Due to the madness of the tactical changes, I decide to engage the help of Cyberdyne systems to help crunch the number to see if they could do any better than me.
First the standard write-up A.I. free.
FK Partizan are the clear winner both of the league and the stats. +8 VA and finishing first leaves them above 2nd placed Lyon who have the 2nd highest VA in the league. 3rd place in the league and stats ( thanks for making my job easy here ) are Monchengladbach who have an impressive +10 VA as do 4th place Lazio. Biggest winners showing the long term game is paying off are Bilbao who have +14 VA. Newcastle and PSV also performed above predicted.
Independiente finish in 11th in real life but last in the stats, just slightly better than true last placed team AZ on -17 VA, who do just better than Napoli on -14 VA.
Now for the A.I. well I got it to crunch the number based on past data , it suggested adding a column for balance and more weighted depth so I have done that and adjusted the weightings as it suggested.
First table is the normal one all my own work.
| GK | DEF | MID | ATT | Top18 | Ave | ETOT | Pre | Fin | VA | PVA | |
| FK Partizan | 87.0 | 87.5 | 87.8 | 88.0 | 85.0 | 87.1 | 218.08 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 9.00 |
| Olympique Lyonnais | 86.0 | 86.0 | 86.4 | 89.0 | 83.0 | 86.1 | 216.05 | 15 | 2 | 13 | 7.00 |
| Monchengladbach | 87.0 | 87.3 | 87.6 | 87.0 | 86.0 | 87.0 | 217.19 | 13 | 3 | 10 | 3.67 |
| SS Lazio | 88.0 | 87.0 | 86.8 | 88.0 | 85.0 | 87.0 | 217.00 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 2.75 |
| Athletic Club | 85.0 | 85.5 | 86.6 | 87.0 | 84.0 | 85.6 | 214.51 | 20 | 6 | 14 | 2.50 |
| Newcastle United | 87.0 | 87.5 | 88.0 | 87.0 | 86.0 | 87.1 | 217.71 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 1.40 |
| PSV | 87.0 | 86.3 | 86.4 | 88.0 | 82.0 | 85.9 | 215.60 | 17 | 12 | 5 | 0.50 |
| Atalanta BC | 87.0 | 86.0 | 87.0 | 87.0 | 85.0 | 86.4 | 215.59 | 18 | 17 | 1 | 0.12 |
| Chievo Verona | 88.0 | 86.0 | 86.6 | 87.0 | 83.0 | 86.1 | 215.15 | 19 | 18 | 1 | 0.11 |
| Girondins Bordeaux | 85.0 | 86.8 | 87.0 | 87.0 | 84.0 | 86.0 | 215.83 | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0.06 |
| Villarreal CF | 88.0 | 87.0 | 88.2 | 88.0 | 86.0 | 87.4 | 218.24 | 8 | 9 | -1 | 0.00 |
| Santos FC | 87.0 | 86.8 | 87.6 | 88.0 | 86.0 | 87.1 | 217.44 | 12 | 15 | -3 | -0.13 |
| Spartak Moskva | 88.0 | 88.3 | 88.0 | 88.0 | 85.0 | 87.5 | 218.96 | 7 | 10 | -3 | -0.20 |
| FC Twente | 88.0 | 87.3 | 87.8 | 88.0 | 85.0 | 87.2 | 218.00 | 10 | 14 | -4 | -0.21 |
| Torino | 87.0 | 87.5 | 88.0 | 90.0 | 85.0 | 87.5 | 219.54 | 4 | 8 | -4 | -0.38 |
| Rubin Kazan | 88.0 | 87.3 | 88.6 | 89.0 | 85.0 | 87.6 | 219.29 | 6 | 13 | -7 | -0.46 |
| Olympique Marseille | 88.0 | 89.0 | 88.0 | 88.0 | 87.0 | 88.0 | 219.80 | 2 | 7 | -5 | -0.57 |
| SSC Napoli | 87.0 | 87.3 | 87.4 | 91.0 | 85.0 | 87.5 | 219.51 | 5 | 19 | -14 | -0.68 |
| AZ Alkmaar | 89.0 | 88.5 | 88.6 | 88.0 | 85.0 | 87.8 | 219.76 | 3 | 20 | -17 | -0.80 |
| Independiente | 89.0 | 89.0 | 88.2 | 88.0 | 86.0 | 88.0 | 219.96 | 1 | 11 | -10 | -0.82 |
So then the human and A.I. compared
| Pre | Fin | VA | A.I | Fin | VA | ||
| FK Partizan | 9.0 | 1.0 | 8.0 | 10 | 1 | 9 | |
| Olympique Lyonnais | 15.0 | 2.0 | 13.0 | 15 | 2 | 13 | |
| Monchengladbach | 13.0 | 3.0 | 10.0 | 14 | 3 | 11 | |
| SS Lazio | 14.0 | 4.0 | 10.0 | 13 | 4 | 9 | |
| Athletic Club | 20.0 | 6.0 | 14.0 | 20 | 6 | 14 | |
| Newcastle United | 11.0 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 12 | 5 | 7 | |
| PSV | 17.0 | 12.0 | 5.0 | 17 | 12 | 5 | |
| Atalanta BC | 18.0 | 17.0 | 1.0 | 16 | 17 | -1 | |
| Chievo Verona | 19.0 | 18.0 | 1.0 | 19 | 18 | 1 | |
| Girondins Bordeaux | 16.0 | 16.0 | 0.0 | 18 | 16 | 2 | |
| Villarreal CF | 8.0 | 9.0 | -1.0 | 8 | 9 | -1 | |
| Santos FC | 12.0 | 15.0 | -3.0 | 11 | 15 | -4 | |
| Spartak Moskva | 7.0 | 10.0 | -3.0 | 7 | 10 | -3 | |
| FC Twente | 10.0 | 14.0 | -4.0 | 9 | 14 | -5 | |
| Torino | 4.0 | 8.0 | -4.0 | 4 | 8 | -4 | |
| Rubin Kazan | 6.0 | 13.0 | -7.0 | 6 | 13 | -7 | |
| Olympique Marseille | 2.0 | 7.0 | -5.0 | 3 | 7 | -4 | |
| SSC Napoli | 5.0 | 19.0 | -14.0 | 1 | 19 | -18 | |
| AZ Alkmaar | 3.0 | 20.0 | -17.0 | 5 | 20 | -15 | |
| Independiente | 1.0 | 11.0 | -10.0 | 2 | 11 | -9 |
Does the A.I. do much better, well , hard to say , but it doesn’t do any worse. So what will happen is this.
Next season I will also use the A.I. formula and produce an alternate finishing position. At the end of the season if machine wins , I will create a new formula for each division based on A.I. if not I will keep it the same. All seems fair, let the battle commence.
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