Average league position

[Two Minutes]

Dodd me if this has been done before, but can any stat-happy nobber tell me what Reading's average end-of-season league position has been since there have been four divisions? My feeling would be somewhere near the top of the third tier. This might be a way of showing newer fans just how lucky they are at the moment!

Ta in advance.

[Dirk Gently]

72nd out of the 92 - well out of 118 in all.

http://stats.football365.com/hist/overall/atavgpos.html

but 58th since the war

http://stats.football365.com/hist/postwar/atavgpos.html

[readingbedding]

Those statistics must be dated by a few years, surely we would be higher?

[Dirk Gently]

Don't know - it takes more than a couple of higher values to change an average that's been built up over the best part of 80 years.

[readingbedding]

Yeah it's up to 2002/03.

[SpaceCruiser]

A staggering fact for you all, in the 00's so far, we haven't finished below 10th in any division. It may well be this season.

[Two Minutes]

72nd out of the 92

in the 00's so far, we haven't finished below 10th in any division.

Stating the bleedin' obvious I know, but those two stats just show how much we owe Mr M and Parjudas/SSC. Especially when you look at what has happened to Oxford and Swindon over the same time!

[Ian Royal]

A staggering fact for you all, in the 00's so far, we haven't finished below 10th in any division. It may well be this season.

All good things come to an end Spacey.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

72nd out of the 92 - well out of 118 in all.

http://stats.football365.com/hist/overall/atavgpos.html

but 58th since the war

http://stats.football365.com/hist/postwar/atavgpos.html

the all-time records are skewed somewhat by the years prior to WWI, when there were only two divisions. Given that they've spent about 100 years outside the league, I find it slightly misleading to say we are histortically less successful than Gainsborough Trinity.

[cmonurz]

From Michael Wray's brilliant spreadsheet.....

Our average position in the last:

5 seasons - 22nd
10 seasons - 36th
15 seasons - 44th
25 seasons - 52nd

Reading, Wigan and Chelsea are currently in the best ten-year spells in our history, and interestingly, West Ham's best league 'decade' was '1994 to 2003'.

Here's a question for the stattos - how many of the Premiership's current 20 teams have never won the top division, and who are they?

[PEARCEY]

Us, Boro, Wigan, Birmingham City,Pompey, West Ham so I will go with 6 although Fulham,Man City, Sunderland and Newcastle are iffy as well...
but will stick with the first 6.

[cmonurz]

Incorrect, and one or more of those have won it.

[PEARCEY]

Incorrect, and one or more of those have won it.

Pompey have won it and probably Newcastle and maybe Sunderland. I sodding well give up and will let somebody else get it right.

[Memories Of India]

From Michael Wray's brilliant spreadsheet.....

Our average position in the last:

5 seasons - 22nd
10 seasons - 36th
15 seasons - 44th
25 seasons - 52nd

Reading, Wigan and Chelsea are currently in the best ten-year spells in our history, and interestingly, West Ham's best league 'decade' was '1994 to 2003'.

Here's a question for the stattos - how many of the Premiership's current 20 teams have never won the top division, and who are they?

Six

West Ham
Reading
Fulham
Birmingham
Middlesbrough
Wigs

Do I win a prize?

[Memories Of India]

Incorrect, and one or more of those have won it.

Pompey have won it and probably Newcastle and maybe Sunderland. I sodding well give up and will let somebody else get it right.

Portsmouth have won it (twice?), Newcastle and Sunderland have about a dozen titles between them.

[cmonurz]

No prizes for being wrong.

[Jack Celliers]

A staggering fact for you all, in the 00's so far, we haven't finished below 10th in any division. It may well be this season.

There's been some brilliant football in that time and great players. We really are lucky at the moment.

[Memories Of India]

I'll toss in Bolts then to make it seven.

[cmonurz]

I'll toss in Bolts then to make it seven.

Bastard.

You win a pot of dog semen, to be supplied by Mr S Cruiser.

[PEARCEY]

Incorrect, and one or more of those have won it.

Pompey have won it and probably Newcastle and maybe Sunderland. I sodding well give up and will let somebody else get it right.

Portsmouth have won it (twice?), Newcastle and Sunderland have about a dozen titles between them.

I was a born in 64 by which time Sunderland, Newcastle and Pompey will have done their title winning...well thats my excuse....it cant be many more than 6 can it?