And now, to complete the Pythagorean tables for the top five European leagues.  Here is the final table for Serie A: Team GP GF GA Pts Pythag +/- Internazionale 38 75 34 82 77 +5 Roma 38 68 41 80 69 +11 Milan 38 60 39 70 66 +4 Sampdoria 38 49 41 67 57 […]

Here's the final Pythagorean table for the French league.  It might be useful to compare this table to a similar one taken at the halfway mark of the season. Team GP GF GA Pts Pythag +/- Marseille 38 69 36 78 73 +5 Lyon 38 64 38 72 69 +3 Auxerre 38 42 29 71 […]

Once you start, it's hard to stop…Here are the Pythagorean expectations for La Liga.  I'm curious to see how it handles the hugely lopsided scoring records of Real Madrid and Barcelona. Team GP GF GA Pts Pythag +/- Barcelona 38 98 24 99 92 +7 Real Madrid 38 102 35 96 86 +10 Valencia 38 […]

Here is the final Pythagorean table for this season's German Bundesliga: Team GP GF GA Pts Pythag +/- Bayern Munich 34 72 31 70 71 -1 Schalke 04 34 53 31 65 61 +4 Werder Bremen 34 71 40 61 65 -4 Bayer Leverkusen 34 65 38 59 63 -4 Borussia Dortmund 34 54 42 […]

There are a few more Pythagorean tables that I should present in the interests of completeness.  Here are the final results for the Turkish Super Lig: Team GP GF GA Pts Pythag +/- Bursaspor 34 65 26 75 71 +4 Fenerbahçe 34 61 28 74 68 +6 Galatasaray 34 61 35 64 63 +1 Beşiktaş […]

I had made a mistake in my computation of the Pythagorean.  There wasn't an issue with the formula itself; I hadn't calculated the win/draw probabilities out to enough goals.  I increased the upper limit to ten to account for the heavy results seen in the Eredivisie and recalculated the Eredivisie table.  The results were amazing: […]

Following up on a promise I made earlier this week, here is the final Pythagorean for this season's English Premier League.  Team GP GF GA Pts Pythag +/- Chelsea 38 103 32 86 88 -2 Manchester United 38 86 28 85 86 -1 Arsenal 38 83 41 75 76 -1 Tottenham Hotspur 38 67 41 […]

UPDATE (7:29pm, 5/3): Wow, that was quite a tidal wave from the Pacific Northwest!  Thanks as always to Sounder at Heart for sending visitors my way.  (With all of the readers that I have up there, maybe I should make a visit or something!)  For those of you who would like an explanation of the […]

This season's Dutch Eredivisie was a fascinating championship to follow, not just because the storyline of Steve McClaren finding rehabilitation in FC Twente, but also because of the gaudy statistics of Ajax in finishing second.  I had my doubts that the Pythagorean formula would be able to predict the total number of points in the […]

I was working on a new way to streamline the computation and publication of my Pythagorean expectations for various leagues, and I had used the Spanish league table as a test case.  My code worked very well, so I'm publishing those results here.  There will be some other league results coming up shortly, including the […]