{"id":1029,"date":"2021-04-08T21:30:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T21:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2021-04-08T23:02:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T23:02:58","slug":"loi-matchday-4-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/loi-matchday-4-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"LOI Matchday 4 Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As I go into match day 4, a review of match day 3 reveals that I got, or should I start to say the system got, 1 result correct that was the Sligo Rovers win. While I hedged against them at the weekend it was good to see Waterford FC pick up their first points of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The running tally so far after 14 games is 2 correct predictions, a 14% hit rate so far &#8230;.. terrible. Top of a local prediction league is 8 out of 14 so a bit to go there to catch up.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For match day 4 here are the predictions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>St. Patricks (47%) vs Derry City (26%)<br \/>The Probability of a Draw between St. Patricks and Derry City is 26%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So calling a St. Pats win<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dundalk (62%) vs Bohemians (15%)<br \/>The Probability of a Draw between Dundalk and Bohemians is 22%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dundalk have had a shaky start to the season, but will go for the Dundalk win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finn Harps (24%) vs Waterford (49%)<br \/>The Probability of a Draw between Finn Harps and Waterford is 27%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finn Harps are flying it but the system is saying a Waterford win, so will go for the Waterford to win scenario and make up for last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Longford (36%) vs Drogheda (38%)<br \/>The Probability of a Draw between Longford and Drogheda is 25%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is very close looks like it could be a draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sligo Rovers (28%) vs Shamrock Rovers (43%)<br \/>The Probability of a Draw between Sligo Rovers and Shamrock Rovers is 29%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dare I say a clash at the top of the table, and will go for a Rovers win &#8230;&#8230; Shamrock Rovers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s an extra game this week <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Derry City (29%) vs Shamrock Rovers (43%)<br \/>The Probability of a Draw between Derry City and Shamrock Rovers is 28%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And looks to be another Shamrock Rovers win to really put them top of the table. Now in truth I called this already as a draw a week or so back, but I&#8217;m going for Rovers win now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I go into match day 4, a review of match day 3 reveals that I got, or should I start to say the system got, 1 result correct that was the Sligo Rovers win. While I hedged against them at the weekend it was good to see Waterford FC pick up their first points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,199],"tags":[212,213,214,215],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-mathematical-modelling-of-football","tag-league-of-ireland","tag-loi","tag-prediction","tag-score"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7O9Cj-gB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}