Released tomorrow at 9am so I thought I'd post this for predictions and reactions.
First fixture you look for -
Your teams first league game of the season (prediction) -
Your teams last league game of the season (prediction) -
The campaign will officially begin on August 8th, with the traditional curtain-raiser of the Community Shield coming one week beforehand.
Also if you've got a spare few minutes for a read, the BBC had an article a couple of years back about the fixture computer. It's a couple of years old, but makes no difference and is a good read.
Continues in the link below...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulfletcher/2009/06/secrets_of_the_fixture_compute.html
First fixture you look for -
Your teams first league game of the season (prediction) -
Your teams last league game of the season (prediction) -
The campaign will officially begin on August 8th, with the traditional curtain-raiser of the Community Shield coming one week beforehand.
Also if you've got a spare few minutes for a read, the BBC had an article a couple of years back about the fixture computer. It's a couple of years old, but makes no difference and is a good read.
Ever wondered why you have had to travel the length of the country on a wet Tuesday night to watch your team in action?
Or you haven't played at home on Boxing Day for the last three years?
Like me, you've probably just blamed the fixture computer, that mythical piece of technology that determines where you will be and when throughout the football season.
I have always imagined it to be some great beast of a machine like bertha, firing out tickertape full of fixtures while some overworked scientist desperately tries to make sense of the information spewing forth.
The fixtures for the 2009-2010 season are released at 1000 BST on Wednesday and last week I spoke to some of the key people involved in the formation of the schedule.
I wanted to find out exactly how the fixture list is put together and just how difficult a job it is. Needless to say, I spent a large chunk of last weekend in a dark and cool room as my brain tried to come to terms with its most serious case of information overload since I asked my wife to point out my most obvious flaws.
Continues in the link below...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulfletcher/2009/06/secrets_of_the_fixture_compute.html
