured analogies, no leaf-clearing philosophy. Just the scores, as they happened, free from poetic interpretation or robotic rambling. Sometimes you have to admit defeat, whistle for full-time, and take the point. Now, on to the football.

This weekend saw an interesting series of events where all the models (av 7.1) outperformed the normal, regular joes (av 5.5) by quite a bit. This isn't quite an AI thing, but made me think about how expertise has been reviewed in isolation, and what a collated model might be, One for the off season perhaps...

S15M10: Back on the Wagon

Apparently I've not written anything for weeks. Oops.

I knew I'd slacked for a couple, but...yeah, sorry.

The good news is that my lack of blogs have coincided with a rotten run of form for Liverpool. So, if they win this weekend, maybe this will be the last blog I write this season....

Anyway, I'm not recapping everything. Plenty to get through to update below so we'll just crack on

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Let's get statty:

M6

This week, 23 people played
Most popular predicted result: Man City WIN (23/23)
Most disputed predicted result: Brentford vs Man Utd (9-6-8 split)

Highest odds: Steven Daniels (3,170/1)
Lowest odds: Feneley (623/1)
Average odds: 1,808/1

Best predictor: Joe Abbott (5/10)
Worst predictors: Loads of us (2/10)
Average score: 3.09/10

Best predicted result: Man City WIN (23/23)
Worst predicted result: Crystal Palace & Brighton WINS (0/23)

M7

This week, 24 people played
Most popular predicted result: Arsenal WIN (24/24)
Most disputed predicted result: Man Utd vs Sunderland (12-5-7 split)

Highest odds: Josh Daniels (4,106/1)
Lowest odds: AFM (605/1)
Average odds: 2,605/1

Best predictor: Eli Daniels (8/10)
Worst predictor: Zoe Daniels (4/10)
Average score: 6.13/10

Best predicted result: Arsenal WIN (24/24)
Worst predicted result:Wolves vs Brighton (1/24 - Well done Daniel Wigman)

M8

This week, 22 people played
Most popular predicted result: Man City, Arsenal & Chelsea WINS (22/22)
Most disputed predicted result: Brighton vs Newcastle (8-8-6 split)

Highest odds: Feneley (1,946/1)
Lowest odds: Geoffrey Skolnick (1,346/1)
Average odds: 1,750/1

Best predictors: Zoe Daniels & Opta (7/10)
Worst predictor: Chris Sutton (3/10)
Average score: 4.77/10

Best predicted result: Man City, Arsenal & Chelsea WINS (22/22)
Worst predicted result: Aston Villa WIN (0/22)

M9

This week, 25 people played
Most popular predicted result: Arsenal & Chelsea WINS (25/25)
Most disputed predicted result: Everton vs Spurs (8-5-12 split)

Highest odds: Fenely (2,570/1)
Lowest odds: Josh Daniels (352/1)
Average odds: 1,465/1

Best predictor: David Brickman (8/10)
Worst predictors: David Graniewitz, David Silverman & Joe Abbott (4/10)
Average score: 5.80/10

Best predicted result: Arsenal WIN (25/25)
Worst predicted result: Aston Villa & Sunderland WINS (0/25)

Everyone's score:

Leaderboard (>2/3; 7/9)

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To this week's predos:

Good luck all

S15M6: Light Jacket

Oh look. A one matchweek blog.

Wonders will never cease...

What happened? Well...

Liverpool beat Everton 2–1 in a derby that felt like two cousins arguing over who gets the last roast potato. Gravenberch scored, Ekitike scored, and then Everton remembered they exist, before promptly forgetting again. Slot grinned the grin of a man who has found both his car keys and a tenner in the same pocket.

Arsenal versus Manchester City was meant to be grandmaster chess. Instead it was toddlers with soup spoons. City executed a never seen-before-game-plan, Arsenal huffed, and then in the 93rd minute Martinelli lobbed in a goal so audacious it should have been wearing a fake moustache. One-all, both sides left clutching a balloon animal shaped like disappointment. I left to go to work. I was VERY tired on Monday

Over in Manchester, United and Chelsea staged a farce in the Surrey Derby. Red cards fell like confetti at a budget wedding. Casemiro scored, then received his own eviction notice. Chelsea’s goalkeeper vanished early as if he was a united fan needing to beat the traffic home. Somehow it ended 2–1 to United, though no one was entirely sure whether they’d watched football or avant-garde theatre.

Elsewhere, Brighton and Spurs played a 2–2 that resembled polite applause, Burnley and Forest refused to acknowledge each other’s existence, and West Ham quietly surrendered to Crystal Palace. Aston Villa finally scored a goal after weeks of striking a vow of silence, but then immediately spoiled it with a red card, gifting Sunderland a way back.

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Let's get statty:

This week, 22 people played
Most popular predicted result: Liverpool WIN (19/22)
Most disputed predicted result: Brighton vs Spurs (7-7-8 split)

Highest odds: Aron Kleiman (18,6211)
Lowest odds: Hannah Daniels (2098/1)
Average odds: 10,508/1

Best predictors: Feneley, Wigman, Oliver Kay (6/10)
Worst predictors: Steven Daniels, Oli Elton (2/10)
Average score: 3.91/10

Best predicted result: Liverpool WIN (19/22)
Worst predicted result: Man Utd WIN (1/22 - Well done Daniel Wigman)

Everyone's score:

Leaderboard (>2/3; 4/5)

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To this week's predos:

Good luck all

S15M5: General Purpose Blogging

Right, first things first — sorry for ghosting. I know, I know… weeks without a post and you’ve been left fending for yourselves in the cruel, chaotic wilderness of football predictions. Honestly, I had every intention of sitting down, rattling out some words, but then life turned up like a two-footed tackle from behind. Work, family, random nonsense — all piled in like Burnley on a counter-attack, and suddenly writing about football felt about as doable as Allardyce taking a yoga class. So yeah, apologies for the radio silence. I haven’t stopped caring. I’ve just been knackered, distracted, and running around like a headless chicken who also somehow has three spreadsheets due by 5pm.

Still, we’re back. Or at least, I’m back. The blog didn’t die. It just had a little nap.

Now, about those four matchdays I’ve not written about… nah. Not happening. You’ll cope. If you desperately need a blow-by-blow recap of every misplaced pass and dodgy refereeing decision, then maybe I’ll set up a Patreon for the truly masochistic among you. You can pay me to rant at length while I slowly lose what’s left of my sanity. But for free? You’re getting the highlights going forward, not the DVD extras.

So, we'll skip ahead to this week's fixtures

The weekend kicks off with Liverpool vs Everton, aka the annual Merseyside street fight disguised as football — expect chaos, cards, and Slot veins bulging by minute 10. Brighton vs Spurs should be fun if you like one team passing triangles and the other sprinting like they’re late for last orders. Burnley vs Forest feels like the kind of match only their mums will watch, while West Ham vs Palace screams “1-1 and nobody happy.”

Wolves vs Leeds could be frantic — both allergic to control. Then the soap opera: Man United vs Chelsea, where two clubs spend like oil barons but defend like Sunday leaguers. Fulham vs Brentford is West London’s hipster derby, usually entertaining, usually chaotic.

Sunday brings Bournemouth vs Newcastle — Cherries scrappy, Toon explosive, could go either way. Sunderland vs Villa is a wild throwback; Villa should win but Sunderland at home will fancy their chances of ruining parlays nationwide. And then the heavyweight: Arsenal vs Man City. Title credentials, tactical chess, and at least one Guardiola meltdown about “the schedule.”

Strap in: someone’s season is about to implode, someone else will be “in crisis,” and VAR will still make it all unbearable.