Argentina’s Superliga returns from its short summer break in earnest this weekend. (It had a return of sorts last weekend with a couple of matches from its backlog of postponed matches due to international commitments.) What does the league table look like, who have been the major performers, and what is likely to come after […]
Argentina’s Superliga competition enters the October international break at one-third distance, with a fair number of matches pending due to weather or lack of groundskeeping. Here is the league table after the most recent matchday:For the first time in almost two years, there is a new leader of the top flight in Argentina. Boca Juniors […]
Throughout Argentina’s Superliga season I’ve presented two league tables side-by-side — one based on the actual league results, and an alternative table based on the expected goal scorelines. Here’s the final table:(I color coded the outcome zones for the teams; yellow is for the league champion, blue goes to group stage of Copa Libertadores 2019, […]
Boca Juniors have repeated as champions of Argentina and champions of the newly created Superliga. Boca has been at the top of the league for over a calendar year, the title has been Boca’s to lose since November or December, and all challengers to the title had faded away or were turned back in showdowns […]
Ya estamos en la recta final de la Superliga Argentina 2017/18 que a todos los clubes les quedan siete o ocho partidos. (San Lorenzo y Independiente juegan su partido por la Fecha 15 el 4 de abril.) Aquí va la tabla de posiciones luego de la fecha 20 (resultados actuales a la izquierda de la […]
We’re now into the last quarter of the 2017-18 Superliga Argentina season as almost all of the teams have seven matches remaining. (San Lorenzo and Independiente will make up their Round 15 match on the 4th of April.) Here is what the table looks like (standings based on actual results on the left, standings based […]
The 2015-16 Dutch Eredivisie, won by PSV, concluded last month. I made a preseason projection of the league in August, and it’s time to revisit it.Here’s the projection that I made:And here’s the reality: Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 PSV Eindhoven 34 26 6 2 88 32 56 84 […]
The 2015-16 English Premier League ended a little more than three weeks ago. There was a preseason projection made for this season, and I don’t need to tell you that it was gloriously and outrageously wrong. But it is useful to look back and compare the projections to the reality.There are many people who are […]
Leicester City are the new champions of England by merit of their own high performance and the surprisingly less than expected performance of the usual contenders for the Premier League title. Over the last few months, as Leicester’s title run began to be taken more seriously, there has been some discussion in the press about […]
The 2015 Major League Soccer regular season concluded last Sunday. It’s time to engage in that exercise in humility in which I look back at projections made at the start of the season and assess them.Here is what was projected at the beginning of the season – first by conference:And then the single table:The final […]
