Originally Posted by
Perfectly Loud
I've checked how jammy we've been in draws. Only gone back 10 seasons as it's hard work. The Wiki results page has a "report" icon by all the games. Sometimes this will take you to a BBC report with a table, even for some 1990s matches, but there are a lot from recent seasons that just come up as dead links or link to a Sky report with no table. So I've had to dig out programmes.
In 10 SF draws we've pulled the lowest placed team 5 times, the middle team 3 times and Celtic twice.
In draws before SFs we've got the "easiest" opponent according to the tables 11 times and the "hardest" 5 times.
That includes 15 QF draws. In those we've got the lowest placed of 7 possible opponents 5 times and the highest 3 times.
Breakdown round by round.
Last 32 of SC the ranking of our opponents out of 31 at the time of the draw has gone:
22 - 8 - 8 - 19 - 16 - 31 - 7 - 28 - 12 - 17.
Last 16 of the SC, obviously out of 15, it's been:
7 - 3 - 9 - 13 - 2 - 4 - 13 - 15 - 15.
SC QFs, out of 7:
7 - 3 - 7 - 4 - 6 - 1 - 7.
SC SFs, out of 3:
3 - 3 - 3 - 2 - 2 - 3.
That's a fairly spawny sequence of draws.
League Cup hasn't been quite so jammy. The early draws have always been seeded in the 10 seasons I've looked at, so the number of potential opponents is halved.
We came in at round one only once. We were seeded, obviously. Of the 15 possible opponents we drew the 15th - Montrose, who'd just survived their relegation playoff v. Brora.
Seeded in all round 2 appearances, so diddy teams guaranteed. 11 possible opponents. We went 10 - 6 - 1 - 5. The #1 was Dumbarton.
Last 16 was always seeded. Sometimes we were seeded, sometimes not. Either way there were only 8 possible balls. We've gone:
3 - 8 - 7 - 1 - 5 - 8 - 6 - 5 - 4.
The #1 was the Sheep, who opened with 8 straight wins that season.
LC QFs is a straight draw, 7 possible opponents:
1 - 6 - 1 - 6 - 7 - 3 - 4 - 7.
One of the #1s was the Arabs, who started with 6 wins, a draw & a 6-1 tanking by Celtic to top the league after 8 games. The other #1 was Celtic.
LC SFs. The only round we've not had much luck:
2 - 1 - 1 - 3.
Overall, we've been unusually lucky.
*Edit: Note - Opponents' positions given are at the time of the draw, not the time of the tie.