RWB CFL podcast #220: On Pythagorean (and our) Expectations

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcast

The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast is saddened that the games in week 21 of the 2022 season are absolutely irrelevant to the postseason picture, but not so much that RWB co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard can’t put together a solid podcast episode.

After talking the week 20 games, which showed most playoff teams (except possibly the Montreal Alouettes) in good form heading into the postseason, Joe and Os break down the regular season in terms of the Pythagorean Expected (PE) Wins statistic, a neat little statistic that holistically examines each team in a given season and determines how much better/worse they performed against an objective measure of expectation.

The RWB also takes a look at a post on the league’s official website CFL.ca, which applies their in-house simulation engine/algorithm to probabilities for this year’s Grey Cup. Os talks some good value bets in Grey Cup proposition betting, if you’re into that kind of thing.

The Rouge White & Blue podcast: There are no meaningless games, are there…?