The league table doesn't lie and the best team is not decided by who loses the least number of games.
Not arithmetically, no. But in practice, the team with the most points is usually the team which has won the most, and lost the least.
In fact, since 3 points for a win, the champions have always won the most games except: 1999 (joint most); 1998 (joint most); 1989 (joint most); 1986 (joint most); 1984 (joint most); 1982 (joint most).
Whereas, since 3 points for a win, the champions have always lost the least games except: 2006 (joint least), 1999 (joint least), 1989 (joint least), 1987 (joint least); and 2008 (2nd and 3rd places lost 2 games less and 4th place lost 1 game less), 2007 (2nd place lost 3 games less), 1995 (2nd place lost 1 game less). This season, 2009, will be another example (of either joint least, or of a runner-up losing fewer).
In other words, there has never been a year when another team has had fewer non-wins than the champions.
So, if anyone looks in the "draw" column, and sees that other teams have less draws than the champions, then that isnt proof that draws are bad (one draw is one point more than one loss). It's just that draws are non-wins, and non-wins are bad.
So yeah, more wins is better than less wins.
But is there really any evidence that the reason that we have not won more is that we have settled for a draw rather than pushing for a win? In every game that we have drawn, we have been the attacking team right up to the final whistle.
Isnt it fairer to say that, while we have tried to win more games, we havent been good enough?
And while there may be games where MU have finished with Tevez, Ronaldo, Berbatov and Rooney, so what?
We do not have four £30m attackers on our books. So how could we put them all on the pitch at the same time?
And when have we ever fought our way back from behind to draw level, and then taken off attackers?
A fairer analysis of our season would point out that we have scored more late goals than other teams, that our substitutes have scored quite a few, and that we are the division's top scorers (despite our main striker only starting a bit more than half the games).