The Premier League: United vs. City championship chances

Using the same model as previous posts (and, I’d say, not going against any intuition), the leading candidate to winning the Premier League is Manchester United, with approx. 88% chances. Second is Manchester City, with a bit over 11%. The rest of the teams with nonzero chances: Arsenal, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Tottenham, and West Brom (with Chelsea, the best-positioned of these dark horses, clocking in at about half of a percentage point).

Personally, I’m happy about these very low-odds teams; I don’t think any of them is likely to win (that’s the point), but on the other hand, they have mathematical chances of doing so, and it’s important for a model never to give zero probability to non-impossible events (modulo whatever precision you are working with, of course).