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Hercules CF

Heartbreak#4824.5

Alicante, Alicante · Spain · La Liga

Power-ranking history

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Rank (1 = best)1401Score (per-season normalised)0.00.51.069/7074/7579/8084/8589/9094/9599/0004/0509/10

Against expectation

Every Spanish top-flight match this club has played in the Primera División, scored against the odds an Elo rating gave it before kick-off. Over 20 seasons from 1935-36 to 2010-11 it has fallen short of them by −23.3 match points.

Hercules CF: surplus against expectation, 1935-36 to 2010-111935-36: +3.4 league points vs expected (24 on 20.6, 2 for a win) · bar height +1.7 match points1939-40: +1.4 league points vs expected (23 on 21.6, 2 for a win) · bar height +0.7 match points1940-41: −4.4 league points vs expected (16 on 20.4, 2 for a win) · bar height −2.2 match points1941-42: −4.5 league points vs expected (17 on 21.6, 2 for a win) · bar height −2.3 match points1945-46: −5.1 league points vs expected (15 on 20.1, 2 for a win) · bar height −2.5 match points1954-55: +4.2 league points vs expected (31 on 26.8, 2 for a win) · bar height +2.1 match points1955-56: −11.4 league points vs expected (13 on 24.4, 2 for a win) · bar height −5.7 match points1966-67: −5.2 league points vs expected (20 on 25.2, 2 for a win) · bar height −2.6 match points1974-75: +4.5 league points vs expected (36 on 31.5, 2 for a win) · bar height +2.2 match points1975-76: +1.6 league points vs expected (36 on 34.4, 2 for a win) · bar height +0.8 match points1976-77: −1.1 league points vs expected (32 on 33.1, 2 for a win) · bar height −0.6 match points1977-78: −1.9 league points vs expected (30 on 31.9, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.0 match points1978-79: +0.1 league points vs expected (32 on 31.9, 2 for a win) · bar height +0.1 match points1979-80: −3.8 league points vs expected (28 on 31.8, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.9 match points1980-81: −1.4 league points vs expected (30 on 31.4, 2 for a win) · bar height −0.7 match points1981-82: −3.6 league points vs expected (27 on 30.6, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.8 match points1984-85: +0.9 league points vs expected (30 on 29.1, 2 for a win) · bar height +0.5 match points1985-86: −7.2 league points vs expected (22 on 29.2, 2 for a win) · bar height −3.6 match points1996-97: −5.0 league points vs expected (41 on 46.0, 3 for a win) · bar height −2.8 match points2010-11: −10.6 league points vs expected (35 on 45.6, 3 for a win) · bar height −3.8 match points
1935-36one bar per season · height in match points · hover for that season2010-11
Best season against expectation
1974-75 +4.5 league pts
36 points on 31.5 expected as Hercules CF
Worst season against expectation
1955-56 −11.4 league pts
13 points on 24.4 expected as Hercules CF

Season points use that season’s own scoring, two for a win before 1995-96 and three from it; the bars use match points so the whole series is comparable.The rating only starts telling you much after about 1960. Before that, knowing the era’s home-and-away split is almost as good as knowing the teams.

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Greatest games

Hercules CF's top matches by the club Game Score: closeness, stakes, quality and upset over one unified rating of league and European play.All-time board.

#DateStageResultScore
11940-04-21LA LigaAW 1-0 v Real Madridgame score 59.3
21946-03-31LA LigaHL 1-2 v CD Castellóngame score 58.7
31942-03-22LA LigaAL 1-2 v Real Sociedadgame score 57.0
41940-04-07LA LigaHL 1-2 v FC Barcelonagame score 56.1
51946-03-17LA LigaHL 2-3 v Real Madridgame score 55.9
61940-11-24LA LigaAW 2-1 v RCD Espanyolgame score 54.9
71941-02-16LA LigaHW 3-2 v RCD Espanyolgame score 54.7
81997-06-01LA LigaHW 2-1 v FC Barcelonagame score 54.1
91985-04-21LA LigaAW 1-0 v Real Madridgame score 53.3
102010-01-07Copa del Rey · Round of 16 · 1st legHW 2-1 v CA Osasunagame score 52.6

Footprint

Tiers played
L1
Top-flight (L1) seasons
20
First season
1936
Most recent season
2011

The Heartbreak Index4.5 · #482

The Tortured · Never won it, waiting since 1936

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in Football
4.5
agony
The clocks
  • First major trophy since 19366.3
Heaviest wounds

relegated from the top flight, 2011 · relegated from the top flight, 1997 · relegated from the top flight, 1986 · relegated from the top flight, 1982

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Season-by-season

Most recent season first. Covers La Liga only. Rows tagged "national playoff" are pre-modern formats where the workbook records only playoff participants, not round-robin standings.

2011
La Liga (1) · P19↓
38 P · 9-8-21 · 36:60 · -24
35
pts
1997
La Liga (1) · P21↓
42 P · 12-5-25 · 40:77 · -37
41
pts
1986
La Liga (1) · P17↓
34 P · 8-6-20 · 35:62 · -27
22
pts
1985
La Liga (1) · P15
34 P · 9-12-13 · 28:45 · -17
30
pts
1982
La Liga (1) · P17↓
34 P · 11-5-18 · 41:52 · -11
27
pts
1981
La Liga (1) · P13
34 P · 10-10-14 · 42:48 · -6
30
pts
1980
La Liga (1) · P15
34 P · 8-12-14 · 36:39 · -3
28
pts
1979
La Liga (1) · P12
34 P · 13-6-15 · 32:38 · -6
32
pts
1978
La Liga (1) · P15
34 P · 10-10-14 · 32:40 · -8
30
pts
1977
La Liga (1) · P13
34 P · 11-10-13 · 35:41 · -6
32
pts
1976
La Liga (1) · P6
34 P · 12-12-10 · 33:37 · -4
36
pts
1975
La Liga (1) · P5
34 P · 11-14-9 · 37:36 · +1
36
pts
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1967
La Liga (1) · P15↓
30 P · 6-8-16 · 32:60 · -28
20
pts
1956
La Liga (1) · P16↓
30 P · 5-3-22 · 33:86 · -53
13
pts
1955
La Liga (1) · P6
30 P · 11-9-10 · 46:57 · -11
31
pts
1946
La Liga (1) · P14↓
26 P · 5-5-16 · 30:59 · -29
15
pts
1942
La Liga (1) · P13↓
26 P · 6-5-15 · 42:71 · -29
17
pts
1941
La Liga (1) · P9
22 P · 7-2-13 · 29:67 · -38
16
pts
1940
La Liga (1) · P6
22 P · 9-5-8 · 41:34 · +7
23
pts
1936
La Liga (1) · P6
22 P · 11-2-9 · 37:41 · -4
24
pts