Welcome to the brand new Charlton Life Championship Knowledge System (or CLiCK, for short). This is a new monthly feature that looks at the current form of each team and looks ahead at Charlton’s fixtures for the coming month.
CLiCK uses a highly sophisticated system that analyses the results of each team and scores wins, draws and losses relative to the standing of the team in the division and whether the game was played at home or away. This month CLiCK has deemed the three relegated sides as the top 3 sides and the 3 promoted sides as the bottom three and used last season’s table for the teams previously in the Championship. Any complaints about Charlton, therefore, being placed as 22nd should be lodged with AFKA with a £100 complaint fee so that your complaint fee can be carefully considered by a committee in the pub of the committee’s choice.
And so, on to the meat of the form guide – what does it tell us? Well, first of all, early pace setters, Blackpool, can be rightly proud of their three wins, of course, but they achieved this with relatively easy games against Leeds and Ipswich at home and Millwall away. Similarly, Middlesbrough started with the easiest set of fixtures on paper.
The most impressive two sides in the division are undoubtedly a certain club from SE7 and Sheffield Wednesday. Both teams have had tough fixtures. Charlton have achieved an impressive CLiCK rating of 62 (out of 100) and Sheffield Wednesday an even better 80.
At the bottom, Birmingham City have had the most disappointing start whilst Millwall and Wolves would have expected to start better.
In the coming month, Charlton have fixtures – Notts Forest (A), Palace (H), Derby (A), Ipswich (A), Blackburn (H). CLiCK can reveal that Derby and Palace are hopelessly out of form and should be two easy wins.
It’s a little early in the season for the CLiCK guide, but in the coming months CLiCK will be first to find the Readings of the 2012-13 season that are surging towards promotion and, of course, those that are under-performing. More news on October 1st!
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If you beat the top team at home you score 24 points. If you beat the bottom team at home you score 1 point. If you draw at home you score half of the points. Results away from home are worth 1.5 times as much.
Therefore, there is a maximum number of points you could score and a number of points you achieve. This is calculated as a percentage.
CLiCK then shows which teams have had easy/hard games and their success in those games. I would publish a PDF in future months so that you can see the workings.
that's the Derby team who just scored 5 goals against a mid table Watford and a Palace team who beat a top 3 Sheff Wed !!!
Thanks for taking the time to do this.