It's also a credit to Pat Fitzgerald and the late Randy Walker at Northwestern. Even in its worst...
It's also a credit to Pat Fitzgerald and the late Randy Walker at Northwestern. Even in its worst years, jNWU has outperformed its pythagorean expectations. In every year included in this study, Northwestern had a positive overall pythagorean margin, and in all but one the LOLcats had a positive margin in conference play. Their gigantic lead in the chart above isn't due to one season; it's consistently winning a game to a game and a half more than expected.
— Pythagorean Expectation and the Myth of Luck, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Accept Northwestern (Black Heart Gold Pants)
