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So far there have been 95 matches played, 69 of which were correctly predicted, a success rate of 72.6%. Here are the predictions for last week’s games.

Here are the predictions for Week 1. The prediction is my estimated expected points difference with a positive margin being a win to the home team, and a negative margin a win to the away team.

Here are the predictions for Week 4. The prediction is my estimated expected points difference with a positive margin being a win to the home team, and a negative margin a win to the away team.

Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of ...

So far there have been 87 matches played, 64 of which were correctly predicted, a success rate of 73.6%. Here are the predictions for last week’s games.

Here are the predictions for Round 1. The prediction is my estimated expected points difference with a positive margin being a win to the home team, and a negative margin a win to the away team.