Football is coming thick and fast now, so we’d better hurry off to our Alternative Week 6 Premier League Predictions for the week.
This continues our alternative way of selecting Premier League winners from last season and the first two weeks so far. Some of them based on football stats, and some have a very obscure link to football or news events of that week.
Given we are low on ideas, and some of the stats have proven to be very poor indicators of victory, we are using how each team’s kit is rated to determine a winner this week.
To find out why and who, please read on in our Alternative Week 6 Premier League Predictions .
Alternative Week 6 Premier League Predictions – Premier League Kit Rating
This method is reasonably simple, we took the results from this GQ article on Premier League kits. Hey, if GQ can’t speak for men’s fashion who can.
So our theory is that teams with a kit that is rated better by GQ will feel more confident as they are more fashionable. That confidence is replicated on the field for victory.
We say anyway.
Our Week 6 Premier League Predictions
Fresh from our full Week 6 Premier League preview are our tips for the weekend. Click on the link if you want stats and graph with your EPL preview.
Aston Villa 1 Leeds 1
West Ham 1 Man City 3
Fulham 0 Crystal Palace 0
Man Utd 2 Chelsea 2
Liverpool 4 Sheffield Utd 1
Southampton 1 Everton 1
Wolves 0 Newcastle 0
Arsenal 2 Leicester 1
Brighton 3 West Brom 0
Burnley 0 Spurs 3
GURGLER v ALTERNATIVE TIPS SCOREBOARD
Week 1
Gurgler – 4/8
First Day Form – 4/8
Week 2
Gurgler – 5/10
Population Density – 3/10
Week 3
Gurgler – 4/10
Happiness – 4/10
Week 4
Gurgler – 3/10
VAR-3/10
Week 5
Gurgler – 4/10
International Break – 2/10
Week 6 Premier League Predictions – Best of Barely Interesting Stats
Also from our full preview, we have the best of our barely interesting stats from the weekend’s fixtures. And who doesn’t love stats.
Aston Villa are currently the team with the best difference between expected goals against and actual goals. 3.71 were expected but only two conceded. Only three other teams have conceded less than their xA – Arsenal, Wolves and Crystal Palace.
The last time Leeds beat Aston Villa in October was in 1935 and it was their only win of 12 games.
Man City have seven points, have scored seven goals and conceded seven goals. Sadly they are 11th not 7th for the sake of numbers.
Palace did the double over Fulham last Premier League season together. Both games ended up 2-0.
There have been four previous Man Utd v Chelsea games in October at Man Utd, all four ended up draws.
Liverpool have conceded 13 goals this season so far. It took 13 games to concede the same amount of goals last season.
Southampton have won just twice in 14 games that have been played in October v Everton.
Five of the last eight games between these Wolves and Newcastle played in October have ended in a draw and the last three games between these sides have ended 1-1.
Arsenal are undefeated at home to Leicester on a Sunday, and are unbeaten at home on a midweek date.
Only two clashes between West Brom and Brighton in October and both ended in draws.
Burnley have won all three games at home to Spurs in October. The last such even was back in 1935.
