A lot of football stats, which look to highlight how badly or brilliantly a team’s form has been, tend to try to maximise their impact by zooming in their focus to a period inside of a couple of arbitrary start and end points, so here’s one about Everton.
Between Boxing Day 2004 and Oct. 23, 2005, a period of nearly 10 months, David Moyes’ team lost 17 out of 27 league games, drawing three and winning just seven. It gave them a points-per-game average of just over 0.8, which over the course of a full season would have seen them gather few enough points to have been relegated in every Premier League season up to and including 2015/16.