Statistical Leaders

Kuiper · September 10, 2024, 02:30:57 PM

After about 4 games for most teams (and 2 games for NESCAC schools), I thought it would be interesting to look at early season individual and team leaders:

Through September 9

Goals:

1. Sammy Amorose    Mary Washington    6
-    Juan Camacho    Mount Aloysius    6
-    Connor Gage    Edgewood    6
-    Diego Rivera    Buffalo St.    6
-    Johnny Troiano    Rowan    6
6    Carter Berg    Mary Washington    5
-    Nathan Donovan    Wis.-Eau Claire    5
-    Aki Freeman    Coast Guard    5
-    Enrique Gonzalez    Aurora    5
-    Davis Knight    Piedmont    5

Assists:

1    Landon Stock    Southern Va.    6
2    Kade Theunissen    Covenant    5
3    Jonathan Bayer    Hamline    4
-    Alex Depperschmidt    Mount Union    4
-    Matthew Escobar    Wm. Paterson    4
-    Connor Gage    Edgewood    4
-    Mason Keith    Piedmont    4
-    Will Powell    Trinity (TX)    4
-    Manu Prieto    Buffalo St.    4
-    Diego Rivera    Buffalo St.    4

Scoring Offense:

1    Alfred St.    6.75
2    Rivier    6.00
3    Southern Va.    5.75
4    Nazareth    5.50
5    Ursinus    5.33
6    Edgewood    5.00
7    Colorado Col.    4.50
8    George Fox    4.33
9    Hamline    4.20
10    Middlebury    4.00

Goals Against Average:

1    Carleton    .000
-    Coast Guard    .000
-    Colorado Col.    .000
-    Denison    .000
-    SUNY Maritime    .000
-    Ursinus    .000
-    Adrian      .000
-    Amherst    .000
-    SUNY Poly    .000
-    Tufts      .000

Kuiper · September 18, 2024, 05:41:19 PM

Through September 16

Goals:

1    Nathan Donovan    Wis.-Eau Claire    8
-    Connor Gage    Edgewood    8
-    Enrique Gonzalez    Aurora    8
4    Miguel Konde Gwo    Edgewood    7
-    Drilon Toska    FDU-Florham    7
6    Sammy Amorose    Mary Washington    6
-    Parker Burke    Wilmington (OH)    6
-    Juan Camacho    Mount Aloysius    6
-    Ryan Cogill    Alvernia    6
-    Lucas Cross    Franciscan    6

Assists:

1    Landon Stock    Southern Va.    6
-    Zach Susee    WashU    6
3    Ronaldo Cabral    Bowdoin    5
-    Jaziel Enriquez    Aurora    5
-    Matthew Escobar    Wm. Paterson    5
-    Connor Gage    Edgewood    5
-    Gustavo Herrera    Ripon    5
-    Jessie Juarez    Hamline    5
-    Will Powell    Trinity (TX)    5
-    Hayden Swinehart    Susquehanna    5

Scoring Offense:

1    Edgewood    5.50
2    Alfred St.    5.00
3    Ursinus    4.40
4    Southern Va.    4.33
5    Merchant Marine    4.17
6    Hamline    4.00
-    SUNY Poly    4.00
8    Brevard    3.75
-    George Fox    3.75
10    Mary Washington    3.67

Goals Against Average:

1    Tufts    .000
2    Carleton    .167
3    Adrian    .200
-    Connecticut Col.    .200
-    SUNY Maritime    .200
6    Ill. Wesleyan    .250
-    Scranton    .250
-    Wesleyan (CT)    .250
9    Bard    .333
-    Belhaven    .333

EnmoreCat · September 18, 2024, 05:52:53 PM

I think Amherst is 0.25 also, unless I am using an incorrect calc, or perhaps there is a new version of Amhate involving statistical exclusion.

Kuiper · September 18, 2024, 06:23:29 PM

Quote from: EnmoreCat on September 18, 2024, 05:52:53 PMI think Amherst is 0.25 also, unless I am using an incorrect calc, or perhaps there is a new version of Amhate involving statistical exclusion.

It's certainly possible that the everyone, including the NCAA, is out to get Amherst, but this is because of the cutoff date. The leaderboard has a cutoff date of Sept. 16th.

https://www.ncaa.com/stats/soccer-men/d3

The larger list indicates it was updated Sept 18 at 10:22 am based on games as of Sept 17, so it includes the Amherst-WPI shutout victory, while the leaderboard does not.

https://www.ncaa.com/stats/soccer-men/d3/current/team/32

EnmoreCat · September 18, 2024, 06:31:03 PM

Quote from: Kuiper on September 18, 2024, 06:23:29 PM
Quote from: EnmoreCat on September 18, 2024, 05:52:53 PMI think Amherst is 0.25 also, unless I am using an incorrect calc, or perhaps there is a new version of Amhate involving statistical exclusion.

It's certainly possible that the everyone, including the NCAA, is out to get Amherst, but this is because of the cutoff date. The leaderboard has a cutoff date of Sept. 16th.

https://www.ncaa.com/stats/soccer-men/d3

The larger list indicates it was updated Sept 18 at 10:22 am based on games as of Sept 17, so it includes the Amherst-WPI shutout victory, while the leaderboard does not.

https://www.ncaa.com/stats/soccer-men/d3/current/team/32

Phew! You didn't strike me as an Amhater, Kuiper, although you may just be very good at covering it up 😁.

Kuiper · September 18, 2024, 06:44:27 PM

Quote from: EnmoreCat on September 18, 2024, 06:31:03 PM
Quote from: Kuiper on September 18, 2024, 06:23:29 PM
Quote from: EnmoreCat on September 18, 2024, 05:52:53 PMI think Amherst is 0.25 also, unless I am using an incorrect calc, or perhaps there is a new version of Amhate involving statistical exclusion.

It's certainly possible that the everyone, including the NCAA, is out to get Amherst, but this is because of the cutoff date. The leaderboard has a cutoff date of Sept. 16th.

https://www.ncaa.com/stats/soccer-men/d3

The larger list indicates it was updated Sept 18 at 10:22 am based on games as of Sept 17, so it includes the Amherst-WPI shutout victory, while the leaderboard does not.

https://www.ncaa.com/stats/soccer-men/d3/current/team/32

Phew! You didn't strike me as an Amhater, Kuiper, although you may just be very good at covering it up 😁.

No Amhate here. Out here in Region X land, we're too busy trying to get people in the D3 world to acknowledge we exist at all to cast any aspersions. And, of course, as the Texas Lutheran-St. Thomas game last year demonstrates, we have more than our fair share of issues with fouls and player conduct!

Ejay · September 19, 2024, 08:35:29 AM

These stats are not entirely accurate. As of the 9/16 cutoff, Nathan Donovan @ Eau-Claire had 11 goals, not 8 as reported. And BTW, he just scored again last night to give him 12.

Kuiper · September 19, 2024, 09:56:56 AM

Quote from: Ejay on September 19, 2024, 08:35:29 AMThese stats are not entirely accurate. As of the 9/16 cutoff, Nathan Donovan @ Eau-Claire had 11 goals, not 8 as reported. And BTW, he just scored again last night to give him 12.

No idea why that is incorrect. It's not the dates, as you mentioned, and I checked back and the NCAA site's box score for the 9/14 game does record his three goals. I also checked back his three previous games with hat tricks on the NCAA site and they record those as well (sometimes schools fail to send in the stats to the NCAA site). It must be human error unless the stats from one of his games doesn't count for some reason.

Kuiper · September 25, 2024, 05:27:56 PM

Through Sept 24 (FYI: I confirmed a few of the stats against what is on their team's page, but these numbers are otherwise NOT audited by Price Waterhouse or anyone else and are taken directly from the NCAA site

). I also think that some of these Upper Midwest schools must be playing soccer and others must be picking daisies because the first group is running up the scores on the second group, which may explain why the top scorers are disproportionately from this region of the country.

Goals:

1    Nathan Donovan    Wis.-Eau Claire    12
-    Connor Gage    Edgewood    12
3    Lucas Cross    Franciscan    10
-    Mitchel Munzing    Augsburg    10
-    Drilon Toska    FDU-Florham    10
6    Andre Robertson    Ripon    9
-    Seth Schroeder    Ripon    9
-    Leonardo Torres    Marymount (VA)    9
9    Christian Bowles    Albright    8
-    Alem Duratovic    Kenyon    8

Assists:

1    Hayden Swinehart    Susquehanna    8
2    Matthew Escobar    Wm. Paterson    7
-    Manu Prieto    Buffalo St.    7
-    Remus Repcak    Augsburg    7
5    Drew Decker    Nazareth    6
-    Connor Gage    Edgewood    6
-    Mitchel Munzing    Augsburg    6
-    Diego Navas    Wm. Paterson    6
-    Anthony Recinos    Rhode Island Col.    6
-    Landon Stock    Southern Va.    6

Scoring Offense:

1    Edgewood    5.00
2    Alfred St.    4.11
-    Ripon    4.11
4    Wilmington (OH)    3.88
5    Brevard    3.83
6    Hamline    3.78
7    Buffalo St.    3.62
-    Ursinus    3.62
-    Wm. Paterson    3.62
10    Middlebury    3.57

Goals Against Average:

1    Ill. Wesleyan    .167
2    Dickinson    .250
3    Adrian    .286
-    Bates    .286
-    Connecticut Col.    .286
-    DeSales    .286
-    Gustavus Adolphus    .286
-    Lycoming    .286
-    Tufts    .286
-    Wesleyan (CT)    .286

Kuiper · October 03, 2024, 11:34:22 AM

Through Oct 2:

Goals:

1   Connor Gage   Edgewood   15
2   Parker Burke   Wilmington (OH)   14
-   Enrique Gonzalez   Aurora   14
4   Nathan Donovan   Wis.-Eau Claire   13
5   Lucas Cross   Franciscan   12
-   Sebastian Londono   Saint Elizabeth   12
-   Leonardo Torres   Marymount (VA)   12
8   Ryan Cogill   Alvernia   11
-   Brian Taylor   Fredonia   11
10   Miguel Konde Gwo   Edgewood   10

Assists:

1   Connor Gage   Edgewood   9
-   Manu Prieto   Buffalo St.   9
-   Remus Repcak   Augsburg   9
-   Ryder Tomlinson Sterud   Hamline   9
5   Drew Decker   Nazareth   8
-   Matthew Escobar   Wm. Paterson   8
-   Jace Houck   Wilmington (OH)   8
-   Anthony Recinos   Rhode Island Col.   8
-   Hayden Swinehart   Susquehanna   8
10   Nathan Donovan   Wis.-Eau Claire   7

Scoring Offense:

1   Edgewood   4.64
2   Alfred St.   4.55
3   Wilmington (OH)   4.30
4   Wis.-Superior   3.80
5   Trinity (TX)   3.75
6   Brevard   3.71
7   NYU   3.62
8   Buffalo St.   3.60
9   Crown (MN)   3.56
10   Ripon   3.45

Goals Against Average:

1   Ill. Wesleyan   .250
2   Geneva   .300
3   Middlebury   .375
-   Trinity (TX)   .375
5   DeSales   .400
6   Amherst   .444
-   Bates   .444
-   Clarkson   .444
-   Colorado Col.   .444
-   Connecticut Col.   .444

Kuiper · October 10, 2024, 12:44:43 PM

Who had Wilmington as the top scoring team in D3 this far into the season? After scoring 28 goals all season last year (in which they finished 4-11-2), they have 60 thus far this season (and are 9-0-3). To be sure, they played a much easier non-conference schedule in 2024 than 2023 (and it's about to get much harder in conference), but even against opponents they played in both years the turnaround has been dramatic. They scored 1 each against Hanover and Franklin last season, and 3 and 9, respectively, this season. Parker Burke, a freshman, has 18 goals on 29 shots on goal in 12 games. He's scored at least 1 goal in 10 out of the 12 games, including two against Wittenberg, which tied Ohio Wesleyan 1-1 the next game. How did the rest of the OAC/NCAC miss this kid from Xenia, OH?

Through Oct 9:

Goals:

1    Nathan Donovan    Wis.-Eau Claire    19
2    Parker Burke    Wilmington (OH)    18
3    Enrique Gonzalez    Aurora    16
4    Connor Gage    Edgewood    15
5    Miguel Konde Gwo    Edgewood    14
-    Sebastian Londono    Saint Elizabeth    14
7    Lucas Cross    Franciscan    13
-    Leonardo Torres    Marymount (VA)    13
9    Jesse Brittain    Cairn    12
-    Branden Dolezal    Aurora    12

Assists:

1    Louis Bez    Mount Aloysius    11
-    Connor Gage    Edgewood    11
3    Moses Beers    Cairn    9
-    Jaziel Enriquez    Aurora    9
-    Randy Harris    Wilmington (OH)    9
-    Jace Houck    Wilmington (OH)    9
-    Joshua Joseph    Thomas (ME)    9
-    Manu Prieto    Buffalo St.    9
-    Remus Repcak    Augsburg    9
-    Kade Theunissen    Covenant    9

Scoring Offense:

1    Wilmington (OH)    5.00
2    Alfred St.    4.23
-    Edgewood    4.23
4    Wis.-Superior    3.92
5    Mount Aloysius    3.50
6    Trinity (TX)    3.40
7    NYU    3.33
8    Hamline    3.31
9    Buffalo St.    3.25
10    Crown (MN)    3.18

Goals Against Average:

1    Geneva    .250
2    Colorado Col.    .364
-    DeSales    .364
4    Texas Lutheran    .375
5    Amherst    .400
-    Trinity (TX)    .400
-    Tufts    .400
8    Va. Wesleyan    .417
9    Connecticut Col.    .444
10    Clarkson    .455

FCGrizzliesGrad · October 10, 2024, 01:54:25 PM

A few other stats I found interesting...

Red Cards:
1 Berea 6
1 RIT 6
3 Kean 4
3 Randolph 4
3 Wm. Paterson 4
6   17 teams tied 3

1 Roosvins Josil, Berea 2
1 Peter Mensah, Berea 2
1 Kendric Steward, Schreiner 2

Yellow Cards:
1 Manhattanville 43
2 Elms 39
3 Wilkes 38
4 Alma 37
4 Coe 37
4 Elmhurst 37
7 Penn St. Harrisburg 33
8 Keene St. 32
8 Pfeiffer 32
10   4 teams tied 31
...
399 Bryn Athyn 8
399 McMurry 8
399 Norwich 8
399 WashU 8
403 Messiah 7
403 Rhodes 7
405 Rose-Hulman 6
406 Eastern Conn. St. 4
407 VTSU Lyndon 3

1 Victor Lewicki, Elmhurst 7
2 George Batska, Pratt 6
2 Grant Courtad, Earlham 6
2 Enrique Gonzalez, Aurora 6
2 Victor Hernandez, Berea 6
2 Byron Hines, Penn St. Harrisburg 6
2 Nathan Hunt, Bethel (MN) 6
2 Ian Kearney, Coe 6
2 Alexander Wozniak, Millikin 6
10 53 players tied 5

Fouls per game:
1 La Roche 4.60
2 VTSU Lyndon 4.70
3 MUW 5.45
4 Curry 5.64
5 Martin Luther 5.85
6 Salem St. 6.33
7 Bluffton 6.36
8 McMurry 6.40
9 St. Joseph's (Brkln) 6.70
10 Valley Forge 6.71
...
398 Elms 13.83
399 Baruch 13.90
400 Stockton 14.17
401 Middlebury 14.40
402 Franklin & Marshall 14.42
403 SUNY Maritime 14.64
404 Salisbury 14.75
405 Wis.-Stevens Point 14.79
406 Amherst 15.30
407 Old Westbury 15.83

Kuiper · October 29, 2024, 07:01:28 PM

Through Oct. 28

Goals:

1    Nathan Donovan    Wis.-Eau Claire    24
2    Parker Burke    Wilmington (OH)    21
3    Connor Gage    Edgewood    19
4    Branden Dolezal    Aurora    18
-    Enrique Gonzalez    Aurora    18
6    Lucas Cross    Franciscan    17
-    Miguel Konde Gwo    Edgewood    17
-    Trevor Thompson    Pacific Lutheran    17
9    Ryan Cogill    Alvernia    16
-    Matt Shultz    Cortland    16

Assists:

1    Manu Prieto    Buffalo St.    15
2    Moses Beers    Cairn    13
-    Connor Gage    Edgewood    13
-    Kade Theunissen    Covenant    13
5    Nathan Donovan    Wis.-Eau Claire    12
-    Randy Harris    Wilmington (OH)    12
-    Joshua Joseph    Thomas (ME)    12
-    Remus Repcak    Augsburg    12
9    Louis Bez    Mount Aloysius    11
-    Drew Decker    Nazareth    11

Scoring Offense:

1    Wis.-Superior    4.44
2    Alfred St.    4.12
-    Wilmington (OH)    4.12
4    Edgewood    4.05
5    Wis.-Eau Claire    3.62
6    Mount Aloysius    3.53
7    Trinity (TX)    3.31
8    Aurora    3.24

Goals Against Average:

1    Geneva    .250
2    Tufts    .286
3    Colorado Col.    .294
4    Connecticut Col.    .357
5    Denison    .400
6    Middlebury    .429
7    Trinity (TX)    .500
-    Williams    .500
9    North Park    .529
10    Clarkson    .533

Fouls Per Game:

1    VTSU Lyndon    14    56    4.00
2    La Roche    15    74    4.93
3    Martin Luther    18    100    5.56
4    MUW    16    94    5.88
5    VTSU-Johnson    13    81    6.23
6    Pitt.-Greensburg    16    107    6.69
7    McMurry    16    108    6.75
8    Curry    19    132    6.95
9    LaGrange    15    106    7.07
10    Valley Forge    18    128    7.11

398    Kean      18    248    13.78
399    Amherst    14    193    13.79
400    Middlebury    14    194    13.86
401    John Jay    15    209    13.93
-    Ursinus    15    209    13.93
403    Wis.-Stevens Point    17    239    14.06
404    SUNY Maritime    16    225    14.06
405    Salisbury    15    212    14.13
406    Franklin & Marshall    16    237    14.81
407    Old Westbury    16    241    15.06

Red Cards:

1    Berea    7
2    RIT    6
3    Howard Payne    5
-    New Jersey City    5
-    Rosemont    5
-    St. Thomas (TX)    5
-    UMSV    5
8    Anna Maria    4

Yellow Cards:

1    Elmhurst    53
2    Coe    49
-    Manhattanville    49
4    Alma    48
-    UMSV    48
6    Elms    47
7    Kean    45
-    Wilkes    45
9    Penn St. Harrisburg    43
-    Rowan    43

Kuiper · October 30, 2024, 09:05:51 PM

One of the misleading things about the offensive stats is that there are certain teams around the country that are epically bad. I don't mean they have poor records. There are lots of teams that have lost a ton of games, but often by 1-0, 2-1 margins and have had some ties too. These are teams that are really, really out of their element.

The upper midwest seems to have several epically bad teams that are really bad - not just can't score but play hard bad, or technically weak, but foul a lot bad - really bad. As in, they often don't have enough players to field a full team bad.

Northland is one of those teams. The college was very close to closing in the spring, many of their players transferred, recruits went elsewhere, and they just don't have the bodies to compete. So, when you see that Wisconsin-Superior is the highest scoring team in the country, it's because of games like the one today against Northland, which only had 11 players available, and it looks like one player could only play 72 minutes and another played 88 minutes, both without anyone substituting in for them.

Wisconsin -Superior 15 - Northland 1

- They outshot Northland 55-1
- Two players with hat tricks
- Two players with braces
- Five other scorers

Wisconsin-Superior beat them 14-0 the first time the two teams played this season, so this was no surprise for the coaches or the players. Some of these Wisconsin-Superior kids have built up a career's worth of goals in two games against Northland.

If coaches just lazily vote for All-American squads based on goal/assist tallies, the first team will be dominated by players from teams like Wisconsin-Superior in the upper midwest. Perhaps many of those kids deserve recognition. I'm only asking coaches from other regions of the country to take the additional time to see how those players did against stronger teams before they turn in those ballots, because there are some inflated scores up there.

SierraFD3soccer · October 30, 2024, 09:43:33 PM

Definitely wondered about if W-S was some sort of powerhouse.

Wow, just looked at Northland's stats. Scored 10 goals and gave up 91. Their keeper has made 175 saves with an average of 5.69 goals per game. FYI, the kid is from Miami, FL. He is going to have an awesome winter. I guess it could be worse. Hah. Also saw that they have 14 freshmen.