With all of the uncertainty about what happens about promotion/relegation if the season doesn’t resume, why not just extrapolate teams current form for the remainder of the season. In a totally disinterested spirit, I have saved the EFL a lot of work and performed the following calculations:
- Take the points each team has gained from its last 5 games
2 Divide by 5 to get the average
3 Multiply the answer at step 2 by the number of remaining games - Add to existing points tally to get a total for each team
This would give a final table as follows:
Points
1 Cheltenham 90
2 Swindon 89
3 Plymouth 82.4
4 Crewe 81.4
5 Exeter 74
6 Port Vale 73.2
7 Walsall 69
8 Colchester 68.8
9 Northampton 68.8
10 Salford 66.2
11 Bradford 64.8
12 Crawley 62.4
13 Grimsby 57.8
14 FGR 57
The play-off positions could then be determined by giving the 4th promotion spot to the team with the highest average number of points from the last 5 games, as follows:
Crewe 1.6
Exeter 1.0
Port Vale 1.8
Walsall 2.2 (promoted)
I’ve done this just to be helpful to the EFL of course, and would expect no remuneration for my efforts