Aston Villa was only two points ahead of Wigan while having a goal differential four goals worse.
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Costa Rica, the United States and Honduras each have four points, but are placed according to goal differential.
The graph demonstrates that the order of magnitude of impact is game differential, then goal differential, and finally median minutes played.
Three times they missed top spot by just one point and last season they lost out to Manchester City on goal differential.
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Pittsburgh's plus-46 goal differential was second in the NHL behind Chicago.
They've helped give the team an 89-14 goal differential this season.
When the final day of the English Premier League season kicked off on Sunday, two teams from Manchester topped the table, with City ahead of United on goal differential.
Also, note that the median minutes played term has been divided by 100 to put it on the same scale as the number of games played and goal differential factors.
They finished with the best overall goal differential residual to the Socceronomics model of the four teams involved in the medal round of the tournament, and they also topped the FootballrRating.com rankings.
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They not only claimed the much needed three points, but they also erased a three goal differential deficit to Newcastle and went ahead of them based upon the goal differential tiebreaker via their 6-1 win.
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Convert two of those comeback wins or a few of the ties to losses via an unlucky break or two, and United is right back where they found themselves at the end of last season (albeit with a worse goal differential this year).
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