League Position

[MikeR]

Both Sky and BBC Sports show PNE as in 15th position when in actually fact we are 14th. Having an identical record to Brentford it then goes head to head. Need I say more.

 

[Thracia]

Yeah, the outsourced companies who provide league tables to their websites ideally need to have better attention to detail.

But tbf, programming head-to-head lookups into the league table software just to cover these very rare scenarios would be time-consuming and impact performance, so probably not worth the effort.

So they generally go with alphabetical order if goal difference and goals can't separate teams on level points.

Which is incorrect, but cheaper and quicker, and 99.99% of the time good enough.

 

[pneveg]

 

[Dirty Harry]

Yeah, the outsourced companies who provide league tables to their websites ideally need to have better attention to detail.

But tbf, programming head-to-head lookups into the league table software just to cover these very rare scenarios would be time-consuming and impact performance, so probably not worth the effort.

So they generally go with alphabetical order if goal difference and goals can't separate teams on level points.

Which is incorrect, but cheaper and quicker, and 99.99% of the time good enough.

Speaking of Alphabetical order, my mate at school was called Andrews and he used to get pissed off that the teacher always asked questions round the class in alphabetical order, putting him first. He complained, and the teacher changed tack to ask in reverse alphabetical order, just as my mate's mum re-married and he became Wallace, meaning he still always had to go first.