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Originally Posted by dino7c
this is the only way teams should ever be ranked
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They should be ranked by points however if you wanted to predict future results goal differential correlates more closely then current record in terms of predicting results.
Essentially a teams record in 1 goal games is somewhat random. It is only loosely correlated with the teams ability. So win loss being a discrete result it is subject to sample noise. Goal differential in much more of a continious variable has much less noise in it therefore is a better predictor of results.