ucandomagic
Active Member
He’s not just a right back, he’s John Brayford George Baldock. That’s what Phipps said about The Beard to justify what we spent on him. What he meant was that he brought a lot more to the game than just playing it. Baldock’s last start was against Everton and his unwavering belief is contagious. With George, Robbo, Thomas and Souza we have a steel curtain that can get us out of this mess. Hamer was everywhere, Macca changed the game up front and Archer may be invisible when we don’t have the ball, but stick it in front of him with a sight of goal and he’s worth every penny.
I haven’t posted graphs for a bit – as seeing us flatlining on one point was depressing. So today is a new dawn.
Graph 1 is the plot that compares our progress against our last 2 Prem seasons and against my benchmark results to achieve survival. I’ve developed the survival lines a bit. In the 20 team Prem history 38 points would have kept you up in 75% of the seasons – so my main survival line is a set of results to get 38 points. I’ve now added a highest (43) and lowest (29) set of results to show the spread that has been possible for survival over the 28 seasons.
Our red line has moved up towards the survival lines a bit, and has finally lifted away from the 20/21 Wilder season!
Graph 1:
Graph 2 plots our progress against the best seasons from each of the previous 4 periods that I have watched the Blades in the top flight. The early seasons have been modified to account for 3 point wins and 20 teams. I have used the actual results against the top 19 teams in each of those years. It’s interesting that we’re still only 4 points behind Bassett’s best season in 91/92, which ended with us finishing 9th. (The Notts County and West Ham results in 91/92 have been excluded as they finished 21st and 22nd)
Graph 2:
Finally the League Table – still not encouraging, but we are very much still in touch with the 3 above us. The good thing about being at the bottom end is that everybody around you usually loses as well! Those home games against the bottom half are going to be vital.
League Table:
Our situation after the next 3 games against Brighton, Bournemouth and Burnley will tell us a lot about our chances of staying up,
UTB & Slava Ukraini
I haven’t posted graphs for a bit – as seeing us flatlining on one point was depressing. So today is a new dawn.
Graph 1 is the plot that compares our progress against our last 2 Prem seasons and against my benchmark results to achieve survival. I’ve developed the survival lines a bit. In the 20 team Prem history 38 points would have kept you up in 75% of the seasons – so my main survival line is a set of results to get 38 points. I’ve now added a highest (43) and lowest (29) set of results to show the spread that has been possible for survival over the 28 seasons.
Our red line has moved up towards the survival lines a bit, and has finally lifted away from the 20/21 Wilder season!
Graph 1:
Graph 2 plots our progress against the best seasons from each of the previous 4 periods that I have watched the Blades in the top flight. The early seasons have been modified to account for 3 point wins and 20 teams. I have used the actual results against the top 19 teams in each of those years. It’s interesting that we’re still only 4 points behind Bassett’s best season in 91/92, which ended with us finishing 9th. (The Notts County and West Ham results in 91/92 have been excluded as they finished 21st and 22nd)
Graph 2:
Finally the League Table – still not encouraging, but we are very much still in touch with the 3 above us. The good thing about being at the bottom end is that everybody around you usually loses as well! Those home games against the bottom half are going to be vital.
League Table:
Our situation after the next 3 games against Brighton, Bournemouth and Burnley will tell us a lot about our chances of staying up,
UTB & Slava Ukraini
