Wanna know how close?

[yellowcake]

Further to Tom Smithies' article (also in 'Good CCM reports'), I did my own breakdown of the A-League + finals matches played in the last 12 months, which is from Week 19 of 2010/2011.

I took the (large) liberty of including finals series games at the same W=3, D=1, L=0 and marked the Grand Final as a draw (F/T 0-0). CCM have played 2 more (26) with one more finals appearance last year than Brisbane (24) who had a later bye within that 12 months and their mid-week game had been before it. They've already had their mid-week game this season.

Result (points per match played):

• Mariners 1.923
• Roar 1.916

The change made by a difference of one point, over the 24-26 games, is greater than the distance between us now. That close.
(Again with GF as above) head to head in that period: Wins Roar 2, CCM 1, 3 draws.

 

[Kareem]

another interesting stat I'd like to see is consecutive weeks at 1st (I'll allow equal first, ie. rd 1 this year). Surely they have the record...probs for about 27 rd's in a row! This is the first time for a LONG time they haven't been in top spot...
I'll work it out later...unless someone beats me to it (a bit busy this week)