When I tell people about how I bet on the Premier League the question I am most often asked is, “Er, what’s an algorithm?”.  Well, it’s nothing more than a series of calculations.  They don’t have to be complex, they just follow one after the other.  The output from one calculation is used for the input to the next and so on.  Excel is a great platform for entering and holding the orginal input data, performing calculations and displaying and analysing the results.

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