Football teams ordered table
Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2024 9:06 am
Matches of interest
We can then use it in a Pattern Match definition, filtered to a selection of English league matches.
Pattern match definitions
We can then order teams by email list providers in germany that metric, as shown in the data grid below, to show that Bristol City’s sequence was not remarkable at all!
A similar approach could be used to answer the following question that appeared in the April 13th 2022 edition (see Article 4):
‘“If Luton Town finish higher than 12th in the Championship, which looks increasingly likely, it will be the seventh consecutive year they have improved their league position. Would that be a record?”
In turns out that this is not only not a record, it is not even Luton’s best effort! In the top four divisions of the English leagues, the record stands at nine seasons shared jointly by Luton (starting in 1978), Oldham (from 1969) and Gillingham (from 1994).
The main requirement needed in order to answer this is to be able to rank the teams in the leagues for a season from 1-92 (or the total number of teams across the four divisions!). We can do this with a variation on the earlier league position that also takes into account the division to give a score.
We can then use it in a Pattern Match definition, filtered to a selection of English league matches.
Pattern match definitions
We can then order teams by email list providers in germany that metric, as shown in the data grid below, to show that Bristol City’s sequence was not remarkable at all!
A similar approach could be used to answer the following question that appeared in the April 13th 2022 edition (see Article 4):
‘“If Luton Town finish higher than 12th in the Championship, which looks increasingly likely, it will be the seventh consecutive year they have improved their league position. Would that be a record?”
In turns out that this is not only not a record, it is not even Luton’s best effort! In the top four divisions of the English leagues, the record stands at nine seasons shared jointly by Luton (starting in 1978), Oldham (from 1969) and Gillingham (from 1994).
The main requirement needed in order to answer this is to be able to rank the teams in the leagues for a season from 1-92 (or the total number of teams across the four divisions!). We can do this with a variation on the earlier league position that also takes into account the division to give a score.