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
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