bloody hell john you are to football statistics what elvis is to music facts. all good stuff

im humbled

na, yer still the king..... :sweet:

I hate to call the master's stats into question but could you please tell me where in this sequence you see a subsequence of W17 D0 L1 ?

DWW [new season] WWLWWWWWWWWWWLWWWDWL

According to my sources that ten-win run was sandwiched between defeats by Accy Stanley & Warsaw. Which would make our 18-game run the very bestest ever!

As a neutral i suspect that your current run does not compare to those listed.





Its better

Good to see that you've updated your signature now to the 18 match run Mr Head. I was getting quite concerned you had left it at 17 for over 48 hours after our win in Boston

HA! you recognised the sequence then!

Mr Madjohn

From my own personal point of view long runs are only important in relation to the end product they achieve. So I tend to relegate those that are spread over two seasons to the category of "of additional interest".
Of course when you get runs lasting forty games or more (or home/away runs lasting half that), they're almost bound to spread over two seasons but in such cases they have impact in both.

Anyway, my main question is, did you look at the post I put up a week or more ago on long mostly-winning sequences?

http://pooliebunker.co.uk/newbunker/vie ... php?t=3961

That Tottenham run is in there (with its first two wins truncated of course ;) ).
So can your database-burrowing skills add any more examples to those I gave?

I know the definition is a subjective one, but what do we have to do to make this run into the most successful sustained run of results in football history? Is it doable?

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If you look at Pools' current run it's 50/18 = 2.78 points per game

Now if you look at the three runs I quoted:

- in the 3-point win system the yield is 2.62, 2.72, and 2.7 ppg respectively.
- in a 2-point win system that would have been 1.89 for Pools and 1.81, 1.85, and 1.84 respectively for the others.

So the system used doesn't really change anything. We can use either.

I'd say just search for the longest run averaging 2.6 [1.8] points per game or more and we can say that's arguably the best sustained run of success in a single season ever.
Then if our run comes to an end one short of that number but we have a better ppg (not sure if its arithmetically possible...) we can put forward arguments that ours is really the greatest :)

Still 7 games to go to catch Spurs though!

It's disappointing that we aren't more than three points clear after all that!

Just to let you know, the original post has suffered the cut and paste by Blue Stripes onto the Darlo board. I have suitably chastised him by not quite accusing him of having the IQ of a Whelk.

Boots.

But you'll only swerve into Greggs and spend your painkiller money on pasties.