Group Winner Table
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Hi, i think the group winner table is not sorted correctly. For example, this Group B (Euro 2020):
w d l Belgium 3 3 0 0 9 (7-1) Finland 3 1 0 2 3 (1-3) Denmark 3 1 0 2 3 (5-4) Russia 3 1 0 2 3 (2-7)Denmark should be on top of Finland because the goal diff is +1 whereas Finland is -2. How to fix this?
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These rules change between tournaments, seems like the result between two teams is no longer a tie-breaker or I am applying it wrongly 😉
I will re-think how I want to solve this for future tournaments because officially the rules for UEFA 2020 are as follows:
Article 15 Equality of points – qualifying group stage
15.01 If two or more teams in the same group are equal on points on completion of the
qualifying group stage, the following criteria are applied, in the order given, to
determine their rankings:a. higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question;
b. superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question;
c. higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question;
d. higher number of goals scored away from home in the group matches played
among the teams in question;
e. if, after having applied criteria a) to d), teams still have an equal ranking, criteria a) to d) are reapplied exclusively to the matches between the remaining teams to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria f) to l) apply in the order given to the two or more teams still equal;
f. superior goal difference in all group matches;
g. higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
h. higher number of away goals scored in all group matches;
i. higher number of wins in all group matches;
j. higher number of away wins in all group matches;
k. lower disciplinary points total based only on yellow and red cards received in all group matches (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
l. position in the overall UEFA Nations League rankings (see Regulations of the UEFA Nations League).And no way that I can put this in code 😉 (because I don’t even have all the data). So maybe I will keep it as simple as possible and then have the manual sort number as an ultimate tie-breaker.
For now you can do the following: change the
compare_teams()method in the /classes/class-football-pool-groups.php file to:public static function compare_teams( $a, $b ) { // if points are equal if ( $a['points'] === $b['points'] ) { // check if they have the same number of plays if ( $a['plays'] === $b['plays'] ) { // check goal difference if ( ( $a['for'] - $a['against'] ) === ( $b['for'] - $b['against'] ) ) { // now check the goals scored if ( $a['for'] === $b['for'] ) { // all failed, so we check a hardcoded ordering $teams = new Football_Pool_Teams; return ( $teams->get_group_order( $a['team'] ) > $teams->get_group_order( $b['team'] ) ? +1 : -1 ); } // the one with more goals wins (descending order) return ( $a['for'] < $b['for'] ) ? +1 : -1; } // the one with more goals wins (descending order) return ( ( $a['for'] - $a['against'] ) < ( $b['for'] - $b['against'] ) ? +1 : -1 ); } // the one with the least plays has the advantage return ( $a['plays'] > $b['plays'] ) ? +1 : -1; } // order descending return ( $a['points'] < $b['points'] ) ? +1 : -1; }I think this will work.
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