030. ECNL BOYS PLAYOFFS: DID THE STRONGEST TEAMS WIN THEIR GROUP STAGES? (PART 2)

In last week's episode, we demonstrated that Group Stage winners produced results that were similar to their strong regular season performances. However:

• Group Stage participants - that did not win their groups - delivered significantly-weaker results vs. their own regular season:
  • They scored ≈1 less goal per-game
  • They conceded 1+ more goal per-game

Here's a summary, related to Group Stage participants that did not lead/win their groups:

This week, we dive-deeper into the above data, and visualize "how" this data manifests itself inside age groups - as follows:

Here are takeaways:

• Younger age group teams were likely to produce more severe levels of GD-G under-performance, compared to their own regular season results.
• It's difficult to isolate a trend across either offensive (GF-G) or defensive (GA-G) age-related results... but the GD-G net effect is relevant .

Richard - From SoccerAnalytix