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 28 REVIEW
The Crowd Wisdom picks managed 6 out of 10 in Round 28, matching the overall community average and resulting in a small red arrow on the global leaderboard.
GAMEWEEK 29 PREVIEW
Here is the Expected Goals chart for each fixture in GW29:

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

Man City are top of the predicted goals chart, with their Manchester United not far behind. Sergio Aguero, Raheem Sterling, Paul Pogba, and Marcus Rashford appear to be the strongest captaincy options on this basis.
Chelsea and Liverpool are also expected to score at least two goals each though, and the likes of Mo Salah can never be discounted as an option.
In defence, Man United and Chelsea are predicted to keep clean sheets, whilst Wolves and Brighton also look like strong options this weekend.
Here are the picks we’ll enter for Mr Crowd Wisdom this week.
Tottenham 2 – 1 Arsenal
Bournemouth 1 – 3 Man City
Brighton 1 – 1 Huddersfield
Burnley 1 – 1 Crystal Palace
Man United 2 – 0 Southampton
Wolves 2 – 1 Cardiff
West Ham 1 – 1 Newcastle
Watford 1 – 1 Leicester
Fulham 0 – 2 Chelsea
Everton 1 – 2 Liverpool
Good luck!
