Manager Of The Month - Possible 76% strike rate

EPL Manager Of The Month

We would all love to be able to know when we think a certain football team will win their next game.

Sadly football is as unpredictable as the weather and shocks happen in every set of fixtures.

I have been looking at different things to see if a pattern has emerged regarding when to back a certain team to win a

I have found a system and strategy that yields a 76% strike rate, although it only comes from 17 matches.

For the new 2020/21 EPL season we will have an OLBG forum thread to monitor the results, and hopefully profit from this idea and or tweak the idea. 

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What Is The Strategy?

I have gone back through the 2011/2012 & 2012/2013 football seasons and looked at every team that picked up the Manager Of The Month award.

17 manager of the month awards were given out in that period and the strategy is simply to back the team winning the award in their next league game.

The only problem I have is that I don't know for certain when the awards were given out.

The EPL seems to vary the announcement, although allowing time for votes to be places and verified would indicate that sometime between the 5th and 9th of the following month, would be when the winner is announced. 

I am assuming the Manager Of The Month awards are announced before the first league game of the following month, if that is correct then here are the results for the 2020/21 season.

League	Month	Manager	Team
EPL	October 2020/21	Carlo Ancelotti	Everton
Championship	October 2020/21	Veljko Paunovic	Reading

In a truncated 2019/20  season due to the pandemic, the following managers received the EPL Manager Of The Month award. 

Month	Manager	Team
June	Nuno Espirito Santo	Wolverhampton Wanderers
February	Sean Dyche	Burnley
January	Jurgen Klopp	Liverpool
December	Jurgen Klopp	Liverpool
November	Jurgen Klopp	Liverpool
October	Frank Lampard	Chelsea
September	Jurgen Klopp	Liverpool
August	Jurgen Klopp	Liverpool

Manager Of The Month Awards

17 Manager Of The Month awards were given out over the last 2 seasons and each award is shown below.

The results from the first league match played afterwards is also shown.

August 2011

Manchester United were awarded the manager of the month award and their first game in September saw them win 5-0 away to Bolton

September 2011

Tottenham won the manager of the month award and their first game in October saw them win 2-1 at home to Arsenal

October 2011

Manchester City won the manager of the month award and their first game in November saw them win 3-2 away to Queens Park Rangers

November 2011

Tottenham won the manager of the month award and their first game in December saw them win 3-0 at home to Bolton

December 2011

Sunderland won the manager of the month award and their first game in January saw them win 1-0 at home to Manchester City

January 2012

Swansea won the manager of the month award and their first game in February saw them win 2-1 away to West Brom

February 2012

Arsenal won the manager of the month award and their first game in March saw them win 2-1 away to Liverpool

March 2012

Bolton won the manager of the month award and their first game in April saw them lose 3-0 at home to Fulham

April 2012

Wigan won the manager of the mo0nth award and their first game in May saw them win 1-0 away at Blackburn

September 2012

Everton won the manager of the month award and their first game in October saw them draw 2-2 away to Wigan

October 2012

Manchester United won the manager of the month award and their first game in November saw them beat Arsenal 2-1 at home

November 2012

West Brom won the manager of the month award and their first game in December saw them lose 1-0 at home to Stoke

December 2012

Tottenham won the manager of the month award and their first game in January saw them beat Reading 3-1at home

January 2013

Reading won the manager of the month award and their first game in February saw them beat Sunderland 2-1 at home

February 2013

Tottenham won the manager of the month award and their first game in March saw them beat Arsenal 2-1 at home

March 2013

Everton won the manager of the month award and their first game in April saw them draw 2-2 away to Tottenham

April 2013

Chelsea won the manager of the month award and their first game in May saw win 1-0 away at Manchester United.

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In total there have been 17 games played over the last 2 seasons and 13 games resulted in wins, 7 home wins and 6 away wins.

2 matches ended up as 2-2 draws, both times when Everton won the manager of the month award 2 teams lost, Bolton & West Brom when both were playing at home