No Time to Walk Alone

Hello all you Correlationers!

With some sports back across the world, things are developing into a new normal. One sport that we've been loving lately is Jelle's Marble League as they've started their starting their 2020 season with Team Galactic hosting this year. After a break, some sports are coming back to wrap up their season but this season of Jelle's Marble League is due to be a hot one so you better buckle up for marbles of fun! The English Premier League winner was decided today even though there are seven matches left in the season with Liverpool being 23 points ahead of second place marking their first league win in 30 years. If they win five of their last seven games they'll also set a league record for most points in a season. If you've never seen every fan in Anfield belt out the words to You'll Never Walk Alone, now's a great time to feel a part of something. All of this brings us to this week's correlation! That's right, the number of points of the winning team in the EPL and the Google search popularity for the song You'll Never Walk alone is 61% correlated from 2010 to 2019! It's like the recent spike in search popularity was propelling Liverpool to win the league!

Data sources: EPL Season Tables and Google Trends: "You'll Never Walk Alone" average index by year

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