[NU Sports] Cardiac Cats

[Jonathan Hodges]

Great research and great evidence to back up the fact that the 'Cats have
raised their profile recently thanks to winning basically 3/4 of the close
games, compared to under 50% in the past (even under Ara).

Jonathan

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 3:25 PM, <cherron604 at aol.com> wrote:

>
> Saw a statistic in the News-Gazette that looked interesting:
>
>
> http://www.illinihq.com/news/football/2009/11/14/rossows_big_ten_report_hail_jim_tressel
>
> specifically:
>
> "NERVES, Northwestern. Wildcats improved to 23-6 in games decided by seven
> points or less since 2000."
>
> Are we in more games decided by seven or less ?  Or do we just do better in
> those games ?
>
> So I rounded up some history
>
>                               games      % of all
> Coach       games     within 7     games     win    loss   tie   win %
> Hanley         66           23             35%      10       9      4
> 43%
> Waldorf       101          44             44%      15      22     7     34
> %
> Voigts          73          31             43%       13     17     1
>  42%
> Saban           9            2              22%        0        1     1
>   0%
> Ara              72          31              43%       13      17    1
>  42%
> Agase          91          27              30%       12      14     1
> 44%
> Pont            55          17              31%        7       10
>  41%
> Venturi         33           4              12%          1       2      1
>  25%
> Green          55            9              16%         6       3
>  67%
> Peay           66           19              29%        6      11      2
>  32%
> Barnett        81            32             40%        16    15      1
>  50%
> Walker        83            30             36%        20     10
>  67%
> Fitz             48            18             38%        13      5
>    72%
>
> So we seem to have about as many tight games as before (except Saban and
> Pont/Venturi/Green, when there were too many blowouts).  But our last three
> coaches have been outstanding at winning those games.
>
> To correct the stat, it looks like we were 22-7 in those games since 2004,
> this win brought us to 23-7(77%).  Equally impressive is that we are
> currently 33-15 (69%) in those games since 1999 (Randy Walker's first year)
>
> Chuck Herron   Tech '85
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