Author: mistertrex

  • Two strong favourites for promotion, who can join them? A division of contrasts to be sure.  Some ruinously bad teams, that are for some reason uncompetitive, despite higher rated players being freely available, this could cause some skewed stats in…

  • Solid agreement on the top 3 in this division. There is certainly a growing trend of 2 or 3 top teams followed by a close pack of teams. Napoli are favourites with the usual top and tail technique that works…

  • Who will win the battle for 3rd place. West Brom and Genoa, should both be in Division 1 and would probably win Division 2 at a canter. The only thin holding back Genoa is their keeper and for West Brom…

  • Arsenal to win the league, human and A.I. agree but could they be an outlier? Not as close at the top as D1, Arsenal has a clear division 1 squad and should get promoted with ease.  Stoke in addition there…

    Season 27 Division 2 Stats and Facts
  • I say Dortmund should win the league the A.I. says Chelsea (with a big caveat) who is correct. Usual preamble. I work out the average rating in each of the 4 key positions, the lowest player in the top 18…

    Season 27 Division 1 Stats and Facts
  • It really was a close run thing. I have analysed the difference between my predictions and the A.I. formula. Here are the results per division and the average difference in place per team over all 5 divisions. Division Human A.I.…

    A.I. or the human eye? Stats and Facts special.
  • PSV lead the stats but fall at the first play-off hurdle. Sometimes life is cruel maybe Santos had the advantage of being able to rest their team but a +13 VA and 3.5 PVA shows how close PSV were to…

  • Crowd goes wild in Basel and Newcastle Always a strong team Basel exceeded expectations and won the league and stats on +6VA and +7PVA.  Newcastle also auto promoted had a huge +12 VA and 4.33PVA come 2nd in the stats…

  • Wolfsburg head the stats and the league. Three great VA scores in D3, firstly Wolfsburg predicted to just miss out on the playoffs they won the league in the end quite easily. In the league 2 points separated the next…

  • CSKA head the stats with a +13VA and automatic promotion. Hard to take maybe to finish 1st in the league but 6th in the stats but that just highlights the great performances from over sides. CSKA were predicted to just…