Cincinnati & Naptown Set New WFTDA Records
Posted by Justice Feelgood Marshall on March 24th, 2008
No details on quite how this went down yet, but it looks like last Saturday’s bout between unranked Cincinnati and unranked Naptown set a new record for the lowest total score ever in a WFTDA-regulation bout — Cincinnati won 59-32. That total score of 91 slides in comfortably below the previous low of 111, set in December 2007 when Minnesota defeated Arizona by a final of 87-24.
Cincinnati’s 59 points also set a record for the lowest score by a winning team in a WFTDA-regulation bout … previously, that record had been held by Philly’s 62-56 defeat of Bay Area in November 2007.
(And if you’re wondering, no, I didn’t know that off the top of my head — let us all bow in supplication to the stats geeks over at Flat Track Stats, who have created a wonderful database tool with which we can all nerd out for hours on end. If you have not yet checked out that site, I must urge you to do so at your earliest convenience.)
UPDATE: Professor Murder has some interesting stats in the comments — including the fact that the third period was Cincinnati 10, Naptown 8!
UPDATE 2: Here’s some bout footage shot by Cincinnati’s Miss Print for Cincinnati.com, and absolutely do not miss the last third of this video podcast by Doing Indy — unquestionably some of the best-edited derby footage we’ve ever seen.
March 24th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Last I looked, flattrackstats.com didn’t show stats for WFTDA bouts before January 2007. Isn’t it possible that there are lower score bouts from before then?
March 24th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Hi, I help run that site, and it’s true we currently only have 2007 and 2008 bouts in there. But we’re entering everything (from 2004 on) soon so I have the data on hand. There’s only three bouts between 2004-2006 that break the top 5 lowest scoring WFTDA inter-league bouts, and that’s with a total score of 122, 126, and 133. We haven’t verified every bout yet so something could slide in, but it doesn’t seem likely.
March 24th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Oops, with this weekend’s 91 in there, only the 122 from 2006 would make it into the top 5.
March 24th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
The following are my own bout notes while sipping beer on the sidelines, so they are no substitute from the official bout stats. That said, I’m confident they’re fully accurate.
Period totals looked like this:
CINC/NRG
1: 25/16
2: 24/8
3: 10/8
*LOTS* of scoreless jams here.
P1: 7/12 CINC, 7/12 NRG (NRG had 6 straight scoreless jams, and chalked up 1 point in the jam following those 6 to end the period)
P2: 6/11 CINC, 9/11 NRG (again having 6 straight scoreless jams to end the period)
P3: 8/10 CINC, 6/10 NRG
CINC twice had three straight scoreless jams; the first three of the bout, and the first three in the third period.
Overall, points were only scored in 12 of 33 jams for CINC, and 11 of 33 for NRG. That’s scoring points in 36.6% of the jams for CINC and 33.3% for NRG. CINC’s per jam average was 4.92 points, and for NRG was 2.90.
March 24th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Eek. I wasn’t thinking that I only included jams in which points were scored.
Strike that original measure, or use it for what it is. CINC’s per jam points scored was 1.79 points; NRG’s was 0.97.
March 25th, 2008 at 9:51 am
I knew it was an exceptionally low scoring bout but had no idea it would be record breaking. Any word on the number of penalties recorded? I’m sure it has to be pretty high as well.
March 26th, 2008 at 10:40 am
Just a note the 3rd period of the Carolina / Bay Area game in November was Carolina 10 Bay Area 7