How tough our start has been - stats (22 replies)

I've seen a few people say that our games have been hard. Obviously that's true. But I wanted to check how hard our start has been. So I worked it out.

The number next to each team represents the average predicted final position of the teams they've played.

So the lower the number, the higher in the league your opponents so far were predicted to finish. For the predictions, I used bookies' odds from the beginning of the season.

Here's the results. tl;dr is we've had the second hardest start.

1. Derby County → 9.00 (Matches Played: 7)
2. Birmingham City → 9.57 (Matches Played: 7)
3. Oxford United → 10.00 (Matches Played: 7)
4. Sheffield United → 10.86 (Matches Played: 7)
5. Preston North End → 10.86 (Matches Played: 7)
6. Middlesbrough → 11.00 (Matches Played: 7)
7. Norwich City → 11.00 (Matches Played: 7)
8. Charlton Athletic → 12.14 (Matches Played: 7)
9. Hull City → 12.29 (Matches Played: 7)
10. Southampton → 12.43 (Matches Played: 7)
11. Stoke City → 12.57 (Matches Played: 7)
12. Swansea City → 12.57 (Matches Played: 7)
13. Sheffield Wednesday → 12.57 (Matches Played: 7)
14. Watford → 12.86 (Matches Played: 7)
15. Blackburn Rovers → 13.00 (Matches Played: 6)
16. West Bromwich Albion → 13.14 (Matches Played: 7)
17. Portsmouth → 13.14 (Matches Played: 7)
18. Millwall → 13.43 (Matches Played: 7)
19. Wrexham → 13.43 (Matches Played: 7)
20. Ipswich Town → 13.67 (Matches Played: 6)
21. Coventry City → 13.86 (Matches Played: 7)
22. Leicester City → 13.86 (Matches Played: 7)
23. Queens Park Rangers → 15.43 (Matches Played: 7)
24. Bristol City → 18.86 (Matches Played: 7)

Hopefully this is interesting to one other person else I've just wasted an hour