ucandomagic
Active Member
I posted a table yesterday showing that if we win the last 2 games this will be our best ever season at the second level.
(I’ve put the table on here again under the graph for anybody that missed it.)
The only comments that I got yesterday were demands that I produce a graph rather than just a table – so I am clearly typecast as a one-trick pony!
Anyway, by public demand, I have calculated the 320 data points (2 to go!) for the 7 seasons and dutifully entered them and plotted them. As all seven seasons were very successful, it did mean that the lines were close together, so I’ve had to stretch the graph and play around with colours and dashes, but you can make most things out OK on a laptop – more difficult on a phone! As I said yesterday, to be able to make the comparison the extra 4 games for the 42 game seasons have had to be at the average points per game over the actual 42. I've left our games this season as the labels on the bottom, as I think it's more interesting than Match1, Match 2 etc - you can remember how you felt after each game that way.
60/61 was an interesting season, 15 wins and a draw in the first 19 games, then 6 games without a win – a bit like our 2 points from 6 games in October. We also went to the cup semi-final that year, which we lost to Leicester after 2 replays! About 8 years ago I was on a train across to Chester after a game and an old chap told me that he used to play for United. His wife immediately chipped in that he had scored a hat-trick in the Cup at Newcastle. His name was Billy Russell, and that was the quarter final in 1961. They were a really nice couple.
So – here’s the graph – hopefully next Monday Hecky’s little red line will push itself to the top, above Reg Freeman!
UTB & Slava Ukraini
Hecky’s Legacy Graph:
Hecky's Legacy Table:
(I’ve put the table on here again under the graph for anybody that missed it.)
The only comments that I got yesterday were demands that I produce a graph rather than just a table – so I am clearly typecast as a one-trick pony!
Anyway, by public demand, I have calculated the 320 data points (2 to go!) for the 7 seasons and dutifully entered them and plotted them. As all seven seasons were very successful, it did mean that the lines were close together, so I’ve had to stretch the graph and play around with colours and dashes, but you can make most things out OK on a laptop – more difficult on a phone! As I said yesterday, to be able to make the comparison the extra 4 games for the 42 game seasons have had to be at the average points per game over the actual 42. I've left our games this season as the labels on the bottom, as I think it's more interesting than Match1, Match 2 etc - you can remember how you felt after each game that way.
60/61 was an interesting season, 15 wins and a draw in the first 19 games, then 6 games without a win – a bit like our 2 points from 6 games in October. We also went to the cup semi-final that year, which we lost to Leicester after 2 replays! About 8 years ago I was on a train across to Chester after a game and an old chap told me that he used to play for United. His wife immediately chipped in that he had scored a hat-trick in the Cup at Newcastle. His name was Billy Russell, and that was the quarter final in 1961. They were a really nice couple.
So – here’s the graph – hopefully next Monday Hecky’s little red line will push itself to the top, above Reg Freeman!
UTB & Slava Ukraini
Hecky’s Legacy Graph:
Hecky's Legacy Table:
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