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Associate Professor in Space Environment at the University of Birmingham, creating the next generation space weather forecast models. Included on Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

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Euro 2020 – The Final Modelling Results

Posted on July 14, 2021 by Sean

With a disappointing end to the tournament (for us England fans anyway!) here is the final conclusions of how the model performed.

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Euro 2020 – Round of 16 Predictions

Posted on June 25, 2021 by Sean

Now we are getting to the business end of the tournament, here are the Euro 2020 Round of 16 model predictions.

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Euro 2020 – End of the Group Stage

Posted on June 24, 2021 by Sean

With the end of the group stage of Euro 2020 it is time to check on how the model is doing, and look at the updated new probabilities for who will win the tournament.

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Euro 2020 – Round 2 Predictions

Posted on June 16, 2021 by Sean

Round 2 of Euro 2020 gets underway today, my previous post showed that my prediction model is doing pretty well, so here are the latest predictions.

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Euro 2020 – Round 1 Results & Validation Methodology

Posted on June 15, 2021 by Sean

With the first round of fixtures complete we can have a first peak of how well our model is doing.

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Euro 2020 – Round 1 Predictions

Posted on June 11, 2021 by Sean

Here are the predictions using my ML model for Round 1 of Euro 2020.

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Euro 2020 Predictions

Posted on June 7, 2021 by Sean

It’s football tournament time, which means it’s football tournament prediction time.

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The Impact of Form in Fantasy Football

Posted on September 25, 2019 by Sean

I am a keen player of Fantasy Football. Not only is the game huge fun (and very addictive) it also provides an excellent opportunity to play around with a whole host of mathematics. I posted a controversial thread on Twitter which has been reasonably popular (100k views, 90 retweets, 225 likes, 110 comments on Reddit
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Pointless Scoring England Goalkeepers

Posted on February 26, 2019 by Sean

The TV show “Pointless” is based around correctly guessing obscure answers to questions. Season 5, Episode 48 had a question about England goalkeepers.

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World Cup 2018 Quarter Final Update

Posted on July 5, 2018 by Sean

My model now gives Brazil odds of >1/3 that they will win the World Cup.

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