Carroll vs. Danos 2021 Icebreaker 11 Final Rolling Shutters Deep Dive
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Starting in 2020, the WPH has crunched tens of thousands of shots, tracking the aces, kill shots, return of serve kills, first-strike kills, errors, 6+ shot rallies won, and hinders for dozens of classic matches in handball’s recent and distant past. The thousands of numbers we’ve crunched have provided handball fans and players with the blueprint to win matches.
On this edition of Crunching the Numbers, we’ll dive deeper into the Killian Carroll vs. Danos Cordova Icebreaker 11 final to tally the number of rallies, number of shots struck, percentage of rallies that resulted in points, and more.
When we first Crunched the Numbers of the Killian Carroll vs. Danos Cordova 2021 Icebreaker 11 final HERE, we found that Killian struck four aces to Daniel’s six, Killian tallied 12 rally enders to Daniel’s eight, and Killian and Daniel both made five errors, amongst other stats that were crunched.
Now we will dive even deeper into WPH Rolling Shutters Analytics.
WPH Rolling Shutter Analytics (Deep Dive) of the 2021 Carroll vs. Danos Icebreaker 11 final (Game One only)
Total rallies: 43
Total shots struck: 256
Average rally length: 5.95
Total points scored: 30
Percentage of rallies that resulted in a point: 70%
Longest rally: 26
Shortest rally: 1
First half of game one average rally length (from 0-0 to 7-6): 7.1
Second half of game one average rally length (from 7-6 to 16-14): 4.3
Percentage of rally-ending shots: 7.8%
Percentage of shots resulting in errors: 3.9%
Were the rallies shorter (by nearly three shots) in the second half of game one because Killian and Danos were tired? Or maybe their serves were more precise? Maybe each went for more kills?
Are you surprised that 70% of the rallies resulted in points, meaning the server had a huge advantage.
When we crunched game one of Paul Brady vs. Killian Carroll from the final of the 2016 Race 4 Eight New Orleans (Brady won 15-11) HERE, there were 52 rallies and 26 points scored, meaning 50% of the rallies resulted in a points, compared to 70% of the rallies resulting in points in the Carroll vs. Danos 2021 Icebreaker 11 final.
Watch the Carroll vs. Danos Icebreaker 11 Final HERE
David Fink
WPH Statistician