cmonurz
I'm not bothered if it is your table or IR's or my Mum's. It is flawed to set out reasons why the current 22 games 'form guide' is relevant to us (as you have done again two posts above), and then use it to compare to other sides, who may or may not have started their own hot streak, good run, settled set of results etc at the different point in time.
CURRENT FORM tables have to come up to the most recent game. Our does.
Brighton look better over the last 8, poor over the 22, even better over the 28 because of their great start
Saints look BAD over the last 8, the last 11, the last 12 but decent over the 28.
Take ANY significant number of games which finishes this week and Reading look totally fine on it
Their WORST case view (all 28 games) is 8th, just ONE POINT off fourth place,
and from game 7, 8, 9, 10 it doesn't matter, we are up there, accruing points
like an automatic-promotion side.
Do they publish 06 game form tables? Why?
Do they publish 08 game form tables? Why?
Do they publish 12 game form tables? Why?
Do they publish 18 game form tables? Why?
A form table tells us who is CURRENTLY doing best, based on
Last 5 Games Home
Last 5 Games Away
last 8 Games
Whatever.
It DOES NOT MATTER AT ALL that I have taken an arbitrary start-point.
ALL that matters is whether FROM that start point, there are no gaps.
It's a 22-Game run and has put us to the top of the form table.
We are also top of the form table on the last 11 Games (8 wins) and if we
were to maintain that last 11-games form we would finish on 84 or 85 points
And NO,
I didn't pick that statistic, McDermott and various pundits did.
And when Bristol came to The Madejski THEIR stat was "They have won 3 of their last 4 games"
You can bleat and moan like you always bleat and moan but it will not make this 22-game stat any less absolutely factual.