football
One game to play!
Posted January 17th, 2009 by ims25
With one game each to play in the Premier League, we've updated our football animation to the new season's results.
May the best team win
Posted December 3rd, 2007 by david
Luck or skill? suggested using the average number of points per match as an estimate of an underlying quality measure, leading to confidence intervals and uncertainties about ranks. Here we discuss a simple mathematical model that gave rise to those results.
Luck or skill?
Posted November 28th, 2007 by david
Premier League showed how the points in the Premier League table developed over the 2006-2007 season, but what distribution of points would you get by chance alone?
Football Leagues
Posted November 16th, 2007 by david
The Premier League is the main English football league, with 20 teams each playing a home and away against each other team making, 38 matches for each team in a season, and 380 matches altogether. Teams are awarded 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw, 0 for losing, and the league position is decided on total points, with equal points decided by goal difference (goals for minus goals against). At the end of the season the bottom 3 teams are relegated.
