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Traditional Table
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The Cann Table
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The points system is simple, which houses the corresponding team alongside it, with the goal difference. The number in the bracket is the number of games a team has to play to match the team with the most number of games played.
Similar to the concept of percentile, the clubs are judged with relation to the one with the highest tally of goals.
Next, the table is very easy to decipher, and it accurately positions a team, without actually ranking it.
So the teams, who have scored 3 points, are all bunched together, in spite of having varying goal difference. So the Cann table also helps eliminate, till an extent, parameters that are secondary in nature but cloud our judgment when it comes to rating a particular team.
But as a drawback, you cannot actually pick the third team in the relegation zone without straining to gather more data points.
Let’s go back to last season’s table presented in the form of a Cann table.
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The table elucidates how Arsenal and Tottenham are too close for comfort, but Chelsea and Manchester City too are clumped in the range of 7 points, both ends inclusive.
It also demonstrates the huge difference between Tottenham and Everton, at positions 5 and 6 respectively.
It illustrates how teams are placed, but it also lays emphasis on how far apart they lie in terms of points, actually helping the reader visualize with numerical chasms.
With simple logic and shedding comparatively verbose data, the Cann table showcases a better way to understand the league with relative data.
It has its fair share of criticism, most of which revolve around the inclusion of the probability of random events, or even luck, but overall, the Cann table does quite a good job at being simple and making it extremely easy for a user to follow a team’s progress over the course of a season.
