Oh yes, here we go. Welcome to the Not the Top 20 podcast, Monday podcast, with me,

Ali Maxwell and him, George Ehrlich. We are sponsored by Betfair. Our meat and drink is the EFL, but we like to do

some other things as well. F-A cupCup third round chat where necessary and it certainly

is this week but also as we did on this exact weekend or this exact Monday last year this is the

mid-season prediction podcast. George and I will be picking our automatically promoted teams, our playoff contenders,

and those we think will fall through various EFL trap doors on this podcast.

It's a biggie, George.

It is a biggie, yes.

I think it's important at this stage to probably a little bit unlike our one to 24s.

Our job here isn't to make bold predictions.

It's not to predict that teams coming currently 16th.

They're going to march their merry way into the playoffs.

Not that that won't happen.

What we've tried to do is come up with the most likely set of events from our point of view.

As you mentioned, this podcast is sponsored by Betfair, and I'm going to point at some of their odds as we go through it.

I know a lot of people who listen to this podcast aren't bettors, but often the odds themselves can be quite handy as a means of just understanding probability

and how maybe some narratives don't really tally with the actual likelihood

of something happening. There's especially one in the championship where I feel like the general

view of championship fans and the NFL fans and certainly the fans of the club is that their team

is right there. And then you look at the betting markets and they're being given not a very high

percentage chance of doing what they're setting out to do.

So it's interesting.

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