In case one or more teams had the same goal difference, this system favoured those teams who had scored fewer goals.
The goal average system was eventually scrapped beginning with the 1976–77 season.
During the first six seasons of the league, (up to the 1893–94 season), re-election process concerned the clubs which finished in the bottom four of the league.
The Football League test matches were a set of play-offs, in which the bottom First Division teams faced the top Second Division teams.
It is likely that the league decided on re-election to the First Division and on promotion and relegation on the basis of the summary table above.