We start our Pythagorean tables of the Big Five European leagues with Italy’s Serie A. The table is for matches played up to 4 November, and the league Pythagorean exponent is 1.70. (more…)
Below is the final Pythagorean table for the 2012 Major League Soccer regular season which concluded tonight. The league Pythagorean exponent is 1.70, and the draw and loss columns are in inverse order from the typical American sports table format. (more…)
I had been engaged in an email exchange with a reader very recently about my soccer Pythagorean which required me to revisit the expression. I came to look at the Pythagorean in a slightly different way, but one that improved my own understanding of it. I’d like to share it and hopefully it will be […]
A couple of nights ago I presented goal distributions for all twenty teams in the 2008-09 English Premier League season, in an attempt to calculate the exponent that would be used for my expansion of the Pythagorean. I realized after my calculation that I needed to consider the sum of the squares of both the […]
