I see that we are no longer favorites to go down with Cardiff and Fulham taking over.

Anyone know when we stopped being favorites?

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I already posted about this. In fact we are still third favourite to go down, behind Cardiff and Fulham. The odds changed after our win on Tuesday and did not change after the Wednesday matches.

The right place at the right time

I certainly think we will get closer to being favourite after the next four but I think Fulham will stay favourite for the rest of the season, they have a very hard run until the end and Cardiff have the easiest. It's going to be close.

Why does anyone pay any attention to these odds ?

Bookmakers are there to make money, not accurately predict anything.

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To be fair, the bookies make money by predicting things more accurately. If they gave odds of 100/1 for Man City to not get relegated they'd go out of business pretty quick.

They have risk analysts who spend their life predicting outcomes based on everything from form to future fixtures using historic data to better predict likely outcomes - so actually I think relegation odds are a good indication of how much work we have to do still but also (compared to where we were only a few months ago) - shows how far we have come.

Edited by jpegnall (31 Jan 2014 10.51am)

Pretty sure that's only £100 profit mate

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