Monday, December 31, 2012

Things that were true about me on 1st January 2012 that are not true on 31st December 2012

I've never been to Belgium, Poland, Skibereen or Argentina
I speak no Polish
I've never seen grouplove, Two Door Cinema Club, Stone Roses or Snow Patrol live
I've never had a tooth removed
I haven't published an article since I left IBM
I've never been to two weddings on two consecutive days
I've never been photographed with a mayor
I've never had a photo go viral
I've never been to a Boca Juniors game
I've never organised a film screening
I've never been interviewed on 98FM, Q102 or Phantom 105.2
I've never been to an Irish rugby international at Thomond Park
I am not followed on twitter by anyone with Irish international caps
I've never been to a wedding in the Southern Hemisphere
I've never gotten into the second round of the Facebook Hacker Cup
I don't own a raspberry pi, tablet computer, or giant bean bag
I've never given a presentation in my new job

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Ireland Monthly Records

After figuring out the highest ranked team beaten, and lowest ranked side lost to, by recent managers a few weeks ago, I was reminded of Staunton's quote that we play better in March anyway (at least I think that's what it was, the only record I can find of it is here: http://www.munster-express.ie/sports/studsup/staunton-survives-and-its-all-to-play-for-in-september/ ) so I decided to see if I could use the same results set as before to find out what month we play best in. The results history I'm working off of is here if you want to check any of them: https://sites.google.com/site/tetsujin1979/matches
Month         P  W  Win %  D Draw %  L  Loss %  GF GF/G   C  C/G
January       0  0  0.00%  0  0.00%  0   0.00%   0    0   0    0
February     26 13 50.00%  6 23.08%  7  26.92%  36 1.38  24 0.92
March        41 24 58.54%  7 17.07% 10  24.39%  61 1.49  37 0.90
April        38 15 39.47%  8 21.05% 15  39.47%  45 1.18  45 1.18
May         106 35 33.02% 22 20.75% 49  46.23% 123 1.16 165 1.56
June         64 25 39.06% 21 32.81% 18  28.12%  77 1.20  71 1.11
July          1  0  0.00%  0  0.00%  1 100.00%   0 0.00   2 2.00
August       16  4 25.00%  7 43.75%  5  31.25%  19 1.19  21 1.31
September    56 26 46.43% 18 32.14% 12  21.43%  85 1.52  55 0.98
October      75 30 40.00% 24 32.00% 21  28.00% 128 1.71 106 1.41
November     54 20 37.04% 17 31.48% 17  31.48%  93 1.72  66 1.22
December      9  0  0.00%  1 11.11%  8  88.89%   8 0.89  26 2.89

GF = Goals For
GF/G = Goals for Per Game
C = Conceded
C/G = Conceded Per Game

So, the first thing to note, is that Staunton was right, with a 58% win ratio, March is our strongest month!
Technically, July is our weakest month, losing the only game we ever played in July, the 2-0 loss to Holland in World Cup '94. However, December is probably worse, losing 8 of 9 games played in the final month of the year, also the most goals conceded per game in any month, with over 2 goals per game
We've scored more goals in October than any other month, just ahead of May, but by .01 of a goal per game, November has the highest goals per game
May is comfortably our worst defensive month, conceding 165 goals (probably due to end of season syndrome) almost 60 more than the next worst, 106 in October