Mourinho may be coming to this season’s Premier League party late, but he still has two thirds of the season left to make his mark. Nobody doubts that he will…Read More >
Month: November 2019
Lower League Forecasts, Round 18, November 16
RED is distracted since the international break has put paid to the Premier League, Championship and the Football League’s basement battle between Stevenage and Oldham. Here are the lower league…Read More >
Premier League, R12 (8-10 Nov) — Have bookmakers learned their lesson when it comes to underestimating Leicester?
Have Leicester replaced Manchester Utd in the Premier League’s “top 6” sides? The Foxes certainly get value for money, compared with the distinct lack of value in the League’s most…Read More >
Championship, R16 (9-10 Nov, 2019) — Forest expected to beat Derby… As if!!!
Demonstrating our complete impartiality and scientific rigour when it comes to football forecasting, despite whatever biases we, the creators, might naturally have, the model actually predicts Nottingham Forest will beat…Read More >
Champions League, Gameweek 4, November 6-7
What’s in an abbreviation? Each game week, RED goes up against Jean-Louis Foulley, and we’ve realised we don’t have the same abbreviations for clubs. Should it be MCI, or MNC,…Read More >
Lower Leagues, Round 17, November 1
Sunderland aren’t ripping up trees this season in League One. But surely they won’t fail against abject Southend, with their single win and two draws from fifteen matches, right? RED…Read More >
Championship, R15 (1-4 Nov, 2019) — Barnsley favourites against Bristol City tonight according to “Super” computer, despite what the betting markets say
Barnsley host Bristol City tonight in the Friday evening championship kick-off. The University of Reading’s “Super” computer, a.k.a. RED, predicts that Barnsley are favourites in this fixture, with a 48%…Read More >
Premier League, R11 (2-3 Nov) — Another scary weekend for Southampton fans?
Halloween may be past us, but that won’t make this weekend any less scary for Southampton fans. After conceding 9 at home last time out, they travel to Manchester City…Read More >
Championship, R14 (26-28 Oct, 2019) — Retrospective… (We forgot last week!)
The table below gives the Model’s forecasts for Round 14 of the English Championship, a little bit late…, along with forecast probabilities estimated from current online bookmaker odds. Expected Goals: the forecast average…Read More >