Over the last 18 seasons (since the league went to 24 teams) </p> 22 teams (out of 54 obviously) who were not in the bottom 3 on Dec31st actually got relegated</p> the positions they occupied on Dec 31st were as shown</p> <table style="WIDTH: 64pt; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="85" border="0" x:str=""><colgroup><col style="WIDTH: 48pt" width="64" /><col style="WIDTH: 16pt; mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 768" width="21" /></colgroup><tbody><tr style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height="17"><td class="xl25" style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; WIDTH: 48pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; HEIGHT: 12.75pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" width="64" height="17"><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="2">10th</font></td><td class="xl24" style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; WIDTH: 16pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" width="21" x:num=""><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="2"> 1</font></td></tr><tr style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height="17"><td class="xl25" style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; HEIGHT: 12.75pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" height="17"><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="2">11th</font></td><td class="xl25" style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" align="right" x:num=""><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="2">1</font></td></tr><tr style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height="17"><td class="xl25" style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; HEIGHT: 12.75pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" height="17"><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="2">13th</font></td><td class="xl25" style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" align="right" x:num=""><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="2">1</font></td></tr><tr style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height="17"><td class="xl25" style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; HEIGHT: 12.75pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" height="17"><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="2">14th</font></td><td class="xl25" style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" align="right" x:num=""><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="2">2</font></td></tr><tr style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height="17"><td class="xl25" style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; HEIGHT: 12.75pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" height="17"><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="2">15th</font></td><td class="xl25" style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" align="right" x:num=""><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="2">2</font></td></tr><tr style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height="17"><td class="xl25" style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; HEIGHT: 12.75pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" height="17"><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="2">16th</font></td><td class="xl25" style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" align="right" x:num=""><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="2">1</font></td></tr><tr style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height="17"><td class="xl25" style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; HEIGHT: 12.75pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" height="17"><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="2">17th</font></td><td class="xl25" style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" align="right" x:num=""><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="2">1</font></td></tr><tr style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height="17"><td class="xl25" style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; HEIGHT: 12.75pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" height="17"><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="2">19th</font></td><td class="xl25" style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" align="right" x:num=""><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="2">5</font></td></tr><tr style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height="17"><td class="xl25" style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; HEIGHT: 12.75pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" height="17"><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="2">20th</font></td><td class="xl25" style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" align="right" x:num=""><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="2">4</font></td></tr><tr style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height="17"><td class="xl25" style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; HEIGHT: 12.75pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" height="17"><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="2"><u>21st</u></font></td><td class="xl25" style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" align="right" x:num=""><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="2"><u>4</u></font></td></tr><tr style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height="17"><td class="xl25" style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; HEIGHT: 12.75pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" height="17"><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="2"></font></td><td class="xl25" style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" align="right" x:num="" x:fmla="=SUM(B1:B10)"><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="2">22</font></td></tr></tbody></table></p> so I'd be pretty happy if we were 18th or above at the year end!</p>
Or to put it another way - 32 of the 54 relegation places (60%) were taken by teams in the bottom 3 at New Year.
