ucandomagic
Well-Known Member
At last, the new season is close and it's one where we can hopefully look forward to celebrating with post-match drinks, rather than needing them as anti-depressants! I'm very excited about our signings so far - Wilder's building a team who look forwards rather than sideways and backwards. With one more addition (a Goalcooper!) I think we'd already be in a good position to take on anybody at this level.
As usual, I'll post some pictures each week following our progress, and they will hopefully "paint a thousand words".
Graph 1 will compare our progress against 3 benchmark sets of results. I've taken each match and created 3 sets of results to achieve 3 points totals, which should represent Automatic Promotion, Playoff Certainty and Playoff Possibility. My benchmarks take account of who our opponents are each week.
Graph 1:
Graph 2 will compare this season against our last 3 successful promotions (all in second place) from this level, in 2005/06, 2018/19 and 2022/23. These earlier season results are the results from the same game day – not the same opponents. I'd love to watch us come top at this level - as winning the 2 levels below are some of my best memories. Actually, Darlington is a bit of a blur for me (almost a blank actually!).
Graph 2:
Finally, I'll post the coloured annotated up-to-date League Table. I always think that this highlights where our strengths and weaknesses are against different quality opponents. I've included the final table from 2022/23 to show how the colours help to understand our pattern of results. I've also included a blank table with my predicted final order for the 24 teams - I'll review this at the end of the season!
League Table:
Bring on Preston.
UTB & Slava Ukraini!
As usual, I'll post some pictures each week following our progress, and they will hopefully "paint a thousand words".
Graph 1 will compare our progress against 3 benchmark sets of results. I've taken each match and created 3 sets of results to achieve 3 points totals, which should represent Automatic Promotion, Playoff Certainty and Playoff Possibility. My benchmarks take account of who our opponents are each week.
Graph 1:
Graph 2 will compare this season against our last 3 successful promotions (all in second place) from this level, in 2005/06, 2018/19 and 2022/23. These earlier season results are the results from the same game day – not the same opponents. I'd love to watch us come top at this level - as winning the 2 levels below are some of my best memories. Actually, Darlington is a bit of a blur for me (almost a blank actually!).
Graph 2:
Finally, I'll post the coloured annotated up-to-date League Table. I always think that this highlights where our strengths and weaknesses are against different quality opponents. I've included the final table from 2022/23 to show how the colours help to understand our pattern of results. I've also included a blank table with my predicted final order for the 24 teams - I'll review this at the end of the season!
League Table:
Bring on Preston.
UTB & Slava Ukraini!
