## 5 Results and Discussion
### Evaluation of the Rankings of Premier League Teams  
In this subsection, the rankings of the Premier League teams are presented and evaluated. For ranking the teams, only the match results in the English Championship were considered. Table 2 shows the orders of the teams based on the Thurstone method with ties (TH), the analytic hierarchy process with LLSM method (AL), and the RankNet network (RN). Additionally, the table also includes the weights assigned to the teams by these methods. For the sake of interest, the last columns contain the financial values of the teams based on Transfermarkt data (TM) and the official ranking (OR) based on the points collected during the whole season. \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c c c c c c} \hline \hline  & \multicolumn{2}{c}{**TH**} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{**AL**} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{**RN**} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{**TM**} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{**OR**} \\ \hline
**Rank** & **Name** & **Weight** & **Name** & **Weight** & **Name** & **Weight** & **Name** & **Value (G)** & **Name** & **Point** \\ \hline
1 & Manch City & 0.10637 & Manch City & 0.08232 & Manch City & 0.34021 & Manch City & 1040.00 m & Manch City & 86 \\
2 & March Uid & 0.07886 & Manch Uid & 0.07228 & Manch Uid & 0.41567 & Liverpool & 969.65 m & March Uid & 74 \\
3 & Liverpool & 0.06772 & Liverpool & 0.06476 & Liverpool & 0.08614 & Chelsea & 889.20 m & Liverpool & 69 \\
4 & Chelsea & 0.06585 & Chelsea & 0.06301 & Chelsea & 0.07099 & Manch Uid & 700.05 m & Chelsea & 67 \\
5 & Licester & 0.0619 & West Ham & 0.09564 & West Ham & 0.06410 & Totenham & 703.50 m & Licester & 66 \\
6 & West Ham & 0.06162 & Licester & 0.05944 & Licester & 0.05314 & Arsenal & 619.25 m & West Ham & 65 \\
7 & Totenham & 0.06732 & Totenham & 0.06546 & Totenham & 0.04197 & Eyerson & 511.20 m & Totenham & 62 \\
8 & Arsenal & 0.05521 & Arsenal & 0.05492 & Arsenal & 0.03644 & Licester & 510.70 m & Arsenal & 61 \\
9 & Everton & 0.05320 & Everton & 0.05343 & Everton & 0.03229 & Weberhampton & 450.30 m & Leeds & 59 \\
10 & Leeds & 0.05314 & Leeds & 0.05199 & Leeds & 0.02896 & Aston Villa & 430.75 m & Everton & 59 \\
11 & Aston Villa & 0.04717 & Aston Villa & 0.04921 & Aston Villa & 0.0275 & West Ham & 334.90 m & Aston Villa & 55 \\
12 & Newcastle & 0.08352 & Weberhampton & 0.04173 & Newcastle & 0.01485 & Brighton & 290.40 m & Newcastle & 45 \\
13 & Wolvenhampton & 0.03844 & Newcastle & 0.04173 & Wolvenhampton & 0.01182 & Soukhampton & 282.80 m & Wolvenhampton & 45 \\
14 & Crystal Palace & 0.03764 & Crystal Palace & 0.04060 & Brighton & 0.01073 & Newcastle & 255.35 m & Crystal Palace & 44 \\
15 & Brighton & 0.03707 & Brighton & 0.04060 & Crystal Palace & 0.01048 & Fuji & 299.75 m & Soukhampton & 43 \\
16 & Southampton & 0.03670 & Southampton & 0.03950 & Southampton & 0.00945 & Leeds & 238.10 m & Brighton & 41 \\
17 & Burnley & 0.03200 & Burnley & 0.03793 & Burnley & 0.00781 & Crystal Palace & 193.85 m & Burnley & 39 \\
18 & Fulham & 0.02721 & Fulham & 0.03171 & Fulham & 0.00467 & Sheffield Uid & 149.85 m & Fulham & 28 \\
19 & West Brom & 0.02541 & West Brom & 0.03001 & West Brom & 0.00362 & West Brom & 141.15 m & West Brom & 26 \\
20 & Sheffield Uid & 0.01865 & Sheffield Uid & 0.02266 & Sheffield Uid & 0.002299 & Burnley & 132.30 m & Sheffield Uid & 23 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
\end{table} 
Table 2: Evaluations of the Premier League teams based on their matches in the national championship by different methods (Thurstone (TH), analytic hierarchy, process with LISM method (AL), and RankNet (RN)); the financial values of the teams based on Transfermark (TM) data; and the official ranking (OR) based on the number of points received in the Premier League. As we can see, Manchester City was the best team in the English Championship. Moreover, the ranking of the first four teams was the same for all methods except for the data from Tranfermarkt. The same could be stated for the last four teams, too.