Style Point Ratings for Europe’s Remaining Weekend Matches (10/4/2014)

Recently, in these pages, the author introduced a new iteration of only a slightly less new metric called Style Points, itself designed to estimate roughly, on a scale of 0 to 10, the aesthetic appeal of each club currently playing in Europe’s five major leagues and also the MLS. What follows is a table featuring not Style Point club scores, but rather match scores, for the weekend’s European matches with scheduled kickoff times of 2pm ET or later on Saurday.

Match scores are produced merely by averaging the Style Point figures for each club — a methodology which, for what it lacks in sophistication, makes up for in being easy to produce.

Here are all of the remaining matches in Europe this weekend by this clearly flawed metric:

Projected Final Table for Serie A (Current Through Giornata 18)

Below is the projected final table for Serie A following Giornata 18 of same and calculated in much the same manner as the other projected final tables which have appeared in these electronic pages.

The precise methodology for these entirely scientific tables is discussed here. Generally speaking, however, what the author has done is to calculate from three variables — shots taken in the box, shots conceded in the box, and possession rate (all of which correlate rather strongly with season-end performance) — a league-specific algorithm for estimating points. That the author is an imbecile also oughtn’t be ignored.

Here’s the updated, projected final table for Serie A:

Style Point Ratings for the Weekend’s Forthcoming Serie A Matches

Recently, in these pages, the author introduced a metric called Style Points designed to estimate roughly, on a scale of 0 to 10, the aesthetic appeal of each club currently playing in Europe’s five major leagues.

The exercise is absurd, admittedly, but appears to serve as a reasonable shorthand, at least, for those qualities which do and don’t evoke pleasure within the brain of a spectator. Moreover, an advantage of having produced such a measurement is that it’s also possible to estimate — merely by averaging the Style Point figures of the two relevant clubs — it’s possible to estimate the likely aesthetic appeal of any match occurring within the aforementioned five European leagues.

Doing that precise thing for all of Serie A’s weekend matches yields the following:

Projected Final Table for Serie A (Current Through Giornata 17)

Below is the projected final table for Serie A following Giornata 17 of same and calculated in much the same manner as the other projected final tables which have appeared in these electronic pages.

The precise methodology for these entirely scientific tables is discussed here. Generally speaking, however, what the author has done is to calculate from three variables — shots taken in the box, shots conceded in the box, and possession rate (all of which correlate rather strongly with season-end performance) — a league-specific algorithm for estimating points. That the author is an imbecile also oughtn’t be ignored.

Here’s the updated, projected final table for Serie A:

Projected Final Table for Serie A (Current Through Giornata 15)

Below is the projected final table for Serie A following the 15th giornata of same and calculated in much the same manner as the other projected final tables which have appeared in these electronic pages.

The precise methodology for these entirely scientific tables is discussed here. Generally speaking, however, what the author has done is to calculate from three variables — shots taken in the box, shots conceded in the box, and possession rate (all of which correlate rather strongly with season-end performance) — a league-specific algorithm for estimating points. That the author is an imbecile also oughtn’t be ignored.

Here’s the updated, projected final table for Serie A: