Often at the end of each season our brilliant PT/PCT/CT previewers beat themselves up about their selections for being slightly off. So what I am about to do now is produce an 'end of year' ranking based purely on random chance. At the end of the season we can then compare our 'human' predictions with the 'random' ones, which might tell us how predictable/random the man game really is, and how much of an advantage being a human with knowledge of PCM gives you over random chance.
The first step I did was throw a list of our 30 PCM teams into excel. Then I went to https://www.random... to produce a sequence of random numbers from 1 to 30. The I pasted the sequence next to my list of teams to assign them their final position.
Don't be offended by any prediction, it was just a randomly generated string of numbers. And if anyone is suspicious about where my team ended up! Believe me I wanted to switch myself with another team just to avoid this suspicion but that would ruin my experiment so I didn't consider it!
I haven't done much research this season especially on the newer teams so I don't know how accurate or inaccurate or accurate this is so let us know in a reply. Also, this didn't take me long so if you like the idea I'll whip up one for the PT and CT predictions.
Some of these look remarkably possible... Tinkoff should be around the top and so should ING. Others though, like Bouyges near the bottom just have to be way off.
I would be happier if my 10th place was based on your prediction, but then again, you would be quite stupid. Nice project mate, let's see how much randomness there really is in PCM
