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European leagues 2008/09 rankings, analysis and review

Benno Hansen — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:44:11 GMT

To top off my series of statistically based posts here is one summing up on the top five leagues of Europe. Quick-and-dirty methods. For each team a score is calculated as its point average times its
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So, how many millions of ? does a win in the Bundesliga cost?

Benno Hansen — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:21:11 GMT

Three blog posts ago I set out to answer the question if money bought the Bundesliga. I never really answered. One of the reasons is Google Docs does not have very advanced tools for linear regressio
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Significance in Italy, Spain and France

Benno Hansen — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:11:17 GMT

These are the noteworthy results 08/09. Everything else is insignificant. This weekend saw the conclusions to the Italian, Spanish and French leagues. I have made the same analysis on those league ta
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Liverpool and Man U really did rule the Premier League (Statistics with Google Docs)

Benno Hansen — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:22:57 GMT

I have analyzed the English Premier League in my Google Spreadsheet. So, to follow up on my post about this year's German Bundesliga let me real quick explain a bit about both spreadsheets and the sta
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Did money buy the Bundesliga? (Statistics with Google Docs)

Benno Hansen — Sun, 24 May 2009 17:59:22 GMT

Since the most expensive team did not win the obvious answer is no, isn't it? Perhaps not. I have played around with a little Google Spreadsheet - brushing up the most basic of statistics and how to
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Danish tournament in a tight race

Benno Hansen — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:33:05 GMT

Just put up a post at Copenhagen Files for predicting the final standings of the Danish league: Placed 2nd with three matches to go things are getting tricky Just for you, here are a few more detail
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Will the system fail at BayArena tonight?

Benno Hansen — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:43:47 GMT

My betting system, that is. As some of you footbo'ers might have guessed from my predictions and previous blog posts I don't just guess or gaze in a crystal ball. I don't claim to be a prophet. I use
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Serie A will end like this

Benno Hansen — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:42:29 GMT

My third league prediction article today will analyse the Italian Serie A. Congratulations, Inter. Currently 10 points ahead, no losses in the past 13 matches, unbeaten at home and with Zlatan
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Ligue 1 final standings forecast

Benno Hansen — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:55:41 GMT

Continuing my predictions of how Europe's biggest leagues will finish here is a look at the French Ligue 1. 321 of 380 games have been played - 94 of which has been draws. The top of the standings is
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The end is near: What the Premier League final standings 08/09 will look like

Benno Hansen — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:40:51 GMT

It's spring and Europe's leagues are finishing. My statistically inclined inner geek and my computer have taken a look at the standings. Here's what we can predict for the English Premier League which
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"Only gay people and Communists like football"

Benno Hansen — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:08:29 GMT

US Americans really hate us and football. Or rather: some Americans. Mostly the die hard Republicans. It's unbelievable but they see it as an anti-American and primitive activity and link it to intern
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La Liga final standings prediction

Benno Hansen — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:01:54 GMT

I have made my computer draw up the final standings - expressed as probability distributions - of the Spanish Primera Division today. For an explanation please see my previous blog post. More than thr
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League standings as probability distributions (Bundesliga)

Benno Hansen — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:31:11 GMT

I have written a little program that draws league tables as a sort of graph that helps predict the final standings. Each team has a line that begins at the teams current number of points (marked 0)
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Philosophy of science and FC Barcelona

Benno Hansen — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:21:39 GMT

How's that for a headline, folks!? The thing is I have written three articles about philosophy of science using mostly creationism and climate change as examples. The third part, Let's get smarter
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I reviewed footbo.com at my Copenhagen blog

Benno Hansen — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:54:07 GMT

Check out Checking out footbo.com. I guess I kind of like footbo.com already. Or rather, I have hopes for it. One thing that might be useful would be for users to be able to automatically integrate
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Copenhagen blogging

Benno Hansen — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:17:03 GMT

When I go to my favourite team's page it says write about this team. But hey... I already do! Since November 2006 I have been blogging about FC Kbenhavn (Copenhagen, Denmark) at CopenhagenFiles.blogs
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