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If Rovers lost 1-0 this Saturday and Crawley won 1-0, just how would the placings in the league of both be decided?Note! It couldn't be by points, goal difference, goals scored or victories. Results across their 2 games??BobGLater: damn!! Goal difference and goals scored would do it after all. Crawley would have 1 more. But assuming that would have been identical, it's still an interesting question
Thank you Wilts. Thank you Herman. Hope you're both well? It's been a while....BobG
Remember the days of “Goal Average” in the days when it was also just 2 points for a win and so there were often more teams tied on points than nowadays? (Or I may be imagining that, I have no statistics to back it up)I think Goal Average was calculated as the ratio of goals scored to goals conceded. Which meant you could have exactly the same goal difference as another team, but if you scored more (and correspondingly conceded more of course) then bizarrely you were worse off. The system favoured defensive play.
In the olden days either Barrow or Workington would be bottom of League 4 every season .There was no way Non League clubs would be admitted but Workington had to apply for re election. The decision was a majority vote by all other fourth division clubs . Can you imagine the number of rounds the Workington Chairman must have paid in opponents Board rooms after games ever increasing as end of season approached .Dutch may have the detail in his super data base ?
Hartlepool 11Crewe 7Barrow 6Workington 5Spoilt my story a bit but I did not realise WE had had to apply three times !
I remember Wigan ( then Borough ) trying to nick a place every year but it was seeming like a closed shopThen one year it seemed like they could be "in" finally.However they handed out Pens inscribed "Into the League with Wigan Borough" at the Meeting and they failed to get inWe can't be bought said the voting Clubs lol so they blew them out again
Quote from: Donnywolf on April 25, 2024, 06:44:07 pmI remember Wigan ( then Borough ) trying to nick a place every year but it was seeming like a closed shopThen one year it seemed like they could be "in" finally.However they handed out Pens inscribed "Into the League with Wigan Borough" at the Meeting and they failed to get inWe can't be bought said the voting Clubs lol so they blew them out againThat's it, Wolfie, you've just confirmed your Methuselah status in remembering Wigan Borough.They folded in 1932 and were replaced by Wigan Athletic.
I remember Wigan ( then Borough ) trying to nick a place every year but it was seeming like a closed shopThen one year it seemed like they could be "in" finally.However they handed out Pens inscribed "Into the League with Wigan Borough" at the Meeting and they failed to get inWe can't be bought said the voting Clubs lol so they blew them out again