I listened to him explaining it on the Widnes/Cas match and I've read the article on Sky website and have come to the conclusion Sky have joined him and totally lost the plot.

Totally agree, this is the biggest gimmick since Sky started broadcasting.

its pathetic. should be dumped at once. along with clarke

Eddie asked last night if the ball touched the snow in the try area has it touched the ground?



Jesus wept....

it was never right at any time during the match except at full time

if it was any good bookies would be crying in their soup

This trio of Stevo,Eddie and Clarke are well past they're sell buy date,,,,,Eddie asking iff the ball ad touched the snow or the ground for a try at the Salford/Cas game.Forward thinking company like SKY pension these 3 off.it's 2012 and give the gig to Barry Mc,Terry O and Wellsy

Taken from Sky website

'During the off-season we've asked a leading expert in this field to help us to try to identify the patterns and trends that occur in a Super League game. Dr Bill Gerrard has looked at more than 700 team performances in Super League over the last few seasons and analysed the key performance indicators that teams record.

The posh term for doing this is "data mining" or "predictive analytics", which is the sort of thing that supermarkets do to sell their goods, insurance companies do to calculate their polices or the weather people do to make a forecast.'

Hell's teeth does that mean they've paid someone to come up with this?

This innovative thinking should go further and pension some of them off. Give Carney and Wells more time at least they talk more sense. Whether that continues when they've been subjected to Stevo and Clarke for a few more seasons remains to be seen.

A complete load of pooh.

Couldn't put it better myself

A bet the Margin Meter will tell us Wigan will win by a ridiculous scoreline even when they losing by loads with less than 10 seconds on the clock.

Last night at Salford it went from Castleford to win by 20 to Salford to win by 11 within the space of five minutes.

Clarke also informed us that they don't input the scores at any point. Wouldn't they be a key indicator as to how a game might progress?

He did accept it may need tweeking over the course of the season.

wonder how many it would have had saints romping home by after 65 minutes of the grand final
its as accurate as asking the guy selling the teas

I don't think its there to predict the winner of a game and the margin to within a definite accuracy.

What I think it is trying to highlight is little things which happen in a game, changing the momentum of how the game is going. Taking all those stats we look at after the game and applying them in real time. Looking for sides playing the ball in the opposition half more and stuff, things which aren't always obvious to the observer during the game. Teams having back to back sets has a longer term effect than the outcome of those individual sets.

If its true that the scores are put into the system during the game then I'm very interested in it, and it looks quite good. Its been pretty close on both occassions.

I'd have been interested if they'd have had something similar during the England RU game