Interesting Playoffs ahead on Season 3 for sure!
As an additional motivation and challenge (in this case especially to all underdogs, including myself!) I'd like to mention, that so far in 2 seasons we've played 24 Playoff contests, and only in 1 (!) occasion away teams have been able to break the home court magic (Rajdersi beat Hårdboll on Season 2 Bronze match on away court)!
So it'll be interesting to see, if this Season in HGL continues the home court trend, or if more than one of us underdogs are able to cause an upset to home fans!
(Maybe some of us underdogs just need to take a part of next years´ team budget and rent, say, 20-30 buses or rent few charter aircrafts, fill them with our away team fans and make them make some noise on away court, yes)? ;)
So here's a further breakdown on wins on different Playoff Rounds (to compare home/away team success on each Round of Playoffs) on different Seasons:
First Round point differences in HGL Playoffs from the view point of a higher ranked team=home team
(number of upsets in this Playoff Round/average home team win in points in all Rounds´matches):
Season 1: 17, 29, 13, 11 (0 upsets/average home team win: 17,5 points)
Season 2: 16, 14, 31, 14 (0/18,75p)
Second Round (quarter-finals) point differences in HGL Playoffs from the view point of a higher ranked team=home team
(number of upsets in this Playoff Round/average home team win in points in all Rounds´matches):
Season 1: 20, 36, 16, 3 (0 upsets/18,75 points)
Season 2: 36, 31, 13, 19 (0/24,75p)
Third Round (semi-finals) point differences in HGL Playoffs from the view point of a higher ranked team=home team
(number of upsets in this Playoff Round/average home team win in points in all Rounds´matches):
Season 1: 18, 26 (0 upsets/22 points)
Season 2: 15, 35 (0/25p)
Fourth Round (Medal games) point differences in HGL Playoffs from the view point of a higher ranked team=home team
(number of upsets in this Playoff Round/average home team win in points in all Rounds´matches):
Season 1: 6, 12 (0 upsets/9 points)
Season 2: 15, -12 (1 upset/1,5 points)
As we can see from that compilation, it's been a rocky road for away teams for sure!
In these 2 Seasons, 1 upset win only and in the case of matches in where higher ranked teams have won, only in 2 occassions in 24 Playoff match attempts (which equals to 8,3% of matches), away teams have been able to lose by less than 11 points (Elan Demars by 3 in Season 1 semis´, and Santa Eufemia Ducks by 6 in Season 1 Bronze match), so I feel like for away teams there's still lots of room to improve on that.
Anyway, good luck for everybody on First Round Playoff matches, and let's get them organized as soon as possible (and don't forget to provide match link as well when you have organized it)!
Last edited by Wagner at 12/9/2025 6:33:12 AM