Lady Rolanda Hooch's office is located in a cottage next to the Quidditch pitch.

Since Mrs. Hooch was only a first-grader flying teacher, her lesson assignments were almost the lightest of the teachers in the school...... So most of the time, she can stay in this office.

At noon on the first Saturday of school, Mrs. Hodge had just finished lunch when she suddenly heard a knock on the door outside.

"Please come in!" she put down the plate in her hand and took out her wand with a gentle wave.

With a creak, the door to the hut opened.

Mrs. Hodge was somewhat surprised to find that it was a second-year student she was familiar with.

Normally, the only students that Madame Hooch could name were members of the Quidditch teams of the various houses, but the one in front of her happened to be an exception.

After all, he was the only one at Hogwarts for nearly ten years, and he needed to retake flying lessons in his second year.

"What's the matter, Mr. Hart?" she asked, looking puzzled.

"Yes, ......ma'am," Jon nodded, and placed a large stack of scrolls in his arms on a table in the room.

The room looked a little messy, with dozens of broomsticks neatly placed on the other side of the bed, and the rest of the furniture was crooked.

Mrs. Hodge shifted her gaze to the thick stack of scrolls, "What are these?"

"These are some of the materials on Quidditch matches at Hogwarts over the past twenty years!" Jon quickly explained, "Some of them were written by you, and some of them were compiled by the Quidditch captains of various houses!"

"Professor Sprout, or Mr. Diggory, told you to bring these to me?" the expression on Mrs. Hodge's face became even more puzzled.

"No, no, no, ma'am!" Jon quickly explained, "It has nothing to do with them...... Purely out of interest, I have gathered these things, and then I have some insights, and I would like to ask you for advice!"

"Okay, let's go!" said Lady Hooch, who was quite easy-tempered outside the Quidditch pitch.

......

Jon took out a piece of parchment full of numbers, and said to Madame Hooch:

"I looked up the 120 matches of the Hogwarts Quidditch Cup over a period of 20 years, from 1973 to 1993......"

"The average number of points scored per team in those 120 games is 198.7, and after deducting the 75 points of the Golden Snitch, the average score per team is 123.7, which means that the average team can score less than 13 Quaffles per game. ”

"Of those 120 matches, 109 of them were caught by the winner, five were caught by the loser, and six were drawn. ”

"Of the 109 games in which the winner caught the Golden Snitch, there were only 13 games with a goal difference of more than or equal to 300 points, and 96 games with a goal difference of less than 300 points!"

This means that 96+6 of the 120 matches, a total of 102 matches, will be decided by the Seeker, and if the Seeker who caught the Golden Snitch makes a mistake in those 102 games, the Snitch will let the opponent take it, and the outcome of the game will be rewritten. ”

"In other words, 85% of the games are won or lost, and the Seeker is completely decided!" Jon said with a grimace.

"I don't quite understand what you mean, Mr. Hart!" Lady Hooch frowned, "Are you questioning the importance of the Seeker's role in Quidditch?"

However, despite saying this, Mrs. Hodge was also taken aback by the number given by Jon.

The fact that Seekers can dominate 85% of matches, or 17 out of 20 matches, is a bit scary......

"I'm afraid yes, ma'am, the Golden Snitch can almost always overwhelmingly decide the outcome of a match. Jon nodded with a heavy face:

"To be honest, when I first heard about the rules of Quidditch, I was surprised: who was the first Seeker, and could it be that the stupid son of a king wanted to play Quidditch and couldn't learn the rules?"

Mrs. Hodge's face darkened suddenly, and she seemed to be thinking about something.

"In fact, it's not just the points that seriously affect the balance of the Seekers, it's also the length of the game that determines the length of the game!" Jon continued, "You know, for the Seeker, finding the Golden Snitch is quite a matter of luck—"

"It's not luck at all!" retorted Madame Hodge, "Good Seekers and inferior Seekers have very different skills when it comes to catching the Golden Snitch!"

"No, no, no, ma'am...... You're misunderstanding me!" Jon explained again, "I'm not referring to luck in catching the Snitch, I'm relying on luck in discovering the Snitch!"

"I didn't see many Quidditch matches, but I could clearly see that the Golden Snitch had a very large flying area, and most of it was out of sight of the wizards. This means that you will not be able to actively find the Golden Snitch, but will have to wait passively for it to fly into your sight......"

"So in some games, like the 1992 Gryffindor vs. Hufflepuff match, it took Harry Potter just 2 minutes and 33 seconds to catch the Snitch because it didn't take long for the Snitch to be in their sights. ”

In the 1976 Gryffindor-Slytherin match, James Potter took 4 hours, 39 minutes and 6 seconds to finish the match (the longest time in 20 years), because the Golden Snitch had not been seen in front of anyone for the first four and a half hours of the match. ”

"I think it's not that Mr. Potter is better than his father, it's that the length of a Quidditch match is entirely a matter of luck...... This can lead to some very bad situations, such as the crowd coming to the stadium eager to see a high-level, intense fight, only to be able to show up and get caught and the match ends just a few minutes later, which I think would be quite uninteresting. ”

"I think there's a little truth to what you're saying!" Mrs. Hodge nodded slightly.

"Seekers are only one thing!" Jon continued, "I think there are some other things that are problematic as well...... For example, the batsman and the goalkeeper, their presence is simply too low!"

"I also counted the data on goalkeepers...... In the last 120 Quidditch games, the average number of saves per goalkeeper has been only 3.9, and as I mentioned before, the average number of goals per game is 12.37, which means that a normal goalkeeper does not contribute as much as a chaser in a game!"

"For example, the presence of three goals often makes them overwhelmed and easy to be deceived when making saves, and when facing the enemy chaser rushing with the ball at a very high speed, it is difficult for the goalkeeper to make effective blocks, and most of the time they will be easily passed!"