same assumptions that Miller made in his 2007 study about baseball, specifically that goals scored and goals allowed follow statistically independent Weibull distributions, that the Pythagorean Expectation works just as well for ice hockey as it does for baseball. The Dayaratna and Miller study verified the statistical legitimacy of making these assumptions and estimated the Pythagorean exponent for ice hockey to be slightly above 2. See also Baseball statistics Sabermetrics Football Outsiders Notes External links Current Major League Baseball Pythagorean expectation. Adjusting football’s Pythagorean Theorem Bill James Baseball terminology Baseball statistics Sports records and statistics