Suttonian wrote:Rob wrote:Suttonian wrote:There were two division 3's, north and south, for over 20 years which is probably why we come out as 11th. Like I say there wasn't 92 league teams until 1950 and only 22 teams in each division
So I suspect you can only really look at our record, in terms of our position from 1-92, from when we became 4 Divisions comprising 92 clubs. Anyone got those stats? My money is on mid-table League 2
That happened in 1958 and earlier on in the thread Tippy Tappy Football counted 1 season in div 2, 22 seasons in div 3, 37 seasons in div 4. He didn't work out the league positions though.
That ignores 70 years of total league history and 27 years of Mansfield's league history though (take 7 years off for the war years). Could be seen as altering the facts to suit the argument, or could be seen as an extra 27 years as a member of the lowest division in the league during that format. During division 3 north & south half the teams in the league would have been in the lowest division every season. It's still an extra 20 years in division 3 not taken into account
http://www.englishfootballstats.co.uk/C ... ldtown.htm
Average league position since 1958 when the league went to 4 divisions is 71, or 3rd in league 2. I think we would all accept that at the end of the season
The years when teams like Accrington, Aldershot, Bury and Macclesfield went bust the season would have ended with 91 teams