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Re: Pointless statto questions

by strap » 04 Nov 2015 12:33

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Has any Reading team gone on to finish top six fielding so few unchanged starting XI's in the first 15 league games?

Have we even had an unchanged XI yet this season?


Well this season I don't think Clarke has kept the same starting XI in successive games!



I'll look up other seasons when we finished top 6 and let you know ...

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Re: Pointless statto questions

by strap » 04 Nov 2015 12:36

Sutekh Another query; is Strap/anyone able to answer the question on the Club Policies board.

What is Reading's biggest away LEAGUE following in

Div 1/Premier League
Div 2/Championship
Div 3/Lg 1/Div 3S
Div 4/Lg 2

My guess is data isn't available for anything outside of recent seasons but would still be interested to know for Div1 & 2


I only have data going back to about 2004/05 season, and it's far from complete. Happy to find out the highest in the leagues for those seasons if you like, but it won;t be very definitive I'm afraid.

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Re: Pointless statto questions

by strap » 04 Nov 2015 12:49

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.

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Re: Pointless statto questions

by Brum Royal » 04 Nov 2015 12:58

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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.

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Re: Pointless statto questions

by Snowball136 » 04 Nov 2015 13:02

The goals are always scored at the other end from wherever I sit
(unless I go to the loo, when we score three)


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Re: Pointless statto questions

by Ian Royal » 04 Nov 2015 14:06

Cheers strap. I predict the answer is that Reading have never finished in the top six with such an unsettled side. But MaccyD's miracle workers might prove me wrong.

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Re: Pointless statto questions

by strap » 04 Nov 2015 14:20

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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.

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Re: Pointless statto questions

by strap » 04 Nov 2015 14:29

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Sutekh Another query; is Strap/anyone able to answer the question on the Club Policies board.

What is Reading's biggest away LEAGUE following in

Div 1/Premier League
Div 2/Championship
Div 3/Lg 1/Div 3S
Div 4/Lg 2

My guess is data isn't available for anything outside of recent seasons but would still be interested to know for Div1 & 2


I only have data going back to about 2004/05 season, and it's far from complete. Happy to find out the highest in the leagues for those seasons if you like, but it won;t be very definitive I'm afraid.


Bear in mind this info is far from complete, but the highest away RFC attends I can find are as follows:

tier 1 - 25/11/2006 at Fulham = 3563
tier 2 - 28/04/2012 at Birmingham City = 4134
tier 3 - 26/02/2002 at Wycombe Wanderers = 2273

If anyone can provide more data then of course I will update.

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Re: Pointless statto questions

by strap » 04 Nov 2015 14:59

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Has any Reading team gone on to finish top six fielding so few unchanged starting XI's in the first 15 league games?

Have we even had an unchanged XI yet this season?


Well this season I don't think Clarke has kept the same starting XI in successive games!



I'll look up other seasons when we finished top 6 and let you know ...


We have finished in the top 6 of our division 31 times out of 89 seasons since 1920. Of those 31, on 7 occasions we had used 20 or more different starters, (haven't done the code for subs too but this is a start). Clarke has currently used 20 different league starters, hence my cut-off.



So even winning the division having had 20 different starters after Match 15 will not be unique - did that in 2001-12.


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Re: Pointless statto questions

by Bob1871 » 04 Nov 2015 15:30

When was the last time we made a double substitution at half time and won the game?

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Re: Pointless statto questions

by From Despair To Where? » 04 Nov 2015 15:57

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Sutekh Another query; is Strap/anyone able to answer the question on the Club Policies board.

What is Reading's biggest away LEAGUE following in

Div 1/Premier League
Div 2/Championship
Div 3/Lg 1/Div 3S
Div 4/Lg 2

My guess is data isn't available for anything outside of recent seasons but would still be interested to know for Div1 & 2


I only have data going back to about 2004/05 season, and it's far from complete. Happy to find out the highest in the leagues for those seasons if you like, but it won;t be very definitive I'm afraid.


Bear in mind this info is far from complete, but the highest away RFC attends I can find are as follows:

tier 1 - 25/11/2006 at Fulham = 3563
tier 2 - 28/04/2012 at Birmingham City = 4134
tier 3 - 26/02/2002 at Wycombe Wanderers = 2273

If anyone can provide more data then of course I will update.


It's often reported we took 4,500 to Newport in 1985. Admittedly, attendance figures were less reliable in those days.

Pretty sure we took 4,000+ top Wigan in the Play off semi final as well

Likewise I've also seen it quoted that we took 4,500-5,000 to Ashton Gate in 1995?

Unfortunately I've got nothing ddefinite to back this up.

<EDIT> I reckon was also more than 2273 Reading at Aldershot on Easter Monday 1989. The away end was packed, mentally so.
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Re: Pointless statto questions

by strap » 04 Nov 2015 16:16

Bob1871 When was the last time we made a double substitution at half time and won the game?


Looks like it was 06/03/1999. We were drawing 0-0 at h/t at home to Macclesfield. Ray Houghton came on for Paul Brayson, and Andy Gurney came on for Grant Brebner at half time. We eventually won 1-0 with a goal from Darren Caskey on 62 minutes.

We once brought on 3 subs at h/t, 10/09/2002 when losing 0-2 at Cambridge in a LC1 tie. We eventually lost 1-3.

I can't find an occasion where we were losing at h/t, brought on 2 subs and then won. I have 20 different matches where we brought on 2 or 3 subs at h/t, and in all 20 we were goal-less at h/t.

My sub time records only go back as far as 1996/97, and there are a few gaps in the early years.

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