Has anyone saw the triumph of the title of Premier League from Liverpool coming? We didn’t do it.
Not one of the 30 BBC experts we asked Choose the first four of the Haut-Vol Before the start of the season, the Reds would be champions – the closest were Stephen Warnock and Fara Williams, who both declared that the Arne Slot team would end second place.
But they were not alone to be mistaken.
OPTA’s “supercomputer” can indicate the exact chances of your team to win a competition at any time.
It is in fact a complex algorithm which uses a model based on the ratings of the betting market and the “power rankings” of the sports analysis company, which are calculated using the past results.
Last summer, before a ball was launched, he simulated the result of the 380 first league games 10,000 times and calculated that Manchester City had 82.2% of a fifth consecutive title, with Liverpool in third.
In all honesty towards the Opta algorithm, he chose the four teams that finished in the first four and, in position of position, he was correct about two of them – Arsenal in second and Chelsea fourth.
Williams went with an intuition rather than cracking data, but always corresponded to this fairly impressive feat.
She was one of the five BBC experts to include the best four teams in their predictions and, although she went for Arsenal to win the title, she had the city in third, a place above Chelsea.
Matt Upson, Glenn Murray, Chris Waddle and Ashley Williams did the same, but with a single team, Chelsea, in their correct position.