The Opta Million I'm writing this post shortly before the start of the World Cup, for which Opta have posted the following competition: Entry to the...
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Are we there yet?
Introduction Some followers of this blog will know that my own personal involvement with Smartodds stems from an academic paper I co-authored with...
Irrational Tossers
Introduction I wish I could take credit for the title of this post, but I can't. It's the title of an article in The Economist that discusses the...
How Would You Like Your Stake, Sir?
Introduction This is the first of two posts discussing an experiment that I invited Smartodds employees and associates to participate in. The whole...
All That Glitters…
All that Glitters is not gold (William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 7) IBM has teamed up with Wimbledon for a number of...
The Statisticians Will Tell You…
Maybe I'm wrong and it's always been this way, but it seems to me that there's a trend for football journalists to make more use of statistics in...
Old Chestnuts
Football, like all sports, has many 'old chestnuts' - beliefs about the game that have folklore status and are widely shared as being...
Better at Wordle than Sweden
A common theme to the posts in this blog is that Statistics and statistical thinking have applications that are many and varied. Usually, in one way...
The Hole-in-One Gang
In a recent post, I discussed the importance of defining events clearly when discussing the chance of their occurrence. I also explained that even...
One in Two Million
So, Smartodds (still) loves Statistics. Since you’ve reached this page, you probably know that Statistics is central to what Smartodds does. From...
Football’s back
It’s coming home… Well, coming back technically. But either way the Premier League has now agreed to return to some sort of normal service on 17th...
What a difference a week makes
As of today there have been more than 90,000 confirmed deaths due to Coronavirus in the USA, despite But how important was the timing of the...