In a prior piece about how Florida should score more points under Dan Mullen, I made a comment that Florida fans would “rather see their team on average win 38-28 rather than 24-14”. I should know; I am one such fan.
Since then I did a little math and found that it’s actually better to average 24 points scored and 14 points allowed for a season than it is to average 38 points scored and 28 points allowed for a season.
I made the point using advanced stats pioneer Bill James’s Pythagorean expectation (a.