Cheers. Hmm, pretty flawed system. Doesn't sit right with me when you hear United were on 15 from the same fixtures and only 2 of their 5 fixtures were against teams that played last year. Also, the 3 promoted teams projected score means absolutely nothing.
True but this doesn't contradict me or Uppcercut's points. Yeah fixture orders are different and different teams have starts to the season of differing difficulty but this is a poor way of analysing that because it is confused by freak results in the prior season. And Uppercut's point that all of this stuff can easily be explained with words rather than needing to use this still stands as well.
Teams clearly have a different fixture list each year (without going into rel/pro) again. The thing is the table and fixture list does a pretty good job too and in the end of the day last years performance doesnt mean much as Halsey says too.
This is what has ruined it. Smaller clubs are just copying the big boys for no reason. Even the mid table Premier League teams have no need to rest players.
Or the stupid Johnstones Paint Trophy. Waste of time.
Tbf 99 times out of 100 the best the smaller clubs can really hope for is progressing to a stage where they end up meeting one of the bigger sides who's actually taking it seriously for once, and then get knocked out. Not really much point in that, especially when you consider they could devote time and effort to pursue an FA Cup run which is more glamourous and financially rewarding.
The Tin of Paint cup. What a might prize it is.
