Derby were very ordinary against us last Saturday. Brentford on Tuesday night were a different matter. They were quick, clever and incisive. They won in second gear. A good team to avoid in the play off semi finals.
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I understand the point about it being a low point scoring season for the better teams and that a below average points tally might suffice this season, but I was wondering what was the average points tally of the 7th place team was just out of interest.
I looked at the relegation battle from the Prem a few seasons back and at the time (don't quote me on this as I'm doing it from memory) that if you had 35pts you was more likely to go down than stay up and 36pts you was more likely to stay up than go down.
I thought the interesting stat/target was the likely/average points total of the team in 18th place and not 17th place and likewise in the Championship as regards making the playoffs the likely/average points total of the 7th place team is more salient imo than the likely/average points total of the 6th place team as a side would need to beat the 7th place team points tally to make the playoffs as opposed to targeting trying to match the projected 6th place teams points tally.
Derby were very ordinary against us last Saturday. Brentford on Tuesday night were a different matter. They were quick, clever and incisive. They won in second gear. A good team to avoid in the play off semi finals.
I think we did quite well in our two games against Brentford, they went two up in both of them (didn’t they?), yet Pack scored a screamer ( it was Pack, if I recall) up there and we had them rattled. At our place they started like a train but we reined them in, equalised and were the more likely to snatch a winner. Perhaps we may be the team they’d prefer to avoid.