42 points needed from 39 games............

[shorehamview]

The table is designed to reward good footballing performances and roughtl speaking show how good teams are or have been playing. It falls short because it only measures goals and results. I have no qualm with that (I can't think of a better system) but I believe that for this reason it contains randomness. If you are looking for a representation of how well teams have played (i.e. the table) then the fact that it can't factor in luck, bad decisions etc then it is lying.

I know what you mean, but my argument all along is that it doesn't lie. None of the statistics it reports on are wrong, and so that's not lying. It isn't the best indicator of a team's form or fortune, but it doesn't lie. We'll just have to differ on this, because it's going nowhere, but I still maintain that although it doesn't tel you everything the stats that it does tell you aren't wrong and so aren't lies.