Friday 17 June 2011

Fixtures Friday

Quick post here to highlight how tricky each month looks for last season's top 6 according to the fixtures announced today.

So I assigned each team a "Difficulty Rating" from 1 to 20 based on last season's finishing positions, with Swansea rated 1 and Man Utd rated 20, and plotted the average "Difficulty Rating" per month over the season for Man Utd, Chelsea, Man City, Arsenal, Tottenham and Liverpool.



Early observations include:

Spurs have the most difficult start and most difficult end to the season of the "top 6".
Liverpool's testing month looks to be February, so they'll need to come flying out of the festive season.
While Arsenal and Chelsea have been blessed with the easiest months.

I'll come back to this over the weekend and take a look at all of the team's "Difficulty Timeline".

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