The soccer Pythagorean probably never had enough life in the first place for it to be considered dead but its torpid state was given a little rattle last week when Soccermetrics put up a post evaluating EPL teams by their Pythagorean points expectations to date.
The exponent has since been adjusted to 1.8 but the formula tracks remarkably well with actual results. Similar formulas have since been developed for basketball and football (to avoid confusion, I'll stick with the American convention where 'football' is 'soccer' and 'football' is 'football').
So even for smaller game-per-seasons sports where you might not get reliable and meaningful results until the season is over, it can still be a useful tool in evaluating something like, "Should we fire Roberto Martinez?" But soccer's attempts to fit win expectation into a similar formula to have been a little less tidy. There are examples here, here and here, the latter being the Soccermetric version, derived by Howard Hamilton. The formula itself is below.
There's no tying in baseball. That .500 winning percentage is built into James' formula. If Runs Scored (RS) is equal to Runs Allowed (RA), and we have a uniform exponent, then without even plugging any numbers in you can see that it's x/2x, which is .500. Even among the "simpler" models linked above, best-fitting soccer Pythagoreans end up having three unique exponents. That looks something like this ('goalsaway' should almost certainly be 'goalsagainst'):
So we want a Pythagorean that's easy to use, easy to remember and we would like for it to fit a the basic intuition about scoring and results. Oh, and we want it to accurately measure the thing we're trying to measure: which teams over- or underperformed. Really we just want something that looks like the original. Baseball has one, basketball has one, even other football has one. Why can't soccer? It can. Mostly.
There are two tricks we first have to use. The first isn't really a trick. It's more of the obvious response to the fact that there are draws in soccer. And because of that, winning percentages are much lower in soccer than baseball or basketball. So instead, we set up to predict the percentage of points taken from the max available. Again, this is a pretty self-evident and not-at-all-original workaround. The other attempted James-like soccer Pythagoreans I came across also did this.
The 'Pythagorean_%' column is what we calculate from the above formula. 'Available_Points' are the old school max available points (2 * 38 = 76). Multiply those together to get our 'Predicted_Points'. 'Adjusted_Points' are what we get when we take actual, real world points and convert them to 2-point wins (or Pts - W). Subtract 'Adjusted_Points' from 'Predicted_Points' and you get the 'Difference', or your errors. For RMSE, work backwards; grab all your errors, square them, take the mean, then take the square root of that mean. That's where the 2.74 comes from. Going back to Hamilton's model he says that the RMSE for his soccer Pythagorean ends up somewhere between 4 and 5 (although for the single season he does on that page he gets 3.81; for the one from last week it's 4.5). Eastwood does 10 seasons, all of the EPL, and gets 4.08.
Again, we have to turn our two tricks. We use percentage of total points taken instead of win percentage. And we pretend that wins are still worth two points. Gamma is our Jamesian exponent (1.2), and Rave is our average runs, which makes no sense in soccer. They don't score runs, they score goals. Use the average goals scored in a season across all teams.
Moreover, it turns out it's almost entirely Spain's fault we're not fitting better (and probably measurably so). Here are our eight worst misses by over-prediction: Barcelona, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Real Madrid, Manchester City, Siena (?), Barcelona, Real Madrid. With a smaller coefficient (13.9 vs. 1.2), the soccer line is approximately linear over a wider range than in our basketball illustration above, but not one wide enough to accommodate scoring 110 goals and giving up just 21 with any precision. Stupid Barca. On the other end, the worst under-predictions are almost entirely one man's fault: Paco Jemez. I love just everything about Jemez and Rayo, except for what his attacking philosophy does to this model.
If you think it's better to lose 9-1 than to stop attacking at 4-0 and minimize the GD damage, you're going to engineer anomalous point totals relative to goal differences. And of the five biggest misses, Rayo is responsible for three of them. Math doesn't like heretics. So the idea that we can't do a simple soccer Pythagorean, I'm going to go ahead and disagree with that one. You can make a decent single-exponent Jamesian Pythagorean for soccer with acceptable results. You do have to cheat and make some bad assumptions about space time, but even after correcting for that, we're in the same neighborhood error-wise as things that are far more complicated.
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