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the-physicality · 2 months ago

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fun facts about technicals:

if you subtract the mercury's technicals from each season across the league, here are the totals since 2014

year, techs, [games], techs/games | merc techs [asterisk indicates merc led the league]

2024: 114 [~33] 3.45 | 33*

2023: 125 [40] 3.13 | 15

2022: 120 [36] 3.33 | 27*

2021: 95 [32] 2.96 | 13

2020: 67 [22] 3.04 | 11*

2019: 141 [34] 4.15 | 17

2018: 145 [34] 4.26 | 18

2017: 108 [34] 3.18 | 15*

2016: 101 [34] 2.97 | 22

2015: 91 [34] 2.68 | 8

2014: 81 [34] 2.38 | 11

more fun facts:

prior to 2010, the last time they led the league in techs was 1999, when they got 17, 9 of which went to hc cheryl miller, who was ejected 3 times that season.

merc also led the league in 1998 [18] and 1997 [11], when hc cheryl miller got 10 and 5 techs respectively, and one ejection each season.

in 2004, the mercs got 2 techs [franchise low] both were dt [her first season.] 2 is also the fewest number of techs she's gotten in a season when playing more than 6 games.

aside from 2015, the last time the merc got a single digit number of techs was 2007, at 6

2015 of course, is the year dt sat out [after being paid the big bucks from ekat]

the merc also led the league in techs 2010-2013

of the franchises that have existed throughout DT's entire career, she has gotten the fewest techs when playing Seattle [6] and the most techs when playing min, with 16

in 2011, the only time 2 players from the merc were assessed a tech in the same game was 6/21/11, DT and PT

There have been 10 games this season in which the merc have been asses multiple techs in one game [across coaches, the team, and players]

DT has been ejected 7 times when dressed [the website doesn't count the 2019 one where she wasn't dressed] and has had 105 regular season techs to date [120 inclusive of all star and post season]

since 2014, seattle has averaged 3.91 techs per season. from 2014-2022, they averaged 3.11 techs per season. from 2023-2024, they are averaging 7.5 techs per season

comparatively, phoenix is averaging 17 techs per season 2014-2024. if you don't look at this year, the number is 15.7

the next closest is tulsa/dallas at 14.5

#i didn't go past 2014 bc i think the style of play /reffing has probably changed since then #my hot take on the reffing this yr is that cathy said to crack down especially on anyone who was perceived to be a cc hater #bc of this whole “welcome to the league” campaign #but the thing is that if they just didn't call them no one would know #except for that one video going around twitter where you can see dt saying you've got to be fucking kidding me after the flagrant in atl #which has since been rescinded #this really showed me that there are layers to CM liking DT #ok and so this powdered donut story from the live had to be in 2007 2009 2016 or 2018 bc those were the home games #but the ejection in 2009 happened in the last minute of the game so i don't think you can eat that many donuts #and in 2016 bg was also ejected at the same time [and sandy got a tech at the timestamp] so i feel like that would have been in the story #this story tbh is not giving 2018 like if it was she would have told it differently in 2020 #therefore i think it happened in 2007 #phoenix mercury #the cheryl miller stats are probably my favorite #i would love to get total techs per player [i don't think the leader of that category would be a surprise]#but i want to see how other people stack up . sue for instance has 3 across her whole career #all this is courtesy of across the timeline

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