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 […]
It's been a couple of months since the last such table, but now that we're in the final third of the season it's time to publish a Pythagorean league table for the 2011 Major League Soccer season. The table contains matches played up to last Sunday (14 August), so last night's matches (Philadelphia-Sporting KC and […]
I promised some of my Spanish readers that I would post this, and I'm finally able to do it now.Below is the final Pythagorean table for the 2010-11 Spanish Segunda División, whose regular season concluded last weekend. The league Pythagorean exponent is 1.70.The league Pythagorean confirms Betis' deserved promotion based on their performance throughout the […]
It's taken a while to reach this point, but all of the MLS teams have played enough matches to make a Pythagorean table meaningful. Here is such a table for the 2011 MLS regular season for matches played up to today (12 June). As always, the league Pythagorean exponent is 1.70. Draw and loss columns […]
Below is the final Pythagorean table for the 2010-11 French Ligue 1 which concluded today. The league Pythagorean exponent is 1.70.The table indicates that Lille were deserved winners and PSG finally played up to its potential after several underperforming seasons. The conventional wisdom says that Sochaux had a great season to finish in the top […]
Yesterday was the 22nd anniversary of the most dramatic league decider in the history of English football, and perhaps the most dramatic match of its kind anywhere: Liverpool vs Arsenal in 1989. Arsenal had led for most of the season until the closing weeks when Liverpool charged past them into first place with a match […]
Below is the final Pythagorean table for the 2010-11 Turkish Süper Lig which concluded today. The Pythagorean league exponent is 1.70.The new champions Fenerbahçe were the biggest surprise of the season with a +10 Pythagorean residual. Their defensive record (goals allowed variance of 1.0) was not that great compared to champions from the other European […]
Below is the final Pythagorean table for the 2010-11 Italian Serie A that concluded today. As always I use the league Pythagorean exponent of 1.70.Milan had such a dominant season in the league that it obscured the very good seasons of Inter and Napoli. Napoli's overachievement made the difference in their passage into next season's […]
Below is the final Pythagorean table for the 2010-11 English Premier League which concluded today. As always, the league Pythagorean exponent is 1.70. League Table Pythagorean Team GP W D L GF GA GD Pts W D L Pts Δ Manchester United 38 23 11 4 78 37 +41 80 23 8 7 77 […]
