The Occasional 2023-24 Math Thread

[Bordersfox]

12 hours ago, lnkstern said:

 

Apologies mate, I started the thread and I am a Yank.

 

I thought about using the word 'maths', but I wasn't sure it was correct usage.  I also thought I would come across as a pretentious **** if I used the term wrong.

Well played sir.  The fact that this is still irritating some people is superb.  

 

Please introduce more Americanisms into the thread as we go along.  

[smallpauldj]

1 hour ago, Gazza3 said:

Who are the rest .?

All the teams we play in the top half away. What I'm saying is, I think we're going up 

[Aus Fox]

Updated maximum possible points table with most teams having just 42 points to play for:

Leicester City  120

Southampton 109

Leeds United 108

Ipswich Town 108

West Bromwich Albion 94

Hull City 93

Cov Scum 90

Norwich City 90

Preston North End 90

Sunderland 89
Bristol City 86

Middlesbrough 86

Cardiff City 85

Watford 83

Plymouth Argyle 82

Blackburn Rovers 81

Birmingham City 80

Swansea City 78

 

All teams below can no longer reach our current total of 78 points.

 

 

 

[fuchsntf]

3 hours ago, Foxmeister said:

B+, good content but formatting is all over the place, spaces after commas please, and a lot of errant capital letters.

Keeps. You busy for the weeekend,while I go out and play and watch the game …leaving annoying deliberate fauxpas  all over the forum..

 

[Chrysalis]

New prediction based on last 6 form, this one is more scary than the previous.  We not top of this one, and not far ahead of 3rd.

 

Leeds 108pts
Leicester 106pts
Southampton 102pts
Ipswich 92 points

[lnkstern]

Leicester's match week 33 is complete.  1-0-1 in the last two matches.

 

Status:  78 of 93 points required for automatic promotion.

 

Current points rate is 2.36/match.  1.15 points/match required for the rest of the season (15 points from 13 matches).

 

We have a 11-point gap over third place (Southampton, who have a game in hand).

 

We have 83.9% of the required points for automatic promotion after 71.7% of the season.

[Aus Fox]

Next update now most teams are on the same games played again, with just Birmingham and Middlesbrough having a game in hand. For everyone now, just the 39 points to play for. Anyone who cannot catch us is not included on the list.

 

Leicester City  117

Leeds United 108

Ipswich Town 108

Southampton 106 

West Bromwich Albion 94

Hull City 93

Cov Scum 90

Norwich City 90

Preston North End 88

Sunderland 86 

Middlesbrough 86

Bristol City 83

Watford 83

Cardiff 80

Birmingham City 80

4 more wins and the play-offs are mathematically certain. 10 more wins for promotion, the league title and the record!

[Lillehamring]

On 17/02/2024 at 18:01, Chrysalis said:

New prediction based on last 6 form, this one is more scary than the previous.  We not top of this one, and not far ahead of 3rd.

 

Leeds 108pts
Leicester 106pts
Southampton 102pts
Ipswich 92 points

It's only scary if you believe that Leeds are capable of winning all their remaining 13 games....

 

[Les-TA-Jon]

1 hour ago, Lillehamring said:

It's only scary if you believe that Leeds are capable of winning all their remaining 13 games....

 

Even if they all get maximum points it's:

 

Leeds 108

Ipswich 108

Southampton 106

 

They literally can't anyway, because they play each other

 

And for us to get something like 105 points we can do W8 D3 L2 (specifically vs Leeds and Southampton)

 

[coolhandfox]

We will be the only team to get 100 +  points. 

Edited 21 February by coolhandfox

[Nalis]

On 17/02/2024 at 11:24, Bordersfox said:

Well played sir.  The fact that this is still irritating some people is superb.  

 

Please introduce more Americanisms into the thread as we go along.  

Touchdown for Bordersfox

[fuchsntf]

On 17/02/2024 at 12:24, Bordersfox said:

Well played sir.  The fact that this is still irritating some people is superb.  

 

Please introduce more Americanisms into the thread as we go along.  

By my honor That would be colourful and neighborly wouldn’t it.

What’s a U and L between friends, like losing and finding ‘s’ when offering theory to 

the arithmetic.. 

 

Going international took a tonne off my mind,

now I can have a ton of ideas,less peoples judgement loses me an e..

 

Edited 22 February by fuchsntf

[CosbehFox]

https://theanalyst.com/eu/2024/02/championship-table-expected-points/

 

Opta's latest super computer calculations written by an author who really wants us not to win it very comprehensively 

[HarryDee8]

[sylofox]

On 14/12/2023 at 05:18, FosseSpark said:

I hate to be an old stick-in-the-mud.

But it's ****ing 'Maths', not 'Math'....

How much Netflix are we watching that no one has immediately pointed this out.

 

 

Math maths, math's even maffs. Who gives a monkey's. 

 

Just please ffs never call it soccer.

[sylofox]

On 17/02/2024 at 11:24, Bordersfox said:

Well played sir.  The fact that this is still irritating some people is superb.  

 

Please introduce more Americanisms into the thread as we go along.  

I'll block him if he starts using soccer.

[Bordersfox]

4 minutes ago, sylofox said:

I'll block him if he starts using soccer.

Maybe there is a line...

[Out Foxed]

anyone who gets upset by the term soccer is a gimp 

[davieG]

wiki

 

The term soccer comes from Oxford "-er" slang, which was prevalent at the University of Oxford in England from about 1875, and is thought to have been borrowed from the slang of Rugby School. Initially spelt assoccer (a shortening of "association"), it was later reduced to the modern spelling.^[11][12] This form of slang also gave rise to rugger for rugby football, fiver and tenner for five pound and ten pound notes, and the now-archaic footer that was also a name for association football.^[13] The word soccer arrived at its current form in 1895 and was first recorded in 1889 in the earlier form of socca.^[14]

[Dawko]

On 16/02/2024 at 19:54, FoxinNotts said:

It’s not math’s mate it is maths 

**** off smart arse

[Lillehamring]

8 hours ago, sylofox said:

Math maths, math's even maffs. Who gives a monkey's. 

 

Just please ffs never call it soccer.

At the risk of starting a needless debate - i've always used the word soccer, not exclusively but now and again.

Look at it this way, would you expect american's to call the NFL 'American' football, of course not - you do see why american's have to use soccer, which always used to be a perfectly acceptable term.

[Lillehamring]

7 hours ago, davieG said:

wiki

 

The term soccer comes from Oxford "-er" slang, which was prevalent at the University of Oxford in England from about 1875, and is thought to have been borrowed from the slang of Rugby School. Initially spelt assoccer (a shortening of "association"), it was later reduced to the modern spelling.^[11][12] This form of slang also gave rise to rugger for rugby football, fiver and tenner for five pound and ten pound notes, and the now-archaic footer that was also a name for association football.^[13] The word soccer arrived at its current form in 1895 and was first recorded in 1889 in the earlier form of socca.^[14]

Archaic? Wait a minute, now - i'm not happy with that!

[Leicester_Loyal]

Saints can only get 103 points now, and that's by winning 12 out of 12.

 

They still have to play us, Ipswich and Leeds.

 

Think they'll do well to get 93+ personally.

[Aus Fox]

36 points left to play for and the maximum points tally available:

 

 

Leicester City  114

Leeds United 108

Ipswich Town 108

Southampton 103

West Bromwich Albion 92

Hull City 91

Norwich City 88

Preston North End 88

Cov Scum 87

Sunderland 83

Middlesbrough 83

Bristol City 80

Watford 80

Cardiff 80

[Foxmeister]

Over the next 2 games covering us, Norwich, Preston and Cov, there are 6,561 possible outcomes and 36 of those would result in us making the play-offs on 6th March. I'm on a long break at work, sorry.