Goal Differentials In A Games This Year

[phillijk]

In response to the numerous conversations on the message boards about "running up the scores" in soccer games...

 

Here is a stats list for the TOP 10 goal differential in games played this season (2003)

 

1. Sheffield 20 - Lexington 1

2. Martin Westview 19- Dyer County 0

3. Page 18 - Wayne County 0

4. Farragut 17 - Heritage 0

5. Haywood County 15 - Dyer County 0

Martin Westview 15 - Ripley 0

7. Sheffield 14 - Memphis Overton 0

Brentwood 14 - Spring Hill 0

9. Brentwood 14 - Hillwood 1

10. McMinn Central 13 - Sequoyah 0

Bearden 13 - Heritage 0

Oak Ridge 13 - Powell 0

 

**Sheffield, Brentwood and Martin Westview appear twice on the list**

Edited May 6, 2003 by phillijk

[lauxy23]

I'm a coach. I feel the only time you should allow your team to score 10 or more is when the other team has 9 or more. As this list attests, that is highly unlikely. I just don't feel there is any reason to score doulbe digits in goals. Teams that do(score 10, 15, or 20+) have likely never had it happen to them. Telling someone you were beaten 7-0 is harsh enough, but 20-1, 19-0....WOW.

This is my opinion.

 

The other opinion is that if you don't want us to score 10, 15, or 20+ STOP US from scoring. Here again, I doubt these teams have ever had double digits scored on them, and have little idea what its like to be totally defensive, and completely demoralized, for 75-80 min. You learn from playing against better competition, not from getting your brains beat in.

[peanuthead]

Dude people that run the score up just have bad coaches. If you are going to run the score up on bad team you really need a lesson in sportsmanship.

[AllAmerican912]

Goal differentials such as those listed show very little about a team's talent but show much about their opponent's lack there of. Many coaches do not allow good teams to run up the score against weaker opponents. I've heard of teams that don't report the 10-0 or 15-0 scores to local papers even, because it isn't something they want to publicize. I'm sure these teams are talented, but it is pointless to point out goal differentials such as these. Look for these teams' average goal differentials combined with their strength of schedule...it will probably give you a better feel for how good a team really is.

[chunkytotomoto]

Dont tell me Farragut has a bad coach we ran up the score against heritage because they are terrible and we had restrictions and our backup keeps all scored a goal or 2. That doesnt make our coach bad. We are 18-0 and have a chance at a state and national title and according to you our coach is bad?

[titansfan05]

You have to take it in a game by game basis. If a team empies their bench and makes restrictions and still scored, oh well.

[Seldon]

Ask yourself this, which is more demeaning to a team, having a team score several goals or having a team that COULD score several goals intentionally NOT scoring? A poor team KNOWS when they are being toyed with (e.g playing keep-away or being wide open for a shot and pulling it back out). THAT is humiliating.

 

If a very good team plays a very bad team, plays mostly subs and places restrictions on them as to how they can score (e.g. headers only or no shots within the box) that is showing good sportsmanship and is all that should be expected regardless of the final score. If people do not want to have these lopsided scores, they should lobby the TSSAA to implement a Mercy Rule or group schools by quality of team as opposed to number of students.

[titansfan05]

The problem with the quality of team thing is that a team could be good one year and really bad one year.