Sporting Iowa Strikers
ECNL Regional League Boys · Heartland BU18/19 · 6 teams · Sporting Iowa East (all teams)
Next game — Sat Oct 31, 04:00 PM
Pinnacle Bank Soccer Complex ( Gretna Soccer Compl, Field 1 ↗ far trip
●●●●● Very tough to win
Most likely score 1–3 (expected goals 1.0 for, 3.3 against · 0.35 expected points)
| Season so far | Sporting Iowa Strikers | Gretna Elite Academy |
|---|---|---|
| Position | 6th | 3rd |
| Record (W-D-L) | 1-0-7 | 4-1-2 |
| Points per game | 0.38 | 1.86 |
| Goals for / game | 1.1 | 1.7 |
| Goals against / game | 4.0 | 1.3 |
| Clean sheets | 1 | 1 |
| Held scoreless | 2 | 2 |
| Form (recent first) | L L L L L | D W L W L |
| Biggest win | 2–0 vs VSA Rush | 3–1 at Sporting Iowa Strikers |
| Worst loss | 1–8 vs FC United Iowa | 0–1 at FC United Iowa |
| Model rating (net goals vs avg) | -1.94 | +0.28 |
| Schedule faced (avg opp. rating) | +0.40 | -0.08 |
Already played this season: Sun Sep 27 1–3 vs Gretna Elite Academy (L)
Common opponents: FC United Iowa — we 1–8, 2–8; they 0–1. Sporting Iowa Central — we 2–3, 0–2; they 3–2, 1–0. VSA Rush — we 2–0, 1–5; they 2–1, 0–1. Sporting Nebraska FC — we 0–3; they 3–3.
Game plan
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Finishing wins the tight ones
Held scoreless 2 time(s): 0–3 vs Sporting Nebraska FC, 0–2 at Sporting Iowa Central.Against a low block, the first goal usually comes from a cross or a cut-back, not a dribble. Get 2–3 bodies in the box on every wide entry and finish practice this week at game speed.
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Underdog — play free, stay organised
Model gives 8%; a draw (11%) 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.
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Away game
Kickoff 04:00 PM at Pinnacle Bank Soccer Complex ( Gretna Soccer Compl.Arrive 75 minutes early to see the surface and goal size; plan a longer dynamic warm-up after a drive. Away wins are worth the same 3 points — keep the routine identical to home.
If Saturday goes…
Where we'd sit after the Gretna Elite Academy game. The table is ordered by points per game, so one result can move us several places. Type any score in the first row (Sporting Iowa Strikers – Gretna Elite Academy) to see where it lands us; it resets when you reload. Likely results plays out the model's most likely score in the 3 other games that week (Mon Oct 26 – Sun Nov 1); the outer columns are the best and worst the rivals can do.
| Our result | Rivals don't play | Likely results | Every rival wins |
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| – Loss · 0.33 PPG |
6th— holds | 6th— holds | 6th— holds |
| Win 0.67 PPG |
6th— holds | 6th— holds | 6th— holds |
| Draw 0.44 PPG |
6th— holds | 6th— holds | 6th— holds |
| Loss 0.33 PPG |
6th— holds | 6th— holds | 6th— holds |
Can we move up this round? No. With a 1–3 loss we stay 6th even if every rival loses, whatever the rivals do.
Where we finish
2,000 simulated seasons
- 1st
- 2nd
- 3rd
- 4th
- 5th 1%
- 6th 99%
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 2 remaining known games (max 0.90 PPG if we win out).
| # | Team | PPG | Proj. | To pass them |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FC United Iowa | 2.50 (+2.12) | 1st (2.38) | 22 of 6 pts to pass their current pace, 21 for their projection — out of reach on the known schedule |
| 2 | Sporting Nebraska FC | 2.29 (+1.91) | 2nd (2.12) | 20 of 6 pts to pass their current pace, 19 for their projection — out of reach on the known schedule |
| 3 | Gretna Elite Academy | 1.86 (+1.48) | 3rd (1.77) | 16 of 6 pts to pass their current pace, 15 for their projection — out of reach on the known schedule |
| 4 | Sporting Iowa Central | 1.50 (+1.12) | 4th (1.39) | 12 of 6 pts to pass their current pace, 11 for their projection — out of reach on the known schedule |
| 5 | VSA Rush | 0.75 (+0.37) | 5th (0.76) | 5 of 6 pts to pass their current pace, 5 for their projection |
How the results connect
51 chains · 6 teams
Paths of results that link Sporting Iowa Strikers to Gretna Elite Academy 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.
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.
Step through the chains with the arrows, or tap one on the map.
Position over the season
12 game days
The table re-sorted after each date on which a game was played. Shaded band is the top 4.
The path
run-in difficulty +0.50 · 3rd hardest of 6
| Date | Opponent | Where | Difficulty | Win | Likely | Exp. pts | Run. PPG | Priority |
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| Sat Oct 31 04:00 PM |
Gretna Elite Academy 3rd · 4-1-2 · GD +3 |
Away far trip
Pinnacle Bank Soccer Complex ( Gretna Soccer Compl |
●●●●● Very tough | 8% |
1–3 | 0.35 | 0.37 | Upside |
| Sun Nov 1 TBD |
Sporting Nebraska FC 2nd · 5-1-1 · GD +8 |
Away |
●●●●● Very tough | 4% |
1–4 | 0.20 | 0.36 | Upside |
"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
| # | Team | GP | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | PPG | Form | SoS | Run-in | Top 4 | Exp. finish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | FC United Iowa | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 6 | +19 | 15 | 2.50 | WWLWW | -0.56 | +0.09 | 100% | 1.3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Next: Sat Oct 31 at Sporting Nebraska FC · Sun Nov 1 at Gretna Elite Academy · Sat Nov 7 vs Sporting Iowa Central See all 4 future matchups ▸
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| 2 | Sporting Nebraska FC | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 9 | +8 | 16 | 2.29 | WLWWD | -0.15 | +0.05 | 100% | 1.9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Next: Sat Oct 31 vs FC United Iowa · Sun Nov 1 vs Sporting Iowa Strikers · Sat Nov 7 at Gretna Elite Academy See all 3 future matchups ▸
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| 3 | Gretna Elite Academy | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 9 | +3 | 13 | 1.86 | LWLWD | -0.08 | +0.20 | 100% | 2.9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Next: Sat Oct 31 vs Sporting Iowa Strikers · Sun Nov 1 vs FC United Iowa · Sat Nov 7 vs Sporting Nebraska FC See all 3 future matchups ▸
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| 4 | Sporting Iowa Central | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 15 | -1 | 12 | 1.50 | WWWLL | -0.07 | +0.64 | 99% | 3.9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Next: Sun Nov 1 at VSA Rush · Sat Nov 7 at FC United Iowa See all 2 future matchups ▸
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| 5 | VSA Rush | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 16 | -6 | 6 | 0.75 | LWLWL | -0.02 | +0.85 | 1% | 5.0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Next: Sun Nov 1 vs Sporting Iowa Central · Sun Nov 8 at FC United Iowa See all 2 future matchups ▸
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| 6 | Sporting Iowa Strikers | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 32 | -23 | 3 | 0.38 | LLLLL | +0.40 | +0.50 | 0% | 6.0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Next: Sat Oct 31 at Gretna Elite Academy · Sun Nov 1 at Sporting Nebraska FC See all 2 future matchups ▸
Likely score and win chance are the model's view from this team's side. |
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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 (1.93 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.