My old friend Dr Tsouts awoke me from my summer slumber with an email asking about an updated version of the Sacred Manuscript or failing that, at least an update for he Premier League Draws.
Slumbering is not an accurate adjective to describe how my summer has been going. It's actually been very busy since the beginning of April when my son and I took a nine day road trip from New Orleans to Savannah. The excesses of that trip had barely worn off when my son dragged me to Cardiff for his stag weekend.
After surviving that, I was at Wembley to see Crystal Palace win the FA Cup, then came the wedding itself, and a couple of weeks traveling with my wife (who wasn't invited to either the stag weekend or the Cup Final).
Shortly after that I was climbing Helvellyn, attending my school reunion (50th) and then more recently have had my daughter and three grandchildren (ages 10, 9 and 2) staying with us for four weeks, with my son, wife and his daughter (8) overlapping the last two weeks, so it has all been a bit hectic, which is all a long-winded way of saying that updating the Sacred Manuscript has not been anywhere near the top of my list.
Enthused by their Cup success, most of my spare time has been spent updating my Crystal Palace spreadsheet which now has every match result and line-up for every one of the 5217 matches in the professional club's history.
What I am going to do with all this data remains to be seen. I'm pondering a book, but I suspect the market for tidbits such as which Palace player has been substituted most often in FA Cup matches (A: Jean-Phillippe Mateta) or who was the first Crystal Palace player to score in an FA Charity / Community Shield (no, it wasn't Mateta last week) isn't that large.
Anyway, the last of my family left yesterday so once we have repaired the house I shall be back to looking at sports investing which hasn't been the priority in life that it once was. Unsurprisingly my weight has suffered under this barrage of social activity but researching Draws and losing weight aren't mutually exclusive and I have promised Dr Tsouts that I would look at the Premier League Draws this week. Unfortunately he has cautioned that:
I am afraid that draw system at least for big 6 was not profitable last year ( while opposing the home team was good idea) but I will skip the first matchday and wait for your suggestions!
With only 30 Big Six matches a season, some variance is to be expected in such a system, but I shall take a look. The performances of Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United were more Big Sixteen than Big Six and that may well not have helped but I haven't looked closely into the matter yet.
I did see some posts on Twitter from Joseph Buchdahl @12Xpert that suggested Pinnacle's Closing Odds will no longer be available from this season which would be disappointing, but there are other options.
