Mansfield Town and League Two Statistics 2022 - 2023

[grufti]

During the Autumn we were 15 points ahead of where we were last season, but following the defeat at Walsall on new year's day we were back to being on the same points as last season.

Since then we have been behind last season's points total but last night we eventually caught up with last season's points total.

Last season our last four matches were two wins and two draws. Looks like we are going to need similar to make the play offs this season.

I've been saying for a month we'll finish 7th again. Hope I'm right, I can't see it being higher.

[MTFCMusings]

Our injury crises really began from January 2023. Here’s a list of league minutes played by the Stags squad from and including 1/1/23, and the percentage of the minutes available to each player, played (not including stoppage time)

Perch 1606 94%
Kilgour 1444 94%
Akins 1410 82%
Hewitt 1410 82%
Bowery 1358 79%
Pym 1350 79%
DKD 1240 92%
Quinn 1195 70%
Wallace 1155 68%
Boateng 1121 66%
Clarke 1015 59%
Harbottle 739 43%
Oates 677 40%
Johnson 514 34%
Maris 475 28%
Flinders 360 21%
Macca 274 16%
DJ 251 17%
Swan 244 14%
Gale 185 11%
Hawkins 180 100%
Gordon 177 49%
Law 158 9%
Lapslie 105 58%
Reed 100 7%
O’Toole 54 3%
Hartigan 33 2%

[Marky Mark]

Our injury crises really began from January 2023. Here’s a list of league minutes played by the Stags squad from and including 1/1/23, and the percentage of the minutes available to each player, played (not including stoppage time)

Perch 1606 94%
Kilgour 1444 94%
Akins 1410 82%
Hewitt 1410 82%
Bowery 1358 79%
Pym 1350 79%
DKD 1240 92%
Quinn 1195 70%
Wallace 1155 68%
Boateng 1121 66%
Clarke 1015 59%
Harbottle 739 43%
Oates 677 40%
Johnson 514 34%
Maris 475 28%
Flinders 360 21%
Macca 274 16%
DJ 251 17%
Swan 244 14%
Gale 185 11%
Hawkins 180 100%
Gordon 177 49%
Law 158 9%
Lapslie 105 58%
Reed 100 7%
O’Toole 54 3%
Hartigan 33 2%

Great stats these Musings. Really shows that after the minutes drop off after Clarke that we’ve largely had 11 players doing the bulk of the minutes since January.

Basically you can arrange the top 11 players into a 4-4-2 and they have been the first team by and large. That the oldest player (I think) has done the most minutes since January is crazy. Didn’t realise that Maris had only effectively played 5 full games since January either, and he’s half way up the appearances! We’ve missed a lot of those players.

[bellwhiff]

During the Autumn we were 15 points ahead of where we were last season, but following the defeat at Walsall on new year's day we were back to being on the same points as last season.

Since then we have been behind last season's points total but last night we eventually caught up with last season's points total.

Last season our last four matches were two wins and two draws. Looks like we are going to need similar to make the play offs this season.

Oh goody. Now we are back at least level, I’m sure we might get reminded about it again

[Captain Cunno]

Would be interesting to compare the games missed through injury/suspension of the first team from this season to last..

[part time pete]

As a team the Stags have won six more games than losses including cup games this season.
(21 wins, 15 defeats in 49 games)

There are only three players who when starting games have won more than six games than they have lost.

O.Clarke 12 (16 wins, 4 defeats in 28 starts)
L. Akins 11 (18 wins, 7 defeats in 35 starts)
E. Hewitt 8 (16 wins, 8 defeats in 37 starts)

It just shows how important these players are to the stags.

[Martin Shaw]

[MTFCMusings]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65456016

Thought this was an interesting article, not all about stats really but wasn’t sure which other thread to use.

[MTFCMusings]

Players who finished in the top 20 of L2 on certain categories

Goals - Swan =16th (10)
Assists - Quinn, Akins, Boateng, Hewitt =14th (6)
Combined Goals and Assists - Akins =19th (14)
Goals per 90 - Swan 2nd (0.67)
xG - Akins 9th (11.1)
xG per 90 - Swan 1st (0.53) Oates 12th (0.35) Akins 19th (0.31)
Accurate passes per 90 - Reed 1st (53.7) Maris 20th (38.5)
Chances created - Quinn 14th (55)
xA - Quinn 18th (5.2)
Successful tackles per 90 - Clarke =9th (1.9)
Interceptions per 90 - Wallace =9th (1.9) McLaughlin =12th (1.8) Perch =16th (1.7)
Possession won final third per 90 - Clarke, Akins =6th 1, Maris 20th 0.8
Clean Sheets - Pym =8th 13
Saves per 90 - Pym =19th 2.1
Goals prevented - Pym 20th -6.9

[Captain Cunno]

Yet some still think Reid is mediocre

[PEAR CIDER]

Yet some still think Reid is mediocre

reidiocre

[Dan]

Yet some still think Reid is mediocre

That's nothing, someone wanted to swap Elliott Hewitt with a Grimsby player!!!

[zod]

Yet some still think Reid is mediocre

reidiocre

Reed

[Captain Cunno]

I'm on about Jamie Reid Zod

The player i meant to say I wanted to swap him for has just been released Dan..

See where goes hey...

[Dan]

He can't be very good then

[Tippy Tappy Football]

Thanks to Andy Saunders who just sent me this.

Northampton Town and Salford City did the best of the clubs who used U23 players the most.

[zod]

I'm on about Jamie Reid Zod

The player i meant to say I wanted to swap him for has just been released Dan..

See where goes hey...

I get you, I thought we were referring to the comments by some about Louis Reed not being very good!

[Tippy Tappy Football]

"Grimsby Town chairman Jason Stockwood has explained how a data-led approach could help the club in all aspects, including commercial value and increased performance on the pitch. The Mariners announced a new partnership with sports intelligence firm Twenty First Group last week, in the hope that decision making process regarding all sides of the club will be enhanced by their new partners’ use of data intelligence."

https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/spor ... ew-8444828

[Tippy Tappy Football]

"Jon Brady, supported by chairman Kelvin Thomas and chief executive James Whiting, drove changes to the way Northampton recruit players when he was made permanent manager following relegation to League Two a couple of years ago. Assistant boss Colin Calderwood has also taken on more responsibility, and all of those changes bore fruit last week when Town won promotion to League One. "We had a big review a couple of years ago and we changed a lot of things,” said Chief Executive, James Whiting. "We have a lot of really good regional scouts and there's the software and data analysis that we use to back up our decisions."

https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/spor ... re-4142545

[part time pete]

Points per game when the following have started league games. Number in brackets is number of starts

2.50 Flinders (4)
1.96 Clarke O. (27)
1.80 Kilgour (20)
1.80 Wallace (20)
1.80 Johnson C. (10)
1.79 Bowery (24)
1.78 Akins (36)
1.78 Keillor-Dunn (18)
1.75 Reed (4)
1.73 McLaughlin (22)
1.69 Harbottle (29)
1.68 Lapslie (19)
1.68 Perch (31)
1.68 Hewitt (34)
1.67 Gale (3)
1.67 Maris (24)
1.66 Quinn (35)
1.63 team (46)
1.60 Hawkins (20)
1.55 Pym (42)
1.44 Oates (18)
1.22 Boateng (23)
1.17 Hartigan (12)
1.13 O'Toole (8)
1.00 Swan (12)
0.89 Gordon (9)
0.50 Johnson D (2)


Top XI team

Flinders
C. Johnson, Harbottle, Kilgour, McLaughlin
Reed
Clarke, Wallace
DKD
Akins, Bowery

[bellwhiff]

Thanks to Andy Saunders who just sent me this.

Northampton Town and Salford City did the best of the clubs who used U23 players the most.

I don’t think our injury situation is unrelated to this stat.