Saints are top of the form table with the second hardest set of fixtures

[SaintPete]

Saints are top of the form table in the last six games (which is an amazing achievement in itself). What's even more impressive is that we're top of the form table having played some really tough fixtures. I was wondering whether our fixtures were the worst of anyone's in the last six games so geekly spent the last half hour looking into the current position of the teams that each team had played and using those to work out an average league position of the six teams played.

 

Using this criteria, it turns out we had the second most difficult set of fixtures over the winter period but still came out on top. Chelsea had the toughest fixtures by a small margin. Liverpool are just behind us in the form table but they had the second easiest Christmas fixtures in the whole division.

 

We've had a fair share of injuries but still been winning games against tough opposition. Awesome stuff Saints!

 

POS CLUB RANK LAST 6 MATCHES PTS CURR LEAG POS OF OP AVG AVG 2015

1 Southampton W W D W W W 16 13, 12, 1, 6, 4, 11 7.8 7.0

2 Liverpool D W W D W W 14 6, 17, 9, 20, 16, 14 13.7 15.0

3 Man City W W W D W D 14 20, 12, 15, 17, 16, 13 15.5 15.3

4 Chelsea W W D L W W 13 10, 8, 3, 5, 11, 9 7.7 8.3

5 Arsenal W D W W L W 13 11, 7, 19, 8, 3, 10 9.7 6.5

6 Spurs W W D W L W 13 17, 20, 4, 1, 12, 16 11.7 9.7

7 Stoke L W W D L W 10 1, 13, 15, 4, 6, 20 9.8 10.0

8 Man Utd D W D D L W 9 14, 11, 5, 10, 3, 19 10.3 10.7

9 Crystal Palace L L D D W W 8 2, 3, 19, 14, 5, 17 10.0 12.0

10 Swansea W W L D D L 8 18, 14, 7, 19, 8, 1 11.2 9.3

11 West Brom W L L L D W 7 14, 19, 2, 10, 8, 18 11.8 13.0

12 Leicester L L W D W L 7 8, 5, 18, 7, 14, 10 10.3 10.3

13 West Ham D W L L D D 6 16, 20, 1, 6, 8, 9 10.0 8.5

14 Hull L L W L W L 6 1, 9, 16, 20, 13, 15 12.3 14.0

15 Burnley L L D D W L 5 5, 7, 2, 11, 19, 12 9.3 14.0

16 QPR W L D D L L 5 15, 6, 12, 9, 17, 4 10.5 10.0

17 Everton W L L L L D 4 19, 3, 10, 11, 18, 2 10.5 10.0

18 Newcastle L L W D L L 4 16, 4, 13, 17, 1, 3 9.0 7.0

19 Sunderland W L D L L L 4 11, 18, 14, 2, 7, 5 9.5 4.7

20 Aston Villa D L D D L L 3 4, 9, 16, 12, 20, 7 11.3 13.0

[SaintPete]

It seems to have cut out my 'tabs' that made that table more readable

 

The numbers after the W, L, D are the current positions of the teams played in those games, the second last number is the average (current) position of the opposition, the last number is the average current position of the opposition played in 2015 (relevant as it shows which teams have had tougher second round fixtures)

 

As a summary:

Saints' opposition's average current league position over the last six games is 7.8

Liverpool's is 13.7

Man City's is 15.5

Chelsea's is 7.7

Arsenal's is 9.7

Spurs' is 11.7

Edited 18 January, 2015 by SaintPete
poor grammar