| Fixtures compared 12:21 - Oct 1 with 1104 views | Vegtablue |
https://theanalyst.com/2024/09/premier-league-fixtures-upcoming-difficulty-octob
Above is an article comparing the difficulty of PL teams' fixtures over the first 5 games and 'next' 5 games, alongside how they've fared (we've all now played our first game of the second batch). Opta created its own global team ranking system a while ago, assigning a 'power score' or difficulty rating (0-100) to every decent team in decent leagues around the world. Below are the current 'scores' for PL teams:
(we overtook Leicester at the weekend and are now the 139th most powerful team in the world 😃)
Villa's difficulty rating was very close to the average we've faced so far, while Wolves faced a sterner test in Liverpool, joining us in an equally tough first six fixtures. Pleasing to know that we've had a significantly uglier set of fixtures than the other four teams currently below us in the table. Our next 10 games are now much kinder on paper than the 10 that follow.
Next 10: West Ham, Everton, Brentford, Leicester, Tottenham, Man Utd, Forest, Palace, Bournemouth, Wolves.
The 10 afterwards: Newcastle, Arsenal, Chelsea, Fulham, Brighton, Man City, Liverpool, Southampton, Villa, Tottenham.
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| Fixtures compared on 12:54 - Oct 1 with 893 views | Daninthecampo |
That second set of games staring with Newcastle looks tough like that! We definitely need to get some wins and points from those upcoming 10 beforehand | | | |
| Fixtures compared on 13:28 - Oct 1 with 766 views | NthQldITFC |
Excellent measure, assuming that the Opta Rankings are reasonable. That puts us closer to WHU, Bournemuff, Man U and Full Ham* than to the rest of the bottom six.
* Imagine a diagonal line running (approximately) from NW to SE and slide that across the graph if you don't know how these things work. |  |
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