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What to do with the Margin Meter? Stick it where the sun don't shine!

Doesn't cause me much bother to be honest. If you're not interested in it, just don't listen, it's not like it actually effects anything.

Put it at Number 1 on this bleacherreport.com/articles/4253 ... ory/page/3

Put it at Number 1 on this bleacherreport.com/articles/4253 ... ory/page/3

I just get a laugh out of it now.


I haven't watched every Sky game but has the Margin Meter ever predicted any game spot-on so far?

It predicted the Bradford Saints game correctly at one point during the second half iirc. But because it changes so much i don't really see what it proves if it gives about 10 different predictions throughout the game it's about to get 1 right now and then. All it does is show that momentum with one team usually means they will score more points, but not win the match as this obviously changes throughout the game.

It seems to predict a win for the team in front at the time,odd that.

In answer to the OP - ignore it, and hope it goes away.

I have fed all the data from the ‘margin meter’ into my ‘worthability meter’ and I can tell you, if things stay the same it will be about as useful as Angela Powers review of baby changing facilities.

I miss those Super League ground reviews, they where truely awful.

Ive just learnt to ignore the Margin Meter now - I think the Sky team are beginning to do the same too.

See above.
If I recall correctly Eddie was crowing at the end of Saints v Bulls that the margin meter was 'spot-on' with it's prediction at 75 minutes. What he omitted to say was that it was wrong for the previous 74 minutes, and for much of that time was predicting a Saints win.

Personally I don't give a toss what they do with it. It's just one of many features of their matchday coverage that winds me up.

I like the margin meter. They're using it for evil rather than good though.

The way to use the margin meter is for post match analysis. Then you get to say this is what the stats were predicting the result would be. This is what the result is. Let's talk about the ways in which the two things don't match up, because this is how the total is either greater or lesser than the sum of its parts.

Give it to Denis Betts to play with.

Exactly, the sky team are probably using it the wrong way - it is a good device for seeing how events in a game can turn the results around,

Or even for asking why a team who was so dominant didnt win

Get rid of it. Annoying and crap. Just more clutter and a distraction from the games.

set it on fire

Point of my original link was that the application owners not only dumped a feature that was no good but also admitted as much. Can't see Sky doing that. I think that they'll gradually reduce the visibility of the thing until it gets to zero. Hope so anyway.

why does everyone hate it so much? Geez.

It's a little thing that phil clarke pipes up with 3 or 4 times during a game for 10/15 seconds.

What the f*ck is the big deal? Seriously, what the F*CK?

It's innovative. Maybe in the future they can refine it and use it in different ways.

I like the fact they are looking for new ways to analyse and innovate.

I'm liking what they're trying to do in general. I don't understand the ranting about Clarke's analysis on Boots n All either. I've been wanting them to do that for years and years.

For me its the only thing on Boots n All worth watching, miles better than Cullens waffling. I think the margin meter could be used at the pre match as a prediction. But the point of it is too show how the match is going at that moment.

Which the scoreline, what you're watching with your eyes and what your brain tells you about what might happen, are already doing a perfectly adequate job of telling you.

I don't mind the use of stats on Boots N All - they can be quite interesting; I do mind the clunky attempt to make Phil Clarke appear to be some kind of statistical boffin who has invented a machine that can predict the outcome of a game; he isn't, he hasn't and it can't - it's just another distraction from the game and references to it are intrusive and irritating.

Anybody spot it last weekend? I didn't.

When the margin meter flashes up I just stick knitting needles in my eyes & ears and bite down hard on a piece of tin foil. Problem solved.

Margin meter? B****cks meter more like.
Put it in the same place as 'Try-Track'

The Try-Tracker wasn't a bad idea actually, the only problem was it only followed the play-the-balls and not the actual ball. If it had done it could have showed how the ball was moved from one side to the other in the set of six prior to the try.

I like the idea of a b****cks meter though. Measure how much the forwards are battering each other. If Westwood or O'Meley etc takes the ball up or in defence gives a runner a good whack it'd go up.
If McGuire or Jamie Foster get the ball it immediately goes down.