Football League Data Interpretation
XAT 2013 · Quantitative Ability & Data Interpretation · 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:
- Each team plays all other teams twice (Home and Away).
- Win = 3 points, Draw = 1 point, Loss = 0 points.
- Goal Difference (GD) = Goals For (GF) - Goals Against (GA).
Table 1 (Overall Top 13):
| Team | M | W | D | GF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH | 3 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| SW | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| WB | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| MC | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| MU | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| WH | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| EV | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| AS | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| WG | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| NC | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| FU | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| ST | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| SU | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Table 2 (Home Top 13):
| Team | M | W | D | GF | GA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WB | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| WH | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| CH | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
| MC | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 |
| SW | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
| NC | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| FU | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| EV | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| MU | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| TOT | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| NW | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| AS | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| ST | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Question 1 of 4
Considering away matches only, which of the following teams is the second ranking team?
- A.
AS
- B.
CH
- C.
WG
- D.
SW
- E.
WB
D
Explanation
Subtracting Home stats from Overall stats for each team gives Away match performance. SW has 3 points and GD of +5 in Away matches, putting them at rank 2.
Question 2 of 4
Considering away matches only, the least number of teams with either 0 or 1 point is:
- A.
2
- B.
3
- C.
4
- D.
5
- E.
6
D
Explanation
Analyzing away points table derived by subtracting Home stats from Overall stats shows exactly 5 teams have 0 or 1 point.
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?
- A.
AS
- B.
WB
- C.
WH
- D.
MC
- E.
SW
A
Explanation
AS home rank = 12, away rank = 1. Difference , which is the maximum pos value.
Question 4 of 4
How many unique values of goal difference are there for away matches?
- A.
5
- B.
6
- C.
- D.
- E.
B
Explanation
Unique away goal differences calculated from the table are: 0, 2, 5, -2, -3, -4. There are 6 unique values.
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