Published on November 24, 2015 by Martin Eastwood
Updated Massey ratings for the English Premier League showing how well teams are really doing when you account for their strength of schedule...
Read MorePublished on December 04, 2014 by Martin Eastwood
In part one I introduced Massey Ratings and how they can be used to rank football teams in a way that accounts for their strength of schedule. Next, we’ll take a look at how Massey Ratings can be e...
Read MorePublished on November 27, 2014 by Martin Eastwood
We all know the league table can lie and one of the common causes of this is strength of schedule. Take Southampton, at the time of writing they are currently second in the Premier League twelve ma...
Read MorePublished on November 04, 2014 by Martin Eastwood
I’ve not posted this for a while so here is the latest Pythagorean for the English Premier League.
Read MorePublished on April 04, 2014 by Martin Eastwood
I’ve not posted an update on the Pythagorean for the English Premier League (EPL) for a while so the latest figures are below.
Read MorePublished on January 20, 2014 by Martin Eastwood
Welome back! Now that I'm no longer part of Onside Analysis I'm free to start blogging again so let's start off by taking a look at how my football Pythagorean is doing for the English Premier Leag...
Read MorePublished on May 23, 2013 by Martin Eastwood
I demonstrated in my last post that the odds calculated using the Eastwood Index were slightly more accurate than the bookmakers over the course of the football season. My next goal is to work out ...
Read MorePublished on May 21, 2013 by Martin Eastwood
It’s the end of the season so it’s time to review how the Eastwood Index performed over the year and how it compared with the bookmakers...
Read MorePublished on May 17, 2013 by Martin Eastwood
We have finally reached the end of the season so for the last time in 2012-2013 here are the Eastwood Index’s (EI) probabilities for the English Premier League...
Read MorePublished on May 10, 2013 by Martin Eastwood
Here are the latest match probabilities for the English Premier League calculated using the Eastwood Index (EI)...
Read MorePublished on May 03, 2013 by Martin Eastwood
Here are the latest match probabilities for the English Premier League calculated using the Eastwood Index (EI)...
Read MorePublished on April 26, 2013 by Martin Eastwood
It’s been a busy day but I’ve finally got the probabilities for this weekend’s matches completed....
Read MorePublished on April 19, 2013 by Martin Eastwood
It’s been a busy day but I’ve finally got the probabilities for this weekend’s matches completed....
Read MorePublished on April 12, 2013 by Martin Eastwood
Here we go with this week’s predictions from the Eastwood Index (EI)!...
Read MorePublished on April 05, 2013 by Martin Eastwood
A couple of weeks back I demonstrated how the EI is more accurate than the bookies based on rank probability scores but a few people have asked if I can do something a bit simpler so...
Read MorePublished on March 28, 2013 by Martin Eastwood
After last week’s international matches, domestic football is finally back so here are this weekend’s match predictions using my EI predictive model. Let’s see if it can keep up its good form and c...
Read MorePublished on March 08, 2013 by Martin Eastwood
Here we go again!
Read MorePublished on March 01, 2013 by Martin Eastwood
Since last week’s predictions turned out to be so popular I thought I would continue testing the EI index in public so here are this week’s predictions. Fingers crossed they turn out well again!......
Read MorePublished on February 28, 2013 by Martin Eastwood
Last week was a big test for my new EI index – it had finally reached the point where I was confident it was working well enough to post its predictions in public.
Read MorePublished on February 21, 2013 by Martin Eastwood
For a bit of fun, here is a trial run at predicting this weekend’s EPL matches using my EI ratings. I haven’t compared these with anyone else’s odds yet but they generally look about what I would h...
Read MorePublished on October 26, 2012 by Martin Eastwood
To make much sense of the statistics available for football we need to have an understanding of their context so I am planning on starting off simple by looking at baselines for various events and ...
Read MorePublished on October 19, 2012 by Martin Eastwood
After Manchester United’s recent defeat to Tottenham, Sir Alex Ferguson was once again furious about the amount of injury time played. He even went as far as to claim the four minutes Chris Foy add...
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