Ireland monthly records

[tetsujin1979]

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 0.9
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 2 2
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 scoring 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

[Sullivinho]

So, the first thing to note, is that Staunton was right

There are people who jumped 40 feet into the sea at Sandycove this morning who received less of a shock from the frigid waters than I did from that revelation.

You're a machine, Tets. I feel like I could reliably trust you to predict the date and manner of my demise given enough relevant data to crunch.

[DannyInvincible]

Did Staunton not claim that "San Marino come good in February"?

[osarusan]

I can see how it might be a nice little project, but is there really any point to this? Seeing as how it includes games from decades ago but not the quality of the opposition, can we actually learn anything from it?

[peadar1987]

I can see how it might be a nice little project, but is there really any point to this? Seeing as how it includes games from decades ago but not the quality of the opposition, can we actually learn anything from it?

It's interesting, is that not point enough? I don't think Ireland play enough games for short-term statistics to teach us anything aside from very basic stuff like the team's immediate form.

[nigel-harps1954]

Did Staunton not claim that "San Marino come good in February"?

Tets, get on that.

[geysir]

I can see how it might be a nice little project, but is there really any point to this? Seeing as how it includes games from decades ago but not the quality of the opposition, can we actually learn anything from it?

Some of us don't already know it all. :)

[tetsujin1979]

Did Staunton not claim that "San Marino come good in February"?


Tets, get on that.
I genuinely can't remember the original quote from Staunton, the closest I could find was in the article I linked above. I think the quote about San Marino was that they would be a handful for the other teams in the group, or they would improve as the group went on.