Scores from Dallas/Fort Worth High School Soccer Matches

Dallas/Fort Worth High School Soccer

statistics show it's not that different from the game

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Frankly, much of my awareness to soccer's scoring reality can be credited to having

watched my share of Texas high school soccer matches over the past seven years.

Again, the good folks at the Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram

and the Grapevine Sun do a great job reporting on the soccer activities of the local

DFW area high school soccer teams. Here are scans of a very limited number of

Dallas high school soccer matches...

Beginning with a quick look at the scan on the right for the "Sweet 16"

Regional Semi-Finals for Texas 5-5A Schools (the largest division) for

both girls and boys during April 2005. This is a small sampling but all you

need to do is look at the right hand column to realize that 2 total goals

scored by the loosing teams over the 16 matches clearly demonstrates

what it takes to win at the highest level in Texas High School Soccer...

Texas Boys High School Soccer Semifinals for April 2005.

DEFENSE.

Next, lets look at a few larger samples of high school soccer matches

reported on January 18 and 19, 2002:

Which are summarized as follows:

172 total high school games reported (78 boys and 94 girls)

119 of 172 (69%) are shutouts in regulation (including 5 scoreless 0-0 draws in regulation)

8 of 172 (4.6%) are draws in regulation (including 5 scoreless 0-0 draws in regulation)

Bottom line for Dallas/Fort Worth High School Soccer Matches reported on Jan. 18 and 19, 2003:

71% of games finished regulation as either shutouts and/or draws

and the average score of the losing team was: 71 points / 172 games = 0.41 point

Following are scans of the scores of the previous weekend's high school soccer tournaments which were

published January 10, 11, and 12, 2003.

So, for that weekend...

219 total high school games reported (105 boys and 114 girls)

135 of 219 (61.6%) are shutouts in regulation (including 3 scoreless 0-0 draws in regulation)

15 of 219 (7%) are draws in regulation (including 3 scoreless 0-0 draws in regulation)

Bottom line for DFW High School Soccer results reported on Jan. 10, 11, & 12, 2003:

67% of games finished regulation as either shutouts and/or draws

and the average score of the losing team was: 117 points / 219 games = 0.54 point

Mike "but don't get me wrong here...I really like high school soccer" Kimbro

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