The Random Fixture Generator

[Blanchflower]

24th Nov - Spurs vs Chelsea
2nd Dec - Woolwich vs Spurs

27th Feb - Chelsea vs Spurs
2nd Mar - Spurs vs Woolwich

 

[scott]

Bad luck. It's hard to give it all for 2 big games in a row. 4 pts is good from 2 big games like those.

 

[ArmadilloSackRace]

It's not supposed to be random. Nobody believes it's coincidence that we play at home when Woolwich are away, and vice versa, and when Sky used to have their big Super Sundays with the old big 4 playing each other a couple of times a season.

There's all sorts of patterns that appear in the fixture calendar year in, year out.

 

[iz futbal]

Derby Day.....

Chelsea v Fulham
Arse vs Spurs
Livepool v Everton

Surely not random.

 

[Blanchflower]

It's not supposed to be random. Nobody believes it's coincidence that we play at home when Woolwich are away, and vice versa, and when Sky used to have their big Super Sundays with the old big 4 playing each other a couple of times a season.

There's all sorts of patterns that appear in the fixture calendar year in, year out.

The PL call it 'Random' not me

 

[Totti]

Lucky it's not random. Because otherwise we may end up with 5 away games on the bounce and travelling to City, Woolwich, Liverpool, Utd and Everton.

Happy enough with how the fixtures end up each year.

 

[ArmadilloSackRace]

The PL call it 'Random' not me

But they don't call it that, do they? There's so many parameters fead into the computer that control the outcome that they'd be stupid to make that claim, which is why they don't.

 

[FokkenPrawn]

There’s was a very detailed post a few years back on here which clearly set out how it’s done. For the life of me I’ll never find it though

I do recall at the time the general consensus being that it was a good system

 

[ArmadilloSackRace]

There’s was a very detailed post a few years back on here which clearly set out how it’s done. For the life of me I’ll never find it though

I do recall at the time the general consensus being that it was a good system

Guessing you might be referring to this:
BBC - Paul Fletcher: Secrets of the fixture computer

 

[Totti]

How the Premier League fixture list is compiled

 

[FokkenPrawn]

Guessing you might be referring to this:
BBC - Paul Fletcher: Secrets of the fixture computer

Indeed, that’s probably it

 

[spursmalc]

It has always been the way that most of the time we play the teams in the reverse matches in the same order as the first set of matches. Xmas and Easter matches muck it up a bit but generally speaking that is what happens.

 

[SpiderSpurs]

How the Premier League fixture list is compiled

That's an interesting read. Very far from a random generator.