Sky's Championship Prediction

[bromtom]

Bit early like touch wood cross fingers one game at a time and all that but still, it's very nice being held in such high regard if only for how much it annoys Wendy fans haha

Link
http://www.skysports.com/football/n...ston-villa-wolves-and-others-tipped-to-finish

 

[Carlton Blade]

I'm a big fan of statistical analysis and using it to help understand what has happened and why. But as a tool for predicting future football results it's absolutely useless

 

[Tyler Durden]

Ooh Birmingham 61% to go down. Couldn't happen to a nicer club, or a certain jug-eared cunt of a striker for that matter.

 

[s4-blade]

I’d love it work out out like that but, let’s be honest, that prediction is fucking ridiculous. Look at the positions of Villa, Sunderland and Cardiff for example.

 

[Bladebri]

Ooh Birmingham 61% to go down. Couldn't happen to a nicer club, or a certain jug-eared cunt of a striker for that matter.

Who’s that then

 

[DronnieBlade]

Boro will go up.

We will get play offs.

Not sure about the rest.

UTB

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

I'm a big fan of statistical analysis and using it to help understand what has happened and why. But as a tool for predicting future football results it's absolutely useless

That's right, second?

Reight load o'bollocks.

 

[bromtom]

I'm a big fan of statistical analysis and using it to help understand what has happened and why. But as a tool for predicting future football results it's absolutely useless

Aye, but you know there'll be loads of Wednesdayites coughing and spluttering going "bobbar bobbar we'll finish above pigs Carlos Carlos massive Sid James.jpg" and for that alone it's worth doing haha

 

[Carlton Blade]

Sky are a nightmare for shit like this. They've invested nothing in any sort of statistical analysis on football and then spew stuff like this up with no theory to back it up. Lazy

 

[jt64]

Elo based systems are probably better than most ranking systems but as it's taking into account previous seasons it's probably a load of bollocks, and if I wanted an accurate line on us to go up I'd look at oddschecker first

 

[Silent Blade]

Cardiff only 1%? Why is this? They are currently in 3rd place

 

[Roygbiv]

Cardiff same chance of promotion as Sunderland?

 

[metalblade]

What a load of bollocks, they have one thing right though the pigs will struggle just to make the play offs.

 

[SwissBlade]

I won't agree with anything that predicts we'll finish lower than Champions

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Bet the FGs are watching

 

[I should coco]

it's very nice being held in such high regard if only for how much it annoys Wendy fans haha

If that is all it achieves, it is still a worthwhile exercise.

Having said that I can't see the scabs finishing in the top 6, nor Villa and Boro finishing outside.

 

[Boxer Blade]

Its like the weather forecast, predict warm sunny weather? brilliant, predict snow and sub zero temperatures? What the fuck do they know

 

[dublin 10 blade]

Didn't some fucker from a Manchester sports university , predict last year
That Bolton where doing to win the league and we'd struggle into the playoffs
Great we are second and 9 points from 7 th and
4 games up on the pigs but let's not count to many chicken yet

 

[sitwell]

Did Adam Boulton do this in his dinner hour ?

 

[Harry's Game]

Putting Bolton outside the relegation zone rather dilutes the authority of this analysis.

 

[snootyfenooty]

Cardiff only 1%? Why is this? They are currently in 3rd place

Yeah, I noticed that. Villa in the same boat too, which tends to make a mockery of the whole lot.

 

[super_pig]

Boro will go up.

We will get play offs.

Not sure about the rest.

UTB

boro aren't all that.. neither are villa

 

[Blade-on-Tyne]

I'm a big fan of statistical analysis and using it to help understand what has happened and why. But as a tool for predicting future football results it's absolutely useless

At the 99% confidence level I'd say you are correct.

 

[Blade-on-Tyne]

Did Adam Boulton do this in his dinner hour ?

More likely to be Kay Burley

 

[spongebobblade]

So North Barnsley are fancied more than South Barnsley then?

 

[blade too long]

Sky are a nightmare for shit like this. They've invested nothing in any sort of statistical analysis on football and then spew stuff like this up with no theory to back it up. Lazy

dont be silly they use the latest in forecasting

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Very interesting predictions from Sky for the season just finished

and here, and here from other threads

https://s24su.com/forum/index.php?threads/bbc-championship-prediction-table.56758/


https://s24su.com/forum/index.php?threads/championship-predictions-2017-18.56644/

and the poll

https://s24su.com/forum/index.php?threads/predictions-for-next-season.54403/

 

[sufcboy95]

Cardiff didn’t do bad with a 1% chance of top 2