Sunday 9 May 2010

Recurrent scores in drawn matches

At Rogers Results, there is a short site on drawn games in the V/AFL.

Since I was given a table of all matches won with fewer goals, I have wanted to look at how many of the 143 drawn scorelines are actually unique, which I have done at home with matches won with fewer goals.

A scoreline can be deemed to be unique if and only if each team’s goals, behinds and points is not replicated immediately or by simply swapping the home and away teams. If the scores are equal, the number of goals and behinds by each team or after swapping home and away teams must be the same for a scoreline not to be unique.

In the 143 drawn games, the following set of scores has recurred on four occasions:
Home teamGBPAway teamGBP
Round 9, 1944Fitzroy121183Essendon111783
Round 16, 1950Carlton121183St. Kilda111783
Round 9, 1960Richmond111783Geelong121183
Round 22, 1980North Melbourne111783St. Kilda121183

The following four sets of scores have recurred on three occasions each:

Home teamGBPAway teamGBP
Round 7, 1963Geelong91266Hawthorn91266
Round 3, 1971Essendon91266Collingwood91266
Round 8, 1974Carlton91266Footscray91266
Round 13, 1922St. Kilda101575South Melbourne11975
Round 5, 1929Footscray101575Melbourne11975
Round 2, 1972Collingwood101575Carlton11975
Round 11, 1952Essendon101676Geelong111076
Round 5, 1954Fitzroy101676St. Kilda111076
Round 11, 1999Footscray101676Hawthorn111076
Round 9, 1951Fitzroy121385South Melbourne121385
Round 18, 2007Footscray121385St. Kilda121385
Round 16, 2009Richmond121385North Melbourne121385

The following sixteen sets of scores have recurred twice:
Home teamGBPAway teamGBP
Round 10, 1904Geelong41135Carlton5535
Round 12, 1991Footscray41135Sydney5535
Round 3, 1916Fitzroy7850Collingwood61450
Round 6, 1917Richmond7850Collingwood61450
Round 8, 1973North Melbourne8856Footscray8856
Round 5, 2002St. Kilda8856Sydney8856
Round 1, 1914Geelong81361Essendon81361
Second Semi, 1972Carlton81361Richmond81361
Round 2, 1945Fitzroy81664Essendon91064
Round 6, 2008North Melbourne91064Sydney81664
Round 6, 1932Geelong91569Richmond91569
Round 15, 1947South Melbourne91569Collingwood91569
Round 5, 1921South Melbourne101070Carlton101070
Round 13, 1926Hawthorn101070North Melbourne101070
Round 15, 1919Geelong11975Fitzroy11975
Round 12, 1953Melbourne11975Richmond11975
Round 4, 1939Fitzroy101777Hawthorn111177
Round 1, 1957Geelong111177Footscray101777
Round 15, 1956Hawthorn101878South Melbourne12678
Round 10, 2000Port Adelaide101878Geelong12678
Round 1, 1933North Melbourne111379Fitzroy111379
Round 8, 1961North Melbourne111379Geelong111379
Round 16, 1964Carlton111379Collingwood12779
Round 14, 1994St. Kilda12779Adelaide111379
Round 18, 1961Essendon121688Collingwood131088
Round 8, 1967North Melbourne121688Essendon131088
Round 17, 1988Collingwood14892North Melbourne131492
Round 5, 1992Brisbane14892West Coast131492
Round 1, 1960Carlton141498Richmond141498
Round 7, 1977St. Kilda141498South Melbourne141498
Round 5, 1934Geelong1613109Collingwood1613109
Round 3, 2003North Melbourne1613109Brisbane1613109
That leaves a total of eighty-nine drawn scores that are unique and have occurred only once.

Of these eighty-nine scores:
  • forty-six had the same number of goals and behinds by both sides
  • forty-six had one fewer goal and six more behinds by one side
  • five (two in 1914, one each in 1966, 1968 and 1995) had two fewer goals by one side
  • two (in 1935 and 1948) had three fewer goals by one side (Essendon against Melbourne; Carlton against Footscray)
This confirms to the general pattern of goals score in drawn games. The difference is goals between two sides drawing a game is 0 or 1 with very nearly equal frequency, whilst the nine matches drawn where the difference in goals scored was greater than one stand as very major scoring oddities.

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