Well Supported

Like our good lady friend in the picture here, I was in need of strong support yesterday with my last post. At the time, I couldn't see how to provide a download link for the data file accompanying my entry on Dyads and Triads, but I received a great deal of help, via comments and also direct by email.

Boro and Ken both offered to host my Excel file on their sites, so particular thanks to them. As it happens, I'd already got off my arse and sorted it out.


I did also get a question from Cloppa about Goal Supremacy:

Eddie - going back to goal supremacy, what is your preferred method for the last 6 games? i.e last 6 both home and away, or last 6 home for home team and last 6 away for away team? I am leaning towards the latter.

This doesn't necessarily have to be an either/or answer. You could actually do both. For example, you could decide to have 60% of the evaluation based on home games for the home team and away games for the away team, and the rest for overall games.

        Home Team                                 Away Team
(Last six home games * 0.6)            (Last six away games * 0.6)
          +                                            +
(Last six overall games * 0.4)         (Last six overal games * 0.4)

Of course, the 40% is already taking some of the home games (for the home team) and some of the away games (for the away games) into account, so you may want to change that part to away games (for the home team) and home games (for the away team). Anyway, you get the point. You can weight them anyhow you like.


Got home tonight and traded the Europa League games, which went nice and easy. Man Utd started off well, but were probably lucky in the end that they didn't go out of the competition. They were subdued for some reason - complacency perhaps.


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Football Showing 1 - 5 of 5 markets

Market Start time Settled date Profit/loss (£)
Football / Man Utd v Ajax : Correct Score 23-Feb-12 20:05  23-Feb-12 21:57  32.81
Football / Man Utd v Ajax : Over/Under 3.5 Goals 23-Feb-12 20:05  23-Feb-12 21:55  10.89
Football / Man Utd v Ajax : Over/Under 2.5 goals 23-Feb-12 20:05  23-Feb-12 21:49  26.72
Football / Valencia v Stoke : Over/Under 2.5 goals 23-Feb-12 18:00  23-Feb-12 19:54  15.51
Football / Valencia v Stoke : Correct Score 23-Feb-12 18:00  23-Feb-12 19:52  12.33