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Premier League after 100 matches. Man City not really 2nd but 4th. And Southampton just need to hold their nerve?
We’re now 10 weeks into the Premier League season. Just over a quarter (100 out of 380) of the season’s matches have now been played. This is the point at ...
First alt-3 Premier League table of the new season: Saints on the march!
We’re 5 matches in, and the first alt-3 league table of the season is now online. With Liverpool so far ahead already, all the action in this first alt-3 ta...
José Mourinho and the F word: Liverpool still just ahead of City though
Back in March 2014, when Chelsea topped the table on points but had played more matches than all of their nearest rivals, José Mourinho famously called the P...
A look ahead to the second half of the Premier League season
At around this time last season, I was able to write about some fairly surprising schedule-strength imbalance, even at the season’s halfway point. In my ...
Premier League after 12: Bournemouth and Chelsea have had it easy so far; West Ham and Wolves much less so.
The current alt-3 table shows the “real” Premier League standings after making proper adjustment for schedule strength (the mathematically coherent meas...