The big 6 over the past 10 years, to present league points.
We have finished above;
City - 2 times
Chelsea - 3 times
United - 4 times
Liverpool - 6 times
Leicester - 7 times
(Woolwich - 4times, but they are pretty irrelevant now)
As things stand, this will be the 2nd (and consecutive) time we have finished bottom of this pack.
Interestingly to me though, we have been the least volatile with seasons of decline with only City coming close to our level of point return consistency.
Biggest drops in points from 1 season to the next;
Chelsea - 37 pts / 23 pts
Leicester - 37 pts, but since have been on a really solid looking climb (I doubt to be sustained).
Liverpool - 36 pts (currently) / 22 pts
United - 25 pts / 15 pts
City - 17 pts / 13 pts
Spurs - 12 pts / 9 pts
Average points over 10 seasons;
City - 83.8 pts
United - 73 pts
Liverpool - 72.9 pts
Chelsea - 72.3 pts
Spurs - 69.6 pts
Leicester - 56.1 pts (weighted for 7 seasons)
We could get 65 points still, which is a total we failed to surpass for 22 seasons (even with 42 games) from 1987 (71 pts) - 2010 (70 pts).
We've had 3 consecutive seasons posting negative points each time. The other teams have only had 1 (or 2 for City & Liverpool) seasons of decline, so to stop this trend for me was an important milestone to reach yesterday.
We won't be going negative again this time and looks like only Liverpool will - but 196 pts over 2 seasons was never something that could be sustained. They just tanked twice as hard as City did after their 198 pts over 2 seasons.
There's almost an arrogance within our fanbase that we should be in the top 4 - but that's never really been our long term level. A couple of seasons where we got 86 & 77 pts seems to make people think we should either be able the achieve that every season (comparable with City & Liverpool touching 100 pts), or that the rest of the league should drop their levels so that around 70 points will always get you Champions League football, when in fact our average (69.6 pts) would be enough for Champions League football 5 times in the past 13 seasons, which is exactly how many appearances we have had in the competition during that period.
Since moving to our new stadium we have been 3rd (last season), and currently 2nd for home form in the Premier League.
P 42 / W 25 / D 7 / L 10 / Pts 82
While at Wembley we had exceptional away form with our home form letting us down a bit, which has now been reversed - but we are still 6 points better off away from home this season compared with last, with an away day at Leicester still to come (20 pts to 26 pts).
We do have fewer points at home this season compared to last - but so does everyone. It's been tough without fans for all, but I do believe we can turn the place in to a bit of a fortress next season and build from there.
Still positives to look forward to I say!