I like this table. It correctly showed that Newcastle’s position was slightly artificial and now they are slipping back a bit.
As for Spurs the gap is now 7.
The thing is maybe this season will be lower than normal. A top 4 tracker could show us as being under but Liverpool, Chelsea and possibly Tottenham from last season’s top 4 won’t make the top 4 this year. So a lower than normal number of points might secure top 4.
The only problem is that’s it’s harder to out perform the tracker when it’s predicting more points.
In our remaining 19 games the tracker has us down to win 6 games, we have to win those just to keep up and then that leaves us with 13 games to try to out perform the tracker.
In our first 19...
I love this table because it’s the only one I’m aware of that adjusts for how hard everyone’s fixtures have been.
It’ll be fascinating to see if it’s correct that Newcastle aren’t as good as they seem.