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It's that time of year.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/predictor/default.stm

 

I had us ending on 45 points.

 

You're an optimist that's for sure. When I did it it came down to a nailbiting last day and we stayed up on 39 points. I hope this is wrong!

 

In this scenario we beat W Ham, QPR, W Brom and Stoke at home, managed a point at Norwich and Sunderland (v optimistic) and at home to Liverpool, lost home games against Man City and Chelsea, and away games at Swansea and Reading, Spurs and newcastle.

 

Newcastle 42 (-13)

W. Ham 40 (-16)

Norwich 40 (-19)

Saints 39 (-13)

Wigan 39 (-18)

Fulham 38 (-13)

Reading 38 (16)

Villa 32 (-33)

QPR 28 (-24)

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I did it the other day, it's all nonsense as otherwise we'd all win the pools every week, but the experiment was to see how Saints could do if we win our winable games, control the controllables as it were.

 

We finished on 41 points iirc. I do think we'll be in the relegation battle though, we've dropped too many points over the course of the season and may regret not strengthening more in January. I'll take going into the last game with our fate in our own hands.

 

I notice people have started tipping Reading to survive. I still don't see it. McDermott said "we've got lots of quality in this team". I don't see that either. Reading will still go down IMO, but at least for the time being they're showing balls. QPR are, I finally admit, going down too. They're just too far adrift, they need near title winning form for the rest of the season to escape now IMO. Then it's a 3 ways tie between us, Wigan and Villa. Villa have looked shocking this season - it could well be them, prompting our survival and Wigan's great escape.

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41 points and 13th place finish. 9th downwards to be very close together IMO. West Brom and Stoke in poor form, the latter always seems to tail off towards the end. Think Newcastle will climb the table into the top half. Sooner or later I think we are going to become level with Norwich/Fulham/West Ham and then the bottom half will be a bit of a yo yo until the end of the season. Bottom 3 as it currently stands.

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You're an optimist that's for sure. When I did it it came down to a nailbiting last day and we stayed up on 39 points. I hope this is wrong!

 

In this scenario we beat W Ham, QPR, W Brom and Stoke at home, managed a point at Norwich and Sunderland (v optimistic) and at home to Liverpool, lost home games against Man City and Chelsea, and away games at Swansea and Reading, Spurs and newcastle.

 

Newcastle 42 (-13)

W. Ham 40 (-16)

Norwich 40 (-19)

Saints 39 (-13)

Wigan 39 (-18)

Fulham 38 (-13)

Reading 38 (16)

Villa 32 (-33)

QPR 28 (-24)

 

Oddly enough, this is almost exactly how I had it finishing, even goal difference. Literally the only difference I had was Fulham slipped into the bottom three and Reading clawed out of it.

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Finished up with Saints in 13th! This was my genuine neutral estimating too, im genuinely quite shocked by the outcome.

 

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Lol worst table ever! Pure comedy. As if anyone on 30 points will stay up! You must have based pretty much all your predictions on a "top half beats bottom half" basis, then gave saints a few bonus points to ensure we stayed up. Great work

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Wow mine ended up close at the bottom!

 

13th Norwich p38 -22 39

14th Fulham p38 -16 38

15th Saints p38 -16 38

16th WHam p38 -23 38

17th Reading p38 -24 33

18th Wigan p38 -26 33

19th Aston Villa p38 -41 33

20th QPR p38 -22 30

 

Reading to stay up on GD it is then!

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although I think we are going down...

 

here is how my predictor turned out....

 

14th - Norwich - 39

15th - Saints - 38

16th - Fulham - 38

17th - Reading - 36

18th - Villa - 35

19th - QPR - 33

20th - Wigan - 33

 

 

ffs

 

that also had us back in the bottom 3 after getting well beat at home to chelsea....then coming good

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Whats the chances eh ?! haha Maybe a tad too bias!

 

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11th

 

 

sorry, but yeah, WAY too biased lol

 

we have won 1 in 9..cant see us all of a sudden turning teams over on a more regular basis

also, you honestly think man united, with van persie etc will let a 9 point lead slip this season...?

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So not one person has scored it with us going down. This alone makes the whole thing a mockery. Impartial scoring by 30 people or more would statistically result in us going down in at least one table yet not a sign of it here.

 

I'm afraid the old adage still applies - rubbish in / garbage out

 

We're Saints fans.....maybe only TDD, Dalek and Alpine would put us to be relegated. Only human to big up your own side isn't it? You have confidence that you're team is going to do well. My predictions don't take into account w4nky individual errors which no doubt we'll still have a couple but we're capable of getting a result against anyone in the league IMO.

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So not one person has scored it with us going down. This alone makes the whole thing a mockery. Impartial scoring by 30 people or more would statistically result in us going down in at least one table yet not a sign of it here.

 

I'm afraid the old adage still applies - rubbish in / garbage out

 

Au contraire Charlie I was googling round other fans forums and hardly anyone has got us going down there either! Maybe we're quite good football team?

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We're Saints fans.....maybe only TDD, Dalek and Alpine would put us to be relegated. Only human to big up your own side isn't it? You have confidence that you're team is going to do well. My predictions don't take into account w4nky individual errors which no doubt we'll still have a couple but we're capable of getting a result against anyone in the league IMO.

you are right..but when I do these predictor thingies...I try to be realistic and not big up one team because I support them..or dumb down another because I dont like them..

 

try to do it on form and the odd shock result (which will always happen)

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you are right..but when I do these predictor thingies...I try to be realistic and not big up one team because I support them..or dumb down another because I dont like them..

 

try to do it on form and the odd shock result (which will always happen)

 

Not a dig at you mate,

 

but I did this and had us lower (16th) with less points than you had us on 37 points.

 

Considering our two usual stances, this did make me chuckle.

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