The table makes Clyde the bigger side: 3rd against 10th of 10 last season. Against the block the other keeps: Clyde takes 2.15 points a game, Edinburgh City 0.54 -- the block form is Clyde's.
Clyde: 41 league matches in the bank, 5 from this season and the rest from last season. Edinburgh City: 41 league matches in the bank, 5 from this season and the rest from last season.
The question this step asks
Step one is THE TABLE: rank against rank, and the blocks -- the table cut into a top, middle and bottom block, drawn from last season's final standings. The question is not just where each side stands but how it behaves against the company the other keeps: does it play to rank against the blocks above and below, or come apart?
The two sides
Clyde -- at home
Where it stands
Stands 2nd of 10 after 5 games, with 10 points -- too few games yet to mean much. Last season it finished 3rd of 10 in this division.
Its block
By last season's final table it sits in the top block (1st to 3rd). Blocks are drawn from last season because the current table is only 5 games old.
Against today's opponent's block
Today it faces a side from the bottom block (8th to 10th). Against that block it has won 9, drew 1, lost 3 of 13 -- 28 points of 39. At home against them: won 5 of 6. Away against them: won 4 of 7.
Across all the blocks
Across the blocks, over the last two seasons: against the top block won 1, drew 4, lost 4 of 9 (0.78 a game); against the middle block won 7, drew 10, lost 2 of 19 (1.63 a game); against the bottom block won 9, drew 1, lost 3 of 13 (2.15 a game).
Edinburgh City -- away
Where it stands
Stands 4th of 10 after 5 games, with 8 points -- too few games yet to mean much. Last season it finished 10th of 10 in this division.
Its block
By last season's final table it sits in the bottom block (8th to 10th). Blocks are drawn from last season because the current table is only 5 games old.
Against today's opponent's block
Today it faces a side from the top block (1st to 3rd). Against that block it has won 1, drew 4, lost 8 of 13 -- 7 points of 39. At home against them: won 0 of 6. Away against them: won 1 of 7.
Across all the blocks
Across the blocks, over the last two seasons: against the top block won 1, drew 4, lost 8 of 13 (0.54 a game); against the middle block won 5, drew 7, lost 7 of 19 (1.16 a game); against the bottom block won 5, drew 1, lost 3 of 9 (1.78 a game).
Built 06:38 from matches completed before
kick-off. Every figure is an observed count with its denominator —
not a forecast, and nothing here is a tip or a selection.