Lee Coan wrote this article.
They say defence wins world cups, or test matches, or tournaments, or something like that. Anyway – defence is important.
So how are the Super teams doing?
Well, the tackle completion stats don’t really tell us too much with 13 teams being within 3% of each other – except that is […]
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Defence STATS: what’s the bottom line?
May 20th, 2012 · No Comments
Tags: Melbourne Rebels · Super Rugby · Provincial Rugby · act brumbies · NSW waratahs · western force · queensland reds · statistics
Wallaby contenders by the numbers: Openside
May 15th, 2012 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
There’s been a lot of buzz around the open side flanker position this week, with good cause – Australia seems to have at least 3 sevens looking the goods – the “oldest” of which is still just 24. It’s being billed as the battle of the fetchers – Pocock […]
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STATS: Does crime pay? Super Rugby Penalties
May 9th, 2012 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
Does crime pay? Looking at the chart to the right, you might well think it does when it comes to Super Rugby this year, as the top two and bottom two positions on the log correlate perfectly. The top two most penalised teams are winning the comp, the least […]
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Wallaby contenders by the numbers: Halfback
May 8th, 2012 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
International season looms and as such it’s time to start having a look at the contenders for the Green and Gold jerseys. First up – halfback.
Now offhand you might question this as a choice. Australia and the Western Force Reds have maybe the world’s best number 9′s in the form […]
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Who’s the Super Rugby Dead-Eye Dick?
April 30th, 2012 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
If you had to wager your life on a kick, who would you want stroking it over? International kicking savant Morne Steyn, or Waratah wetback, Brendan McKibbin?
Well, by the stats this year it’s gotta be the kilted Tah, which may well be a good reason why Pretorius BIG […]
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STATS – Weakest Super Scrum
April 25th, 2012 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
Scrums are an endless source of debate in Rugby and even aficionados can watch the same scrum and come up with different judgements of which side got the better of it, and why.
But at the end of the day, there’s one measure that really matters – who got pinged […]
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Analysis: How the Reds can beat the Stormers
April 18th, 2012 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
The top placed Aussie teams – the Brumbies and Reds – face two fearsome opponents in the top placed South African teams – the Bulls and Stormers – this weekend. The form of our conference would say that they’re up against it – so how can they pull off […]
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STATS: Super Kicking Culprits
April 11th, 2012 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
Following some friendly banter with Saffa friends of G&GR today in which I accused them of playing ‘kick chase’ rather than rugby, JDog (@joelwynne) retorted that it was the Reds who actually kick the most. So I thought I’d have a little delve into what’s actually going on with […]
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STAT ANALYSIS: There can only be one
March 29th, 2012 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
You gotta love differences in life. Middle of the road – blah. To shake things up you gotta be a little different and if you want a team that’s sticking out like a dog’s dick after just 5 rounds, have a look at the Stormers.
The most obvious thing is […]
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Key Aussie Super Stats – up to Round 4
March 20th, 2012 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
It’s only 4 games into the 2012 season, and as our stats guru and supplier Rucking Good Stats will tell you, it takes at least 6 games before you can get to a 95% confidence interval. At this stage, just one match can skew an average.
But stuff that – […]
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G&GR Test Player of the Year 2011
February 21st, 2012 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
After Certificate-gate, we went all out.
It has been discussed, 2011 was a massive year for rugby. I worked out that I attended 11 Super Rugby matches and 19 Test matches in 9 different venues. I only mention that to illustrate how much rugby there actually was last year (and […]
Tags: International Rugby · rugby · statistics · Rugby World Cup 2011 · Wallabies
Time in Possession – Wallaby Matches in 2011
January 4th, 2012 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
Recently I published my Involvement Rates for the Wallabies in 2011. As you probably know this is a measure of how much work players are doing in key areas during a match and to improve the accuracy of the measure I’m now calculating the Involvement Rate based on the […]
Tags: Northern hemisphere · rugby statistics · International Rugby · Brisbane Premier Rugby · Southern Hemisphere · rugby · Wales · Wallabies · Rugby World Cup 2011 · statistics · Ireland
Podslam 51 – We Look Back on 2011 with Bob Dwyer
December 19th, 2011 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
Scott Allen, Gagger and I get together for the final show of the year. We reflect on the year that was, after a tweet from @luketerra6 got us to thinking.
Not content to just trust our own wisdom, we got someone in who actually has some, World Cup winning Wallaby […]
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Wallabies 2011 Involvement Rates
December 17th, 2011 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
This year in my analysis of games involving the Wallabies I’ve included a new way of measuring the level of work by players in the game – the “Involvement Rate”.
The Involvement Rate is calculated as follows:
(Number Of Carries + Number Of Tackles Made + Number Of Breakdown Involvements) / […]
Tags: analysis · rugby statistics · rugby · statistics · Rugby World Cup 2011 · Wallabies
Podslam 50 – The Half Ton
November 29th, 2011 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
Scott Allen, Gagger and I get together for a special show. We celebrate our 50th show by talking to Melbourne Rebels Analyst and former Wallaby Ben Darwin.
We look over the Babarians match and forward to the test against Wales on the weekend.
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