2012 Round 7 Interim Results

There's still a match to be played to complete Round 7 so I'll save the detailed review of the round for tomorrow night.

In the meantime, the headline result for Investors is that they're up by about 1.75c on the round, which leaves Overall Portfolios at around one-tenth of a cent under breakeven for the season. We've the Head-to-Head Fund to thank for the week's profit, its 2 from 2 performance lifting its price by almost 11c for the round and taking it to $1.063.

The Line Fund's 2 and 2 performance knocked 1 cent off its price leaving it at $0.91, while the Margin Fund's 0 and 2 record stripped 5c from its price, taking it to $1.125.

2012 Round 7 : Wagers & Tips Update

The line market is now up for the Giants v Suns game and the Giants are receiving 6 points more start than I expected. At the time I formed that expectation the Giants were priced at $3.15; now they're at $3.55.

But even 24.5 points start isn't enough to tempt the Line Fund. Bravo I say, bravo.

Investors are, therefore, fully set for the weekend.

2012 Round 7 : Wagers & Tips : Dead Reckoning

It's been an unusual week over at TAB Sportsbet as the market for the GWS game went up around noon on Wednesday along with the markets for the other eight fixtures. I suppose it had something to do with the fact that the Giants this week face the Suns, which is about as near to a peer as I reckon they'll encounter this season.

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MAFLOnline Has a New Name ...

... actually, it's a pseudonym (a word that, prior to 25 years exposure to poor spelling on the web, I'd have confidently set down and then moved on without the need, as I have just now, to look it up in an online dictionary - which, now I think about it, I've assumed was correct ...).

I know from the weblogs that few of you come to the MAFL site via the tortuous method of clacking maflonline.squarespace.com into the address bar of your browser. Frankly, I probably wouldn't either were I not using Google Chrome which completes the remaining 25 characters for me as soon as I type the leading 'm'.

From today you need no longer remember that alphabet's worth of URL when you want to visit MAFL or refer a friend, colleague or random passerby to the site. (Look, traffic's traffic, and every writer wants an audience). Thanks to the commercially generous folk over at Squarespace, who are offering all their subscribers a free domain name, you can now reach the MAFL site via www.matterofstats.com.

For those of you who come to MAFL by other methods, including those who click on the links in the automatic e-mails they receive, nothing changes. The matterofstats link is a new and additional door to the site, and none of the old doors have been boarded up.

I like the MatterOfStats name and, in time, almost certainly in the off-season, I'll probably use it in rebranding and rejigging the current site. For at least the next 4 months though you'll see no other changes related to it.

2012 MARS, Colley and Massey Ratings After Round 6

As some of the powerhouse teams of 2011 continue to struggle and as new teams emerge, the various ratings systems that we've been considering each come to their own conclusions about who's best and who's worst (well, actually, there's broad consensus about who's worst, but you get the idea).

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