What a fiddle! WSL table decided by the FA.

cptaidan88 said:
How is that more fair? There will be teams in the bottom six who have played City and Liverpool home and away and teams that haven't played either of them twice. Norwich have beaten us but only played us once, but that would be rewarded the same as Villa who we have beaten twice???

There is no completely fair way to resolve this pretty unique situation, PPG is the simplest, but more importantly the most fair. That is why it is being adopted in so many leagues.
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It's fair because they've had home advantage and haven't played the reciprocating fixture. Points per game where you can go down by .2 yet still have to play your nearest rival at home isn't fair, take the home advantages out of the equation and then calculate PPG and it's much fairer. Norwich still have to play Brighton & West Ham, Watford have to play Norwich at home and West Ham host Watford. It's not fair for the reverse fixtures to be included thus biasing the PPG on the fact some teams have got to play at home and other sides get relegated without the equilibrium of the reverse fixture.

If Chelsea had won the PPG trophy but the 3-3 draw at our place hadn't happened, then the PPG calculation definitely wouldn't have been fair as we wouldn't have been able to play the home game against them. To compensate the away game we lost should be scrubbed from the books in that case and then we win the league because their home advantage is scrapped. As it happens in the WSL those games were played, but the principle is fairer.
 
BJL_City said:
It's fair because they've had home advantage and haven't played the reciprocating fixture. Points per game where you can go down by .2 yet still have to play your nearest rival at home isn't fair, take the home advantages out of the equation and then calculate PPG and it's much fairer. Norwich still have to play Brighton & West Ham, Watford have to play Norwich at home and West Ham host Watford. It's not fair for the reverse fixtures to be included thus biasing the PPG on the fact some teams have got to play at home and other sides get relegated without the equilibrium of the reverse fixture.

If Chelsea had won the PPG trophy but the 3-3 draw at our place hadn't happened, then the PPG calculation definitely wouldn't have been fair as we wouldn't have been able to play the home game against them. To compensate the away game we lost should be scrubbed from the books in that case and then we win the league because their home advantage is scrapped. As it happens in the WSL those games were played, but the principle is fairer.
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You're suggestion for curtailing the season would result in City only counting results against 9 teams in a 20 team league. Its utterly ridiculous.

If there was a better way for leagues to be resolved in this unprecedented situation, leagues would be using it. But they're not.
 
cptaidan88 said:
You're suggestion for curtailing the season would result in City only counting results against 9 teams in a 20 team league. Its utterly ridiculous.

If there was a better way for leagues to be resolved in this unprecedented situation, leagues would be using it. But they're not.
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It's fair. More fair than arbitrarily relegating teams who have crucial home games against their rivals unplayed, potentially financially ruining clubs just because they weren't lucky enough to have their relegation rivals at home before March. Just cruel.
 
To be honest, all mechanisms of deciding a premature league finish are unfair as they weren't in place before the start of the competition.

The same that has been pointed out in the men's game about neutral venues and additional subs etc.

Bizarre to me that they can be made up mid-competition and applied on the hoof..........
 
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