Pythagorean table for 2010-11 Italian Serie A (2011-01-20)
Categories: Soccer Pythagorean: Tables
Below is the Pythagorean table for the 2010-11 Italian Serie A season, for matches played up to 15 January 2011. The league Pythagorean exponent is 1.70. I use points earned on the field of play, so Bologna's point deductions are not taken into account. The table indicates that Roma are the big overachieving side over the first half of the season, and Cagliari perhaps the most underachieving but only slightly. In general all of the teams in the competition are performing in line with their statistical expectations.
Once again I found issues with the data on the Serie A Wikipedia page, but this time the mistakes were in the league table. All of the teams have correct records, but Parma, Cesena, and Lecce have incorrect goal statistics. Parma's goals allowed is one fewer than actual, Cesena's goals scored one fewer than actual, and Lecce's goals allowed five fewer than actual. (Here is the official Serie A table from the league site.) It appears that the results table on the Wikipedia pages is not being used to generate the league table (this is what I do), which is an easy way to catch these errors.
| League Table | Pythagorean | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | GP | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | W | D | L | Pts | Δ |
| Milan | 20 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 35 | 18 | +17 | 41 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 38 | +3 |
| Napoli | 20 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 30 | 20 | +10 | 37 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 35 | +2 |
| Lazio | 20 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 26 | 18 | +8 | 37 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 33 | +4 |
| Internazionale | 19 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 32 | 19 | +13 | 35 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 35 | +0 |
| Roma | 20 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 28 | 24 | +4 | 35 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 29 | +6 |
| Juventus | 20 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 35 | 25 | +10 | 34 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 35 | -1 |
| Palermo | 20 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 33 | 25 | +8 | 31 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 32 | -1 |
| Udinese | 20 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 31 | 27 | +4 | 30 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 29 | +1 |
| Cagliari | 20 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 24 | 19 | +5 | 26 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 30 | -4 |
| Sampdoria | 19 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 20 | 18 | +2 | 26 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 27 | -1 |
| Bologna | 20 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 20 | 28 | -8 | 25 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 21 | +4 |
| Fiorentina | 19 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 20 | 20 | +0 | 24 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 27 | -3 |
| Chievo | 20 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 20 | 22 | -2 | 23 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 24 | -1 |
| Genoa | 19 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 19 | -4 | 23 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 21 | +2 |
| Parma | 20 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 19 | 25 | -6 | 22 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 24 | -2 |
| Catania | 20 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 18 | 25 | -7 | 22 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 21 | +1 |
| Cesena | 20 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 25 | -10 | 19 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 18 | +1 |
| Lecce | 20 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 19 | 37 | -18 | 19 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 17 | +2 |
| Brescia | 20 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 17 | 26 | -9 | 18 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 21 | -3 |
| Bari | 20 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 13 | 30 | -17 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 14 | +0 |
