The Championship table, but it's ordered by the Dirty Cheating B******s (DCB) index - a grievance-based formula that uses arbitrary categories to quantify how much a team has been tucked up by Man City from 2009 to 2018.

(Third time lucky. I keep getting the dataset wrong!)

No relegation this year because it's not fair like, so Millwall, Derby and Wrexham live to fight another day. Millwall are in the drop over Preston because they start with the letter "M", like Man City do. Stoke are clear winners, so someone check on Tony Pulis.

If you have any suggestions for one-off events or a combination of events (sorta like a butterfly effect thing) that warrant inclusion, please comment below or email [exceptions@dcbindex.cymru](mailto:exceptions@dcbindex.cymru)

The DCB index is calculated as follows:

- 5 pts per Premier League match, 2 pts per Cup match

- 6 pts per win, 3 pts per draw

- 1 pt per goal conceded against City scored by players signed during the breach window

- 4 pts per Collateral Relegation suffered between 2009-10 and 2017-18

- 10 pts for Man City Folklore/History Bonus ("that" Aguero goal, Stoke 2011 FA Cup Final - Citeh's first modern-era trophy, Bristol City 2018 League Cup Semi-Final - Pep's first trophy)

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Sources:

https://www.premierleague.com/news/3045970

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64536785

https://www.soccerbase.com/teams/team.sd?team_id=1718&teamTabs=h2h

https://www.11v11.com/teams/manchester-city/tab/opposingTeams/

https://fbref.com/en/squads/b8fd03ef/history/Manchester-City-Stats-and-History

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/manchester-city/transfers/verein/281/saison_id/2009

https://www.premierleague.com/tables

https://www.efl.com/competitions/sky-bet-championship/archive/

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Data tooling:

https://www.football-data.org/

https://rapidapi.com/api-sports/api/api-football

https://github.com/probberechts/soccerdata

https://jaseziv.github.io/worldfootballR/

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