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Rithvik Balakrishnan's avatar

As always, a great read. Has this uptick in scoring (and consequent increase in GD) had a significant impact on chances of winning league based on your projections?

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Scott Willis's avatar

The increase in goal difference is worth like half a point. If it is close it can be something that makes a difference

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Mat's avatar

Weirdly that huge Odegaard outlier looks like the West Ham home game, unless I’ve counted out wrong. Hated him that game, too many touches 🧐.

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Michael Budgen's avatar

Ok then Scotty Boy, if you took the ‘names’ off the 3 horses, ie removing all emotion, who would predict to win the league based on these metrics ???

I feel, the reason we didn’t win the league last year was that we ‘lost control’ of games, in Particular West Ham, Liverpool & Saints.

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Scott Willis's avatar

I think I’d still have Arsenal 3rd. My gut feeling right now is still City 40%, Liverpool 30%, Arsenal 30%. It’s all very close. I have a sneaking suspicion my model might put Arsenal number 1 but I think it doesn’t know how inevitable City feels.

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