Quote: Nozzy "This thread has lead to me looking back at previous league tables and the 2009 table was mental!
2 teams to be relegated.
Doncaster finished bottom (11th) on 8pts.
Toulouse finished 10th on 30pts, bit of a gap there! Next to bottom but were exempt from relegation because they were... erm... French I guess?
Leigh, Batley and Gateshead all finished on 32pts (we had the worst points difference). Obviously Gateshead's late surge in form was due to them buying a load of Aussies it turned out they didn't actually have any money to pay hence them going down and us being let off the hook.
We were 'relegated' with a record of 9 wins and 11 losses. 45 % win rate isn't great but in no other season would it be anything like relegation form.
Batley actually won less games than us but 2 draws (both against Gateshead) meant they finished level on pts.
Sheffield actually only won 2 more games than us. (We won 9 lost 11, they won 11 lost 9) and yet we finished in a relegation spot whilst they finished 3rd in the league and just 2pts off top spot! They did win a 'bonus point' in every game they lost though.
Can't say I am missing the bonus point system. What a load of bo**ocks that was!
Brings back some memories there mate, in hindsight that league tables was probably the closest league table in years...
Quote: rlfanalytics "Leigh's start this year shown in red against whilst all Leigh's other seasons (that I have data for) are shown in grey. The intention is to show proportionally how well you're doing this time round compared to others.
I've included spells in other leagues too, so previous excursions to Super League are here too. Most of the data for Bradford and London is obviously from SL spells, whilst that for say Swinton and Oldham typically comes from L1.
Championship and League 1 data is only from 2006. SL is from '96.
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