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

[chrisvenus]

Spearman's is pretty much the same as yours. If you'd divided by four and subtracted it from 1 I think you'd have had spearman's. If you are doing no further analysis than you did then this is suitable since the ordering will be the same as spearman, you just won't be able to do as useful things as saying -1 is revere related (ie opposite order, etc.

Oh, actually I think you square rooted as well didn't you. Ah well, the ranking is definitely the same anyway. :)