All posts tagged "Statistics"

Did you see the reports recently that the NRL is planning to introduce GPS-fitted balls so forward...

What’s going on at the breakdown? Last week I published an analysis of infringements at the breakdown...

The All Blacks were outstanding against the Wallabies on the weekend. It was a dominant display and on...

What’s going on at the breakdown? It’s been about a year now since Scarfman, our colleague here...

It was certainly a resounding victory for the All Blacks against the Springboks on the weekend. Some of...

Who should be kicking points for the Wallabies?  JO’C, Cooper, Beale or Giteau? Request completed! I’ve applied kick difficulty because of the G&GR commenters who wanted them. I’ll dispense with all the background stuff on how this is all done as you can find it here and get into it. Just note...

After an ordinary start to the 2011 international season against Samoa, the Wallabies bounced back with an...

A little eyebrow-raiser this morning when reading the Wallaby team sheet for the Boks match was the inside centre position. I had (for better or worse) solidly expected to see the familiar name of Matt Giteau there, but instead the man chosen to help dig the Wallabies out the merde they created...

Despite the media lauding a goal kicker’s stats, G&GR readers often remark that doesn’t take into account difficulty. It’s a well repeated comment that hasn’t been resolved due to a lack of data, until now. I too have been frustrated, so I wrote an article applying difficulty to the comparison of two...

What are the factors that will give Link and all Reds fans reason to smile as the...

As the Reds approach their first Super Rugby final, there are a few areas of concern for...

After sixteen rounds of this Super Rugby season, the Wallaby Captain and Blindside Flanker has played a total of 84 minutes – less than 7% of it. With Rocky Elsom unlikely to play any rugby before the Tri-Nations, it must surely be an understatement to say that the Wallabies blindside flanker position...

Sometimes when you look at the stats of a team over a season, they don’t really tell the story of that team on the field. But when it comes to the Brumbies in 2011, the story is not only writ large, it’s also fascinating (in a car crash on the side of...

Did you try to watch the Waratahs v. Western Force game on Saturday night? If your eyes remained open long enough there was one element of it you couldn’t have missed: the mind-boggling amount of kicking from hand that took place. In all there were 72 (some stat sources say 76) kicks;...

I’m not a fan of the current scrum call sequence, particularly how slowly it’s being called in 2011. One of the common complaints about the calling sequence is that there is so much variation from scrum to scrum and from referee to referee. To see how accurate this complaint is I decided...

They’ve been slowed a little lately by a host of injuries, but the Crusaders are surely once again the team all Super Rugby coaches, players and supporters have sleepless nights over. Add that the perennial championship contenders constitute, both in terms of personnel and playing style, the core of the All Black...

Let’s take a look at the statistics for the kicking by each Super Rugby team after Round...

The Waratahs completely outplayed the Reds in their Round 2 clash, playing a power game built on...

Teams need quick ball from the breakdown so they can attack more freely by limiting the time the...

After six rounds in the Super Rugby competition, the greater number of games played is providing us...