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Tips for 7-8 February - the result
Last week saw a perfect five in one of Mat's perms reduce his
deficit on the chimp. But do you really care right now? Only the glimmer of a hope that someone
other than Mat might apply for the Grimsby manager's job and stop us conceding
five or so goals every match is keeping me going right now. Let's go through the motions and get this done though eh? Coco's off his bananas and everything. Last week's tip are lined up below, as usual.
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Bet type
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Mat
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Stake
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Max return
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Coco
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Stake
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Max return
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Perm 3 from 5
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Arsenal, Man Utd, Bristol City, QPR and Chester
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22p
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£6.00
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Bournemouth, Sheffield Wed, Margate, Bolton and Kidderminster
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22p
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£74.41
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Perm 3 from 5
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Newcastle, Norwich, Huddersfield, Hereford and Morecambe
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15p
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£4.61
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Tamworth, Huddersfield/Darlington, Swindon, Peterborough/Chesterfield and Leyton Orient/Oxford
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15p
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£30.35
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Perm 3 from 5
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Chelsea, Plymouth, Lincoln, Oxford and Hull
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13p
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£6.12
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Chester/Farnborough, Lincoln/Boston, Reading, Bristol Rovers and Morecambe
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13p
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£31.99
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Potential return:
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£16.73
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£136.75
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Another good week for Mat, it seems. His method of arranging the bets into perms simply by ranking their system rating seems to have worked quite nicely.
In the first perm, the perm with effectively the five most certain matches, he
scored a perfect five. Again. That's two weeks running he's scored a five. Nice.
He was aided by Daryl Clare and Ruud van Nistelrooy's late winners for Chester
and Man Utd respectively. This perm earned him £6.00, which is £5.44
more than he was due to earn at about 17:43 on Saturday. The second perm saw three
matches correct for a 45p return, while he got two in the third perm. So a total
of £6.45 from 10 out of 15 matches correct. The 67 per cent strike-rate
marks his fourth week out of five above last year's level. It certainly seems
to be settling down, which seems to suggest his accuracy may improve further once
he adds the previous ten years' data into his system. Exciting, eh?
It's said that dogs can sense an earthquake moments before it happens. Similarly,
chimpanzees can predict a sacking a good couple of days before it happens.
Or so it would seem looking at Coco's poor performance this weekend. It was obviously
because he could sense the unrest that was come to at BP. Coco got four matches
correct and was not even aided by the postponement of the match involving Margate. Four out of 14 means a 29 per cent strike-rate, below both last year's level and
this year's cumulative performance. A one (due to Margate)-two-two formation
means no return for our challenger this week. The whole fiver is down the drain,
a bit like Paul Groves' managerial career in Cleethorpes.
Still no emails from Coco and Mat's new email addresses. Have you nothing to say
to our betting competitors? No shouts of encouragement or suggestions as to how
they can get back into the black?
| Bet
type |
Mat |
Stake |
Actual return |
Coco |
Stake |
Actual return |
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Perm 3 from 5 |
Arsenal, Man Utd,
Bristol City, QPR
and Chester
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22p |
£6.00 |
Bournemouth, Sheffield Wed, Margate, Bolton
and Kidderminster |
22p |
£0.00 |
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Perm 3 from 5 |
Newcastle, Norwich,
Huddersfield, Hereford and Morecambe
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15p |
45p |
Tamworth, Huddersfield/Darlington, Swindon,
Peterborough/Chesterfield and Leyton Orient/Oxford |
15p |
£0.00 |
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Perm 3 from 5 |
Chelsea, Plymouth, Lincoln, Oxford and Hull
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13p |
£0.00 |
Chester/Farnborough, Lincoln/Boston, Reading,
Bristol Rovers and Morecambe |
13p |
£0.00 |
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Total
return:
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£6.45 |
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£0.00 |
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Matches
correct:
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10/15
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4/14
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Overall, Mat is £23.78 down, with a 61 per cent strike-rate, while Coco is £28.01
down with a 35 per cent strike-rate. Mat has regained the lead and is ahead by
£4.23. If it wasn't so will-to-live-sapping being a Grimsby supporter right now,
this might be quite nail-biting stuff. The mention this week of the person most
hated in the chimp community goes to Daryl Clare, once of the Mariners, who as we saw earlier scored the late winner for Chester at home to Farnborough as I mentioned already. Mat
had Chester to win. Coco had the draw. If Daryl had screwed his shot wide instead
of scoring Mat would have only returned £3.00 this week, Coco would have
returned £2.71 and Coco would be leading overall by £1.93. A costly
goal indeed for the simian betting fraternity.
To see Mat and Coco's tips for next week click here
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