IPL 3 Prediction: Mumbai Indians will win

Timing of this post: March 28, 2010 Sunday (12.30pm) IST

Predicting the outcome of IPL (Indian Premier League) is an impossible task. No one can predict who will win the IPL 3. There is no method of doing this.

As a child I used to like predicting the outcome of FIFA World Cup & Cricket World Cup before the tournament used to begin. Since no one can predict the outcome of these matches, I used another game to help me predict the outcomes. I used playing cards. This was just for fun. To see how close I could come. Many a times I did come very close.

To have some fun I used the same technique to predict the result of IPL 3. Within 30 minutes I had the outcome! Here are the details.

Enjoy reading this but don't get too serious. The probability of predicting a result correctly is 50% (either a team will win or loss). Going by this logic half of the predictions should anyways be correct.

IPL 3 Prediction

The points table (after Match 23 on March 27, 2010) looks like this:

Using this as a base, I have then predicted the results from Match No. 24 onwards. And here is the final tally after all the 56 matches.

There were 4 teams at 16 points and hence I had to play one more game to eliminate one team. Deccan Chargers got eliminated.Then the semi finals panned out like this:

SF 1: Mumbai beat Delhi
SF 2: Bengaluru beat KKR (Kolkata)

3rd Place: Delhi beat KKR

and, the final result: Mumbai beat Bengaluru to become IPL 3 champions. Don't ask me who made how many how many runs because that is beyond the scope of my game. If Mumbai Indians indeed win this one, Sachin would definitely be the top scorer of the tournament.