Have I mentioned that before? Sorry, but Excel spreadsheets are my thing, and I happen to think they're great. So I like to find a nice one in the wild, and this is a real doozy. It's the end of the football season, you see, and as always at this time, fans of small non-league clubs all around the country are asking each other "how does promotion and relegation work, then?" It takes a lot of research and investigation to find out exactly what the rules are at any given moment, and then a ridiculous amount of calculation to figure out whether your team's points-per-game lands them in a play-off or what. So I'm delighted to see that the creator of this spreadsheet has laid everything out in a comprehensive, concise and comprehensible way. It's a delight to read through it, and I'm sure even people who aren't weirdo number-crunchers like myself really appreciate it too!
Good weekend for my former local team, anyway - my old home of Belper Town won their play-off final to move up to the same level as my current local team, Redditch Utd, next season. Long Eaton Utd, who were sort of almost my closest local team before I moved to Belper, topped the United Counties League Premier North and will be just one level below those two next season. I should buy some sort of three-way scarf and support the whole lot of them!
