The Best Teams That Didn't Win the Premier League, Ranked
With one game left in the 2023-24 season, the most likely outcome is the same outcome from five of the previous six seasons: Manchester City win the Premier League.
The collateral damage: Arsenal will probably finish the season with 89 points and zero trophies.
And with one game left in the Jurgen Klopp era, this is every Liverpool fan who just read the previous sentence:
To tie it all together, I ranked the 15 best Premier League teams that didn’t finish in first place:
Over the league's 31 completed seasons, the average title winner did the following:
• 2.29 points per game
• 2.15 goals per game
• 0.83 goals against per game
• +1.32 goal difference per gameThis is what Arsenal have done so far this season:
• 2.32 points per game
• 2.41 goals per game
• 0.76 goals against per game
• +1.65 goal difference per gameThey've won more points than the average champion, they've scored way more goals than the average champion and they've conceded significantly fewer goals than the average champion.
After the last email, a Pacers fan commented: “Pacers in 6”. In Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals, U.S. Olympian Tyrese Haliburton scored fewer points than Alec Burks and Miles “Deuce” McBride. Happy Friday, Knicks fans.