Extra Man (EMO)

What counts as an extra man opportunity

An extra man opportunity, EMO for short, is the stretch of play where your team has one more player on the field than the other team because an opponent is serving a penalty. It begins when the penalty starts and ends when the time expires, when the penalty is released, or when the man advantage otherwise ends. A goal scored during it is an extra man goal.

EMO is a special teams stat. Coaches track how many opportunities a team gets and how many it converts into goals, because a team that scores on a third of its extra man chances wins close games that a team converting one in ten loses.

How SquadProfile records it

When the opponent's penalty starts, turn on the EMO situation. Record goals, shots, and everything else as usual while it runs; the app tags them as extra man. Turn it off when the advantage ends. On a releasable penalty a goal ends it, so turn EMO off when you score; on a non-releasable penalty the advantage runs its full time, so leave the switch on through the goal. The keeper decides, because the app does not know which kind of penalty it was. EMO and man-down cannot both be on at once, so if your team is also serving a penalty, pick the situation that matches the players on the field. The app keeps opportunities, extra man goals, and the conversion rate in the team's stats.

Common mistakes

• Forgetting to turn EMO off. Every goal after the penalty expired gets tagged as extra man.
• Turning on EMO when your own team took the penalty. That is man-down.
• Recording the opportunity only when it produced a goal. Conversion rate needs every chance.

Where it shows up

Extra man stats do not have a column on the public leaderboards or box scores. They appear in the app, in the team's game and season stats, as opportunities, goals, and conversion rate.

Related stats

• Man-down: the same situation from the other side.
• Penalty: what creates the opportunity.
• Goal: tagged extra man while EMO is on.