by Mr Angry »
12 Apr 2024 15:49
Farnham Royal Snowflake Royal Greatwesternline
Next season it should start from 138 and be updated weekly on how many more points we still need to finish top.
Standards must be raised.
The temptation to set it up as:
Champions - 138
Promotion - 138
Play offs - 138
Survival - 138
And track all 4 is there. But keeping it up would be a mammoth ballache.
79 Points is enough to absolutely guarantee survival at the beginning of the season. But, as you say, painful to track after every game by every team. Maybe in my retirement.
That would mean 20 teams would finish with at least 79 points, and 1 team with 78 points.
That would total 1,658 points (if we say the bottom 3 teams all scored 0 points).
24 teams in the League; each plays 46 times. = 1,104 games in total.
3 points per game = 3,312 points.
However, 50% of the games MUST end in defeat (you can't have both teams winning the same game); therefore 3,312 points /2 = 1,656 points maximum that can be achieved in a season (with no draws whatsoever.
Thats 2 points fewer than the 1,658 which would be the total for a team surviving with 79 points.
(Friday afternoons are VERY quiet at work..................)