The "Ultimate" League

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So, Sky Sports did a little feature today on the "biggest" teams in the football league, based on their performances in the last 50 years.

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

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.


Anyway, as ironic as ever, guess where we finished? Just outside of the Top Four.




Still, quite an achievement to be up there over the period of time.

 

[Blake Griffin]

just goes to show what a crappy little club chelsea were before the money.

 

[npearl4spurs]

Brentford can thank our future savior, Alex Pritchard.

oh, and their current manager, Warburton, whom they are dismissing.

 

[tototoner]

still outside top 4

 

[Flashspur]

consistently above average in other words but no cigar

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

just goes to show what a crappy little club chelsea were before the money.

Manchester Shitty?

 

[mil1lion]

I often have to remind myself how lucky I am to support a club like Spurs. At times it feels like we're a cursed club but it's only because we're not the very top team. We've been in the top flight for a very long time now and one of the handful of clubs to have remained in the Premier League since its inception.

This just shows once again that we're not the underachievers that we're perceived to be.

 

[Gbspurs]

Shows Chelsea and Man City for the "new money " that they are.