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Wilmington Hammerheads

ECNL Girls · Mid-Atlantic GU15 · 11 teams · Wilmington Hammerheads (all teams)

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6th
1-1-1 record · 3 played
1.33 points per game
+0 goal diff · 7–7
DLWlast 3
17% chance of top 4 · expected finish 5.5
+0.36 schedule faced · avg opponent rating

Next game — Sat Oct 24, 01:00 PM

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Wilmington Hammerheads
6th · 1.33 PPG
vs
VDA
2nd · 2.60 PPG

NCINO Sports Park, Field 6 ↗

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●●●●● Very tough to win

Most likely score 1–2 (expected goals 1.2 for, 2.0 against · 0.90 expected points)

Season so farWilmington HammerheadsVDA
Position6th2nd
Record (W-D-L)1-1-14-1-0
Points per game1.332.60
Goals for / game2.32.2
Goals against / game2.30.4
Clean sheets04
Held scoreless00
Form (recent first)W L DW W W W D
Biggest win4–2 vs South Carolina Surf3–0 vs NC Fusion
Worst loss2–4 at Fairfax Virginia Union—
Model rating (net goals vs avg)+0.14+0.96
Schedule faced (avg opp. rating)+0.36-0.52

Common opponents: Arlington Soccer Association — we 1–1; they 2–2. South Carolina Surf — we 4–2; they 2–0.

Game plan

  • Hard to break down
    VDA concede only 0.4/game with 4 clean sheet(s).

    Patience and width: move the ball quickly side to side to pull the block apart, and treat set pieces as your best chance — rehearse two corner routines and a near-post free-kick delivery.

  • Underdog — play free, stay organised
    Model gives 23%; a draw (21%) would be a good result.

    Keep the shape compact, make them play in front of you, and hit space behind their full-backs on transitions. A point here is a win for the table; a win is a season-changer.

  • They arrive in form
    VDA have won 4 straight.

    Don't let them settle: deny the first 10 minutes of rhythm with pressure on their first pass out of the back.

  • What a win does
    Richmond United sit 5th on 1.40 PPG; we are on 1.33.

    A point moves us above Richmond United on PPG (if they don't play). GD is the next tiebreak, so every goal matters — keep attacking with a lead.

If Saturday goes…

Where we'd sit after the VDA game. The table is ordered by points per game, so one result can move us several places. Type any score in the first row (Wilmington Hammerheads – VDA) to see where it lands us; it resets when you reload. Likely results plays out the model's most likely score in the 8 other games that week (Mon Oct 19 – Sun Oct 25); the outer columns are the best and worst the rivals can do.

Our resultRivals don't playLikely resultsEvery rival wins
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Loss · 1.00 PPG
7th▼ down 1 7th▼ down 1 10th▼ down 4
Win
1.75 PPG
5th▲ up 1 5th▲ up 1 6th— holds
Draw
1.25 PPG
7th▼ down 1 6th— holds 8th▼ down 2
Loss
1.00 PPG
7th▼ down 1 7th▼ down 1 10th▼ down 4

Can we move up this round? No. With a 1–2 loss we stay 6th even if every rival loses, and as low as 10th if every rival wins.

Where we finish

2,000 simulated seasons

0% finish 1st
17% top 4
83% below the top 4
5.5 average finish
  1. 1st <1%
  2. 2nd 1%
  3. 3rd 5%
  4. 4th 11%
  5. 5th 42%
  6. 6th 19%
  7. 7th 12%
  8. 8th 8%
  9. 9th 2%
  10. 10th <1%
  11. 11th

Every remaining game in the division is played out with the forecast's goal odds, 2,000 times, and the table is re-sorted each time. Green marks the top 4.

Climbing the table

What it takes to pass each team above us, from our 7 remaining known games (max 2.50 PPG if we win out).

#TeamPPGProj.To pass them
1 Fairfax Virginia Union 3.00 (+1.67) 1st (2.45) 26 of 21 pts to pass their current pace, 21 for their projection
2 VDA 2.60 (+1.27) 3rd (2.19) 22 of 21 pts to pass their current pace, 18 for their projection
3 NCFC Youth NC Courage 2.25 (+0.92) 2nd (2.29) 19 of 21 pts to pass their current pace, 19 for their projection
4 Arlington Soccer Association 1.83 (+0.50) 4th (1.91) 15 of 21 pts to pass their current pace, 16 for their projection
5 Richmond United 1.40 (+0.07) 7th (1.19) A point next game

How the results connect

6 chains · 6 teams

Paths of results that link Wilmington Hammerheads to VDA through teams both have faced, drawn as one map. Teams sit in columns by how many games away from us they are. Each arrow is one game, pointing away from us, and its colour is the result for the team it starts from. Hover or tap an arrow to trace a chain and see its net goal margin.

1 favour us
3 even
2 favour them
-0.2 goals per chain on average. The results call it close.
won lost drew· result for the team the arrow starts from
4–2 0–2 1–1 2–2 2–1 0–1 0–0 0–3 0–6 Wilmington Hammerhe… 6th South Carolina Surf 10th Arlington Soccer As… 4th Beach FC 8th Charlotte SA 7th VDA 2nd

Hover or tap an arrow to trace a chain, or step through them with the arrows. Open full screen and turn your phone to see the whole map.

6 chains

Position over the season

9 game days

1st 6th 11th Sep 12 Sep 20 Sep 27 Oct 4 Oct 18

The table re-sorted after each date on which a game was played. Shaded band is the top 4.

The path

run-in difficulty -0.21 · 7th hardest of 11

DateOpponentWhereDifficultyWinLikelyExp. ptsRun. PPGPriority
Sat Oct 24
01:00 PM
VDA
2nd · 4-1-0 · GD +9
Home
NCINO Sports Park
●●●●● Very tough
23%
1–2 0.90 1.22 Upside
Sun Oct 25
09:00 AM
Richmond United
5th · 2-1-2 · GD +0
Home
NCINO Sports Park
●●●○○ Toss-up
50%
1–1 1.71 1.32 Swing game
Sat Oct 31
08:00 AM
Beach FC
8th · 1-1-3 · GD +0
Away far trip
Hampton Roads Soccer Complex
●●●●○ Tough
35%
1–1 1.30 1.32 Upside
Sat Nov 7
11:00 AM
NC Fusion
11th · 0-0-3 · GD -12
Home
NCINO Sports Park
●○○○○ Favorable
86%
3–0 2.67 1.51 Bank it
Sat Nov 21
10:00 AM
Charlotte SA
7th · 1-1-1 · GD -2
Away far trip
Orthocarolina Complex
●●●○○ Toss-up
45%
1–1 1.59 1.52 Swing game
Sat Jan 16
11:00 AM
NCFC Youth NC Courage
3rd · 3-0-1 · GD +9
Home
NCINO Sports Park
●●●●● Very tough
19%
1–2 0.76 1.44 Upside
Sat Jan 23
12:00 PM
NCFC Youth
9th · 1-0-4 · GD -12
Away far trip
WRAL
●●○○○ Lean win
67%
3–1 2.17 1.51 Swing game

"Far trip" = the venue's zip is outside our home sectional area (first three digits), a rough travel flag, not a distance. Venue names open in Google Maps. "Bank it" = expected win, dropping points here hurts most. "Swing game" = near coin-flip, where the finish is decided. "Upside" = underdog, nothing to lose. Running PPG assumes the expected points from every game up to that row.

Standings

#TeamGPWDLGFGAGDPtsPPGFormSoSRun-inTop 4Exp. finish
1 Fairfax Virginia Union 3300 122+10 93.00 WWW +0.05 -0.25 99% 1.7
2 VDA 5410 112+9 132.60 DWWWW -0.52 +0.30 95% 2.7
3 NCFC Youth NC Courage 4301 123+9 92.25 WLWW +0.24 -0.43 98% 2.2
4 Arlington Soccer Association 6321 168+8 111.83 DWDLW +0.18 -0.54 85% 3.7
5 Richmond United 5212 66+0 71.40 WWDLL -0.50 +0.55 1% 6.9
6 Wilmington Hammerheads 3111 77+0 41.33 DLW +0.36 -0.21 17% 5.5
7 Charlotte SA 3111 13-2 41.33 LWD -0.18 +0.09 3% 6.9
8 Beach FC 5113 66+0 40.80 LLWDL +0.33 -0.37 2% 6.8
9 NCFC Youth 5104 618-12 30.60 WLLLL +0.21 +0.09 0% 9.3
10 South Carolina Surf 4013 212-10 10.25 LLDL +0.39 -0.10 0% 9.5
11 NC Fusion 3003 012-12 00.00 LLL -0.18 +0.34 0% 10.7

Tap a team to see every game it has played (opponent's current position in brackets) and what's next. Ordered the way the league publishes it: points per game, then goal difference. The green edge marks the top 4. SoS is strength of schedule, the average model rating of opponents faced — positive means a harder road than average. "Top 4" and "Exp. finish" come from playing the rest of the season 2,000 times with the forecast model.

How the forecast works: every played game feeds each team's attack and defence rating, adjusted for who it was against — a goal past a strong defence counts for more than one past a weak one. Ratings are shrunk toward the league average (1.67 goals per team per game) by 3 "prior" games so early blowouts don't dominate, and results older than about 120 days count half. Expected goals for a matchup multiply those, with a 8% home bump, and a Poisson score grid gives win/draw/loss odds.