Team strength · Elo all ratings ›
Rating 1,221 everyone starts at 1500
Peak 1,517 reached 7 Jan 1975
Rank #14,597 of 14,598 clubs
Matches rated 123 last 26 Apr 2008

What this team's results have earned: every match in the database is replayed in date order, both sides start at 1500 and the winner takes points from the loser. The rating is the one it held after its last rated match, and the rank counts every club ever rated, sides that no longer play included. A measure of strength, not a forecast of the next result. Computed 3 Nov 2026.

Longest no-draw runs all on the records page ›
By competition (all-time)
CompetitionPDDraw%
National League 92 20 21.7%
FA Cup 31 6 19.4%
By calendar year
YearPDDraw%Max
2008 22 3 13.6% 12
2007 48 11 22.9% 10
2006 25 7 28.0% 4
2004 1 0 0.0% 1
2002 1 0 0.0% 1
1992 3 1 33.3% 2
1990 1 0 0.0% 1
1989 1 0 0.0% 1
1988 2 1 50.0% 1
1986 1 0 0.0% 1
1981 1 0 0.0% 1
1980 1 0 0.0% 1
1979 2 0 0.0% 2
1978 1 0 0.0% 1
1977 1 0 0.0% 1
1976 2 1 50.0% 1
1975 5 1 20.0% 2
1974 3 1 33.3% 2
1972 1 0 0.0% 1
1885 1 0 0.0% 1

Over 123 matches (Oct 1885 – Apr 2008), Stafford Rangers drew 26 where the draw model expected 31.6 from those particular fixtures — about 6 fewer, or 1.2 standard errors, a gap most teams show over a stretch this long.

As unusual as a coin landing the same way 2 times running. A flat league average would have expected 30.4 instead — "more draws than the league" and "more draws than these fixtures deserved" are different claims. These matches were part of the model's own training set, so its chances were fitted already knowing the results.