Impossible. BAE would not have received a single vote . Ah, just realised there is another solution. Barton got 10,000 votes & 1,000 ballot papers were spoiled!
If you put the names of the four teams into a hat and invite me to pull one out, I have a one in four chance of pulling out the winner.
Totally, give it a rest the odds are 4 to 1 the losing team in the first round has everything to do with it, how can they not?
4-1 would mean FIVE teams This has been discussed previously; the winners need to only beat two teams i.e. 2-1, one chance in three.
OK, on reflection I think we should expect to be in the premiership most of the time, perhaps with an outstanding season (top 8, a cup final) one year in 10, but we will get relegated sometimes as well, but should bounce back within 4 seasons. Thats the pattern of the last 45 years, with the League One blip excepted. And this is the history TF is trying to break, without success so far. That doesn't make us a big club, and I agree with Roller's assessment of going by actual and latent support, but it makes us bigger than most of the 92.
If you put the names of four teams into a hat and invite me to pull one out, I'll probably get arrested.
OK then, say we finish QPR, Wigan, Derby and Ipswich, in that order, I'll have a oner on QPR and another oner on Wigan, then if either win I get 300 back. Your name's not Stroller Coral, is it?
How did this thread get sidetracked into whether we would be 3/1 or 4/1 in the play offs? It's made a mockery of Stan's OP. BTW on the logic of those odds we would be 3/1 for the semi final (us against three others) & if we reached the final it would be 1/1.
Pardon the intrusion, but that means you'd risk £200 for the chance of making a gain of £100, which doesn't sound that attractive to me.
If stadium were included then we were once huge, but have undergone a surgical reduction losing 80% along the way. Leaving us small but perfectly formed. But dont worry Phill & Tony will soon drive us out of business all together, finishing the job.
Na Tel, Totally just don't get that there's a total difference between odds and percentages. I totally believe that when you add up the total number of teams, which is 4, and there's only one that wins it, that means in total, 75% miss out and 25% make it. Totally is totally over-egging it because bookies odds are a totally different matter all together. What do you reckon Tel?
Personally I think it is a big shame that such a good OP has been completely side tracked by a load of bollocks.
If QPR play Ipswich and then Wigan in the final, the team that Wigan have beaten have nothing to do with QPR's chances of winning. If the above scenario were to pan out, I would jump at that bet at 1/2 on. (I can't believe that I am still going on with this)
Threads go the way they go mate, I just hope some of these blokes never go near a betting shop. Stan the dog is losing his bollocks on Monday. He's getting special food this weekend, its like a condemned man's last meal. I'll never be able to look him in the eye again.
Fair point Roller. Apologies Stan. I'll gather my thoughts and give the OP the response it deserves later.