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28 September 2018 7 comments
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Each week we will be reviewing the aggregated predictions on Superbru’s Premier League Predictor game, using the collective Wisdom of the Crowd predictions to guide our fantasy football thinking.

Please join the FFS league here and add your own predictions to the data – the more there are, the more accurate the crowd should be (in theory).  And don’t forget there is £50,000 in prize money on offer every week.

THE CONCEPT

We must all make predictions about how each match will go when deciding on our fantasy team selection, predicting where the goals will be scored, which teams are most likely to keep a clean sheet and so on.  If we aggregate the predictions of thousands of football fans playing the Premier League Predictor game on Superbru, any bias should be ironed out, and the collective knowledge will produce more accurate predictions that we can make on our own.

We tested this last season by taking the average community predictions, and entering them into the game as a user called Mr Crowd Wisdom.  That user finished in 20th place out of 481 people in the Fantasy Football Scout league – a highly knowledgeable group – and also beat 98% of other people on the global leaderboard.

We’ll follow the average picks again this season and hopefully it will provide another reference point for your fantasy team selections.

GAMEWEEK 6 REVIEW

The average crowd predictions last weekend were fairly average…5 correct picks out of 10 matched the performance of the overall community, although 2 were exact score picks and 2 were ‘close’, which was better than most.

Overall, our Crowd Wisdom user is still beating the majority of people on Superbru.

GAMEWEEK 7 PREVIEW

Here is the Expected Goals chart for each fixture in GW7:

And here is the ranking of teams in order of Expected Goals Scored and Conceded:

Man City are top of the predicted goalscoring charts by a distance, having put 5 past Cardiff and now returning to the Etihad to host Brighton. Sergio Aguero is the obvious pick for the captaincy frankly, and it’s probably worth tripling up on City assets.

Liverpool are normally up there with City on this table, but travel to Stamford Bridge for what is usually a low-scoring fixture.  The historic results feature on Superbru shows that only once in the last 5 matches has there been more than 3 goals, and it has finished 1-1 in three of those games.

Tottenham is the only other side expected to score at least twice as they travel to Huddersfield, and Harry Kane is the only potential alternative as captain.  It’s also City and Spurs to focus on in defence, whilst Wolves and Burnley offer the budget defensive options this week.

Here are the aggregated predictions that we’ll enter for Mr Crowd Wisdom this week.

Good luck for Round 7!

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  1. fish66
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    Fabianski
    Robertson Alonso Doherty WB
    Salah Mane Hazard(vc) Fraser
    Aguero(C) King

    Foster Neves Kamara Peltier

    0ITB, 1FT. Save FT this week?

  2. Shatner's Bassoon
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    How many goals will Mitrovic score this weekend?

    1. Urchin
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Zero?

      1. Shatner's Bassoon
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Bold.

    2. Eytexi
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      1 with 1 BAP

  3. Reedy
    • 15 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks again! I find these articles a great help.

  4. MTPockets
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Cheers these are useful.