Three months ago I wrote an article on the goalscoring characteristics of champion and relegated teams, and showed that champion clubs in general have very tight and consistent defenses. In particular, the goals allowed variance — the spread of the individual numbers about the average goals allowed — tends to be less than 1.0 for […]
Below is the final Pythagorean table for the 2011 Major League Soccer season which concluded this evening. The league Pythagorean exponent is 1.70, and draw and loss columns are in reverse order from the American sports table format.The LA Galaxy raised their performance in the final third of the season and narrowly missed becoming the […]
Below is the Pythagorean table for the 2011-12 English Premier League season, for matches played up to 16 October 2011. The standard league Pythagorean exponent of 1.70 is used.You can see the same amount of separation between the Manchester clubs and the main challengers as we close on the quarter-mark of the season. It looks […]
Below is the Pythagorean table for the 2011-12 French Ligue 1 season, for matches played up to 16 October 2011. The standard league Pythagorean exponent of 1.70 is used.The top five in the league appear to be playing a bit better than expected, if their goal statistics were anything to go by. Toulouse are also […]
With the conclusion of the 2011-12 CONCACAF Champions League group stage, it is time to publish a new set of club and country coefficients for the region. For those new to the site and unaware of how the coefficients work, here is an explanation of my methodology. These are coefficients calculated over the last five […]
Below is the Pythagorean table for the 2011-12 German Fußball-Bundesliga season, for matches played up to 16 October 2011. The standard league Pythagorean exponent of 1.70 is used.Bayern Munich's 1-0 home loss to Borussia Mönchengladbach has been the difference in the Pythagorean residuals of both teams. Bayern should be running away with the league. Hannover […]
Below is the Pythagorean table for the 2011-12 Spanish Primera División season, for matches played up to 16 October 2011. The standard Pythagorean exponent of 1.70 is used to calculate the estimations.For all of the talk about Barça's impressive start to the season, they have actually underperformed a bit; that 2-2 draw against Real Sociedad […]
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Last week I attended the Leaders in Performance conference, hosted by Chelsea Football Club at Stamford Bridge. The conference is part of the Leaders conferences that are co-located at Chelsea — the others focusing on football, sponsorship, digital sport, and horseracing — and is one of the two conferences that occur over two days (Leaders […]
So today is my birthday, and what do I get to do today? Pack my bags and fly out to London for the Leaders in Performance conference at Chelsea FC. I'm excited to find out what the conference is all about and determine the receptivity of the major football clubs to more analytical and systematic […]
