Good morning P-Reply expert. I have a question about football/syllogism

Question

Good morning P-Reply expert. My question is a soccer/syllogism related problem. Two soccer teams played 10 games. They have won 5 and lost 5 of these 10 games (hence they have 15 points). Do you think it is wrong for me to consider them evenly matched? Note that they failed to draw any of the 10 games. On the other hand, 2 teams have 10 points from 10 games. They drew 10 of these games and did not win or lose any of them. Isn't it okay to consider them evenly matched since they drew all their 10 games? Remember that if A=B and B=C, then A=C?

Answer 1

Not entirely it's never apples to apples. There are so many factors to consider. Did the two teams play the SAME 10 teams? If so then we have a closer case. If we are just going off of statistics then goal differential matters as well.

If the 5 games team A won were all by 3 or more goals, and the 5 games they lost were only by 1 goal vs.

Team B won 5 games by 1 goal and lost their 5 games by 3 or more goals. Team A statistically has a much higher goal differential than team B even though they are even on points.

Did both teams play with full lineups or were injuries a part of it? Where the matches evenly based on home and away? If team A played team C (let's say in first place) at home vs. team B playing team C away, team A has an advantage.

So there are a LOT of variable to consider when making this conclusion.