Well blog, it’s been a while… Apologies to all those who signed up to long-gone rugby stats and are now receiving tedium on names. Because I’m a daring, exciting kind of person, I’ve been playing recently with a dataset I’ve scraped of Irish births from 1864 to 1958. One thing that’s interested me for … [Read more…]
Home Win Draw Away Win Glasgow 32% 2% 66% Munster Ospreys 83% 2% 14% Ulster Dragons 94% 1% 5% Zebre Leinster 74% 2% 25% Connacht Cardiff Blues 87% 2% 11% Scarlets Edinburgh 97% 1% 2% Benetton Treviso Home Win Draw Away Win Sale Sharks 23% 1% 76% Exeter Chiefs Harlequins 64% 1% 35% Newcastle … [Read more…]
Home Win Draw Away Win Bath Rugby 77% 1% 22% Montpellier Northampton Saints 99% 0% 1% Benetton Treviso Saracens 92% 0% 8% Sale Sharks Racing Metro 32% 3% 64% Ospreys Clermont Auvergne 56% 1% 43% Munster Scarlets 29% 1% 70% Ulster Leinster 77% 1% 22% Harlequins Glasgow 74% 1% 25% Toulouse Toulon 67% 0% 33% … [Read more…]
Home win Draw Away win Montpellier 47% 2% 51% Bath Rugby Benetton Treviso 14% 4% 83% Northampton Saints Sale Sharks 17% 3% 81% Saracens Ospreys 80% 4% 16% Racing Metro Munster 42% 5% 53% Clermont Auvergne Ulster 88% 3% 9% Scarlets Harlequins 42% 4% 54% Leinster Castres 58% 3% 39% Wasps Toulouse 43% 4% 53% … [Read more…]
The last round before we return to the Glorious Winning Champions Non-Heineken Cup and again we have a mixture of returning stars and second stringers playing in both leagues. (League predictor is back online – full update due next week) Home win Draw Away win Bath Rugby 50% 3% 47% Harlequins Leicester Tigers 88% 1% … [Read more…]
Apologies for no updates on final league results prediction recently – I’m having one or two gremlins in the code, but hoping to find some time to fix them shortly. Back to full service with both the leagues this week as the November Internationals draw to a close. Interestingly, these weeks provide a particular challenge … [Read more…]
It’s one league only again this week as the Pro 12 takes a break to allow for November Internationals and Welsh LV= Cup games. So another very quick post – normal service to resume next week. Home win Draw Away win Gloucester Rugby 55% 3% 42% Harlequins Northampton Saints 84% 2% 14% Exeter Chiefs … [Read more…]
A busy week for me, and a bit of a graveyard for rugby this weekend, as the Premiership takes a break ahead of the November Internationals, with only the Premiership and a few bits of silliness to keep us going (Australia and the Baabaas, US and the All Blacks), so another short post. Pro 12 … [Read more…]
A very quick post with the predictions for the upcoming weekend: Home win Draw Away win Munster 38% 3% 59% Saracens Northampton Saints 64% 3% 32% Ospreys Montpellier 35% 3% 62% Glasgow Scarlets 39% 3% 58% Leicester Tigers London Wasps 19% 1% 80% Harlequins Bath Rugby 37% 2% 61% Toulouse Benetton Treviso 23% 6% … [Read more…]
Well after all my carping, it didn’t turn out to be a bad set of predictions at all. All my bets came through and eight out ten matches correctly called, and the two upsets (Racing Metro and Leicester) were in what were predicted to be close games. More worrying maybe was the crush that the … [Read more…]