Record Penalty Misses

Valley Bluenose said:
He's missed 3 out of his last 10 - so still 70%. In fact those three are over his last 16 penalties, so that would be a success rate of over 81% in that period of 3 misses. One on Friday, one against Ross County last January and one against Aberdeen the same month.

January is clearly a bad month for Tav taking penalties!:eek::):))
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That surprised me tbh, I thought he’d missed more recently.
 
Murray the Bear said:
As a rule I'd go for a striker but I'll never forget Kenny Miller's dreadful straight down the middle miss against Inverness, 2010, ended 1-1. A few months later the latter beat Celtic so the league got won. At the time I thought he'd blown it for us, but we got off with it. SDTM pens should be banned !!!
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I’d be interested in your view of a comment I posted earlier.

“It’s an individual skill, in my opinion.
I’m not sure there is a particular position on the pitch that would cover the quality for a better penalty taker than any other.”
 
Chester Loyal said:
That surprised me tbh, I thought he’d missed more recently.
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Maybe thinking penalty shoot-outs mate. I edited my post to say I couldn't find the data on them.

Tav's record is very good. He does seem to have misses in batches of two though. Last January being one example, and late Sep/early Oct 19 being another.
 
Portrushbear said:
I think someone else should be taking pens now after Roofe

Sakala takes them for Zambia,I always like to see a striker hitting pens

If anything it helps with confidence and has the added bonus if inflating their numbers
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Ive never liked tav on pens. Causes a sh!t storm on here whenever i say it but theres well better finishers at the club now. i never really feel confident when tav steps up to hit a pen
 
A question for those who think it should always be the striker:
I played as CF for the main part of my time.
I took the penalties and was quite successful.
So, I needed to drop back to midfield for the last quarter of the season.
We get a penalty.
Should I have deferred to the striker on the day?
 
Just out of curiosity, if a player has his penalty saved then scores the rebound does that count as a miss or a goal in penalty conversion stats?
 
Fitbastats site has McCoist scoring 45 penalties.

If he scored 80% of the time (and it won't be higher than that as he missed a few), then he would have missed 11.

45 out of 56 is more or less 80%.

I suspect he missed more than that though.

Not much help to the OP question, I admit.
 
Would also be interested to know how many of Tav's misses have gone on to cost us in a game. Did he miss the one in the Scottish Cup shootout with St Johnston last season? Don't think there's many others we've gone on to not win.
 
1690 said:
Would also be interested to know how many of Tav's misses have gone on to cost us in a game. Did he miss the one in the Scottish Cup shootout with St Johnston last season? Don't think there's many others we've gone on to not win.
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Can't find stats on shoot-outs but in regular gametime:

Every time he's missed for us we've still won the game, bar a 0-0 draw with Killie in the Scottish Cup when we won the replay.
 
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Valley Bluenose said:
Can't find stats on shoot-outs but in regular gametime:

We lost 1-2 to the Sheep in January last year when Tav missed. Every other time he's missed for us we've still won the game, bar a 0-0 draw with Killie in the Scottish Cup when we won the replay.
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We won that game at Aberdeen 2-1, Morelos got both.

We didn't lose to anyone in the league last season!
 
Valley Bluenose said:
Can't find stats on shoot-outs but in regular gametime:

We won 1-2 at the Sheep in January last year when Tav missed. Every other time he's missed for us we've still won the game, bar a 0-0 draw with Killie in the Scottish Cup when we won the replay.
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Good stuff. People may say "lies, damned lies and statistics," but the simple truth is he's a tried and true penalty taker and, barring a string of say 3 misses in a row, should always be taking them.
 
dh1963 said:
Fitbastats site has McCoist scoring 45 penalties.

If he scored 80% of the time (and it won't be higher than that as he missed a few), then he would have missed 11.

45 out of 56 is more or less 80%.

I suspect he missed more than that though.

Not much help to the OP question, I admit.
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The old spreadsheet that was available had McCoist scoring 53 out of 63 penalties in all games including Glasgow Cup ties and friendlies - a success rate of 84%.

The average success rate I believe is around 76%, can't recall exactly where I saw that stat though, so anything above 76% would, technically, be above average. I'd personally count anything within 5 of that as being within the average range so 71-81% could be considered "average", above that (81) as above average and below it (71) as pish :))
 
I just don't get why players don't just phucking leather it. All this tippy tappy stuff does my head in. Both Tavs pens were horrible.
 
Valley Bluenose said:
Fair to say he 50% for his last two ha ha.:) He's missed 3 out of his last 10 - so still 70%. In fact those three are over his last 16 penalties, so that would be a success rate of over 81% in that period of 3 misses. One on Friday, one against Ross County last January and one against Aberdeen the same month. That's excluding penalty shoot-outs I think.

January is clearly a bad month for Tav taking penalties!:eek::):))
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He missed one in the shootout against St Johnstone last season Clark saved it when he tried to go down the middle.
 
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