Another week with just a single head-to-head collect and a blank sheet in the line market delivered Investors one more set of unprofitable wagers, this week made worse by the ramping up of the Line Fund wager size.

Did I mention that the Line Fund doubles its bet size starting this week until the end of Round 23?

With just six games over the weekend, wholesale changes in team Rankings seemed unlikely and, in the end, ChiPS re-Ranked only three team and MARS re-Ranked seven.

Again this week it fell to a single team to provide the only bright spot in an otherwise dark and depressing round of wagering. It was the Pies who eventually gave that relief when they comfortably accounted for the Giants on Sunday, though the Suns, which we'd bought at $10, had gone very close to lighting up the entire weekend only 24 hours earlier.

Round 11 is the first of three successive truncated rounds comprising just six games, and this limited opportunity for spotting value, however illusory, has predictably resulted in reduced exposure for Investors this week.

Just five teams changed their ChiPS Ranking this week while 13 changed their MARS Ranking, though nine of those MARS changes were only by a single position, so the contrast isn't as stark as it first appears.

Investors suffered yet another loss this week, the Roos' win over the Eagles the only thing preventing a dreaded "no-collect" round.

Investors have eight bets again this week, though the mix is different to last week's.

For all the weekend and mid-week drama on and off the field, the results we ended up with weren't all that far from those the ChiPS and MARS Rating Systems expected.

I was tempted to fashion a title for today's blog around the theme "Pies reheated during half-time break" to reflect Collingwood's remarkable reversal of form in the second half of their match against the Roos, but gave up when I couldn't find something snappy enough. So, as least you were saved from that.

It's Round 9 and we've already spotted the TAB bookmaker 10c headstart, 6.5c more than we'd surrendered to him at the same point last season, so it's arguably not a bad thing to find ourselves with a little more action this week.

Again this week there's no movement amongst the Top 4 teams as Rated by ChiPS and MARS, though both Systems remain stubbornly different in their orderings of three of those teams, Hawthorn the exception. ChiPS prefers the Eagles in 2nd ahead of the Dockers and then the Swans, while MARS thinks the Dockers are 2nd best, the Swans 3rd, and the Eagles 4th. 

Saturday's results made sure that the weekend was not going to be a profitable one for Investors, and Sunday evening's twin upsets precluded the possibility of stunning returns for any of the MoS Tipsters or Predictors.

Just four wagers dot the weekend's footballing landscape, and none threatens the long-term health of Investors' or the TAB Bookmaker

This week saw a surprisingly high level of team re-Ranking on both the ChiPS and the MARS Rating Systems, nine teams moving house on ChiPS, and 12 doing the same on MARS.

Some games can be strange affairs for me now. As well as posting tips and wagers here on MoS, I also participate in the FMITL and in all three Monash Competitions, using different algorithms in each to exploit the particular scoring mechanics employed. That leaves me with divided - sometimes trisected - loyalties.

The TAB Bookmaker is predicting a round of moderate to comfortable wins for seven of its favourites this week, all seven expected to win by between about two-and-a-half and six goals according to their line market handicaps.

Outside of the top 4, all but one of the teams changed their Ranking on ChiPS this week, the most significant falls being the Pies' and the Dogs' three-spot declines, and the most significant climb being the Roos' three-spot ascension.

The round started this week on the vast open fields of the MCG with a tepid display by the pre-game favourite Pies, who ultimately went down to the Cats by about 7 goals, and ended in the very insular confines of MatterOfStats spreadsheets where the ChiPS Tipsters registered significant falls on all of its Leaderboards.

In the blog wrapping up last week's wagering results (not that there was much to rap) I mentioned that the Fund algorithms had one more week of calibration before bet sizes were likely to increase. While that's true for the Head-to-Head Fund, it's actually not for the Line Fund. It ratchets up from Round 5, which had me a little taken aback when the Line Fund algorithm gave me my wagering instructions for the week.