English football, mostly the tiers nobody else measures. Every figure comes from our own database, and every piece says what it does not know.
31 July 2026
Going up costs a Championship player thirty percentile points. Coventry and Ipswich are about to pay it.Eight clubs won automatic promotion for 2026/27. We track players who make exactly that move, and the step into the Premier League is more than twice as expensive as any other step in the pyramid.
31 July 2026
The two best teams in National League South finished 5th and 7th. They met in the play-off final.Boreham Wood earned more deserved points than any club in the 2024/25 division and finished fifth. Maidstone United drew sixteen matches. Neither of them won the league — and one of them was fourth in the tier above a year later.
31 July 2026
Brackley won National League North. The two clubs behind them deserved more.A rating built from 26 seasons of results says the 2024/25 title went to the third-best team in the division — and that eleven points of luck separated the top three.
30 July 2026
Championship 2026/27: what the numbers say about who is about to surpriseWest Brom played like a top-six side and finished with bottom-half points. Over three seasons that gap has predicted what happens next.