Below is the Pythagorean table for the 2010-11 German Bundesliga after nine rounds of matches (23 October).  Standard statements about the Pythagorean calculations apply.   League Table Pythagorean Team GP W D L GF GA GD Pts W D L Pts Δ Mainz 9 8 0 1 19 8 +11 24 6 2 1 20 […]

Below is the Pythagorean table for La Liga — the Spanish Primera División — through the eighth round of the championship.  Standard statements apply.  Levante and Sporting Gijón were tied on points and head-to-head tiebreakers, but Sporting had a slight advantage in the Fair Play table, which gave them the higher league placing.And how about […]

Below is the Pythagorean table for France's Ligue 1, through the tenth round of the 2010-11 season.  Standard statements apply.  Bordeaux and Caen were tied on points, goal difference, and goals scored, so I'm not exactly sure if the league position is correct.  (From what I've read about the league format in France, those two […]

Over the following seven days I will publish Pythagorean tables for the Big Five European leagues, and perhaps Brazil and Japan if there's interest.  I start with the English Premier League, through round nine of the season.  Wigan Athletic look to be repeating their escape act of last season, but will it last this time? […]

The 2010 MLS regular season has just concluded, so now I can publish the final Pythagorean tables.  I'm using the usual league Pythagorean exponent (1.70), but this time I am using a single table.  It doesn't change the results, of course, but some people like the single table in MLS and the balanced schedule facilitates […]

A chance to test a new display format for my tables, and also whet people's stat appetites for the 2010 release on Sunday.   League Table Pythagorean Team GP W D L GF GA GD Pts W D L Pts Δ Columbus Crew 30 13 10 7 41 31 +10 49 13 8 9 47 […]

I've been in my hotel room crunching the last set of numbers and generating plots for my poster presentation at NCSSORS tomorrow, when I came across a most interesting piece of information from the Pythagorean table for the 2009 MLS regular season.  (And by the way, there are a number of errors in the large […]

Just about all of the teams in Major League Soccer have 10-12 matches remaining, so it is a good place to look at how the teams' performances compare to their statistical expectations.  I published similar tables on the 6th of June and the 1st of May. Same thing as before — league Pythagorean exponent of 1.70, […]

We're approaching the World Cup break in Major League Soccer, so it's a good time to take another look at the Pythagorean projections for the league.  Once again I've kept the conferences apart and used the standard Pythagorean exponent of 1.70 to calculate the predicted points.  Just as before, almost all of the teams have […]