A game of two halves?

Graph allows you to compare your 1st and 2nd half performances. The two sets of data demonstrate how you performed against the average league score for each half of the season.

7 sides posted improved scores in the 2nd half with 6 of those having a positive difference to the mean. Rushmere Ramblers were the only side to improve their efforts but still score a negative difference total for the 2nd half.

Only one of the top 5 sides performed worse in the second half. Anaphylactic Ham showed consistency by performing marginally less well. The other 4 scored considerably higher. 4th and 5ths' second half scores were better than 1st and 2nds' first half scores. However, the strength of the two leaders' 2nd half results shows that even if the 4th and 5th places teams had performed even as well as their excellent 2nd half scores in the first half, they would still not have been competing for the top spot. 4th and 5th both performed considerably worse in the 1st half - the gulf in their 1st and 2nd scores more than any other teams in the top 11.

The 2nd half surge from Southern Dandies didn't quite live up to the hype, although it was impressive, with a 252 point improvement, but essentially this made little impact with such a deficit to recover (-162 in first half). This was the 3rd best improvement. 2nd best was Furtive Baboons with 261. The best second half improvement was by me with a +310 improvement. This may go someway to explaining this graph.

Poor results in the 1st half obviously impacted on the morale of lower placed teams with most teams placed 10th or below posting excessively poor scores in the 2nd half. Black County XI in particular took the biscuit and deserve very much to drink Shatner Bassoon's shoe (three words you don't often get to run together).

Comparing 1 and 2's performance with 6 and 7, can we deduce that people in relationships are more likely to get similar scores?