Originally Posted by
Eric the Half a Bee
I think I did this a few years ago. This is simply an average of every teams' league position in the entire tier, allowing for the division a team is in. So, when we finished 18th in the top division, that counts as 18th. This season we finished 12th, which was 32nd across all the divisions. In 1996, we finished 22nd in the bottom division, so that was 90th in the league. It's simply an average of all those positions. Current league teams only, non-league seasons not included.
1 Liverpool 7.89
2 Arsenal 8.45
3 Everton 9.86
4 Manchester United 9.93
5 Tottenham Hotspur 11.67
6 Aston Villa 11.74
7 Chelsea 12.85
8 Manchester City 13.13
9 Newcastle United 14.03
10 Sunderland 17.11
11 West Bromwich Albion 18.11
12 West Ham United 18.13
13 Blackburn Rovers 20.36
14 Wolverhampton Wanderers 20.45
15 Leeds United 20.60
16 Derby County 21.27
17 Middlesbrough 21.30
18 Leicester City 22.08
19 Sheffield United 22.29
20 Sheffield Wednesday 22.33
21 Bolton Wanderers 23.10
22 Stoke City 23.27
23 Nottingham Forest 23.28
24 Birmingham City 23.54
25 Southampton 25.16
26 Burnley 26.21
27 Ipswich Town 28.78
28 Preston North End 30.10
29 Fulham 32.44
30 Portsmouth 33.24
31 Huddersfield Town 33.43
32 Charlton Athletic 34.43
33 Coventry City 36.06
34 Norwich City 36.48
35 Blackpool 36.59
36 Queens Park Rangers 39.13
37 Crystal Palace 39.62
38 Cardiff City 40.32
39 Luton Town 41.49
40 Bristol City 41.79
41 Barnsley 42.77
42 Hull City 42.82
43 Notts County 42.84
44 Millwall 45.55
45 Watford 46.29
46 Grimsby Town 46.31
47 Swansea City 46.94
48 Wigan Athletic 48.09
49 Brighton & Hove Albion 48.18
50 Plymouth Argyle 49.60
51 Reading 50.04
52 Brentford 52.22
53 Bradford City 52.89
54 Oxford United 53.48
55 Rotherham United 53.84
56 Port Vale 54.31
57 Leyton Orient 56.23
58 AFC Bournemouth 56.67
59 Swindon Town 57.69
60 Bristol Rovers 58.08
61 Milton Keynes Dons 58.25
62 Lincoln City 58.90
63 Fleetwood Town 60.58
64 Stockport County 60.63
65 Walsall 61.23
66 Doncaster Rovers 62.18
67 Peterborough United 62.28
68 Tranmere Rovers 62.42
69 Shrewsbury Town 62.62
70 Burton Albion 63.27
71 Carlisle United 64.76
72 Wycombe Wanderers 65.29
73 Wrexham 65.84
74 Gillingham 66.12
75 Cambridge United 66.78
76 Accrington Stanley 67.02
77 Colchester United 68.26
78 Northampton Town 68.45
79 Crewe Alexandra 68.53
80 Mansfield Town 70.77
81 AFC Wimbledon 74.15
82 Stevenage 74.21
83 Exeter City 74.23
84 Newport County 74.38
85 Cheltenham Town 74.96
86 Torquay United 75.26
87 Crawley Town 76.69
88 Salford City 78.80
89 Morecambe 80.82
90 Harrogate Town 85.00