[NU Sports] Cardiac Cats

[SjT (Stephen J. Truog)]

Cool info. Another fun stat from that article ...

Coach Tressel is now 4-1 in overtime games.

We all know who that one loss was to. :)

GO CATS!!!
-SjT

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GO CATS!!!


--- On Mon, 11/16/09, cherron604 at aol.com <cherron604 at aol.com> wrote:

> From: cherron604 at aol.com <cherron604 at aol.com>
> Subject: [NU Sports] Cardiac Cats
> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Date: Monday, November 16, 2009, 2:25 PM
> 
> 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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