We should be 18th in the league (historically)

[FryattFox]

Liverpool are English football’s top side, according to the Ultimate League table compiled by Sky Sports.

Positions have been calculated from teams’ average season-ending positions over the last 50 years.

Only teams that have appeared in the top four English leagues for at least 15 seasons since 1964/65 have been included – although any ventures into non-league are also reflected.

Liverpool emerged top of the 90-team pile after recording a remarkable average finishing position of 3.3 over the past half-century. Rivals Manchester United and Arsenal complete the top three.

However, the Ultimate League also highlights which clubs are currently overachieving compared with their historical average position.

Swansea are the biggest overachievers – their current position of eighth in the Premier League is 47 places above where they are ranked using the 50-year average.

Championship title-chasers Bournemouth are the second-biggest overachievers, currently sitting 40 places above their average, but Portsmouth (-50) and Stockport County (-49) are well below their typical level.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/...enal-everton-and-tottenham-in-ultimate-league

We're completely flat.

But poor old Cov...

 

[Cate Fox]

Nothing against you Fryatt, but do people not have lives when they can sit and work shite like this out?

 

[Blaarev]

Nothing against you Fryatt, but do people not have lives when they can sit and work shite like this out?

Indeed. They could be spending their time on something more useful. Like trying to win the Prediction League.

 

[Cate Fox]

Indeed. They could be spending their time on something more useful. Like trying to win the Prediction League.

Exactly... :icon_conf

 

[Hazzman]

It's the kind of thing a Liverpool fan thinks up in an attempt to make their club still relevant.

 

[jb5000]

Why start then? The football league had been running 70 years, Sunderland would be a lot higher if you took all history onboard and Chelsea would be a lot lower.

 

[FryattFox]

Sincere apologies everyone...

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[Mawsley]

Sincere apologies everyone...

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You should try to come up with better threads like Jas does. If this had been the average position fifty years in the future it would have been far more relevant. Something for many of today's thread starters to bear in mind.