BBC Sport columnist Chris Sutton is back making predictions for all 380 Premier League matches this season, facing off against artificial intelligence, reader forecasts, and rotating celebrity guests. Following last season’s surprise victory by Microsoft’s AI chatbot, Sutton is eager for human predictors to reclaim the top spot in the predictions league.
For the opening weekend of fixtures, Sutton has enlisted Courteeners frontman Liam Fray as his guest predictor. Fray, a devoted Manchester United supporter, expressed optimism about his club’s prospects under manager Michael Carrick, praising the boss’s visible passion and connection to both the team and supporters. The musician believes United will finish among the leading contenders this season, though he acknowledges they cannot yet match the caliber of Arsenal or Manchester City.
The prediction competition operates on a simple scoring system: correctly predicting the match outcome earns 10 points, while an accurate final scoreline awards 40 points. Fray enters the competition as the defending guest champion, having achieved an impressive 150-point score during last season’s opening weekend that maintained his position atop the guest leaderboard throughout the entire campaign.
Readers are also invited to submit their own match predictions and compare their forecasts against those of Sutton, Fray, and the AI system across all ten fixtures scheduled for the opening weekend.
Originally reported by Sports.yahoo →
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