Bloomberg Sports Makes 2013 Predictions

Sports analytic technology provider, Bloomberg Sports, has unveiled its objective projections for the 2013/2014 UEFA Champions League, as well as Europe’s top five leagues, through its unique system of algorithms. 

The projections are available online and provide purely objective, data-driven odds for each team winning the tournament, winning their group and qualifying from their group. They also highlight where bookmakers have either undervalued or overvalued certain teams.

• Compared to bookmakers, BSports gives Barcelona a better chance to win (21.3%) than Bayern Munich (18.9%). 
• Real Madrid (16.7%) are the most likely team to push Barcelona and Bayern Munich. Chelsea (8.9%) have better odds of winning the Champions League than both Manchester-based clubs. 
• BSports data indicates Manchester City (7.2%) have a better chance of winning than Manchester United (6.4%).
• Despite David Moyes’ inexperience in the Champions League, Man Utd are favourites to qualify (84.8%) from Group A. They are also favourites to win the group at 60.9%. 
• In Group F, the so-called ‘group of death’, little separates Arsenal (62.6%) & Dortmund (60.9%) for the top two places. 
• Man City (87.2%) and Bayern Munich (94.9%) are both expected to qualify from Group D, however City’s chances of winning the group are almost half Bayern Munich’s, with tougher opponents likely in the next round. 
• BSports gives Chelsea a better chance (77%) of winning Group E compared to bookmakers and they are almost odds-on to qualify (95%) from their group.

‘BSports are adding our mathematically-derived predictions to the Champion’s League debate, just as we did with the projections for the top five European leagues” said Bill Squadron, President of Bloomberg Sports, who spoke to Sport Industry TV at the UK launch last year. 

‘Our purely data-driven method of projecting outcomes has already proved highly accurate. Since the start of last year, our Match Analysis tool has shown at least 5% of value in over 46% of matches, with a net profit of +34.41 units.’

Alongside these projections, BSports’ free Match Analysis tool presents the probable outcomes of every Champions League match. It even updates the odds of each result every minute throughout the game, providing fans with unique insights and bettors with pure, math-driven odds that they can then compare to what the bookmakers are offering, ultimately helping them ‘Beat the Bookie’. Match Analysis is available at www.bsports.com/ma.

Launched in 2010, Bloomberg Sports takes the technology developed by Bloomberg, the global provider in data and analytics, and applies it to the data analysis opportunities in sports. The company’s latest consumer product for European football, “Match Analysis,” is a predictive and analytic tool forecasting game results. 

They recently launched “Stats Insights,” a comprehensive blog that contains original content and analysis for the five major European football leagues.