Opening Fixture Statistics

[Barclay hero 0]

Being a statto type person I looked back over the last 10

years last night, and the following interesting (?) statistics came

up

Of the 30 promoted sides:

Highest placing was 8th (Reading 2006). Highest placed

Championship runner up was 9th (Birmingham 2009). 13 sides have gone straight

back down (3 Champions, 4 Runners up, 6 playoff winners)

Of the 10 runners up

No one has won their opening fixture in the last 10 years. 3

draws and 7 defeats

3 opening games have been at home and 7 away - but if youre

at home youre more likely to go back down (2 relegations out of 3 home

openers)

Youre more likely to meet Chelsea than anyone else - 3

runners up faced the blues on the opening day, with two of those at Stamford

Bridge. Manchester United were next - but you''ll face them at Old Trafford if

you do draw them 1st (the reds have met 4 promoted sides in total, all at their

place)

In total the opening fixtures were

Derby 2-1 Blackburn (Blackburn finished

10th)

Man U 1-0 West Brom (19R)

Leicester 2-2 Southampton

(18R)

Blackburn 1-1 West Brom (17)

Wigan 0-1 Chelsea

(10)

Sheffield Utd 1-1 Liverpool

(18R)

Chelsea 3-2 Birmingham (19R)

Bolton 3-1 Stoke (12)

Man U 1-0 Birmingham (9)

Chelsea 6-0 West Brom (11)

[Lennon7 0]

This may be a slightly weird question, but how are the fixture lists drawn/decided??

[The Great Wall Of Tettey 0]

[quote user="DAN-OTBC"]This may be a slightly weird question, but how are the fixture lists drawn/decided??

[/quote]

manchester united pick who they want to play, and then the rest is done at random

[Syteanric 1]

[quote user="DAN-OTBC"]This may be a slightly weird question, but how are the fixture lists drawn/decided??

[/quote]the big 4 pick their oppoisition ensuirng an easy start every year.. then the rest of the games get divvied out.this may not happen

[blahblahblah 2]

"This may be a slightly weird question, but how are the fixture lists drawn/decided??"Like this, Dan [:)]http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulfletcher/2009/06/secrets_of_the_fixture_compute.html

[Lennon7 0]

Cheers blah, quite interesting actually!

[blahblahblah 2]

I thought so too ! [:)]

[Power Hamster 0]

Norwich City haven''t won either an opening fixture or a closing fixture since the last day of 2003-4 when Iwan Roberts scored his last goals for the club. Let''s hope we can end that particular jinx this season!