2019-20 W-League Predictions – Round 7

It took a 5-0 victory over the first placed team, but our system is finally kind of on board with the Wanderers. They’re still rated last, and Sydney are still top, but the margins are no longer ridiculous in both cases, and they’re not far off falling away.

2019-20 A-League Predictions – Round 12

It was a difficult week for predictions, with two draws and two upset victories – Melbourne Victory pulling out an impressive performance against their rivals (for once) and Central Coast claiming a rare victory against Adelaide. (That is, all Mariners victories are rare. Not necessarily wins over Adelaide, although, by extent…)

2019-20 A-League Predictions – Round 11

Soccer Predictions – 2019 EAFF E-1 Football Championship, Matches 5 & 6

We fixed up our soccer spreadsheet after finding out that we weren’t properly incorporating new results. The problems of doing everything in Google Sheets, we guess? That said, our predictions are complete and ready for the final matches of the EAFF Championship.

Soccer Predictions – 2019 EAFF E-1 Football Championship, Matches 3 & 4

The organisers for this competition made the right choice with a South Korea v Japan last match, considering that those two started with wins and are now by far more likely to win. The Japanese conceding a late goal may come back to haunt them, considering they now have goal difference to make up. Every chance they can though, and the title chances are neck and neck.

2019-20 A-League Predictions – Round 10

A very bottom-heavy A-League season is emerging – eight games in, and Wellington Phoenix are in the top half with a 3-1-4 record. Based on our (grain-of-salt worthy) predictions, it’ll even out a little more. Sydney will be far and away on top, then a host of teams in competition for the other five finals spots, roughly even. Then again, our system isn’t swayed by Western United yet, so…

2019-20 W-League Predictions – Round 5

We tanked our predictions completely last week, getting three of the four games wrong (the other was a draw) and basically doubling our Bits score – in the negative direction. At this point, we need to ask serious questions about why our system’s performing so poorly; and we have two hypotheses for it:

Soccer Predictions – 2019 EAFF E-1 Football Championship, Matches 1 & 2

Alright, we fully expect many of you to ignore this post. And that’s totally fine. But our commitment to keeping track of all the international soccer for our AFC qualifier predictions. And these include the five regional federations.

Being the huge continent it is, the AFC is subdivided into five regions, all of whom have their own championships:

• The West Asian Football Federation played theirs in August 2019 after several delays (we were embarrassed to discover that we’d been leaving this out of our dataset, thus affecting the ratings)
• The newly formed Central Asian Football Association hasn’t played a championship yet, although it’s pencilled in to be played in Uzbekistan
• The South Asian Football Federation last held their championship in 2018, won by the football titans of the Maldives
• The ASEAN Football Federation’s tournament, which Australia considers beneath it, was won by Vietnam in 2018

And now, it’s time for the East Asian Football Federation.

2019-20 A-League Predictions – Round 9

2019-20 W-League Predictions – Round 4

Our system continues to be incredibly pessimistic about the Western Sydney Wanderers, who are now 3-0 and still only tipped to finish sixth. If they can get another victory, they’ll a) continue to tank our predictions, and b) probably get right up in the leaderboard. Indeed, there’s two epic Sydney v Melbourne games coming up, both of which will be the biggest test yet for the undefeated Sydney sides.