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PENALTY CORNER ANALYTICS
THE PENALTY CORNER CRISIS
Where have the penalty corner goals gone?
There has been an unquestionable decrease in the corner conversion rate in the past few years throughout all of field hockey. Here we will analyze the keys to this global problem:
NCAA APCs
For the first time in 4 years, the Division I APC CVR average has increased (1.07), but most teams still struggle to keep a competitive penalty corner scoring rate.
Practical case
We are going to take the 67th ranked team for APC CVR in 2023, to show with a practical example how penalty corner CVR can change a team's season:
This team had 178 penalty corners, scoring just 19 for a 10.67% APC CVR. If this team had the conversion rate of the Division I leaders (24.36%), they would have reached 43.36 PC goals; 24 more goals during the season, 1.2 more goals per game.
With that extra goal per game, from the 6 losses they had that season, 4 would have gone to overtime and one would have been a win during regular time. So, by improving their penalty corner CVR this team had the potential for a 19-1 season and a run at the NCAA Tournament.
NCAA DPCs
Huge gap between the top and the bottom teams; 17.97 point difference between the Division I first & last ranked
2024 Paris Olympics & The Elite Struggles
On the men's side only 15.34% of PCs were scored, with two teams not even reaching a 10% conversion rate
Women's improved to just a 15.96% conversion rate, but one in every three teams stayed under the 10% scoring rate line.
Read more about the global penalty corner struggles by clicking on the following pictures:
Hockey World Cup: Where are the goals from penalty corners?
Hockey WC 2023: The curious decline of penalty corner conversion
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