The 2017/18 Argentine Superliga is now in its summer/holiday break, which is much shorter than the summer breaks in the past. (The league competition restarts on January 28.) It’s a convenient moment to take a look at the performance of the managers in the current tournament.There have been 41 different managers in the Superliga, of […]
Cuándo pensaba en escribir una nota acerca del rendimiento de los directores técnico en la Primera Argentina, tenía planeado destacar la hazaña de Sebastián Beccacece, anteriormente de Defensa y Justicia y ahora entre los integrantes de la Selección Argentina. Sigo con esos planes, pero al ver los datos del campeonato hay que destacar también el […]
The Pythagorean residual of a team, defined as the difference between its actual and expected point totals given identical goal statistics, is used often to assess roughly its under-performance or over-performance. But can that residual be used to assess managerial performance, too?I’ve looked at Pythagorean tables for the most recent seasons of the English Premier League […]
