Below is the final Pythagorean table for the 2011-12 Spanish Primera División which concluded today (13 May). The league Pythagorean exponent is 1.70.Real Madrid and Barcelona were far and away the best of Primera, but if you look solely at their offensive/defensive goal records there was very little to choose between them. Just on those […]
Below is the final Pythagorean table for the 2011-12 English Premier League which concluded today (13 May). The league Pythagorean exponent is 1.70.Manchester City are the new champions of England, confirmed in sensational fashion in the final minute of the season. This league title is no less than what they have deserved based on their […]
Below is the final Pythagorean table for this season’s German Bundesliga which concluded on 5 May. The league Pythagorean exponent is 1.70.Borussia Dortmund repeated as Bundesliga champions, but the title could have been much closer. According to the Pythagorean expectation, Bayern should have finished level on points with Dortmund, which meant that Bayern dropped some […]
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 […]
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 […]
I received a request from a reader to produce a Pythagorean table for the Serbian Superliga, so here it is. The table is for matches played up to 25 March, and the league Pythagorean exponent is 1.70.Serbia’s top league is a Partizan-Red Star league. Both teams have won all of the league titles since the […]
Below is the Pythagorean table for the 2011-12 English Premier League season, for matches played up to 25 March 2012. The standard league Pythagorean exponent of 1.70 is used.The league at the three-quarter mark can be described by the surges of Manchester United and Arsenal. City are playing well enough to be in the lead, […]
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 […]
We present the Pythagorean table for the 2011-12 German 1. Bundesliga season, for matches played up to 25 March 2012. The standard league Pythagorean exponent of 1.70 is used.Bayern Munich led the Bundesliga at the winter break, but despite their goalscoring record weren’t as dominant as one might expect. Dortmund have yet to lose a […]
We present the Pythagorean table for the 2011-12 French Ligue 1 season, for matches played up to 25 March 2012. The standard league Pythagorean exponent of 1.70 is used.The league title remains a two-team race between Montpellier and PSG as they appear to be playing at a different level from the rest of the league. […]
