Some Leeds United fans have been reacting on social media, after LUFC Data shared a baffling stat highlighting which months the club have taken the most points in since the start of the 2010/11 season.
Over the past decade, we have only had three top-half finishes to a Championship campaign, with the ’10/11, ’16/17 and ’18/19 terms leading to a top-12 result.
The ’10/11 campaign saw United end the year seventh in the standings, having won 19 of our league games and put 72 points on the board, while ’16/17 again saw the club narrowly miss out on a Play-Off berth.
We booked a place in the Play-Offs last season, of course, having challenged for an automatic promotion spot for much of the campaign, only to see the term slide away in the closing months.
April saw Marcelo Bielsa’s side win two of six games, drawing once, having also struggled for consistency throughout September and October, when the club only managed to take 13 points from a possible 27 and never recorded back-to-back wins.
April was, statistically, our worst month to play in throughout the past decade, having won just 27% of our league fixtures. November, on the other hand, has been our best, having won 58% of our Championship games.
For a good sign of things to come as we close out the decade, December has been our second-best month to play in, having won 49% of our second-tier matches. But January could prove to be a challenging time, as the first month of the year has only led to a 36% win-rate – the joint-third worst.
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October has been our second-worst month having won 32% of our league games, while January and February are joint-third.
March (39%) and May (38%) are not much better, while we tend to start seasons strongly with August returning a 45% win-rate and September 43%.
Here are some of the reactions offered to LUFC Data’s statistics…
TS Eliot was right: April is the cruelest month
— Ben Whitelaw (@benwhitelaw) December 4, 2019
Interesting stat , that needs to change next year , sports psychologists required for overtime work in Leeds area next April 👍🏼
— Keith S (@maisiemaggie) December 4, 2019
Our April results baffles me. It’s strange because you’d usually put it down to the amount of pressure on the players but we’ve only been competing for top 6 the last 3 seasons and then our first season back in 10/11. The other seasons we’ve been nowhere near!
— Ashley Oakes (@Oakes_89) December 4, 2019
Can’t wait for April 😰
— Karl White (@karlthomas85) December 4, 2019
Would like to know out of all those seasons which ones we invested in a couple of players in January 🤔
— Burls (@burley_josh) December 4, 2019
I imagine April is the same for a lot of clubs overall if they are not in a promotion/relegation battle and have nothing to chase?
— Nic 💛💙 (@niccarpy) December 4, 2019
so get promotion by end of march then wait for this to blow over pic.twitter.com/6LN6cobvwW
— andrew (@andrewlufclad) December 4, 2019
There was nothing to play for at the end of a lot of these seasons.
— Chris Schofield (@CMSchofield10) December 4, 2019
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