With the comp drawing to a very congested end, it is interesting to look at a range of stats and line it up against the respective team’s positions on the ladder.
What I find surprising is the lowly ‘line-out win %’ of the NZ teams, I guess they aren’t really blessed with decent lineout throwers, but I didn’t think the difference would be so great.
Ominously for the up-coming international season, of the top six teams in terms of offloads, 5 of them are from Nu Zulund and Kiwi teams also take the top three ‘tries scored’ spots.
| Team | Kicks in general play |
Pens Conceded |
Offloads | Turnovers | Effective Tackle |
Breakdown Win |
Scrum Win |
Line-out win |
Tries |
| Hurricanes | 304 | 67 | 118 | 226 | 85% | 93% | 92% | 73% | 43 |
| Chiefs | 293 | 62 | 105 | 210 | 84% | 92% | 88% | 73% | 37 |
| Bulls | 385 | 59 | 48 | 188 | 81% | 91% | 89% | 85% | 27 |
| Sharks | 342 | 59 | 90 | 181 | 82% | 91% | 91% | 85% | 25 |
| Waratahs | 335 | 46 | 99 | 170 | 84% | 93% | 95% | 74% | 19 |
| Crusaders | 342 | 53 | 110 | 211 | 85% | 91% | 93% | 86% | 22 |
| Brumbies | 307 | 44 | 107 | 202 | 85% | 91% | 87% | 83% | 23 |
| Blues | 274 | 53 | 134 | 232 | 83% | 93% | 95% | 79% | 44 |
| Western Force |
317 | 62 | 89 | 176 | 87% | 91% | 90% | 82% | 31 |
| Highlanders | 272 | 53 | 103 | 183 | 86% | 93% | 91% | 76% | 23 |
| Stormers | 327 | 69 | 100 | 206 | 83% | 91% | 88% | 82% | 20 |
| Lions | 307 | 79 | 105 | 206 | 80% | 91% | 94% | 75% | 29 |
| Reds | 322 | 68 | 129 | 234 | 83% | 91% | 90% | 79% | 28 |
| Cheetahs | 319 | 71 | 75 | 185 | 82% | 92% | 89% | 84% | 19 |
| Average | 318 | 60 | 101 | 201 | 84% | 92% | 91% | 80% | 28 |
The Saffers don’t seem the slightest bit interested in offloading the seed with both the Bulls (48) and Sharks (90) in the bottom portion of the table for this KPI but setting a cracking pace out in front in the ‘kicks in general play’ stat.
Both the Tahs and Brumbies are the nice guys of the competition conceding 46 and 44 penalties respectively thus far, this could be important should either make the finals as it will limit the other teams ability to gain cheap points
The comparison between the Reds and the Blues is astounding; both similar in terms of offloads and turnovers, but miles from each other in tries scored.
The Force have the best ‘effective tackle %’ thus far and are pretty average for most of their other stats, I guess that sums their season up, average.
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How bad is the tah’s lineout?? But who would have guessed that the Blues and Tahs would be equal best scrums??
Love the stats :)
Nice work Juan!
Betcha that 50 of the Brumbies offloads came from the match against the Reds :D
i dont think the game against the reds was in there? 23 tries that means 16 before that game…
I think alexander has scored more than 16 himself.
The tahs have the lowest number of turnovers?
Is that turnovers effected rather than turnovers conceded?
Turnovers conceded, I guess it’s because they have played a pretty limited game thus far, similar to the Bulls and Shorks
great stats!
Lowest Turnovers
Equal lowest tries scores
Second lowest penalties conceded
Equal highest breakdown wins
gives a fair indication of playing style… all you need now is a chart showing crowd attendance vs wins and/or tries scored…
nice work
Do you have a legend / description for the columns?
A few of those could be quite ambiguous. What’s an effective scrum win?
Would be interesting to see what it looks like if you remove the two games of touch rugby we saw in New Zealand and normalize the numbers. :)
Fantastic stuff. Awesome piccie. Reminds me of me. Ahem. Someone else.
I know there is alot of love for the tahs on this blog, but there is for some reason no mention of their parity with the cheetas in tries scored (not so good). Maybe I am just becoming bitter because I follow the reds – how I miss the nineties.
“I know there is alot of love for the tahs on this blog,”
I think you may have clicked on the wrong bookmark
Yeah, when we say the tahs are gay, it doesn’t mean we are gay for them.
Well, I wasn’t going down the homosexual route with my comment Bobas, but you are correct…..
Bulls, sharks, tahs. The 3 most prolific kicking teams. I would like to see kick meters.
Hope the waratahs “we don’t care about scoring tries” mentality doesnt filter in to the wallabies set-up this year.
doubt it. deans is setting us up for counter attack play
After having proven to be such a devastating recipe for success, how could they resist it?
But seriously, which players are going to be there to filter it in? Tuquiri looks like he would happily have scored a few more tries, Turner too!
Going down the homosexual route. I love your work gagger, but not like that.