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Dutch-Booked Myself Again

by BDT100 @ 2008-03-02 - 20:37:40

I didn't lose any money though. But I could have. Plus I seem to be defying Reflection because I am holding two contradictory beliefs at the same time. Maybe, I'm not sure what the explanation is at the moment. Basically what happened is this:

I was fairly confident that the bottom three teams in the Premiership at the moment will be the three that get relegated at the end of the season. Yet I used the BBC Sport Premiership predictor today, which you can find here:

Premier League Predictor

...and it turns out that I really believe that Sunderland will be one of the teams that gets relegated. The predictor simulates the state of the Premiership after you input your predictions for every match between now and the end of the season. I wasn't consciously keeping track of the points as I was doing it, but somehow I thought that Sunderland would probably be safe. Their last game is against Arsenal, and I also believe that probably Arsenal will need to win that game to win the Premiership, so I don't think Sunderland can win or draw it even if their survival depends on it. Strangely enough I predicted that the score would be 2-0 to Arsenal. Really I believe that 1-0 to Arsenal will be enough for them to win the Premiership, and also 1-0 to Arsenal will be enough for Sunderland to stay up, but the Dutch-Book problem doesn't go away because then it would be Bolton that goes down, and not Reading.

Just for some reference, here is the current table:

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And here is what I think will go down:

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Now maybe I have a way out here... perhaps my two views are consistent. I actually find the above prediction to be extremely extremely unlikely. I'd give it a credence of one in at least a million chance of being correct. The reason it is my prediction is because of all the different possibilities there are (which include unbelievable events like West ham winning the league and Tottenham being relegated [I think]), I think it is the most likely. So perhaps my position could be consistent if even though I think the most likely scenario has Sunderland going down, overall the probability of Sunderland going down is less than that of Reading going down. Seems a bit of a cop-out.


 
 

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getagrip68getagrip68 [Member]
2008-03-02 @ 21:02

I have Wigan dropping into it with Bolton and Sunderland just surviving. Wigan's run in is a toughie -

Wigan v Arsenal
Wigan v Bolton
Blackburn v Wigan
Portsmouth v Wigan
Wigan v Birmingham
Chelsea v Wigan
Wigan v Tottenham
Wigan v Reading
Aston Villa v Wigan
Wigan v Man Utd

... but anything can happen in football and if Man Utd have already won the league by the last day they could well do Steve Bruce a favour and save 'em.

BDT100BDT100 [Member]
2008-03-02 @ 21:06

It's definitely going to be tight at the end I think, in the title battle, relegation battle, UEFA cup battle and champs league battle. I think Villa have half a chance to get into the Champion's League actually as they have some quite weak fixtures coming up. I really want to see Newcastle properly drop down into the relegation battle too. It's going to be a good climax to the season though for sure, as sometimes around this time you get teams that stop trying, but nearly every team now is playing for something.

getagrip68getagrip68 [Member]
2008-03-02 @ 22:06

Villa are decent though probably need a bit for depth, O'Neill was an excellent choice as manager. As for Newcastle, those Geordies will never be happy, Keegan is not the man for a crisis and their next solution to the problem will be Shearer, a bloke who's never managed, is not yet qualified and struggles to say much worthwhile on Match of the Day!

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