[dubh-bán]

I often hear this term being used in place of Goal Difference. Even on some French football shows they'll use the non-English phrase "goal-average" to describe the difference between goals scored and goals conceded.
Now as anyone with even a faint grasp of arithmetic knows, goal average means the number of goals scored divided by the number of games played, whereas goal difference is a simple subtraction.

Are there leagues where the goals-per-game ratio is used as a determining factor for league position or is it just a mass brain-fart?

 

[Phil Neville]

Epl

 

[dubh-bán]

EPL what? AFAIK goals per game has absolutely no bearing on league position.

 

[Jern Lizardhous]

yeah Faisal, what are you on ? :googly:

 

[Phil Neville]

Sorry I thought you were talking about goal difference?

 

[dubh-bán]

Hehe, I suppose I should have made it clear in the first post that they were different thing... oh wait, I did

 

[The Green One]

In England they operated on goal average for a long time, up until something like the 80s, I think. I know City once lost out on promotion after beating 1st placed portsmouth 8-0, but still losing out on promotion due to having a goal difference inferior to Portsmouth's by 0.005