It is the almost the reverse of last year in that we had Man Utd 1st game and we played Chelsea in our 4th, with 2 average teams in between.
I think it is one person who does it, sure he was interviewed on TV a couple of years ago. Don't think we have had a fair crack. Think we must be safe before the run in!
I know this is quite old, but this shows how they do it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulfletcher/2009/06/secrets_of_the_fixture_compute.html
REVEALED! The REAL truth behind the Premier League fixtures computer http://talksport.com/football/revea...res-computer-150618151215#sFUBtA3K6cIRmjxE.99 So that's how they do it!
Unfortunately the human brain finds randomness hard to understand. The reality is the less random something appears to be the more random it is. There are some interesting stories regarding this and the one classic example is when the Apple ipod first came out. People complained that its shuffle feature didn't work due to too often the same songs from the same album or artist kept coming up one after another. So Steve Jobs had the programming changed in order to make it less random and therefore feel more random to the user. They did this by ensuring the new song had to be significantly different from its predecessor. This would then conform to what we as humans consider to be random but in actuality isn't random at all!! There is also a great experiment involving a coin toss I wont go into detail as you can Google it, but in short 1 person flips a coin 30 times and notes the results (completely random) and get another person to imagine flipping a coin and compare the results( someone attempting to be random). It does make for interesting reading though. I think we just love a good old conspiracy though!!
