FootballMad raves again - "something for the weekend, sir/madam?"

[Gordon McIvor Wilson]

FootballMad, our Matchbet tyro (aka the Astonishing Algorithm) has hand-crafted his selections for the weekend's footie and HERE THEY ARE. His judgement so far shows an overall return of 36%, not a bad investment to start rebuilding the household budget. This comes from the www.matchbet.com site by kind permisssion:

Our football tipster, using the brilliant Powertable Catalyst (www.catalyst.com) statistics, has had a good start: During the first two weeks, he had an overall return of 36% on his constant £50 stake on Premiership matches. This week's bets, an equal £5 stake on each event, placed by Footballmad, are as below.

Fixtures Teams Correct Scores Struck Bet with Matchbet.com Result Cash Flow

Fixture 1 Portsmouth v Everton 0-1, 1-1, 0-2, 1-2 £5 @ 2.09
Fixture 2 Birmingham v Bolton 0-0, 1-1, 0-1 £5 @ 2.77
Fixture 3 Blackburn v Aston 0-1, 1-0, 0-2, 1-2 £5 @ 2.59
Fixture 4 Liverpool v Hull 2-0, 2-1, 3-0, 3-1 £5 @ 2.20
Fixture 5 Stoke v Man Utd 0-1, 0-2, 1-2, 0-3 £5 @ 1.98
Fixture 6 Tottenham v Burnley 1-0, 2-0, 2-1 £5 @ 2.79
Fixture 7 Wigan v Chelsea 0-2, 1-2, 0-3, 1-3 £5 @ 2.20
Fixture 8 Fulham v Arsenal 1-2, 1-3 £5 @ 5.26
Fixture 9 Sunderland v Wolves 1-0, 2-0, 1-1, 2-1 £5 @ 2.05
Fixture 10 Man City v West Ham 2-0, 2-1 ,3-1 £5 @ 3.11

As usual, win or lose, Matchbet will publish the net winnings on the entire set on Monday. So, as time goes on, you, the punter can assess whether you should trust Footballmad's judgment.

[Gordon McIvor Wilson]

Bit of a disaster for FootballMad's 10 from the Premiership. Bit of a steward's enquiry on why the researched past results are not being borne out this season. Is it a sea-change and past form is no indicator; or is it a simple statistical glitch that will right itself next time.
Anyhow, whip round in the office to re-stake the Raving Loonie, and he'll be ranting on again this Saturday, aiming to restore his reputation.

From such a low start point, cant we tempt other Tipsters into the ring to show how they can do so much better?

[Gordon McIvor Wilson]

The Gods smile upon us and the last match of the weekend Premiership stuff redeemed our tipster with a projected 3-1 win for ManCity! Phew...Overall outcome beyond my simple arithmetic powers but I now see that our Algorithmic Analyst has done the math - not great, due to the high scoring anomalies from drastic team and management changes - destroyed the even tempo of history, ah well, there you go.

[Gordon McIvor Wilson]

Sin miedo, Amigos! as Wigan's manager might say, there are lies, damn lies and Statistics. Statistics have been shown woefully inadequate in forecasting results on the Premiership , our resident Tipster has found unhappily this weekend.

With one game to go tonight, only 3/9 have hit the forecast range of results, whilst 4 games show wildly higher scores than history suggested. Trends seem to have held up - home/away wins stand up in the main.

But what this experience shows is that there is a need for the tipster to exercise heavy-handed intervention in assessing current form, big cash spent on new players and so on. Only leaves ManCity/WHam tonight - forecast 2-0,2-1,3-1 might be a bit light after Arsenal's experience a fortnight ago!

***Roll up, roll up, new Tipsters wanted***

[Gordon McIvor Wilson]

Sorry, cant line up the figures, you get the idea - or go to www.matchbet.com/tipsters.

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