This is one of those head scratching things. I’ve seen soccer standings printed both as Win-Loss-Tie and Win-Tie-Loss. I’m guessing, but I think the former is mostly an Americanized thing while the latter is the more ‘International’ style. Total guess. It makes sense to have the ties in the middle since you get a point for them, but I seem to see the W-L-T format more often.
Is there a preferred format for soccer? Can you tell I ponder really insignificant things sometimes?
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November 10th, 2006 at 10:08 pm
This has been discussed a lot on Bigsoccer. You got it right, W-L-D is the American way and everyone else does it differently because of the 3-1-0 points.
I believe it’s done that here because of baseball which doesn’t have draws, and sort of led us to list them third. I believe that’s the case anyway. I know baseball is why the home teams are listed second in the USA (which doesn’t occur elsewhere).