Anyone can beat anyone on any day. That's what is great about the championship. It doesn't change the fact that this season the 3 relegated teams are stronger than the 3 that got relegated last year.
c.70+ points is usually enough for the play offs.
Which is utter bunkum when you consider that we've conceded 2 more goals than Ipswich and 1 less than Southampton.
From the same poster who said yesterday "just pointing out that the stats aren't evidence of anything"
That's my top 6 as well.
Stats can tell whatever story you want them to tell. They don't make anything true or false. Yesterday's discussion was completely different. It was trying to use a single stat to measure total performance which is ignoring a lot of things. A single stat can be evidence of correlation but not necessarily causation. Add some supporting stats in and you can maybe prove something.From the same poster who said yesterday "just pointing out that the stats aren't evidence of anything"
it's no surprise really. We're 3 points off the play offs despite only winning one out of the first seven or whatever it was. We're heading in that direction. I think we'll finish 5th.
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should have indicated I was being facetious but thanks anyway for taking the time write out that explanation of statistics. Very informative. 
Not sure how it’s bunkum, when Southampton have 7pts more than us & Ipswich fifteen, its points that count and they are finding a way to concede similar amount of goals than us and get more points. Boro’s goals for & against are very skewed by two 4-0 wins, take them two games out and it doesn’t look so good
It’s bunkum because you said we can’t expect top 6 with the number of goals we concede, whereas the team 7 points ahead of us have conceded more and the team 15 points ahead of us have conceded only 2 fewer. Those two teams are showing that you can concede goals at a similar rate to us and pick up enough points to be top 6.
Yeah but you have to take our two 4-0 wins into account, which skews the goal difference heavily in our favour. Not to mention leaving us six points worse off, sending us tumbling towards the relegation zone. And can we remove one of the goals from the Bristol City game so the result feels more comprehensive? Maybe stick it on the Coventry defeat instead. Or maybe just say we won 3-1 at Norwich instead of 2-1.It’s bunkum because you said we can’t expect top 6 with the number of goals we concede, whereas the team 7 points ahead of us have conceded more and the team 15 points ahead of us have conceded only 2 fewer. Those two teams are showing that you can concede goals at a similar rate to us and pick up enough points to be top 6.
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