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An alternative measure would be "best goal difference", which also would make team B the winner in your example, but wouldn't necessarily be the same as highest
by irishsultan 8y ago
An alternative measure would be "best goal difference", which also would make team B the winner in your example, but wouldn't necessarily be the same as highest scorer, or lowest conceder.
As seen in an alternative outcome, this gives us 3 potential winners.
Team X: Scored/Conceded
Team A: 6/4 (winner if best goal difference wins)
Team B: 7/6 (winner if highest scorer wins)
Team C: 0/3 (winner if lowest "conceder" wins)
- TimTheTinker 8y agoThis would fail to penalize a team that accidentally knocks the ball into their own goal, unless you add a special case rule for that scenario.
- YokoZar 8y agoAnd if you didn't special case it would lead to an "interesting" strategy of trying to score on yourself whenever you were in serious danger of having someone else score on you.