Espanyol, 92% of going up direct

They do not accompany the sensations, nor do the latest results. But, from a strictly statistical point of view, Espanyol continues to keep the options to go up intact, and more specifically to do it directly, without having to resort to risky promotions for promotion, places that he has certainly occupied since Thursday night. This is how the numbers show it now that 14 days have passed, just a third of the competition in Second Division.

Add the blue and white team 27 points, so your projection at the end –Although it is already far from those spectacular 99.2 that I pointed out only three days ago– it is 81 points. Y that sum has been enough to promote directly to First in 23 of the 25 seasons that have been contested since the victories began to yield three points. That is, in 92 percent of cases. As second classified, only two teams achieved a better score: Celta from the 2011-12 season, which achieved 85, and Sporting de Gijón from the 2014-15 season, with 82.

Those 81 points projected even le would be worth to be champion of Second in 16 of the 25 seasons under this score, a still high 64 percent of the cases. Only nine teams added more, including the Xerez of 2008-09, with 82 and with an old acquaintance in their ranks: Vicente Moreno, current parakeet coach, who also scored the promotion goal.

The ninth best historical percentage of points

Another indicator for Espanyol are your current points compared to your own historical baggage. Since until the 1994-95 season the victories were only two points, a parallel by percentages has been established here, as much as this system may penalize the current format – before, tying gave half of the points at stake, now only one third–. And Espanyol does not come off badly at all.

After the 14 first days, parrots have added 27 points, 64.2 percent of the possible, which is equivalent to signing your ninth best season ever – Without forgetting that First and Second, its current category, are mixed here. His record is 22 points (78.5%) I had in the 1952-53 season, in which he was first under the orders of Alejandro Scopelli, and the 31 of 1995-96 with José Antonio Camacho, 73.8 percent.

And in Second? From his four previous records, two already exceeded the figures that Vicente Moreno's team is achieving. On the one hand, in the 1962-63 season, after 14 rounds he added 71.4 percent of the points (20). On the other, in 1993-94, it had at this point 67.8 (19 points), a slightly higher amount than these 27, which, despite everything, give it a projection of promotion.