Maths of the Day > Wrong Division - March 2006
Wrong Division - March 2006
2004/5 - A team has 46 games. They are spaced at intervals of around a five days apart. Each games contains 90 minutes. If the team wins a game it gets 3 points. How many games can the team go without losing before the manager his hailed as being one of the greats of football?
2005/6 - A team has 38 games. They are spaced at intervals of around a week apart. Each games contains 90 minutes. If the team wins a game it gets 3 points. How many games can the team go without winning before the manager leaves his clothes on a beach and wades into the sea, never to be seen again? To get the answers you need to use what's called Wrong Division. Take the number of points accumulated by the team over the two seasons (in Sunderland's case 94 and, let's say around 12), divide it by two and this will be the average total they'd get in a magic parallel universe division that lies between the Premiership and the Championship and can only be accessed via an MDF cupboard in a backroom at the Stadium of Light.

