Premier League Prediction Panel - Round 15 Commentary

Another poor week for the panel with some more coupon busters pushing the average pundit to around four correct predictions out of ten; surely a little sanity must return to the Premier League soon? The biggest shock this week was the inability of three of the top four sides to win home games; Liverpool and Villa drawing 0-0 with West Ham and Fulham respectively, and Chelsea's home record taking another knock in a 2-1 home defeat to unpredictable Arsenal. Compared to those three games a home defeat for Spurs, another big away win for Bolton and a result in the Manchester derby (a lot of punts went on a score draw) barely registered as surprises. Has anyone won on a fixed odds spread in recent weeks?

Correct Score Percentages - Round 15

Squarefootball's Paul Grech is once again the top banana in predicting scorelines, with three of the scorelines from last weekend (Stoke / Hull 1-1, Wigans' 2-1 win over West Brom and Liverpool / West Ham 0-0). Peter Lee and Dan Taylor picked out two correct scores - but our pundits drew a blank.

30 Paul Grech (sqF)

20 Peter Lee

20 Dan Taylor

10 Don McMahon

10 Isaac Williams

10 Mark Williams

10 Andy Wakeman

10 Antony Melvin (sqF)

10 Chris Goodwin

10 Stephen Orford (sqF)

0 Tony Ratton

0 Peter Rendle

0 Colin Illingworth (sqF)

0 Hugh Larkin (sqF)

Correct Result Percentages - Round 15

Squarefootball duo Paul Grech and Stephen Orford topped the correct result standings for the week, each picking six from ten correctly; with another three pundits picking five from ten. At the bottom two predictors saw their radar go awry as they scrambled just one result each.

60 Paul Grech (sqF)

60 Stephen Orford (sqF)

50 Peter Rendle

50 Isaac Williams

50 Mark Williams

40 Peter Lee

40 Dan Taylor

40 Don McMahon

40 Hugh Larkin (sqF)

30 Antony Melvin (sqF)

30 Chris Goodwin

20 Andy Wakeman

10 Tony Ratton

10 Colin Illingworth (sqF)

Correct Score Percentages - Season To Date

Squarefootball's Paul Grech tightens his grip on the correct score predictions by moving up to 16% or precisely picking the score of 1 in 6 games since the start of the season. Mark Williams and Peter Lee are the only pundits who are even close. The panel on average have picked 9.6% of all correct scores this season, a touch below our par score of 10%.

16 Paul Grech (sqF)

14 Mark Williams

13 Peter Lee

11 Peter Rendle

11 Sue Gardener

11 Tony Bellew

11 Dave Blackburn

10 Bill Urban (sqF)

10 Tony Ratton

10 Isaac Williams

8 Hugh Larkin (sqF)

7 Stephen Orford (sqF)

7 Andy Wakeman

7 Dan Taylor

6 Antony Melvin (sqF)

5 Colin Illingworth (sqF)

5 Don McMahon

4 Chris Goodwin

Correct Result Percentages - Season To Date

Squarefootball's Paul Grech is also the biggest gainer on correct results, as the only pundit out of the top few to pick more than four out of ten this week. He closes to within 2% of Squarefootball's Bill Urban and level with Dave Blackburn who were both inactive this week. Six pundits are averaging less than four results out of ten each week.
The panel on average have picked 42% of all correct results this season, well below the 50% that we expected based on previous seasons.

48 Bill Urban (sqF)

46 Dave Blackburn

46 Paul Grech (sqF)

45 Peter Lee

44 Dan Taylor

44 Isaac Williams

43 Tony Ratton

43 Peter Rendle

42 Sue Gardener

42 Mark Williams

40 Andy Wakeman

40 Antony Melvin (sqF)

39 Stephen Orford (sqF)

38 Chris Goodwin

38 Don McMahon

38 Hugh Larkin (sqF)

37 Colin Illingworth (sqF)

34 Tony Bellew