Matchday 30: This season's flying by

After a hiatus for the FA Cup, it's back to business in the game that all talk about. To clarify, I didn't post a blog last week because there were only 6 games played, and that's a significantly reduced number. As we get as a group, 40-50% right each week, I didn't want to include a week that most likely would massively skew the stats. That said, this is all about the democracy, so if you think that in future seasons, we should play regardless of number of games, then let me know in the comments with your predictions.

Anywho, let's look at the stats from Matchday 28:

This week, 19 people played.
The most popular predictions were: Everton & Man Utd WINS (18/19)
The most disputed prediction was: Spurs vs Arsenal (4-5-9 split)

Highest odds: Josh Daniels, 11,203/1
Lowest odds: Will O'Doherty 1204/1
Average odds: 4497/1

Best predictor: Richard Verber (8/10) - shaking off his rotten form in style
Worst predictor: Doron Salomon (2/10)
Average score: 5/10

Best predicted result: Everton & Man Utd WINS (18/19)
Worst predicted result: West Ham WIN (1/19 - Congrats Josh Daniels)

Everyone's scores:

A warm Impossibilitee welcome to David Dinkin, playing his first week. Hope to see you become a regular for the remainder of this season and into next.

To the leaderboard now, and as always, only those who have played >2/3 of available games (19/28) qualify. Big movement at the top, where if Nick had only waited one more week for plaudits, he could have had them for a real reason...as it is, I feel that too much praise leads to complacency, so we'll gloss over the new leader and look to the foot of the table, where Doron sinks to a season low position, just off the bottom. Verber's excellent score sees him leapfrog Yanik midtable too.

Nick's lead is a fragile one however, and there looks to be a real battle for first place this season, in contrast to last years runaway winner. Long may it continue.

To this week's predictions:

Everton vs Man City - MAN CITY
Aston Villa vs QPR - QPR
Southampton vs Liverpool - SOUTHAMPTON
Stoke vs WBA - DRAW
Swansea vs Arsenal - ARSENAL
Man Utd vs Reading - MAN UTD
Sunderland vs Norwich - NORWICH
Spurs vs Fulham - SPURS
Chelsea vs West Ham - CHELSEA
Wigan vs Newcastle - NEWCASTLE

Total odds: 5494/1 (PaddyPower)

Predictions in the comments as per usual. Good luck guys