The Mail entirely misunderstand while the Mirror sh*house the Opta data to suggest Arsenal are predicted to finish eighth.
Tale of the unexpected
The quest for clickable content is so frenzied that sometimes, a massive media giant like MailOnline publish something that is absolute and utter bollocks.
And not in the usual ‘absolute and utter bollocks’ of hyperbole and non-news, but something that is so undeniably absolute and utter bollocks that a) they have to do a frenzied and incomplete re-write and b) you have to wonder if there is a collective and complete loss of sense.
Is anybody but the author even reading anything anymore? MailOnline have a gargantuan staff so how does this utter nonsense get published and remain published in this form for over 12 hours?
Supercomputer predicts the final Premier League table with new champions crowned, Arsenal finishing MID-TABLE and Man United set for another disastrous points total
Now, you know Mediawatch loves a supercomputer, which is a quaint ‘yer dad’ way of saying ‘algorithm’. And supercomputers predicting final Premier League tables have been A Thing since boffins were invented.
But this supercomputer has not predicted a final Premier League table at all. Oh no. But an absolute non-boffin at the Mail has read the word ‘expected’ (as in expected points) in an Opta release and concluded that ‘expected’ is a synonym for ‘predicted’.
