Premier League predictions: Lawro v Football Manager, the game
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BBC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson was up against an unusual opponent in his weekly predictions.
Instead of a human, Lawro's opponent for the weekend's Premier League fixtures was a computer game: Football Manager 2015, the latest edition of the long-running management simulation series.
The game has a database of 605,000 players and staff, collated by 1,300 scouts around the world in 51 countries.
Miles Jacobson, the studio director of the company behind Football Manager also joined in with his predictions.
See how they all got on...
| Premier League predictions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Lawro | Football Manager | Miles | |
| SATURDAY | ||||
| Liverpool v Chelsea | 1-2 | 1-1 | 0-3 | 0-2 |
| Burnley v Hull | 1-0 | 1-0 | 1-3 | 2-1 |
| Man Utd v Crystal Palace | 1-0 | 2-0 | 2-1 | 4-0 |
| Southampton v Leicester | 2-0 | 2-1 | 3-0 | 2-1 |
| West Ham v Aston Villa | 0-0 | 2-0 | 1-0 | 2-0 |
| QPR v Man City | 2-2 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 2-3 |
| SUNDAY | ||||
| Sunderland v Everton | 1-1 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 1-1 |
| Tottenham v Stoke | 1-2 | 2-0 | 2-1 | 2-1 |
| West Brom v Newcastle | 0-2 | 1-1 | 2-1 | 1-1 |
| Swansea v Arsenal | 2-1 | 0-2 | 2-3 | 1-2 |
A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth ONE point. Getting the exact score correct earns THREE points.
Last weekend, Lawro got three correct results from 10 Premier League games, including one perfect score.
His total score of five points was beaten by Countdown co-presenter Rachel Riley, who got six correct results including two perfect scores. Her total of 10 puts her joint top of the guest leaderboard with Courteeners star Liam Fray.
We are keeping a record of the totals for Lawro and his guests (below), and showing a table of how the Premier League would look if all of Lawro's predictions were correct (at the bottom of the page).
| Total scores after week 10 | |
|---|---|
| Lawro | 75 |
| Guests | 62 |
LAWRO'S PREDICTION
SATURDAY
Liverpool 1-2 Chelsea
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Football Manager's prediction: 0-3
Miles's prediction: 0-2
Burnley 1-0 Hull
Lawro's prediction: 1-0
Football Manager's prediction: 1-3
Miles's prediction: 2-1
Man Utd 1-0 Crystal Palace
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Football Manager's prediction: 2-1
Miles's prediction: 4-0
Southampton 2-0 Leicester
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Football Manager's prediction: 3-0
Miles's prediction: 2-1
West Ham 0-0 Aston Villa
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Football Manager's prediction: 1-0
Miles's prediction: 2-0
QPR 2-2 Man City
Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Football Manager's prediction: 0-2
Miles's prediction: 2-3
SUNDAY
Sunderland 1-1 Everton
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Football Manager's prediction: 1-1
Miles's prediction: 1-1
Tottenham 1-2 Stoke
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Football Manager's prediction: 2-1
Miles's prediction: 2-1
West Brom 0-2 Newcastle
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Football Manager's prediction: 2-1
Miles's prediction: 1-1
Swansea 2-1 Arsenal
Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Football Manager's prediction: 2-3
Miles's prediction: 1-2
| Lawro v Guests | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| P10 | W5 | D2 | L3 |
| SCORE | GUEST LEADERBOARD |
|---|---|
| 10 | Liam Fray, Rachel Riley |
| 8 | Roddy Doyle |
| 7.5 | Lawro (average after 10 weeks) |
| 7 | Ossie Ardiles |
| 6 | Mark Wright & Karen Hauer |
| 5 | Joe Cole, Sarah Harding & Leon Fagbemi, Van McCann |
| 4 | Kell Brook |
| 2 | Neil Lennon |
Lawro's best score: 17 points (week seven v Ossie Ardiles)
Lawro's worst score: 3 points (week nine v Mark Wright and Karen Hauer)
| ARROWS DENOTE DIFFERENCE TO REAL TABLE | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| POS | TEAM | P | W | D | L | PTS | DIFF | +/- |
| 1. | Chelsea | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 28 |  | 0 |
| 2. | Man City | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 24 |  | +1 |
| 3. | Liverpool | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 22 | | +4 |
| 4. | Arsenal | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 21 | | 0 |
| 5. | Man Utd | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 20 | | +5 |
| 6. | Stoke | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 19 | | +7 |
| 7. | Everton | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 16 | | +2 |
| 8. | Southampton | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 15 |  | -6 |
| 9. | Tottenham | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 14 | | -1 |
| 10. | Newcastle | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 14 | | +2 |
| 11. | Crystal Palace | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 12 | | +6 |
| 12. | Sunderland | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 11 | | +3 |
| 13. | Swansea | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 10 | | -7 |
| 14. | Hull | 10 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 9 | | 0 |
| 15. | Aston Villa | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | | +1 |
| 16. | Leicester | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | | +2 |
| 17. | West Brom | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | | -6 |
| 18. | QPR | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | | +1 |
| 19. | West Ham | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | | -14 |
| 20. | Burnley | 10 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 4 | | 0 |