A Season in Stats: Part 6 – Miscellaneous stats
In my final post highlighting Swindon Town’s season in statistics, here’s a bunch of random stats you might be interested in…
Attendances:
An average of 8,458 have watched games at the County Ground this season and 7,298 at Swindon away matches. The lowest away attendance for a Swindon game was 2,767 at Dagenham and the highest was 22,627 at Southampton.
Fouls:
Swindon committed 451 fouls this season at a rate of 9.8 per game, compared to our dirty opposition with 475 fouls at 10.33 per game. Peterborough committed the most number of fouls (19) in a single game against us.
5 most unused substitutes:
- 19 – Phil Smith
- 18 – Simon Ferry
- 13 – Mark Scott / Dan Evans
- 12 – Billy Bodin
- 11 – Alan Sheehan
- 1.37 – Sean Morrison
- 1.22 – Vincent Pericard
- 1.11 – David Ball
- 0.96 – Thomas Dossevi
- 0.95 – Kevin Amankwaah / Charlie Austin
- 0.20 – Jonathan Obika
- 0.50 – Elliot Benyon
- 0.57 – Mike Grella
- 0.60 – Calvin Andrew / Billy Bodin
- 0.67 – A N’Diaye
- Right foot – 21 goals (42%)
- Left foot – 17 goals (34%)
- Head – 12 goals (24%)
- 6 yard box – 13 goals (26%)
- Left side of penalty area – 11 goals (22%)
- Right side of penalty area – 10 goals (20%)
- Outside of box – 11 goals (22%)
- Direct free kick – 3 goals (6%)
- Penalty spot – 2 goals (4%)
- 14 – Matt Ritchie
- 13 – Thomas Dossevi / Jon-Paul McGovern
- 11 – Michael Timlin
- 6 – Michael Ball / Vincent Pericard / Alan O’Brien
Effective substitutions?:
By my estimation, of our 115 substitutions this season, only 11.3% made a positive contribution to the outcome of the game, 66.09% a neutral impact and 22.61% a negative impact.
* Having played 5 or more games
