If privately you’ve been thinking that this prediction game can be mastered, the last few days will doubtless have made you feel a bit foolish. This was the hardest week to predict, ever. Fittingly, on the 100th anniversary of the Titanic going down (commemorated so brilliantly by Ashley Young in Sunday’s game) our punditry hit a rather large iceberg. Only 4 scores were correctly forecast (this compares with 23, 37, 25, and 40 in the previous four weeks). No one envisaged Wigan’s second giant slaying or Sunderland’s and Wolve’s draw. And despite Chelsea having a reasonable track record for periodically annihilating Spurs not a pundit amongst us went for 1-5.
As a result it’s not been a good week if your name is Roger, much better if you’re called Daniel and if you are Peter Fiennes you are entitled to hold court for the next few days. For the rest of us this could possibly be the ‘look away now moment’ as very few people raised their football credibility. (The table below has the details. Click on it to make it bigger)
Keener observers of the AMNT results will have picked up that we’ve replaced the perfect score table with a new clairvoyance table (3rd column above) which shows how many points each player scored from each game they predicted. Whilst to some extent this is Statto doing one or two statistical step-overs, it will hopefully massage egos and ruin reputations in equal measure and become a welcome innovation. As ever the full predictions chart is revealed below, so check out the 4 perfect scores we managed from 240 attempts.
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