Quote Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie View Post
It seems to me to be a meaningless statistic, United won the title in 2008 despite not winning any of their opening three games.
City won the title in 2014 despite only getting four points from their first six games away from the Etihad.
Of course you don't want to be playing catch up, but after one game you can only be three points behind
I think if we fail to get a minimum of 15 points from our next seven games we can count ourselves out of the title race.
I'd agree if it wasn't so resoundingly in favour of one outcome. What convinces me is that it is a 'fair' or 'equal' stat in that it compares how a team starts against their final position. Given the consistency of the two there is definitely an alignment there. Looking at the first few games or six away games is like many of the 'new' stats you hear in modern football that appear to either enhance a short term positive or negative perception of a team. You can do that across any number of games or short term permeations to come to a conclusion. I think looking at the first set of games this weekend you get a sense of who is going to be making a serious fist of it, it's the same every season. Maybe I'm nuts for putting myself behind this stat but it feels quite logical to me.