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Posted (edited)

TABLE NOTES...

DP - Deducted Points

NUMBERS (LEAGUE GAMES ONLY)...

Games played - 9,295
Goals scored - 35,081
Goals per game - 3.77
Most goals in a game - 17 (Peterhead 17-0 Fort William, 11/04/1998)
Biggest win - As above
Biggest away win - Fort William 0-13 Inverurie Loco Works (09/02/2008)
Most goals in a game which saw both teams score - 15 (Cove Rangers 14-1 Nairn County, 29/10/1994; Formartine United 14-1 Fort William, 05/01/2019)
Most goals shared in a draw - 10 (Caledonian 5-5 Peterhead, 29/08/1987; Brora Rangers 5-5 Deveronvale, 24/02/1990)
Most goals scored in a loss - 5 (Rothes 5-6 Buckie Thistle, 26/08/1995; Rothes 5-6 Deveronvale, 28/10/1998; Formartine United 6-5 Buckie Thistle, 22/10/2014; Lossiemouth 5-6 Fraserburgh, 29/10/2014)

Home goals - 18,923
Away goals - 16,158

Home wins - 4,283
Away wins - 3,525
Score draws - 1,214
No-score draws - 273
Team most involved in a 0-0 draw - Buckie Thistle (50 occurrences)

Games won by...

1 goal - 2,835
2 goals - 1,955
3 goals - 1,354
4 goals - 767
More than 4 goals - 897

Most common scoreline - 2-1 (625 occurrences)
Second most common - 1-1 (615 occurrence)
Third most common - 1-2 (581 occurrences)
Fourth most common - 1-0 (480 occurrences)
Fifth most common - 2-2 (448 occurrences)

Longest winning run - Inverness Thistle (20 games, 13/09/1986 - 28/02/1987)
Current longest winning run - Brora Rangers (15 games, 26/10/2019 - 07/03/2020)
Longest unbeaten run - Brora Rangers (57 games, 28/12/2013 - 15/08/2015)
Shortest winning run - Strathspey Thistle (3 games, 06/10/2018 - 27/10/2018)

Longest losing streak - Fort William (28 games, 01/11/2008 - 19/09/2009)
Longest run without a win - Fort William (74 games, 15/04/2017 - 11/09/2019)
Shortest losing streak - Caledonian (3 games, more than once)
Shortest winless streak - Caledonian (4 games, more than once)

Most clean sheets - Cove Rangers (326, 31.28%)
Most clean sheets in a row - Brora Rangers (10)
Longest run of games between clean sheets - Rothes (101 games, 26/10/2013 - 22/04/2017; either side of the run was a clean sheet against Strathspey Thistle)

That's your lot for Fort William (1985-present), Cove Rangers (1986-2019), Wick Academy (1994-present), Inverurie Loco Works (2001-present), and Formartine United, Strathspey Thistle and Turriff United (2009-present). Need to go back to the early 1960's for Brora Rangers, and the post-war season for Lossie's first appearance. 

1985-2000 table.JPG

Edited by Jimmy Shaker
Posted (edited)

Good work, Jimmy.

ETA: Although you seem to have 1-1 in twice for "most often" scores. (Maybe I'm missing something.)

Edited by Jacksgranda
Posted
39 minutes ago, Ranaldo Bairn said:

Shortest winning run is 3 games.

Eh? I'm sure I saw a team win 0 games in a row once.

I think it's that, if you take the longest winning runs of every team, the shortest winning run belongs to Strathspey.   They've never won 4 in a row.

 

Which means that Fort must have managed 4 in a row at least once.

Posted
1 hour ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said:

The silver lining of the future Ross County banter years is that we can start working our way up this table again.

Ross County once conceded 7 goals to Fort William. Revenge is due. 

Posted

 

1 hour ago, Jacksgranda said:

Good work, Jimmy.

ETA: Although you seem to have 1-1 in twice for "most often" scores. (Maybe I'm missing something.)

3 hours ago, Jimmy Shaker said:

Most common scoreline - 2-1 (625 occurrences)
Second most common - 1-1 (615 occurrence)
Third most common - 1-2 (581 occurrences)
Fourth most common - 1-0 (480 occurrences)
Fifth most common - 2-2 (448 occurrences)

This has now been amended. 

Posted (edited)

Further to the above...

LONGEST WINNING RUN BY CLUB

20 - Inverness Thistle
19 - Cove Rangers
17 - Brora Rangers
16 - Huntly
15 - Formartine United
13 - Buckie Thistle, Elgin City, Lossiemouth
12 - Caledonian, Deveronvale
11 - Clachnacuddin
10 - Keith, Ross County, Turriff United, Wick Academy
9 - Forres Mechanics, Fraserburgh, Inverurie Loco Works, Peterhead
8 - Nairn County
6 - Rothes
4 - Fort William
3 - Strathspey Thistle

Edited by Jimmy Shaker
Posted

Basically the HL since I was born.  I would've been born one month into season 85-86.  Great stats in there.

  • 1 month later...
Posted

Seeing as points per game seems to be A Thing this season, here's the above table done in such a fashion. Which clears Cove off the top. Which is nice. 

Caley's PPG is 2.075 and while Cove (1.991) are listed in second, Formartine (1.994) have a marginally better PPG number than the Toonsers.

1985-2000 table PPG.JPG

Posted

In case anyone was wondering if this was still going, it is, but slowly as the local papers seem to have much more interest in cricket and the price of sheep than they do football. 

Posted
3 hours ago, Jimmy Shaker said:

Caley's PPG is 2.075 and while Cove (1.991) are listed in second, Formartine (1.994) have a marginally better PPG number than the Toonsers.

Why and how?

Posted

I don't know. I will ask the boy who wrote the database I use, but there's no provision for alphabetical order that I've added. Perhaps it only goes to 2 decimal places and defaults to alphabetical order. 

  • 1 year later...
Posted (edited)

Assuming that's them out....

FORT WILLIAM IN THE HIGHLAND LEAGUE (1985-2022)

OVERALL

Games played - 1,129
Wins - 154 (13.64%)
Score Draws - 96 (9.22%)
No-score Draws - 20 (1.77%)
Unbeaten - 270 (23.92%)
Defeats - 859 (76.09%)

SEASONS

Total - 37
Points - 569 (15.4 points per season)
Most in a season - 43 (1990/91)
Fewest in a season - -7 (2018/19; 9 points deducted, went on to land 2 draws and 32 defeats)
Fewest points in a positive sense - 1 (2008/09)
Highest finish - 11th (1985/86)
Wooden spoon - 19 times
Bottom two finishes - 25 times

STREAKS

Consecutive wins - 4 (15/11/2014 - 03/01/2015 - Buckie Thistle (A), Keith (H), Huntly (A), Clachnacuddin (A))
Longest unbeaten run - 7
Consecutive draws - 3
Longest winless run - 74 (P74, D7, L67, GF 57, GA 453; 12/04/2017 - 11/09/2019)
Consecutive defeats - 28

CLEAN SHEETS

Total - 85 (7.52% of games)
Home - 50 (8.88% of 563 home games)
Away - 35 (6.16% of 566 away games)
Longest consecutive run of clean sheets - 2
First - 07/08/1985 - Fort William 1-0 Clachnacuddin
Last - 17/01/2020 - Clachnacuddin 0-1 Clachnacuddin (played at Canal Park, Inverness)

GOALS

Scored - 1168 (One every 87 minutes)
Home - 631
Away - 537
Scored in - 675 games (60%)
Conceded - 3837 (One every 26 minutes and 30 seconds)
Home - 1720
Away - 2117
Conceded in - 1044 games (92%)

COMMON SCORELINES

Most common - Fort William 0-2 Opponent (80 occurrences)
Second most common - Fort William 1-2 Opponent (76 occurences)
Third most common - Fort William 0-3 Opponent (74 occurences)

COMMON WINNING SCORELINES

Most common - Fort William 2-1 Opponent (32 occurrences)
Second most common - Fort William 1-0 Opponent (31 occurences)

FIRST GAME - 07/08/1985 - Fort William 1-0 Clachnacuddin

FIRST AWAY GAME - 10/08/1985 - Buckie Thistle 9-1 Fort William

FIRST AWAY WIN - 25/09/1985 - Clachnacuddin 1-4 Fort William

FIRST DRAW - 12/10/1985 - Fort William 2-2 Elgin City

FIRST AWAY DRAW - 02/11/1985 - Peterhead 2-2 Fort William

FIRST GAME REPEATEDLY DELAYED AND EVENTUALLY HELD OVER TO BE PLAYED ON A SUNDAY AT THE OPPONENTS GROUND - 11/05/1986 - Fort William 1-6 Lossiemouth (played at Grant Park, Lossiemouth)

LAST WIN AT CLAGGAN PARK - 11/09/2019 - Fort William 1-0 Clachnacuddin

LAST WIN ANYWHERE - 13/04/2022 - Fort William 4-2 Strathspey Thistle (played at Seafield Park, Grantown)

LAST GAME - 19/04/2022 - Fort William 0-1 Rothes (played at Mackessack Park, Rothes)

BIGGEST WIN - 03/10/1987 - Nairn County 3-9 Fort William

BIGGEST HOME WIN - 13/08/1986 - Fort William 7-0 Ross County

HIGHEST SCORING DRAW - 07/12/2013 - Fort William 4-4 Rothes; 08/04/2015 - Fort William 4-4 Rothes

BIGGEST DEFEAT - 11/04/1998 - Peterhead 17-0 Fort William (league record)

BIGGEST HOME DEFEAT - 09/02/2008 - Fort William 0-13 Inverurie Loco Works

CONCEDED TEN GOALS OR MORE - 29 occurrences

 HIGHLAND LEAGUE TABLE, 07/08/1985 - 23/04/2022...

Fort Wiliam 1985-2022.JPG

Edited by Jimmy Shaker
  • Jimmy Shaker changed the title to The Highland League Table, 11/08/1979 - 23/04/2022
Posted (edited)

Amended to include Buckie Thistle's new record of wins on the spin, plus some other changes....

LONGEST WINNING RUN BY CLUB (AS OF 23/04/2022)

23 - Buckie Thistle (league record)
20 - Inverness Thistle
19 - Brora Rangers, Cove Rangers
16 - Huntly
15 - Formartine United
13 - Elgin City, Lossiemouth
12 - Caledonian, Deveronvale
11 - Brechin City, Clachnacuddin
10 - Fraserburgh, Keith, Ross County, Turriff United, Wick Academy
9 - Forres Mechanics, Inverurie Loco Works, Peterhead
8 - Nairn County
6 - Rothes
4 - Fort William
3 - Strathspey Thistle

Edited by Jimmy Shaker

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