Home and Away form

[sparkymark75]

I've seen it mentioned a few times that we have one of the best home records this season but never seen any evidence to back it up. So I spent a few minutes working it out ;D

Home Form

Team	Home Games	Lost	Win %
Nottingham	22	4	82
Belfast	20	5	75
Fife	22	6	73
Sheffield	24	7	71
Dundee	21	8	62
Coventry	24	10	58
Cardiff	24	11	54
Hull	23	12	48
Braehead	19	10	47
Edinburgh	22	12	45

Surprised to see Braehead's home form is so poor. Didn't expect Edinburgh to be bottom of that either as that's a difficult place to play.

Away Form

Team	Away Games	Lost	Win %
Sheffield	23	7	70
Nottingham	22	8	64
Belfast	21	8	62
Cardiff	22	14	62
Braehead	24	16	33
Coventry	22	15	32
Dundee	20	14	30
Edinburgh	24	18	25
Fife	21	17	19
Hull	22	19	14

[zamboni]

Sparky
Good to see you throwing in the odd good thing now and again.
Quite informative and backs up Simms comments about FIA being a fortress.
It would be good to see the away form where we must be hovering about the bottom.
One other thing of intrest when you look at Hulls shoot out loses Cloutier must be scratching his head, bit of bad luck for them against southern confrence teams.

[sparkymark75]

Feb 10, 2013 12:52:56 GMT zamboni said:

Sparky
Good to see you throwing in the odd good thing now and again.
Quite informative and backs up Simms comments about FIA being a fortress.
It would be good to see the away form where we must be hovering about the bottom.
One other thing of intrest when you look at Hulls shoot out loses Cloutier must be scratching his head, bit of bad luck for them against southern confrence teams.

Since you asked ;D I thought we would have been bottom so interesting to note that Hull are bottom. Although our away form is still chronic.

[zamboni]

Its clear from the charts to be a top 4 side you need to be in the 70% + bracket home and away.
Our Coaches are first to admit our Road form is shocking,however if we had a level playing field at the begining some of the early losses could easily have been wins,the Coaches job is to mentally prepare these guys for away games and studying oposition tactics and come up with the winning game plan. I also think fatigue has played a big factor due to a short bench.
You cant argue with the facts,its what you learn from them so your wiser next time round, a full roster from start of next season would be an improvement for a start....

[tomo]

Interesting stuff man, good work!

If only the Home Form table was the league standings

[sparkymark75]

Feb 10, 2013 13:35:32 GMT zamboni said:

Its clear from the charts to be a top 4 side you need to be in the 70% + bracket home and away.
Our Coaches are first to admit our Road form is shocking,however if we had a level playing field at the begining some of the early losses could easily have been wins,the Coaches job is to mentally prepare these guys for away games and studying oposition tactics and come up with the winning game plan. I also think fatigue has played a big factor due to a short bench.
You cant argue with the facts,its what you learn from them so your wiser next time round, a full roster from start of next season would be an improvement for a start....

That would show if we have "learned from last season or mistakes". If we start short again, which I suspect we will, we will have learnt nothing.

[sparkymark75]

Feb 10, 2013 13:35:32 GMT zamboni said:

Its clear from the charts to be a top 4 side you need to be in the 70% + bracket home and away.
Our Coaches are first to admit our Road form is shocking,however if we had a level playing field at the begining some of the early losses could easily have been wins,the Coaches job is to mentally prepare these guys for away games and studying oposition tactics and come up with the winning game plan. I also think fatigue has played a big factor due to a short bench.
You cant argue with the facts,its what you learn from them so your wiser next time round, a full roster from start of next season would be an improvement for a start....

I think 70%+ at home and 60%+ away is enough to get you in the top 4 or 5.

[mrt]

sparky
is the lost column indicative of regulation losses or did we score any ot loss points?

[sparkymark75]

Feb 10, 2013 17:55:54 GMT mrt said:

sparky
is the lost column indicative of regulation losses or did we score any ot loss points?

The loss column includes all loses, whether they were in OT, PS or regulation.

[sparkymark75]

If our away form was half as good as our home record, we'd be on around about 40 points right now.

[sparkymark75]

As I mentioned on the Caps game thread, we haven't won back to back weekend games since the 22/23 September last year. That's a shocking statistic and this along with our general away record is the reason we are where we are.

The reasons for these facts could be a number of things; depth, coaching, reliance on home fans, etc

Thoughts?

[ckbell63]

Playing shorthanded import wise does not help. Neither does taking stupid penalties. Perhaps a proper bench coach would help also. If they had got another import months ago they would have gathered more points. If Hull win or get a point tonight we will be bottom of the conference.

[jonathan]

Feb 10, 2013 20:33:40 GMT ckbell63 said:

Playing shorthanded import wise does not help. Neither does taking stupid penalties. Perhaps a proper bench coach would help also. If they had got another import months ago they would have gathered more points. If Hull win or get a point tonight we will be bottom of the conference.

Unless we win the Conference, the position means nothing.

[ckbell63]

Hull got a point so we are bottom.

[daviejojo]

Number 1, it's depth.

How may times this season has the following comment been said...."the guys were shattered"

They simply can't play 2 games back to back, because we don't have enough players.

Maybe wasn't the case at the start of the year, but has been for at least the last 3 months. Players are knackered.

Lessons learned about short bench......me thinks not