Scores and goal scoring at http://www.wfdf.org/wg2005/scores.htm.
Day 1 completed: Men 1188 goals caught, 156 goals thrown. Women 69 goals caught, 30 goals thrown. (Note: I think this is a 4M/3W game, as rosters are 6M/5F.)
US is about average, with 28% of GC and 18% of GT done by women. Japan is worst, with only 5 GC and 3 GT by women. Totals (please scroll down):
| Team | M-GC | M-GT | W-GC | W-GT | Total | %W-GC | %W-GT |
| US | 28 | 32 | 11 | 7 | 23% | 28% | 18% |
| Canada | 17 | 28 | 16 | 4 | 31% | 48% | 13% |
| Austr | 25 | 32 | 12 | 7 | 25% | 32% | 18% |
| Japan | 21 | 23 | 5 | 3 | 15% | 19% | 12% |
| Finland | 14 | 18 | 11 | 7 | 36% | 44% | 28% |
| Germany | 13 | 23 | 14 | 2 | 31% | 52% | 8% |
| Totals | 118 | 156 | 69 | 30 | 27% | 37% | 16% |
11 comments:
Day 1 final standings:
United States 3-0
Australia 3-0
Canada 1-2
Japan 1-2
Finland 1-2
Germany 0-3
Canda lost 14-15 to Australia in the last round of the day. Earlier, they dropped one to the US 8-13. Tomorrow they face Finland and Japan while the US plays Australia and Finland.
US has a pretty even distribution in the goals thrown and caught. Deaver 9-3, Zip 6-6, Eastham 4-8, Chase 6-4. Canada is similarly even. Gak from Australia leads them all with 15-3, followed by Satoshi of Japan with 7-7. Leading female is Sarah from Australia with 4-8 (second is VY of Canada with 2-5).
Flo,
Interesting. Were they also taking stats for touches? The UPA page showed complete stats for the US team in the finals. Maybe these stats will appear somewhere.
It's still odd that once in a while one of those breakmarks wouldn't find its way into the endzone, or that the other teams wouldn't force these women to go upfield so they could score some goals.
I find it interesting that there were 25 males but only 1 female that had as many as 12 GT+GC (2 per game), and that the top goal-throwing female had only 5.
Flo,
What did the Germans do?
Forgive me if this comes off as sounding sexist or mean, but from your description, a high level mixed team tries to get the women out of the way but will have a plan to punish any opponent who ignores the women.
That's not how I would characterize Flo's comments. He seems to be saying that a high level mixed team tries to get the male defenders out of the way, and relies on male handlers to make most scoring throws. Nothing about that implies that women get few touches.
Nothing about that implies that women get few touches.
It does imply that the touches are mostly meaningless, bide your time touches.
On the finals' stats:
http://www1.upa.org/files/wg2005/Gold_stats.html
What are the three "unsued" numbers in the Blocks column? Is it just leftover formatting from another catagory, or were there suppossed to be some sort of D designations that didn't get used?
In other news, the US had an overall 95% completion percentage. Impressive. How was the weather last weekend?
It does imply that the touches are mostly meaningless, bide your time touches.
Or the the female recievers are catching goals and hucks, but not throwing them. My mixed team certainly uses that strategy plenty, especially since we have several very fast women. Isolating them in the end zone is quite effective.
I kept the stats for Team USA. In general the games moved very fast and we made the decision from the beginning not to try and record all the possible things that Ultistats has the ability to track. That included breakmark throws & Red Zone. We even naively thought that we could track our opponents touches, but quickly realized one point into the first game with Japan that without numbers on the front of the jerseys it would be impossible. It was also impossible to hear all of the calls so many went untracked. I'd say at least 1/3. Another thing I was not able to accurately record was the defense. Many times Canada and Australia would start the point playing a junk zone and then switch to man about 2/3 of the way down the field. Let me know if you have any other questions about the stats. It was exciting to have a reason to be down on the field for all the games. I hope you stats nerds enjoy our efforts.
What are the three "unsued" numbers in the Blocks column?
The types of blocks are Handblock, Layout & Sky. If I didn't get more specific it was usually a clean interception. There are examples of more specific blocks being recorded in other games.
http://www.upa.org/wg2005/stats
Be sure to check out the play-by-play pages, too.
I compiled some summary data based on the play-by-play stats (Thanks Elizabeth). Currently I am working on analyzing that data... slowly - I am taking small steps (as much as my daily work and other commitments allow). You can read the progresss reports on my blog.
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