Clearly, the SPFL doesn’t know which sides shall be during which half of the desk at the beginning of the season when deciding who could have 16 house video games and 17 away video games previous to the cut up. Calculations are based mostly on the earlier marketing campaign.
In case you’ve had 17 house video games, you’d nominally anticipate to play two extra after the cut up. In case you’ve had 16 at house, you’d anticipate three.
Hearts, Rangers, Motherwell and Falkirk could have performed 17 at house as much as spherical 33. Celtic and Hibs could have performed 16 at house.
This is the place it will get a bit tough.
Given the necessity to even out house and away derbies and the stakes within the title race, it is doubtless two of Hearts’ away video games shall be at Easter Highway and Celtic Park whereas Rangers can anticipate to be away to Celtic and Hearts, having hosted these sides twice within the Premiership already this time period.
Nonetheless, Hearts have hosted Falkirk and Motherwell twice, which implies a kind of two sides would possibly get a 3rd league journey to Tynecastle.
In addition to visits from Hearts and Rangers, Celtic could have a house assembly with both Hibs, Falkirk or Motherwell with all three having already been to Celtic Park twice this season.
In the meantime, Rangers could have hosted Hibs, Falkirk and Motherwell solely as soon as every however will solely have two house post-split video games. Equally, Motherwell have hosted Falkirk, Hibs and Rangers twice every however can solely anticipate two house video games in opposition to that trio.
If United by some means handle to leapfrog Falkirk, they too will create the identical imbalance of house and away video games as they too could have performed 17 at house and 16 away come the cut up.
It is a headache for the SPFL to resolve and can go away some units of followers grumbling.
