We’re still waiting for the bookmakers to show their hands in the West Coast v Fremantle game but, in the eight games we know about, MoS and bookmaker opinions are generally quite similar, with the very notable exception of the GWS v Gold Coast game.
Read MoreThe bookmakers are still yet to post markets for the West Coast v Fremantle derby but, since there’s no way of telling how long it will be until they do so, let’s take a look at what we do know about the eight other games.
Read MoreSome more reshuffling this week, for MoSSBODS mostly mid-table, but for MoSHBODS more comprehensively.
Nonetheless, Melbourne retains top spot and Geelong 2nd under both Systems
Read MoreTwo-thirds of the round’s favourites snaffled the four points this week, while only three of the wins were sized six goals or greater.
Read MoreDockers by 1 now, according to MoSHPlay..
MoSHPlay is staying contrarian on the Tigers v Giants game and finishes at Giants by 9 points..
MoSHPlay thinks it’s deciphered the implications of the Eagles’ changes and has finished at North by 16 points, a 9-point shift from MoSHBODS’ team-based assessment.
MoSHPlay has landed on Port by 11 points and Melbourne by 21 points.
MoSHPlay has switched to the Lions and expects them to win by 2 points.
Pies by 17, according to MoSHPlay.
MoSHPlay still has the Swans as favourites, but only just.
MoSHPlay, for now, finds itself as the extreme predictor in the Dons v Lions, Roos v Eagles, and Dockers v Saints games.
With the final teams announced, MoSHPlay finishes at Dogs by 10 points
MoSHPlay’s opening bid (after guessing which of the emergencies will make the final 23) is Dogs by 9 points
The MoS twins, again, are foreshadowing larger totals than are the bookmakers this week, with the bookmakers’ average over two goals under last week’s recorded 176 points per game, and the MoS twins two to five points higher.
Read MoreLast week was fairly encouraging, and this week promises a number of contests that could legitimately go either way.
Read MoreThe MoS twins are still parameterised in such a way that they make some of their largest adjustments in the early parts of the season, as evidenced by the Geelong, Gold Coast, Carlton and Fremantle climbs this week, and the matching Essendon, West Coast, and Adelaide falls.
Read MoreAs a statistical modeller, you start every season wondering if the improvements you think you’ve made to your models are actually improvements or, instead, just ill-advised renovations to things that were perfectly functional as they were.
At this point, I think it’s fair to say that the changes have, at the very least, not rendered the models useless (as low as a bar as that might be).
Read MoreEagles by 4, according to MoSHPlay.
MoSHPlay ends at Adelaide by 15 points.
Hawks by 16, according to MoSHPlay.
With the final team announcements, MoSHPlay has switched to the Giants, but only by 1 point.
The smallest of tweaks to the Cats’ victory margin. MoSHPlay now has it as Cats by 4.
Nothing particularly outrageous from MoSHPlay in its most recent set of forecasts, which are based on the currently named 22s plus the first of those named on the interchange. At this stage, it is the extreme forecaster only in the Eagles v Suns game where it has the home team winning by just 7 points.
MoSHPlay is broadly in agreement (at this stage) with MoSHBODS about the Blues v Tigers game
MoSHPlay, with the announcement of the final teams, has shaved a point off the Dees expected victory margin.
MoSHPlay (having reconsidered) likes the Dees’ and Dogs’ lineups about equally, and so has the home team winning by about 2 goals.
In a rare display of optimism, the MoS forecasters, overall, have higher average Total forecasts than the bookmakers’, as well as some quite different opinions about what individual teams will score to reach those Totals.
Read MoreWelcome back to all my long-term followers, hello to all my new followers (and arrivederci to those who’ve left, not that they’ll read this, I know).
For all that’s happened globally, locally, and for me, personally, since last we talked, it’s genuinely good to be back.
I realise it’s maybe a tad early to be posting Round 1 wagers and forecasts, but that just reflects the impatience of our time (oh, okay, and maybe my teenager-like impatience to get this thing started, as well)
Here’s what we have …
Read MoreExactly 12 months ago today, I posted about the tipsters, predictors and Funds for the 2020 season.
The world has changed a bit since then, but MoS won’t be - well not by much.
Read MoreThe bookmakers were clearly superior to both MoS twins this season in terms of their ability to forecast Game Totals, so much so that it’s fairly unlikely I’ll be bothering to wager in this market next season unless an off-season re-optimisation of the MoS algorithms suggests that a much stronger result is realistic.
In the meantime, let’s wrap up what the final round left us with.
Read MoreThe Dees’ emphatic win over the Dogs saw them finish the season well-ahead on the two Rating Systems, 5.2 Scoring Shots clear of the Dogs on MoSSBODS, and 14.7 Points clear on MoSHBODS.
That left the two Systems still completely agreeing only about the top seven and the bottom three teams, but differing by no more than a single spot about any of them.
Read MoreAll the Head-to-Head Tipsters were on the Dees in the Grand Final, which means that MoSSBODS_Marg has finished top on 138.5 from 206 (67%), three tips ahead of MoSHBODS_Marg on 135.5 (66%), and five tips ahead of MoSHPlay_Marg on 133.5 (65%).
Read MoreIt’s the Dees by 9, according to MoSHPlay
This week the MoS forecasters again have lower expectations for scoring than the bookmakers - by about two goals in MoSSBODS’ case.
Read MoreThe Grand Final pits 1st against 5th, the first such pairing this millennium - in fact, the first time that 5th has made the Grand Final at all. Somewhat surprisingly, 1st has a worse than 50:50 record in Grand Finals across this period.
Read MoreThe Dogs remained in 2nd place behind the Dees on both Systems this week, but now trail by only 2.4 Scoring Shots on MoSSBODS, and by 7.1 Points on MoSHBODS.
The only teams moving spots were Port Adelaide, who fell three spots to 6th on both Systems, Brisbane Lions, who climbed two spots into 3rd on both Systems despite not playing, and Sydney, who climbed one spot into 5th on both Systems, also without playing.
That left the two Systems agreeing about the top seven and the bottom three teams.
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