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Tag: player ratings

Primer – Rismans

A big thank you to Lorna Brown (@_Lorna_Brown) who provided me with the dataset and whose ongoing updates to the same mean that we should be able to do some form of Super League player analysis. She has – presumably through some sort of black magic and/or competence with programming – managed to scrape a… Read More Primer – Rismans

May 22, 2021May 22, 2021 pythagonrl

Rating the 2019 State of Origin teams

It’s that time of the year again. The weather has just turned cold and the NRL season has built just enough momentum to be interesting and has now been brought to a screeching halt. It’s State of Origin time, the world’s only all-star game that the players actually care about. Naturally, the first question anyone… Read More Rating the 2019 State of Origin teams

June 4, 2019July 12, 2019 pythagonrl

Primer – PPG and WARG

Turns out that StatScore didn’t pan out the way I had hoped. There were some conceptual errors but the biggest was that I wanted a measure of rate and a measure of volume and you can’t have one statistic that does both. It’s like having one number that meaningfully states that a boxer is both… Read More Primer – PPG and WARG

January 22, 2019February 27, 2019 pythagonrl

Primer – StatScore and Win Shares: rating NRL players

The biggest off-season story in the NRL was the transfers of Cooper Cronk from Melbourne to Sydney and then Mitchell Pearce from Sydney to Newcastle. From the Roosters’ perspective, for two players likely on similar pay packets, how did the Roosters decide one was better than the other? Then I wondered if it were possible… Read More Primer – StatScore and Win Shares: rating NRL players

January 25, 2018April 23, 2019 pythagonrl

FORM ELO RATINGS

NRL after round 8, 2022:
1. Panthers (1651)
2. Storm (1640)
3. Rabbitohs (1558)
4. Cowboys (1550)
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13. Warriors (1436)
14. Raiders (1432)
15. Bulldogs (1419)
16. Knights (1415)

Qld Cup after round 6, 2022:
1. Falcons (1586)
2. Bears (1567)
3. Devils (1565)
4. Blackhawks (1562)
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11. Cutters (1489)
12. Dolphins (1447)
13. Hunters (1381)
14. Jets (1323)

Super League after round 11, 2022:
1. Saints (1614)
2. Dragons (1597)
3. Warriors(1570)
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10. Devils (1432)
11. Trinity (1399)
12. Olympique(1349)

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