Premiership league ratings

As you know I have studied football/soccer for many years. Horse racing has dominated my activity on the markets recently but that's simply down to the structure of the markets. There is so much horse racing it just generally gets in the way of everything else!!!

Outside of that I still spend a lot of time on football/soccer and other sports. In each sport I work on I really work hard to perfect everything I do. I don't believe perfection is ever possible, as there is always an element of entropy in sport, but that doesn't stop me from trying!

When preparing for the talk I did last Monday, I brought up the English Premier League spreadsheet I run and had a look at the results. It's too complicated to talk in detail about how it works on the blog. But essentially this spreadsheet looks at the ability of teams to score against each other. Two main items stand out.

Hull's position near the top of the league and Portsmouth near the bottom. The ratings tend to be partial till the middle of the season as not everybody has played each other, but both these positions stick out like a sore thumb. Particulary Portsmouth as their actual league position would appear to flatter them at the moment. There are some other interesting items in there as well, make of them what you will.

I know its difficult to make sense of it without any detailed explanation but hopefully it will give you an insight of sorts to my view on the premiership at the moment.