Rugby league came back to life in 2022. After two years of pandemics and cancellations and postponements in 2020 and 2021, we finally got a real year of football. World Cup We made it. It looked for a while like we wouldn’t get a World Cup. There seemed like a good chance that the gods… Read More The Year in Rugby League Football, 2022
We’re over half way into the Intrust Super Cup / Queensland Cup and it’s time to review how each team and player are performing. We’ll be looking at this using the following analytical tools: Form – Elo ratings that reflect short term performance. Production – The accumulation of valuable work on field, as measured by… Read More 2021 Queensland Cup WIP Report
Regular readers will know that I like to keep up with all the developments in world football, not just the top level. Because so many second and third class comps were cancelled last year, we aren’t able to do a serious season preview for each one in 2021 (if I even had the time). Many… Read More A Shallow Dive into the minor rugby leagues in 2021
Just before kick-off of the Bulldogs-Dragons spoon bowl on Monday, the Warriors dropped a big press release. Contained within is an important story with a lot of implications for rugby league, so let’s go through them. For the Broncos It wasn’t that long ago that the Broncos had six feeder clubs in the Queensland Cup.… Read More The Warrior Dolphins
I was always vaguely aware of the Queensland Cup growing up, but only really took an actual interest in it when I started this site a couple of years ago. I became a Souths Logan fan, because that’s where I lived most of my life, and started going to games. Since then, I’ve toyed with… Read More A deep dive in to the 2020 Queensland Cup
I wrote about Sydney as an obstacle to expansion yesterday. It started as an intro to this post but ended up being over 1000 words and I thought it should stand alone. It’s the result of thoughts that have been bubbling since I started paying proper attention to rugby league when I started doing this… Read More NRL Tips – Round 25, 2019
Some additional rugby league reading for you: With two rounds left in the #NRL, it's pretty much a four horse race with two clear favourites (no surprises). The bottom two could be swapped for any of the teams in contention and it probably wouldn't matter much overall. pic.twitter.com/plb9bBm9JL — Liam (@pythagoNRL) August 26, 2019 And… Read More NRL Tips – Round 24, 2019
Apologies for there not being any tips last week. I was in Perth. And before you start with your jokes, especially when a bunch of you go to the Nines next year: HuR DuR wE sHoUlD rElOcAtE a TeAm ThErE Actually, we should relocate two there. Perth Sharks. Fremantle Sea Eagles. Friday 10PM games every… Read More NRL Tips – Round 23, 2019
It was a relatively quiet week for odd rugby league news, so here’s some analytics you might not have seen (mostly from me, yes): Elo ratings NRL Round 20 via @pythagoNRL pic.twitter.com/vXCm7ZNEdB — Keith Lyons (@520507) August 5, 2019 We've launched the newest tool in our free suite of @StatsInsider analytical tools – the SI… Read More NRL Tips – Round 21, 2019
I’ll spare you the lengthy and moderately pompous words I had written about cheating. The last week has been dominated by refs faulting to a sickening degree and to a lesser extent, the lack of appreciation of Super League on the Gold Coast. The announcement of St Helens coach Justin Holbrook as the Titans new… Read More NRL Tips – Round 20, 2019
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