Which Football Team is Best on Boxing Day?

I’ve just written on Forbes about the Premier League’s best and worst teams on Boxing Day, that English footballing tradition.

Of course, I calculated the league table on Boxing Day for all Football League teams who have played at least 30 matches on Boxing Day.

The table is ordered on points per game, rather than points, given that different teams have played different numbers of matches on Boxing Day (postponements in the past, and more recently, scheduling differences).

In the tables below there’s the standard league table information (matches played, games won, drawn, lost, goals scored, conceded, and points (3 for a win, 1 for a draw)), and then there’s points per game, and also the Elo rating “shock” factor cumulated for teams to get some sense of the extent to which teams positively or negatively shock on Boxing Day.

So here’s the overall list: