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'The Premier League table redesigned' blog discussion

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This is the discussion to link on the back of Martin's blog. Please read the blog first, as this discussion follows it.
Read Martin's "The Premier League Table Redesigned: Making mid-season tables more effective." Blog.
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Maybe you can start posting the table each week... it could drive more traffic to your blog !
My opinion is that the most important factor to determining progress is actually fixtures played to date. For example, Sunderland, Stoke, Wigan, Spurs, Man City and Burnley have all already played 3 of the 'big 4', whereas Wolves have yet to play any of them and Everton, Blackburn, West Ham and Portsmouth have all only played 1. It's therefore arguable that the 12 points gained from 9 matches played by Burnley are more valuable than the 11 points gained from 8 so far by Everton, given that Everton have more potentially tough matches ahead of them.
The league table as it stands is the fairest measure, and as a Spurs fan I'm glad we have the points on the board rather than the opportunity to win more!
What would be really good to represent somehow is a points table that is weighted by the difficulty of games played thus far. With a normal table, this factor is only ever shaken out and equalised at the end of the season (i.e. when every team has played every other). Difficulty of games could be weighted by current position of the opposition in the table. But like every method, it would be far from perfect...
That actually shouldn't be that difficult to do - you could weight it based on the average points per game of the team played. Though its a much bigger job to set up the initial data.
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Mike Avery's football stats website (as I'm a 'newbie' I can't post links, but if you google Mike Avery and click on the PPG link from the home page)
Covers levels 1-9 of English football.