by StroudRoyal »
13 Mar 2012 12:32
I've looked at Saints and West Ham's poorest 6 game sequences over the season.
The worst sequence for Saints is 5 points from 6 games (Games 4-9)
The worst sequence for West Ham is 7 points from 6 games (Games 19-24)
This compares with Reading's worst sequence of 4 points from 6 games (Games 1-6)
Going back to my previous post and comparing the sequences of games from start of season:
Reading
games 1-6 - 4 points
games 7-12 - 12 points
games 13-18 - 8 points
games 19-24 - 15 points
games 25-30 - 12 points
games 31-35 - 15 points (only 5 games)
Saints
games 1-6 - 12 points
games 7-12 - 11 points
games 13-18 - 16 points
games 19-24 - 8 points
games 25-30 - 8 points
games 31-35 - 14 points (6 games)
West Ham
games 1-6 - 13 points
games 7-12 - 8 points
games 13-18 - 16 points
games 19-24 - 7 points
games 25-30 - 13 points
games 31-35 - 9 points (Only 5 games)
So one could argue that each team has had a bad run but that the difference between each bad run is only 3 points (Reading worse but only just). Only difference being that Reading's worst run was at the beginning of season.
Interesting though that if we compare the 2 worst sequences of runs for each team we get - Reading 16 points (start of season), Saints 16 points (start of second half of season) and West Ham 20 points (start of second half of season)
But, West Ham appear to be going - good run, average run, outstanding run, average run, good run, average/good run (depending on result of their 6th game in sequence).
Reading and Saints have both had 3 good to outstanding runs in a row:
Reading bad, good, average, outstanding, good, outstanding;
Saints good,good,outstanding, average, average, outstanding).
Therefore, based on each consecutive sequence of 6 games throughout the season, Reading are the only team to have suffered a bad run. However, to make up for this Reading have achieved 2 outstanding and one good run (all over the past 15 games) compared to Saints and West Ham.
Just throwing this out there for everyone to pick over/interpret.
PS - I'm not Snowball in disguise - I have a day off and thought I'd waste it doing this!