A weekend of International football means the Promroiship takes a rest this week, but due to the Blogpower roundup I failed to produce a table for the previous weekend so this gives me a chance to catch up.
Followers of this blog will know that Phil Neville's comments that Everton were always last on Match of the Day was one of the reasons I started the Promroiship. It now appears that the BBC are paying slightly too much attention to the verbal diarrhoea of the less talented Neville brother. That can be the only reason Everton v Portsmouth was first on Match of the Day last week ahead of two matches which contained five goals each. It left Portsmouth in second position after their first appearance on MOTD this season, and poor old West Ham bottom despite being involved (goalwise at least) in two pretty entertaining games so far this season. Fulham continue to lead the way despite not playing this weekend.
This weekend did show up a few flaws in the scoring system, with Bolton v West Brom gaining the second highest number of points despite coming last. As they could appear no lower, it does slightly inflate their Promoiship position. Not by much though. If the running order had been decided by number of goals, the first five goal and three goal match would have received the same number of points. The other five goal match, and the other two three-goal matches would have received less than thirty points. This would have shown the bias against those teams relative to the teams involved in matches where the same amount of goals had been scored, but is less fair when being compared with matches with a higher/ lower number of goals, particularly this week when there was not a nice 1 goal difference distribution throughout the matches (ie at least one match with one goal, one match with two goals, one match with three goals etc). Over a season, however, these things should even out.
Promroiship Results August 30th 2008 (Match of the Day Running Order)
Everton v Portsmouth.......42
Hull City v Wigan..........24
West Ham v Blackburn.......18
Arsenal v Newcastle........24
Middlesbrough v Stoke......18
Bolton v West Brom.........30
The Promroiship Table after Round 3 (08/9)
Team..................Total...Apps..Average
Fulham.................105......2....52.5
Portsmouth............. 42......1....42.0
Liverpool.............. 77......2....38.5
Arsenal................108......3....36.0
Aston Villa............ 35......1....35.0
Sunderland............. 70......2....35.0
Tottenham Hotspur...... 63......2....31.5
Everton................ 91......3....30.3
Middlesbrough.......... 88......3....29.3
Hull City.............. 87......3....29.0
West Bromwich Albion... 79......3....26.3
Newcastle United....... 52......2....26.0
Bolton Wanderers....... 72......3....24.0
Stoke City............. 67......3....22.3
Blackburn Rovers....... 60......3....20.0
Wigan Athletic......... 31......2....15.5
West Ham United........ 25......2....12.5
Chelsea, Manchester City and Manchester United have yet to grace us with their presence on Match of the Day this year.
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