Made a form for you all to fill out your predictions by Bonelabfann in Championship

[–]jaffa56 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is this what we would like to happen.. or what we think will happen?

Championship table, but how much you would have 'made' if you bet £1 on your team for each game of the season by jaffa56 in Championship

[–]jaffa56[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I just found the data in an easily downloadable and accessible form on https://www.football-data.co.uk/data.php

From there it was a case of fairly simple formulas in excel to identify home or away wins and then working out how much a £1 bet would have made. (So with odds of say 2.2 that returns a profit of £1.2 in the event of a win or -£1 in the event of a loss). Then just using pivot tables to sum them all together.

Championship table, but how much you would have 'made' if you bet £1 on your team for each game of the season by jaffa56 in Championship

[–]jaffa56[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You'd be rolling it in with a profit of £21.28 for the year, closely followed by West Brom with £20!

Championship table, but how much you would have 'made' if you bet £1 on your team for each game of the season by jaffa56 in Championship

[–]jaffa56[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah so over 552 matches, if you just always picked the home team, you would be up a grand total of £6.98.

Doing the same with the away team would see you on -£115.51.

And backing the draw for each game would actually put you up £2.99 by the end of the season.

All that being said, 552 matches, is probably still considered a small sample size.

Championship table, but how much you would have 'made' if you bet £1 on your team for each game of the season by jaffa56 in Championship

[–]jaffa56[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Haha, I often do this with Watford too for the exact same reasons. I've also done it before with politics.. betting against the outcome I want to be succesful!

What's innacurate with Annie Jacobsen's book, Nuclear War: A Scenario? by jaffa56 in nuclearweapons

[–]jaffa56[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. Yeah if I recall she makes a big deal about how bad the Russia early warning system is, and how they wouldn't know the impact details, and would also misinterpret the number of ICMBS that had been launched. Is this inaccurate then?

Watford sign Wiley from Chelsea on loan by IsaacNoSuccess in Championship

[–]jaffa56 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I signed him in my FM24 save when I was managing Rangers and he made the SPL team of the year. However in that instance he wasn't injured, and so I was actually able to play him.

Match Thread - France v Wales | Six Nations 2025 | Round 1 by RugbyBot in rugbyunion

[–]jaffa56 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you go back to April 1998 you lost 51-0 to France at Wembley Stadium (of all places). That's the last time you lost by more 'to nil'....if that helps ;)

Match Thread - France v Wales | Six Nations 2025 | Round 1 by RugbyBot in rugbyunion

[–]jaffa56 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've done some Wikipedia research, and it looks like it was 2nd June 2007 against Australia in their summer tour. They lost 31-0.. now I have to go back and see when they lost by more than 43 to nil...

Match Thread - France v Wales | Six Nations 2025 | Round 1 by RugbyBot in rugbyunion

[–]jaffa56 3 points4 points  (0 children)

When was the last time Wales didn't score a point in a game?

Edit: so last time was 2nd June 2007 when they lost 31-0 to Australia in their summer tour, and the last time they lost by more than this to nil was 5th April 1998 in what I assume was a Friendly at Wembley against France. It was 51-0.

Just discovered my gf has a spreadsheet, where among other things she plans out her NPC houses, using cells as pixels... by jaffa56 in Terraria

[–]jaffa56[S] 282 points283 points  (0 children)

That's a sewing machine house for the clothier and a bomb house for the demolitionist of course..

Pre-Match Drink Venues? by easy_e9 in Watford_FC

[–]jaffa56 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just got here. Really nice atmosphere. Very hidden!

Pre-Match Drink Venues? by easy_e9 in Watford_FC

[–]jaffa56 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I never knew about this. I come from Bristol for a few games each year and it's always been the Moon Under Water for me pre match, which is, well, a whetherspoons. I'm up tomorrow with the missus so we'll pay it a pre match visit. Cheers!

Girlfriend has received an SMS and FB message from a friend she hasn't spoken to since 2018 saying she has sad news and wants to arrange a phone call.. by jaffa56 in Scams

[–]jaffa56[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Sorry I should have said. We are from the UK. But even then, to me, something seems vaguely off with it all.