Thought I'd have a crack at building a team off Reg's stats to see if the stats align with what we and the selectors think.
WALLABIES STATS XXIII
1. James Slipper (best LHP in Tackle, Work Rate, Defensive King, and Uh-Oh as in least stuff-ups)
2. Longeran
3. Fa'amausili
4. Canham
5. Frost
6. Gleeson
7. McReight
8. Wilson
9. Fines-Leleiwasa
10. Gordon
11. Nawaqanitawase
12. Stewart
13. Foketi
14. Toole
15. Kellaway
16. Vailanu
17. Matt Gibbon (best LHP in Attack Inflluence, Disrupter)
18. Johnson-Holmes
19. Neville
20. Wilkin
21. J. Gordon
22. Kuenzle
23. Pulu
No loose heads received positive points
I summed the inverse ranking of each player, so Stewart got 1 in work rate, he gets 10 points. Petaia got 8 in disruptor he gets 3 points. Then I subtracted the Uh Oh ranking from their total. Honourable mention to Hodge & Van Nek who received -7 and -9 points each.
Caveats
- This rates all categories for all positions the same. For instance Hamish Stewart is easily the best centre off stats but that's all off a high involvement and good defense, he doesn't feature at all in the attacking rankings and maybe that's something you as a coach would want in a centre, so you' favour it more.
- These stats don't favour scrumhalves or props (props dominate the uh oh category). Fa'amausili was really the only prop who genuinely scored, same as Fines-Leleiwasa for scrumhalves. Assuming Ala'alatoa hasn't played enough, though interesting to see where is Slipper. Also where's Ikitau?
filled the gap for you