Rolling the rugby league dice: the value of the short kick off

At one end of the scale, we have every NRL team. At the top level, we only see the short kick off when the clock is winding down and the team kicking off desperately needs points to remain in contention for the win. At the other end of the scale, we have the Ipswich Jets,… Read More Rolling the rugby league dice: the value of the short kick off

April 9, 2019April 30, 2019 pythagonrl

Spinning the rugby league roulette wheel

The biggest problem I face in trying to work through rugby league analytics is a lack of useful, reliable, easy to source data to analyse. For this post, I had to do it myself. I recorded 1,000 sets of six from the 2018 season so far, ranging from a Titans-Warriors pre-season game and finishing during… Read More Spinning the rugby league roulette wheel

June 19, 2018January 14, 2019 pythagonrl

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Rolling the rugby league dice: the value of the short kick off

Spinning the rugby league roulette wheel