Current Form
This approach uses match sequences to calculate the form of a team.
Form is depicted as a function of the changing pattern over recent time. Points are allocated for wins and draws as follows:
| Home team | Away team | |
| wins | 3 | 4 |
| draws | 1 | 2 |
| loss | 0 | 0 |
To reflect the change in form over time, greater emphasis is placed upon recent results. To achieve this, a weighting system is applied. Each of the allocated points values is multiplied by its ordinal number in the match sequence. The points allocated to the fifth, ie. the last, match in the sequence are multiplied by 5, the fourth by 4, third by 3, etc. The points for each result are then added. Only the last five home results of the home team and the last five away results from the away team are analysed. Here is an example of a football table (form table) how points are allocated:
| home team | previous results: | 1-1 | 1-0 | 0-1 | 1-0 | 3-0 | ||||||
| away team | previous results: | 1-0 | 1-1 | 2-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | ||||||
| home team points | = | 1x1 | + | 2x3 | + | 3x0 | + | 4x3 | + | 5x3 | = | 34 |
| away team points | = | 1x0 | + | 2x2 | + | 3x0 | + | 4x2 | + | 5x2 | = | 22 |
In this example 34 minus 22 = + 12