here's actuals vs predicts for this weekend (9/21/19). home team is listed first.
algo is just starting to get enough data to start to get in dialed in, a little bit ahead of schedule... the caveats are the games against the AZ teams, so hang in there, should be decent for AZ predict in another 3-4 games.
Los Angeles
predict: TFA 8 vs LA Galaxy 3 Actuals: TFA 4 vs LA Galaxy 2
note: per the game report, 1st half looked like it might have been tentative/slow with score was only 1-0 TFA at the half. But TFA went up 3-0 about 15 minutes into the 2nd half. At that point, something broke down for TFA and LAG made it a game with two quick ones to bring the score to 3-2. DBA put in his second goal for the day at the very end of the game to make it a 4-2 final result.
OK result for LAG but TFA may have some things to look at.
predict: Ventura Fusion 3 vs Pateadores 4 Actuals: Ventura Fusion 2 vs Pateadores 2
note: decent performance by Ventura against a good Pateadores team. For a team that is playing DA for the first time this season, Ventura's been showing up. On the flip side, Pateadores have underperformed a bit this season relative to last season. Not sure why that is.
predict: LAUFA 1 vs FC Golden State 3 Actuals: LAUFA 1 vs FC Golden State 3
predict: Santa Barbara SC 2 vs Legends 2 Actuals: Santa Barbara SC 2 vs Legends 1
note: Santa Barbara picked up their first win of the season against a Legends team that has now been outscored 18-6 in their first three matches of the season.
predict: Real So Cal 2 vs LA Galaxy 2. Actuals: Real So Cal 1 vs LA Galaxy 2
note: Real SoCal seems to be on the cusp of breaking out of the lower tier but not quite yet. per the game report, LAG scored early but RSC matched them at about the 20th minute, so tied 1-1 at half. Game remained scoreless until LAG added another one at the 66th minute. RSC's leading scorer - TR, a player who came back to RSC after playing for LAFC for one year - picked up a yellow at the 68th minute so there may have been a little frustration going on. next week, RSC has the Pats away and that will be another opportunity to step their game up a notch.
San Diego
predict: Arsenal 2 vs San Diego SC 2. Actuals: Arsenal 2 vs San Diego SC 2
predict: Real Salt Lake AZ 3 vs OC Surf 1 Actuals: Real Salt Lake AZ 2 vs OC Surf 1
predict: San Diego Surf 2 vs Murrieta Surf 1 Actuals: San Diego Surf 4 vs Murrieta Surf 2
note: per the game report, SD Surf scored one early for a 1-0 lead, and then two more right before half for 3-0 halftime lead. Murrieta seems to have woken in the 2nd half, and got two in the first ten minutes of the 2nd half to make the score 3-2, but SD Surf got it together to hold off Murrieta and EP put one in at the 68th minute, and then promptly picked up a yellow, for the final result 4-2. Seems like the last 30 minutes were probably pretty intense.
Any commentary/insights from anyone else?
predict: SC del Sol 2 vs Strikers 2 Actuals: SC del Sol 0 vs Strikers 1
note: not much in the game report on this one. Any commentary/insights?
predict: Real Salt Lake AZ 2 vs Strikers 3 Actuals: Real Salt Lake AZ 3 vs Strikers 3
note: per the game report, looks like a solid match that Strikers had the upper hand in. Was 3-1 Strikers at half, but RSL got back in it with a quick one after the start of the second half, and then tied it 3-3 at the 80th.
predict: SC del Sol 5 vs OC Surf 2 Actuals: SC del Sol 4 vs OC Surf 0
note: the match looks like it was tight in the first half with the score 0-0 at half. Things got more active in the 2nd half, with KS opening the scoring for SC del Sol at the 55th minute, and JG for SC del Sol then dropping three more on OC Surf, all in the next ten minutes. After that scoring flurry, SC del Sol also picked up three of the yellows in the next 15 minutes.
Any commentary/insight, particularly that 20 minute window in the 2nd half where things got "exciting"?