by strap »
04 Nov 2015 14:20
Brum Royal strap Brum Royal Does anyone have any information as to which end we score more (home) goals in? I always feel like we score more goals attacking the North Stand second half, and feel less confident when we are made to play "the wrong way round" (ie attack the North stand first half) by the opposition.
Again, I don;t have complete data for the ends we play towards in all 440 games held at the MadStad to date, I only have 158 so far. Can work you question out on the basis of 36% of MadStad games - not sure if that is a sufficiently high enough sample to be deemed to be representative though.
It's a four part answer really (eight if you include opposition goals scored as well):
North Stand goals first half
South Stand goals first half
North Stand goals second half
South Stand goals second half
It's also possibly a question of looking at any season review videos/DVDs/TV highlights to see which end the goals were scored in and then correlating the goal time and end scored at. As well as maybe drawing on the collective memory of the HNA masses to fill in the blanks.
Bearing in mind I only have data for 158 of the 440 MadStad matches, when we kick south in the 1st half, (occurred 139 times in 158 matches, W=63 or 45.3%, D=40 or 28.8%, L=36 or 25.9%), we score 111 goals (0.80 gpg) and concede 57 (0.41 gpg). In the second half when we kick towards the north stand, we score 125 (0.90 gpg) and concede 90 (0.65 gpg).
When we kick off towards the north stand in the 1st half, (occurred 19 times in 158 matches - W=10 or 52.6%, D=5 or 26.3%, L=4 or 21.1%), we score 19 (1.00 gpg) and concede 14 (0.73 gpg), and when we change over at half time, we score 15 (0.79 gpg) and concede only 5 (0.26%).
I'll update this as I get more data, but it does seem at first glance that we perform slightly better kicking off games towards the North Stand.