Good question ! They appear to have taken advice about the collection, use and presentation of the data from some form of expert. I can’t claim to be any form of expert, just an enthusiastic amateur backed by a maths degree which i’ve Long since forgotten !!Why have they opted for 3 years do you think?
I'm sure I saw an article on the bbc website saying some computer boffins had worked around 10,000 scenarios of outcomes for the most likely finish to the season and the bottom 3 would remain the same.
When I was a kid I used to have 2 dice, different coloured for the home and away teams. Pen and paper had all the fixtures on them. Dice were thrown. A six was no goals but 1-5 were the respective scores. So I could go through seasons simulating results.
Probably a little sad in retrospect but in a pre-internet age my results were just a likely as thousands of computer simulations done today.
The EFL just needs to tell clubs that it'll be done on PPG this season and suck that up. Alternatively invest in 2 dice and risk it to chance for all remaining fixtures for all clubs
I like your system! Let's use that for the remainder of the games.
I'm convinced that's exactly what these boffins actually do
When I was a kid I used to have 2 dice, different coloured for the home and away teams. Pen and paper had all the fixtures on them. Dice were thrown. A six was no goals but 1-5 were the respective scores. So I could go through seasons simulating results.
Probably a little sad in retrospect but in a pre-internet age my results were just a likely as thousands of computer simulations done today.
The EFL just needs to tell clubs that it'll be done on PPG this season and suck that up. Alternatively invest in 2 dice and risk it to chance for all remaining fixtures for all clubs
I don’t know if anybody remembers a board game called Wembley, I still have mine. Although it was based around the FA Cup it had different coloured dice for home and away teams dependant on which division you were in. It always grated with me that Lincoln wasn’t one of the Div 3/4 clubs included but these clubs had a blue dice for the home team and a white dice for the away team. The home dice had more larger numbers on it than the away dice and thus weighed towards the home team. These seems just as sensible as the Tranmere proposal.I must also be a little sad as I did the same thing only used the league clubs that began with L just 5 of them after Orient dropped the Leyton. Amazing how often Lincoln topped this mini table. Seem to recall playing a cricket game with dice, 1,2,3,4 and 6 were runs 5 out roll the dice again for how out. Life was so simple.
I don’t know if anybody remembers a board game called Wembley, I still have mine. Although it was based around the FA Cup it had different coloured dice for home and away teams dependant on which division you were in. It always grated with me that Lincoln wasn’t one of the Div 3/4 clubs included but these clubs had a blue dice for the home team and a white dice for the away team. The home dice had more larger numbers on it than the away dice and thus weighed towards the home team. These seems just as sensible as the Tranmere proposal.
I am interested in your use of capital letters, Dom: are you suggesting that 'the Prick' is now an official alter ego of the person concerned?Count the contradictions and errors if you can bear listening to the Prick for longer than ten minutes.
You are right about replacing teams. I replaced Port Vale with Lincoln and despite my best efforts we never won the FA Cup.
It really is a pinch yourself moment to look back and reflect that as a non league side we got to the last 8. It already feels like a long time ago though with what is going on.we did get closer to winning it in real life though Kettrin
It really is a pinch yourself moment to look back and reflect that as a non league side we got to the last 8. It already feels like a long time ago though with what is going on.