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The football table seems to be sorted by average points per game. #1 : 42/16 > #2: 45/17
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Except for P7.
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Nope. I don't have to do this.
OK, mostly because I don't have a vehicle that requires registration, but nevertheless...
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Looks like the footy table is fixed now anyway. https://fulltime.thefa.com/table.html?league=530158839&selectedSeason=663369138&selectedDivision=8541048&selectedCompetition=0&selectedFixtureGroupKey=1_537422631
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I suspect there have been points deductions for the two teams that seem to be in the wrong order.
Of course, I'm commenting before I go look into this, because it's the Internet.
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@Steve the Cynic ref
Dude! Really? No sticker for you. Bad cynic! Bad!
;)
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looks more like split into top 6/rest and sorted by wins inside each group. i guess the top and bottom parts of the list are different lists internally and they forgot to sort them together
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I know I'm being pedantic, but 1900 is actually the last year in its century. 1st century = 1 to 100 AD 2nd century 101 to 200 AD ... 19th century 1801 to 1900 AD← 20th century 1901 to 2000 AD 21st century 2001 to 2100 AD
We're not going to stop everyone from celebrating when the "odometer" rolls over to a new digit, but technically everyone is off by one.
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Footie scoring: 3 points per win, 1 point per draw. Total games, points, losses irrelevant. What's the mystery?
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There was air flight before 1900. The French were doing it in 1783.
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The football standings one is simple, 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw, 0 for a loss.
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I'm not fully sure if the WTF for the sticker one is mail being expected to take two weeks. USA is a weird country I don't understand.
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I think the football table is just a glitch, not some deliberate weird ordering, because it's now displaying sensibly: https://fulltime.thefa.com/table.html?league=530158839&selectedSeason=663369138&selectedDivision=8541048&selectedCompetition=0&selectedFixtureGroupKey=1_537422631
And now I have to explain why my search history is full of teenage girls' football teams ...
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yeah, I'm scratching my head on that one as well wondering where the wtf is. Even the 2 weeks for delivery is mild at best: most likely padding their estimate of how long regular mail delivery can be expected to take. The "Dude, where's my sticker?" bit is amusing, though.
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To be honest, the french has always "been doing it", even before 1783. As the say themselves, they are speaking the language of "doing it"
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Nah. It looks like it was just bug in sorting. Looking at table now, everything is in its proper space.
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It's probably about the reference to the movie Dude, where's my car?
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It predates even that, there were bodies in flight at least as far back as the 1300s, e.g. during the Siege of Feodossia.
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I thought there were planes involved in either US civil war, or the war of independence from britain. i don't remember which it was they said about. or is that not correct and i need to find another global politician to believe?
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While it is indeed easy to deduce calculation process of PTS from W, D, and L, it is impossible to assign weights to W, D, and L in such a way that positions calculated match the table (e.g, first two equal, and following increase monotonically). Didn't try regression using P/L, W, D, and L.
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A century is a period of 100 years. A new century starts and ends at every instant. 1900 is the first year in the century marked by how we write the years. It may be the last, middle, or other year in some other century, Some people claim that centuries should start based on the calendar starting in year 1, but that is bogus. Nobody in year 1 called it that, nor did anyone for many years afterwards. And The number 1 is preceeded by the number 0, so if we can name a year as year 1, we can certainly name the previous one as year 0. If some people are so mathematically challenged that they have a problem with year 0, then that's their problem.
And, of course, 739728 days is 2025.26 years, so it probably means someone is calculating days since the start of year 0 - it probably means 5th or 6th of April depending on how consistent leap year handling is.
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The web software that drives my local field hockey association's website has had a disclaimer for years: "The ladder is correct based on any results that are available."
I've never been sure how it could otherwise be correct for any results that aren't available.
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A team with 28 points is positioned below teams with 26, 23 and 20 points.
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Maybe, but I believe they celebrated the start of the 20th century at the beginning of 1901. i.e. they took notice of the fact that there was no year 0 and wanted to celebrate a whole number of lots of a hundred years since the arbitrary instant of time chosen to be the start of our calendar.
No we can't, because the year before 1AD is already named 1BC.
All that said, since the calendar is based on an almost certainly incorrect guess about the birth date of Jesus, I don't think it is any more illogical to celebrate the centuries starts on the "roll over" of the year.