The Bundesliga head coach power rankings | A look at the scores after matchday 25

While the Bundesliga may not quite be entering the final stretch of the league campaign, there’s little doubt that we are firmly in the business end of the season. Head coaches have been sacked, champions-elect have been declared and most of Germany’s biggest clubs are already making plans for the summer off-season. As such, now seems as good a time as any to check back in on our Bundesliga head coach power rankings to see which managers are sitting comfortably at the top of the pack and which ones may be fighting for their lives in the last nine games of the season.

We introduced our power rankings and our methodology behind the system in a previous post that subscribers can read here. But if you’re just looking for the basic idea behind our power rankings and why they may differ from others around the web, here’s the summary of it here:

In my opinion, a manager (or head coach) should be judged on the perception of how well they do from one game to the next. Rather than looking at how many games his team have won in the last 10 weeks or other intangible factors like their relationship with the boardroom or the fans in the terraces, a head coach should be judged on one thing: what were the expectations placed on their team before a match and did they underperformed, overperformed or match those expectations perfectly?