Any League Table Stattos Out There

[pasty]

Okay, maybe jumping the gun a bit here but....

We went top of League 1 on 25th September, and baring a Bournemouth cricket score this Saturday, we can't possibly be knocked off top spot until Tuesday 22nd Feb. That will be 135 days at the top of the league. If we manage to stay there until the end of the season it will be 225 days.

Is that getting anywhere near any records?

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

Off topic a bit so apologies but does anyone know of a site where you can look up game by game league tables i.e. if I wanted to see how the table stood at November 23rd 2008, is there anywhere I can find it? I have looked, but failed so far.

Back on topic, would be an incredible feat to stay top of the league from 25th September, would be so proud (not that I wouldn't be proud should we drop to second)

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Okay, maybe jumping the gun a bit here but....

We went top of League 1 on 25th September, and baring a Bournemouth cricket score this Saturday, we can't possibly be knocked off top spot until Tuesday 22nd Feb. That will be 135 days at the top of the league. If we manage to stay there until the end of the season it will be 225 days.

Is that getting anywhere near any records?

I seem to remember Newcastle winning their first ten or eleven games when Keegan got them promoted out of the old second division(or had it changed to the first division by then?). They went up as champions so presumably no one went above them from the moment they went top which would have been(surely!) sooner than the eighth game of the season(which is, I think, when we went top).

 

[Djmiles]

Off topic a bit so apologies but does anyone know of a site where you can look up game by game league tables i.e. if I wanted to see how the table stood at November 23rd 2008, is there anywhere I can find it? I have looked, but failed so far.

Back on topic, would be an incredible feat to stay top of the league from 25th September, would be so proud (not that I wouldn't be proud should we drop to second temporarily)

Official seagulls website have league tables on a game by game basis and match reports for the last 10 seasons.

 

[Djmiles]

The season fulham got promoted from championship was a long time I seem to recall.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Off topic a bit so apologies but does anyone know of a site where you can look up game by game league tables i.e. if I wanted to see how the table stood at November 23rd 2008, is there anywhere I can find it? I have looked, but failed so far.

Utter porn for table stats addicts - http://www.statto.com/football/stats/england/league-one/2010-2011/table

And as it happens, the League One table on 23rd Nov 2008 was:

P W D L F A W D L F A W D L F A GD Pt
1 Leicester City 17 10 5 2 29 15 5 2 1 11 5 5 3 1 18 10 +14 35
2 Milton Keynes Dons 17 11 1 5 34 17 5 0 3 14 8 6 1 2 20 9 +17 34
3 Scunthorpe United 17 10 3 4 33 22 5 2 2 17 11 5 1 2 16 11 +11 33
4 Millwall 17 10 3 4 26 21 6 1 1 12 7 4 2 3 14 14 +5 33
5 Peterborough United 17 9 5 3 31 18 6 2 1 21 9 3 3 2 10 9 +13 32
6 Leeds United 17 10 2 5 31 20 6 1 2 21 11 4 1 3 10 9 +11 32
7 Oldham Athletic 17 9 4 4 31 20 5 2 1 19 7 4 2 3 12 13 +11 31
8 Stockport County 17 7 7 3 23 14 2 4 2 9 8 5 3 1 14 6 +9 28
9 Southend United 17 7 5 5 28 28 5 2 2 13 9 2 3 3 15 19 0 26
10 Walsall 16 7 3 6 25 24 4 0 4 15 15 3 3 2 10 9 +1 24
11 Tranmere Rovers 17 7 3 7 24 23 4 1 3 15 11 3 2 4 9 12 +1 24
12 Hartlepool United 17 7 2 8 28 29 4 2 2 21 16 3 0 6 7 13 -1 23
13 Huddersfield Town 17 6 5 6 25 29 2 3 3 12 14 4 2 3 13 15 -4 23
14 Bristol Rovers 17 5 6 6 33 29 4 2 3 20 14 1 4 3 13 15 +4 21
15 Northampton Town 16 5 5 6 22 21 3 3 1 11 6 2 2 5 11 15 +1 20
16 Carlisle United 17 6 2 9 24 31 5 1 3 18 13 1 1 6 6 18 -7 20
17 Brighton and Hove A 17 4 7 6 21 24 2 4 3 12 13 2 3 3 9 11 -3 19
18 Swindon Town 16 4 6 6 26 30 3 1 4 13 15 1 5 2 13 15 -4 18
19 Yeovil Town 17 4 6 7 15 24 2 5 2 10 10 2 1 5 5 14 -9 18
20 Leyton Orient 17 4 5 8 13 22 2 3 4 7 12 2 2 4 6 10 -9 17
21 Colchester United 16 4 3 9 26 31 1 2 5 8 11 3 1 4 18 20 -5 15
22 Hereford United 17 3 3 11 11 25 3 2 4 9 8 0 1 7 2 17 -14 12
23 Cheltenham Town 17 3 2 12 19 41 3 1 4 12 15 0 1 8 7 26 -22 11
24 Crewe Alexandra 17 2 3 12 20 40 2 2 5 12 18 0 1 7 8 22 -20 9

 

[Gritt23]

Okay, maybe jumping the gun a bit here but....

We went top of League 1 on 25th September, and baring a Bournemouth cricket score this Saturday, we can't possibly be knocked off top spot until Tuesday 22nd Feb. That will be 135 days at the top of the league. If we manage to stay there until the end of the season it will be 225 days.

Is that getting anywhere near any records?

The stat I'd love to see us achieve is being top of the table for longer than we were bottom in 1996/97, which I believe was from 5th October 1996 (1-0 defeat at Wigan) until 26th April 1997 (1-0 win at home to Donny). That is 203 days.

To beat that we need to stay top for another 2 months. 17th April 2011, would be 204 days.

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

Utter porn for table stats addicts - http://www.statto.com/football/stats/england/league-one/2010-2011/table

And as it happens, the League One table on 23rd Nov 2008 was:

PERFECT. Thank you

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Utter porn for table stats addicts - http://www.statto.com/football/stats/england/league-one/2010-2011/table

What a great website. The first thing I checked was the popular misconception that we were 78 million points clear when Mcghee took over and he contrived to make us a play off team in 2003. We were actually 3rd.

Theres loads of things like that I'll check today.

 

[bardo]

Utter porn for table stats addicts - http://www.statto.com/football/stats/england/league-one/2010-2011/table

Yeah thanks that really is a great site. Seeing Wednesday up top for the first few weeks what a shame we had to play them away so early on or we could have had an even bigger lead at the top!

 

[whitelion]

We went top of League 1 on 25th September, and baring a Bournemouth cricket score this Saturday, we can't possibly be knocked off top spot until Tuesday 22nd Feb. That will be 135 days at the top of the league. If we manage to stay there until the end of the season it will be 225 days.

Your maths are not right:

Sept 6 days
Oct 31
Nov 30
Dec 31
Jan 31
Feb 21

In my book that's 150 days at the top - 151 days if we're still top on 22nd February.

So it's even better than you are stating......

 

[Mendoza]

Okay, maybe jumping the gun a bit here but....

We went top of League 1 on 25th September, and baring a Bournemouth cricket score this Saturday, we can't possibly be knocked off top spot until Tuesday 22nd Feb. That will be 135 days at the top of the league.

I had Monday coming up as being the 150th consecutive day we were top of the league??

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

I know we can't take upsets out of the equasion - and some of the results on Tuesday were the equivalent of us losing to Plymouth - but the possibility of us being top for the rest of the season gets ever closer. We won't be, but it's a tantalising prospect.

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

I had Monday coming up as being the 150th consecutive day we were top of the league??

A quick count of the calandar reveals that Monday will indeed be the 150th day. 21 full weeks + Saturday 25/09, Sunday 26/09 and then Monday 21/02

 

[Simster]

We won't be, but it's a tantalising prospect.

I don't see why not. A fixture list mostly containing bottom half teams and several games in hand would appear to work in our favour.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

To answer the original question - listen to last weeks Albion Roar when they talk about this. To my memory, this is already a record* number of consecutive weeks at the top of the table. In 1976-77 we spent more time at the top of the table over the course of the season, but broken into seven chunks, and we were knocked off the top penultimate game of the season to finish second to Mansfield.

We have gone past our next best seasons, our first ever promotion in 1957-58 when we won Div3 South, and then 1978-79 when we were knocked off the top of the table by palace last effin day of the season


*record by Brighton. We've already spent seven match days not top this season. Surely someone else has gone top day one and stayed there the whole way through?

Newcastle in 92-93 went top on game 6 and stayed there til the end. Arsenal invincibles in 03-04 went top game 2 but spent 5 weeks in second during the season. Lincoln set the points record in 75-76 but were only top for 24 games of the season. Reading in 2005-06 only lost twice and scored a record 106 points, but remarkably didn't get to the top until they had played 20 games.

 

[love Brighton.hate palace]

would be good to do it but surely someones been top for longer

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

OK, a bit of perseverance gets the answer


In 1947/48, Arsenal won the league having never been off the top of the table, the only club to achieve this in the English top-flight

 

[The Offspring]

What is interesting is this little year on year stat, as from 16th Feb 2010 to date.

Brighton - Ply 44 W 24 D 13 L 7 GlsF 73 GlsA 33 Pts 85!!

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

I don't see why not. A fixture list mostly containing bottom half teams and several games in hand would appear to work in our favour.

Don't like to tempt fate!