Originally Posted by
Eric the Half a Bee
Bob, I've had a look for 15 minutes as I was curious about this as well. Criteria; sides have to have played 3 seasons in the Championship, League 1 or League 2. Sides with less than 3 seasons in the FL are not included, neither are sides who have played in the PL and have played less games as a result.
10 sides have won less games over the timeframe you specified than us (played/won):
Cardiff 59 19
Bradford 53 18
Gillingham 53 18
Fleetwood 55 17
Shrewsbury 54 16
Stevenage 53 16
Oldham 53 15
Birmingham 59 14
Rochdale 52 14
Scunthorpe 55 12
AFC Wimbledon 55 11
You'll notice that only us and Birmingham have played a greater number of home fixtures as League 1 and 2 didn't complete their seasons due to Covid. If you look at it in terms of win percentage, 9 sides have fared worse than us.
Cardiff 32.2%
Bristol City 31.7%
Fleetwood 30.9%
Stevenage 30.2%
Shrewsbury 29.6%
Oldham 28.3%
Rochdale 26.9%
Birmingham 23.7%
Scunthorpe 21.8%
AFC Wimbledon 20.0%
Our defeat percentage is 11th worst.
Cardiff 39.0%
Lincoln City 39.3%
Swindon 40.0%
Reading 40.7%
Doncaster 41.8%
Bristol Rovers 43.4%
Bristol City 45.0%
Hull 45.6%
Birmingham 50.8%
Scunthorpe 50.9%
Oldham 58.5%
9 sides have a worse points per game rate than us.
Despite a pretty poor win rate, we scored 76 goals at home. A quick conversion to goals per game gives us 1.29 goals a game, ranking us 41st out of 64 sides. Defensively we would be ranked 34th with an average of 1.14 per game.
It's perhaps a bit surprising that we've had such a poor return when we've been better than over half of the sides defensively at home, and we've not been too shabby up front, given the wins and points we've got.