'Super Computer' predicts FINAL PL table

[mawspurs]

Bloomberg Sports have put their super computer's rep – on the line and predicted the entire final table before a ball is kicked.

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[greaves]

Bloomberg Sports have put their super computer's rep – on the line and predicted the entire final table before a ball is kicked.

Read the full article at talkSPORT

These 'boffins'. I don't know. I'd put them back in their dossier and shove them in a warchest.

 

[Gassin's finest]

Really... a "super computer" told them that? Almost exactly the same sort of prediction we'd all make down the pub on a Thursday night?

 

[Matthew Gilbert]

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that last year, this computer only got one place correct.... Arsenal finishing 4th

 

[brasil_spur]

QPR 2nd from bottom is all i needed to see to realise it was bollocks.

If there's one thing Harry is good at it's keeping his team out of the relegation zone (with a full season behind him).

That plus some of the players they have signed (and no doubt will sign) this summer and i can't see QPR being lower than 14th.

 

[GeneralBurk]

Doesn't look a million miles out for me. The top 2 look unassailable. United and Arsenal have improved. Liverpool having lost Suarez and having to play more than 41 games will find it tougher going.

I agree QPR should be better than 19th without Mark Hughes' mercenaries. Swansea look suspiciously high and maybe Stoke could crack top 8. Villa relegated looks a certainty and nobody knows where Southampton will finish but 10 looks ambitious to say the least.

As for us it hard to make a judgement but I'm 'quietly confident' on the basis that all the squad changes from last season will be bedded in and hopefully the issues in defence have been addressed.

AVB knocked out all my positivity. There's only so many times the top 6 can humiliate you.

 

[WalkerboyUK]

Did it also manage to predict injuries and suspensions? If not, then the results and final table are utter bollocks.

 

[punky]

That table looks pretty nailed-on to me. Some teams may be 1 or two places out of position but close enough.

 

[CrankyPants90]

The so called super computer utilizes data from previous year's data, and data from PL years, which is pretty evident from how the table is lined up.

They cannot take in all sorts of human margin of errors into consideration, for eg, suspensions, injuries or how shit of a manager David Moyes was for MU. It could give you a rough estimate of how many there would be... but that would be obsolete now, considering we have no King, or that we have a fully fit Lamela for eg. It gives a fair idea of the status quo, provided no team punches above or below their weights.

It is a beautiful piece of science, appreciate it for what it is. Oh and it is bound to be wrong, no prediction comes true ever!

 

[iambasil]

There are all sorts of different ways they could have got to their initial team ratings. The value of a 'supercomputer' (which certainly doesn't need to be that powerful at all for what they have done) generating such a table is not about predicting the outcomes, it's about forecasting the likelihood correctly and the distributions around that. That's where the value is, which is something your average punter or fan down the pub would find harder to assess.

Algorithm is such an over-used (and normally incorrectly applied) word...

 

[postigol]

I expect us to finish 5th or 6th, so sounds about right.

 

[theShiznit]

Did it also manage to predict injuries and suspensions? If not, then the results and final table are utter bollocks.

Yes, it predicts everything.

It plays out every game, and every player's private live.
for instance here is a line of script from the 100'000 pages of final workings.
Jack Wilshere goes out for chips on a friday night and puts on an extra 0.3lbs of fat, making him 0.729% less efficient in their game Vs Hull, resulting in him only lasting 72 minutes, but due to the fact that Arsenal have had to substitute on a keeper after SirChesney was sent off after he forgot he was not 90's Javelin sensation Steve Backley and threw a Javelin into the neck of Steve Bruce, which everyone laughed at (RIP Bruce) they have no subs remaining and are left down to 10 men, against a Hull now inspired by the fact they no longer have to look at widow twankie's face every morning. Hull 2 Vs Arsenal 1.

So it is quite thorough...

 

[Lilbaz]

Didn't the FM simulations last season have us finishing 3rd or something?

 

[teok]

Have we heard what paul the octopus thinks yet?

 

[Sir Henry]

Liverlol finish above us once in the last 5 years, they lose their best player by far and do a worse than Tottenham last season by buying up a load of shite and have them above us again. I'm sure that super computer is what I released into the thames only a few hours ago.

 

[dwayne-mooney]

Seems about right.

QPR wont go down though.

We wont get 4th.

 

[Lilbaz]

Have we heard what paul the octopus thinks yet?

Paul's spilt milk baby.

 

[Gaz_Gammon]

About right i think.

 

[FITZ]

Love the stat that we have 0% chance of relegation.

 

[fatpiranha]

So basically the Sporting Index spread predictions .

I'm betting this doesn't work out too well. Last season SPIN's opening spreads for each team varied from 15.5 pts too high to 18.5 pts too low and only a single premiership team actually fell within their 1.5 pt spread.