Football League Data Interpretation

XAT 2013 · QADI · Hard · Data Interpretation

Passage / data set

Data on an ongoing football league of a country is given below. 20 teams are playing in the league. Rules:

  1. Each team plays all other teams twice (Home and Away).
  2. Win = 3 points, Draw = 1 point, Loss = 0 points.
  3. Goal Difference (GD) = Goals For (GF) - Goals Against (GA).

Table 1 (Overall Top 13):

TeamMWDGF
CH3308
SW32110
WB3216
MC3218
MU3206
WH3204
EV3204
AS3122
WG3114
NC3113
FU3107
ST3033
SU2022

Table 2 (Home Top 13):

TeamMWDGFGA
WB22050
WH22040
CH22062
MC22063
SW21152
NC21132
FU11050
EV11010
MU11032
TOT20222
NW10111
AS10100
ST10100

Question 1 of 4

Considering away matches only, which of the following teams is the second ranking team?

  1. A.

    AS

  2. B.

    CH

  3. C.

    WG

  4. D.

    SW

  5. E.

    WB

Question 2 of 4

Considering away matches only, the least number of teams with either 0 or 1 point is:

  1. A.

    2

  2. B.

    3

  3. C.

    4

  4. D.

    5

  5. E.

    6

Question 3 of 4

Let us define a term pos as the difference between "home rank" and "away rank". Which of the following has the maximum value of pos?

  1. A.

    AS

  2. B.

    WB

  3. C.

    WH

  4. D.

    MC

  5. E.

    SW

Question 4 of 4

How many unique values of goal difference are there for away matches?

  1. A.

    5

  2. B.

    6

  3. C.

    6\ge 6

  4. D.

    6 and 13\ge 6 \text{ and } \le 13

  5. E.

    6 and 14\ge 6 \text{ and } \le 14

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