I’m not sure where else to put this, but I was wondering based on the research I did for my post in the Arsenal thread:
So much has been made about how we’ve been poorer in the second half of the season, but actually, if we take a comparison the first 19 league games we played so far this season, I think it’s roughly comparable. For the first 19 games we had 14 wins, 4 draws, and 1 loss for 46 points. 2.42 points per game. Since then, we’ve played 14 games, with 10 wins, 3 draws, and 1 loss for 33 points, or 2.36 points per game.
That difference of 0.06 leads to a 2.43 points difference over the entire season, or really just a 1 point difference for half a season.. Which I suppose in a tight season makes all the difference, but it’s otherwise negligible, and if we manage to win the rest of our games, which is eminently doable since of the teams we need to play, it’s only Arsenal we’ve dropped points against, then we would actually have performed better results-wise in the second half of the season.