April 19, 2013
EI Match Probabilities for the English Premier League
It’s been a busy day but I’ve finally got the probabilities for this weekend’s matches completed....
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April 12, 2013
EI Match Predictions for the English Premier League
Here we go with this week’s predictions from the Eastwood Index (EI)!...
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April 05, 2013
EI Match Predictions for the English Premier League
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...
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April 02, 2013
Understanding Total Shot Ratio in Football
The use of Total Shot Ratio (or TSR) seems to have slowly been gaining ground so I thought it would be worth analyzing the statistic in more detail to see what it can and cannot do.
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March 28, 2013
EI Match Predictions for the English Premier League
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 continue to beat the bookmakers!
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March 21, 2013
How Accurate Are The EI Football Predictions?
Unfortunately time caught up with me last week and I was unable to post any predictions from my Eastwood Index. However, since then I have been busy validating the results to see how accurate the predictions really are using the 296 matches played in the English Premier League...
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March 13, 2013
Is Brendan Rogers Improving Liverpool?
As well as using my EI Index to predict future matches, it can also be used to look back at how team’s performances have changed over time. An interesting example is Liverpool, who sacked Kenny Dalglish at the end of the 2011–2012 season to bring in Brendan Rogers from Swansea City.
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March 08, 2013
EI Match Predictions for the English Premier League
Here we go again!
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March 01, 2013
EI Match Predictions for the English Premier League
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!...
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February 28, 2013
EI Match Predictions for the English Premier League
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.
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