Australian Super Rugby Team of the Week 2024

[Wilson]

Team of the Week Round 15:

	Player	Team	Votes	Appearances
1	Alex Hodgman	Reds	6/6	3
2	Matt Faessler	Reds	4/6	5
3	Alan Ala'alatoa	Brumbies	5/6	3
4	Jed Holloway	Tahs	4/6	4
5	Seru Uru	Reds	5/6	4
6	Nick Frost	Brumbies	5/6	5
7	Fraser McReight	Reds	4/6	7
8	Rob Valetini	Brumbies	6/6	9
9	Tate McDermott	Reds	4/6	5
10	Noah Lolesio	Brumbies	3/6	6
11	Corey Toole	Brumbies	5/6	5
12	Hunter Paisami	Reds	4/6	7
13	Bayley Kuenzle	Force	4/6	4
14	Andrew Kellaway	Rebels	4/6	6
15	Tom Wright	Brumbies	6/6	8
16	Billy Pollard	Brumbies	2/6
17	Taniela Tupou	Rebels	1/6
18	Charlie Gamble	Tahs	1/6
19	Josh Canham	Rebels	1/6
20	Carlo Tizzano	Force	1/6
21	Ryan Lonergan	Brumbies	2/6
22	Jack Bowen	Tahs	2/6
23	Dylan Pietsch	Tahs	2/6
HM	Darcy Swain	Brumbies	1/6
	Ryan Smith	Reds	1/6
	Lachlan Swinton	Tahs	1/6
	Rohan Leahy	Force	1/6
	Hamish Stewart	Force	1/6
	Filipo Daugunu	Rebels	1/6
	Len Ikitau	Brumbies	1/6

With the regular season complete I'll be compiling the team of the season shortly. Will be based on appearances first, than using position named and the cumulative scale of the vote as a tie breaker.

 

[Wilson]

Team of the Season:

	Player	Team	Appearances
1	James Slipper	Brumbies	4
2	Matt Faessler	Reds	5
3	Sam Talakai	Rebels	5
4	Jeremy Williams	Force	5
5	Nick Frost	Brumbies	5
6	Rob Valetini	Brumbies	9
7	Fraser McReight	Reds	7
8	Charlie Cale	Brumbies	6
9	Tate McDermott	Reds	5
10	Noah Lolesio	Brumbies	6
11	Corey Toole	Brumbies	5
12	Hunter Paisami	Reds	7
13	Josh Flook	Reds	5
14	Andrew Kellaway	Rebels	6
15	Tom Wright	Brumbies	8
16	Tom Horton	Force	4 (3.27)
17	Alex Hodgman	Reds	3 (2.88)
18	Zane Nonggorr	Reds	4
19	Seru Uru	Reds	4 (4.34)
20	Liam Wright	Reds	5
21	Nic White	Force	3
22	Ben Donaldson	Force	4 (4.00)
23	Filipo Daugunu	Rebels	4 (4.38)

Here is the final compiled team of the season. No tie breakers were necessary for the main XV with every player selected being the clear standout in number of appearances. A few (Frost, Valetini, Kellaway) collected their votes across multiple positions, but all of them had multiple appearances in the position selected here and I don't think it's at all outlandish to pick them where I have.

Bench was a bit harder to drill down. I started with the provision that there had to be 1 hooker, loose head, tight head, lock, backrow, halfback and fly half and then the next highest lock/backrow (for 6/2) or back for (5/3) would make it. Where I needed to separate candidates even on appearances I calculated their weighted polling across all the votes they polled, even when they didn't make the team (this is the number that appears in the brackets). The calculation for that was simply No. of votes polled / total votes that round. So a player who polled 4/6 for a round gets a score of 0.67 for that round. I only did this as a tie breaker where needed as the way I tracked everything meant it had to be done by hand. I have some ideas to track all of this much better next year so I can easily produce a stat sheet across the player base at the end of season. The unlucky players to lose the bench tie breaks were: Angus Bell 3 (2.07), Jordan Uelese 4 (3.23), Jed Holloway 4 (3.44), Ryan Smith 4 (4.06), Harry Wilson 4 (3.63), Carlo Tizzano 4 (4.16), Tim Ryan 4 (4.05) and Bayley Kuenzle 4 (3.34).

 

[Froggy]

Too many Tahs