Why Sweden won the World Championship in floorball?

Short answer: they were the best team at tournament! A longer one: Finland challenged Sweden in one game, in the final really well but still Sweden should have won the game perhaps 4-3 or 5-3. The final ended 3-2. All this information is given by MyCoazh PRO –statistical game analysis, an iPad-program for real time game analyzing.

Picture 1: MyCoazh –statistics of team Sweden (Sweden attacking upwards): In MyCoazh PRO/Video every action of one team that “forwards the game” is marked. So every time player and the ball have a contact it is either successful or unsuccessful action. The Results-picture shows all the actions of the team in the game.  Green dots are successful actions and red ones unsuccessful, green arrows are shots on goal and red ones either blocked or missed shots). The most interesting information on the Results-page is on the right side of the page. There are both number of actions and success percent of them. Finns were really defending their goal as the number of blocked shots (25) tells. Goalie Kosonen was one of the best in team Finland. Sweden´s Team Score 8,5 is very high. If your team average is 8,5 your team always wins the game. Team usually has 600 actions in one game. Sweden had 766 so they really possessed the ball.

What was the anatomy of the final? Finland started well and made use of Sweden goalie´s Åman`s excessive self-assurance. It was really near that Åman would have collapsed totally, after 2 shots and 0 saves in first period. But he pulled himself together, took couple of excellent saves and the rest is history. Perhaps the most important save was the one where Moilanen got a chance to score 1-3 while Finland was playing short-handed.  Soon after that Nilsberth scored a power play goal in the other end of the rink.

In the first period Finland got a dream start and kept Sweden away from the best scoring zone. Only Sweden´s third line could produce some quality chances. In the second period it was not Sweden who improved their playing but Finland who made some crucial mistakes and Sweden got to the game and equalized the final. In the third period both teams got good chances but only Sweden succeeded. Some Finnish players should have some extra training in hitting the bouncing ball…

Picture 2: First line of team Sweden: First line´s game was quite even as Corsi (our shots vs. opponent´s shots) 17-18 shows. In line´s Result-page you can see much more. There is every players´ Score (from 4-10) from which you can tell that only Nilsson played exceptional well and Activity (times that ball and player had contact) that shows it was Östholm who was trying to control the ball most. Average of players’ Scores gives the Line´s Score and Activities add up to Line´s Activity. These numbers tell that Sweden`s first line was in trouble with Finland’s first line. The line level can also be seen in the picture. Sweden (attacking upwards in the picture) could not reach to the best possible scoring zone or chances. This line has trouble to possess the ball and also with duels.

Sweden´s first line lost they game 0-1. Especially Malmström and center Iraeus could not produce enough forward. Sweden´s second line won their game 2-1 even though shots were almost even, 9-10. This line was especially strong in defence and M. Samuelsson played almost without errors (85%). His defense linesman Nilsberth was in much more trouble. It was a little bit ironic that the winning goal was scored by Stenberg who was altogether the lousiest player of team Sweden. Team captain Samuelsson showed his greatness to the team with two passes to goals. Sweden’s third line was dominating their game as their Corsi (shots for and against) 24-10 tells but couldn´t score because they didn´t get to the best scoring zone. Especially Galante-Carlström was shooting enough but 6 out of 9 were shots were blocked by Finns. MyCoazh Most Valuable Player of the final was defender Sundstedt, who made only 3 mistakes in the defence zone and his passing accuracy in short passes was amazing 97%! He made some really dangerous long runs with the ball which produced good scoring chances and it was during the 2 minutes penalty that he forced Finland to take that Sweden equalized the game.

Picture 3: 2-line of team Sweden: 2-line was efficient in their chances and was defending much better than the first line which can be seen in comparing the amount of red dots of both lines at Sweden´s defence zone. Game is always played line against line and usually player against player. Finland´s second line did not succeed in the final.

Picture 4: 3-line of team Sweden: third line was dominating their game as their Line Score 9,0 tells. Finns didn`t get much ball (Team Activity 271) or chances to score (Defense Zone Errors only 10!) while they were at the rink. The reason they did not score can be seen in the line´s Results-page. Finland defended well and kept this line away from the best possible scoring zone. IFF selected Rudd (Score 9 +) Most Valuable Player of the final but as you can see Sundstedt was even better! MyCoazh evaluation is based on how much a player contributed to winning or losing the game.

So how can you use this kind of statistical information? There are three main purposes for statistical game analysis data. Firstly you can scout the opponent and evaluate your own line-ups with it. Secondly, after doing about 10 game analyses of your team, you can get player profiles of your players. How that one player is usually performing. In one game a player can perform either better or worse than normally but an indivudual range of player’s performance can be found (Score and Activity). The most useful way to use MyCoazh is during the games. After the first period you can show the most important statistical information to coaches and they can make decisions based on them. MyCoazh gives an estimation of how the game will end if it continues the way it has started. My Coazh give support to coaches in making decisions during the game. Thirdly, you can give individual feedback to players with MyCoazh. If you link Youtube video to My Coazh game analysis with MyCoazh Video, you get all the clips/actions of one player. What a way to give individual feedback! Improve your player performance! Improve your team performance!

Picture 5: MyCoazh Most Valuable Player of the final: Sundstedt. On the player level all the actions can be seen. Actions have different symbols at the rink (ball = pass, square = duel, steal = triangle etc.) and with MyCoazh Video you can combine statistics with Youtube-video of the game and you’ll get all the actions of that player in videoclips! Sundstedt was really active in the final as the number of Activity (80) shows. It take´s ½ hour to go through 80 clips with the player.

If you are interested in MyCoazh PRO or MyCoazh Video –programs, contact jussi.kauppi@mycoazh.fi. If you first want to test keeping statistics with one player, try scouting with MyCoazh Floorball –application. You will find it from AppStore and GooglePlay. More information about MyCoazh can be read at www.mycoazh.com

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