Customer Purchasing Behavior and Sport Team Performance

Analytics Contests, Soccermetrics LLC, Ticketing Analytics, Vanity Alert

Last weekend I had the privilege of attending a research symposium sponsored byStubHub and hosted by the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania.  Wharton has a research program called the Wharton Consumer Analytics Initiative which is “the preeminent academic research center worldwide focusing on the application of customer analytics to business problems.” The main activity of […]

Pythagorean table for 2012 MLS regular season (2012-04-29)

Soccer Pythagorean: Tables

Below is the Pythagorean table for the 2012 Major League Soccer regular season for matches played up to 29 April 2012.  The league Pythagorean exponent is 1.70.Sporting Kansas City, San José Earthquakes, and Real Salt Lake have established some distance between themselves and the rest of the league, and that is reflected in the current […]

The English Premier League Pythagorean with two rounds to go

Soccer Pythagorean: Tables

Manchester City retook the Premier League lead with their 1-0 win over Manchester United tonight.  But how are they doing in the league Pythagorean with two matches left?I recompiled the Pythagorean for results including tonight’s match.  The standard league Pythagorean exponent is 1.70.  At the previous table on 25 March, City were at a +2 […]

Pythagorean table for 2011-12 Spanish Primera Division (2012-03-25)

Soccer Pythagorean: Tables

We present the Pythagorean table for the 2011-12 Spanish Primera División season, for matches played up to 25 March 2012. The standard league Pythagorean exponent of 1.70 is used.If Barcelona and Real Madrid and then everyone else, but the fact that Real have a six-point lead emphasizes how much they have overachieved relative to their […]