2023
Well.
We're Living In The End Times as Slavoj Zizek would have it, and he's usually right.
In the music industry days, I used to work with Nico.
When she performed her version of 'The End' live, it was like she was experiencing an actual end. Heroin (or a lack of it) was the primary variable here.
A truly outstanding artiste.
Anyway.
Nico's 'The End' is our theme tune for 2023, a year that I hope you all enjoy.
Given what's happening at the moment, we certainly will be enjoying it.
TH v AV
One of the issues with fragmented corruption infrastructures is that it is an impossibility to solve the entire market all the time. It's not physics. As someone who trained to post-grad level as a physicist, I find that pretty annoying. The drive is always for the ultimate solution - we have our Unified Trading Model (UTM) but it is only 'unified' to the extent that, in an instant, it can describe an evolving hyperreality. And then 'puff', it has morphed into a new landscape. A new hologram in which to seek value. It's the corrupted market equivalent (on a modelling level) to Laura Mersini-Houghton's multiverse theory.
Or.
It's a little like playing chess but on a board where an invisible hand randomly moves pieces and the number of squares is also a variable, as is the number of boards and the number of dimensions in which the game is being played.
Take Aston Villa.
Under Wasserman, we could solve a high percentage of their events pre-match whereas now, under Emery, we have a more limited armoury. Some events are a blur pre-match.
TH v AV is one of them.
But, thanks to our continual drive to seek new routes to new knowledge (via both insiders and analytics), in two weeks the opposite could be true.
Constant flux, constant evolution, constant war, constant peace.
In the ultimate hologram though...
...where it really gets interesting is when the fragmentation is controlled by a hand deep within the global market.
That is when it gets really interesting.
© 2022 Football is Fixed