Season Visualiser - February Update

As we enter the final two months of the campaign, it's time to once more revisit the Season Visualiser to see if it can shed any light on our performance to date and how things might pan out between now and the end of the season.

Season Visualiser - October Update

It's been a while since we last looked at the Season Visualiser - an initial idea to re-visit it every month was probably a little too ambitious - but an update right now uncovers some interesting results. For the sake of simplicity, this post will look at the visualiser's accuracy to the end of October, and how Blackpool's season may look like panning out.

Season Visualiser - August Update

At the start of the season, in association with the good folk over at Experimental 3-6-1, I introduced Blackpool's 2011/12 Season Visualiser. The premise was that each game would be colour coded by difficulty - red for most difficult fixtures, green for theoretically easiest games and varying colours of yellow for those in between - based on an algorithm largely calculated on the back of bookmakers' odds.

So how does the visualiser stack up against real life so far? Let's look at the August results and see how the season looks like panning out for Blackpool.

2011/12 Season Visualiser

"If Blackpool's fixture list was a patchwork of colours, what would it look like?"

The above question probably isn't one you've spent the summer pondering, but indulge me here...if the fixtures were colour-coded by difficulty, what would we be presented with? The answer is the season visualiser, devised by the brains over at Experimental 3-6-1. The theory is simple: each game is illustrated by a colour - anywhere between a strong green and a deep red, with every shade of yellow in between. This means a quick scan of the fixture list can identify potential tricky spells, as well as periods where the team can aim to capitalise on supposedly easier matches.