Unless the Premier League's final matchday is a shock, Arsenal will finish second, becoming one of the best-ever teams not to win the title. Who joins them in a ranking of best non-winners?
Ryan O'Hanlon is a staff writer for ESPN.com. He's also the author of"Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game's Analytics Revolution."
So, you know what that means: It's time to rank the 15 greatest teams that didn't win the Premier League! Fromand more, plus a couple other teams from this season , we'll measure what made these teams so great, even if their runs didn't end in a title.First, let's hit the complex, artificial-intelligence-powered, machine-learning-derived system that brought us here. I ranked every team that didn't win theby two metrics: points per game and goal differential per game.
As the third-youngest team in the league when weighted by minutes played, Arsenal appear better positioned to stay at this level than Man City or Liverpool, both of whom are around midtable for their weighted ages. Barring an injury crisis or the departure of a key star or some kind of structural change to the way the sport works, Arsenal seem likely to win a major trophy at some point.
With an average weighted age of 25.3, Tottenham were younger than Arsenal's current collective of 25.8. In the six full seasons since, Spurs never finished higher than third again, and the closest they came to a major trophy was the Champions League final loss to Liverpool in 2019. Being great and being young at the same time isn't a guarantee of future success.
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