Here's that table https://www.11v11.com/teams/brighton-and-hove-albion/tab/leagueTables/08-december-1981/
Struggling to find the one where some of us think we were 5th!
This is my memory too. I think it was for about one day in midweek maybe Feb 82 when we played on a Tuesday night before Forest pushed us down to sixth on the Weds! I'd have to go in the loft to verify???
I think it's time to photocopy the league table again and emboss for posterity