All posts tagged "match statistics"

Did you get a feeling of deja vu watching game 2 of the Tri Nations between the...

While it is hard to argue with the majority of the Wallaby selections announced today, there are a few players that could feel a bit unlucky. The selection of Matt Hodgson in front of Ben Mowen and Mitchell Chapman was a bit of a surprise as was the inclusion of Quade Cooper...

Well, that’s it for another year, with no Aussie teams progressing to the finals, we can start the post mortems. Below are some stats so you can see how each of teams performed relative to each other and perhaps why they performed so well, or in the case of the Reds, why...

We let our stat gimp loose on the teams and he couldn’t stop himself delving into the individual players as well. So here they all are. For the most part they reinforce what you might already suspect, but there are a few surprises……..

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...

In the last few weeks I’ve done an analysis of the best attacking Australian players in the Super 14, this week, I finally found some reliable defensive stats and I’ve done the numbers – the results are below. As a minimum, forwards must have attempted more than 30 tackles and backs more...

After half a packet of Tim Tams and five Rum and Cokes, I’ve done some data sets based on various criteria to see how each of the Australian provinces and individual Australian players are going thus far in the Super 14 for this year. Looking the above data, the thing that stands...

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Based on the criteria below, I guess it’s down to Drew Mitchell, Diggers, Cliffy and David Pocock. Surprisingly for me is Scott Higginbotham, playing his first full season and featuring in both tables…onya Higgers!!! I love stats.

A nerdy statistical analysis of the Australian, South African and New Zealand teams' performances including for and against and bonus points over the first 2 rounds of Super 14 2009

The Australian team of the week as picked by the stats from Foxsports fantasy rugby for round 2 of Super 14 2009

. . France 13 – Australia 18 It was ugly as hell (and that might have been because it seemed like I was watching it underwater through a snow blizzard on an intermittent webstream) but stuff it, it was a win. I get the feeling there will be plenty to pick apart...

One roll of the dice too many South Africa 15 England 6 This was a tough old...

Frogs 9Poms 14 Was it ugly? Definitely.Does that matter? No. Last night we had another reminder in the laws of world cup rugby. Laws that it seems are impossible to remember for 4 years. Last weeks law: games are won and lost up front. This weeks law: semis and finals are ugly....

Woeful Wallabies 37 Plucky Canucks 6 Here’s the short version; a bunch of Wallabies desperate to score...

The end is nigh for IrelandFrance 25Ireland 3 Tonight Ireland’s chances of progressing any further in this Rugby World Cup became very slim indeed. They now need to score four tries against Argentina next week, and make sure that Los Pumas fail to secure a bonus point themselves. On the basis of...

Wallabies show their class On Saturday Australia gave a good look at what they’re capable of, comfortably...

Wallabies 91Cherryblossoms 3 As the scoreline suggests, this was your classic World Cup mismatch of the type that Campo has been campaigning against of late. That aside, the Wallabies produced a composed performance, for the most part devoid of the ‘rustiness’ excuse that usually dogs them in world cup pool games, and...