What went wrong for IPV in 2020?
Sami Partanen and Tuomas Jussila were big names for IPV in 2020, but failed to secure a playoff spot Prior to the 2020 regular-season, things look positive for IPV. Many people speculated that they would make the play-offs last year, even at the expense of Kitee. As the regular-season came to a close however IPV fell short once again and failed to reach the play-offs. In this post I analyse the positives and negatives for IPV in the 2020 season and wonder how they failed to make the top eight. Pre-season The Halli-SM tournament was not a great success for IPV, but there was still a lot of promising signs for the coming season. Mikko Kosonen’s 8 RBI from 11 attempts was the second best conversion rate in the tournament with runners on 3rd base. When you factor in the fact that IPV’s group games included the seemingly impenetrable defence of Joensuu, this statistic starts to look very promising indeed. Similarly, Juuso Lattu and Teemu Nurmio’s 15 successful hits each were joint seco