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  • Season 27 Division 5 Stats and Facts.

    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 this division if they make a number of purchases during the season. On that note…

  • Season 27 Division 4 Stats and Facts.

    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 well in the lower divisions. Lokomotiv are a well-balanced outfit and they are just a…

  • Season 27 Division 3 Stats and Facts

    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 maybe there could be even more depth. Zenit are the clear favourites for 3rd spot…

  • Season 27 Division 2 Stats and Facts

    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 is solid agreement that the well-balanced team with loads of depths should finish second well…

  • Season 27 Division 1 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 and the average. This calculates a rating the ETOT, This is used to predicted the…

  • A.I. or the human eye? Stats and Facts special.

    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. 1 64 68 2 112 112 3 76 78 4 112 118 5 110 102…

  • Season 26 Division 5 Stats and Facts review.

    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 getting out of D5. Atalanta were 2nd in the stats but they also failed in…

  • Season 26 Division 4 Stats and Fact review.

    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 and 3rd in the league.  Partizan also had a great +8 VA and are still…

  • Season 26 Division 3 Stats and Fact Review.

    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 6 teams.  Sunderland unlucky to lose in the playoffs but a great +7 VA. West…

  • Season 26 Division 2 Stats and Facts Review

    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 about beat relegation but gained auto promotion in 3rd spot. Cruziero were always a play…