Our Average League Position

MartonBornandBred

MartonBornandBred

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I don’t know whether anyone has ever looked at our average league position since we joined the football league in 1896 but to satisfy my own curiosity I’ve just gone through 115 years of tables and put league positions on a spreadsheet. I’ve put PNE as well to compare.
It would of course be 125 years if it wasn’t for the wars. There was one year - 1899/90 when we were thrown out of league 2, so to offset this, I’ve given the final position as 37.

Anyway, it’s turned up one or two interesting stats. I’ve used tiers for divisions. During the post war years from season 46/47 Blackpool has been in Tier 1 - 23 times, T2 17 times, T3 27 times and T4 8 times. During that time our average league position has been 39.93.
PNE’s is only 1 above at 38.83.

The period from 1896/7 to 1939/40 shows that Blackpool were in T1 - 6 times, T2 - 33 times and out of the league - once. Our average league position during this time was 29.12 whereas PNE ‘s average during the same period was 18.27. They were one of the founders of the FL so had a few years experience before we joined.

Anyway add these two Blackpool averages together and you get 34.52 over 115 years.
That’s exactly our league position after the Barnsley match (20 positions in the Premiership plus us at 14).

Now after the terrific football we are playing at the moment, I see no reason why we can’t get well beyond this average 34th position.
UTMP.
 
Dollar Thief said:
Why give Blackpool a position of 37 when there were only 36 teams in the two divisions?
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Because they dropped out of the football league and 37 is a representative place. To put a zero in the box (especially as PNE were in the league) would have distorted the figures and made them higher than they were.
 
Dollar Thief said:
But if Blackpool had been in Division 2 that season, there is no way they could have finished 37th, the lowest they could have finished is 36th.
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But they weren’t. I can’t think of a better way.
For what it’s worth, it’s only one place which doesn’t make a lot of difference.
Can you suggest an alternative way of recording? It was only a way of comparing like with like.
 
I would say our average position is pretty much where we are as a club - I noticed some getting slightly over-excited when we went up to 9th last night .. kept Critch, build the squad and no reason why we can’t get excited next season?
 
Downbythesea said:
I would say our average position is pretty much where we are as a club - I noticed some getting slightly over-excited when we went up to 9th last night .. kept Critch, build the squad and no reason why we can’t get excited next season?
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Mate sent me a screen grab and I said it would jinx it!!
 
MartonBornandBred said:
I don’t know whether anyone has ever looked at our average league position since we joined the football league in 1896 but to satisfy my own curiosity I’ve just gone through 115 years of tables and put league positions on a spreadsheet. I’ve put PNE as well to compare.
It would of course be 125 years if it wasn’t for the wars. There was one year - 1899/90 when we were thrown out of league 2, so to offset this, I’ve given the final position as 37.

Anyway, it’s turned up one or two interesting stats. I’ve used tiers for divisions. During the post war years from season 46/47 Blackpool has been in Tier 1 - 23 times, T2 17 times, T3 27 times and T4 8 times. During that time our average league position has been 39.93.
PNE’s is only 1 above at 38.83.

The period from 1896/7 to 1939/40 shows that Blackpool were in T1 - 6 times, T2 - 33 times and out of the league - once. Our average league position during this time was 29.12 whereas PNE ‘s average during the same period was 18.27. They were one of the founders of the FL so had a few years experience before we joined.

Anyway add these two Blackpool averages together and you get 34.52 over 115 years.
That’s exactly our league position after the Barnsley match (20 positions in the Premiership plus us at 14).

Now after the terrific football we are playing at the moment, I see no reason why we can’t get well beyond this average 34th position.
UTMP.
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Good stuff. One reason why it will be very hard to "get well beyond" the average 34th position is that the more data are added to a population the less of an impact each marginal variation has on the average.
 
Camberwell1 said:
Blime - any info on the shortest average petrol queue?
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Morrisons squires gate lane.
Argued with the Mrs as didn't want to que but we are going away next week.
Anyway 15 minutes from wait to exit and that was only because some cock didn't know how to use the pay at the pump facility.
Very well organised 👍🏻
 
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