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Blog posts (page 4), newest first:
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...
New format for alt-3 league tables
Today’s alt-3 Premier League table is the first one to be presented in a re-designed format. The table itself (i.e., the ordering of teams) is unchanged, as...
West Ham’s tough start; and Liverpool doing even better than City?
Here it is: the first public appearance this season of the alt-3 table. The main stories so far to come from the alt-3 calculation are: West Ham hav...