Football prediction results

[undyingking]

Back in August I invited people to predict which teams were going to finish as the top 5 in the Premiership. And they did!

This is what actually happened:

1. Man Utd
2. Chelsea
3. Liverpool
4. Arsenal
5. Spurs

So, the top two changed places, but otherwise the same as last year. These were the predictions:

dr_bob

1. Chelsea
2. Arsenal
3. Man Utd
4. Spurs
5. Liverpool

colonel_maxim

1. Arsenal
2. Liverpool
3. Chelsea
4. Man Utd
5. Spurs

mrlloyd (as he now is)

1. Chelsea
2. Liverpool
3. Arsenal
4. Spurs
5. Man Utd

undyingking

1. Chelsea
2. Liverpool
3. Arsenal
4. Man Utd
5. Spurs

So everyone got the right top 5... well, OK, maybe that was the easy part. According to the by-now-familiar undyingking's Rank Correlation Coefficient, that gives scores of (small is good):

• 1.67 dr_bob
• 2.00 colonel_maxim
• 2.00 mrlloyd
• 1.55 undyingking

Well done again dr_bob, the only one not to wildly underestimate Sir Alex's merry men. But let's hope that next year things get shaken up a bit more...

Comments

[secretrebel.livejournal.com]

Okay, numbers are not my thing but how come dr_bob is top with 1.67 and two people below him have 2.00? Should dr_bob really have 2.67 or am I just displaying my ignorance of how the rank correlation works?

[mrlloyd.livejournal.com]

My god I got that seriously wrong. Hey ho, I'm sure I'll get it right this year :-)