Your men’s Penrith Panthers finished the 2022 NRL season in first place, winning the minor premiership before going on to win the grand final over Parramatta, 28-12. The Panthers’ attack was the second best in the NRL, scoring 21 points less than the Storm, and only sixth best in franchise history. At 26.5 points scored… Read More A Shallow Dive into the 2022 Penrith Panthers
Your women’s Newcastle Knights finished the NRLW season in second place with a 4-1 record and +44 points difference. That brings the women’s Knights total number of wins to four, in their best season yet. Newcastle crushed the Dragons, 30-6, in the semis, followed by a comprehensive 32-12 victory over the Eels in the grand… Read More A Shallow Dive into the 2022 Newcastle Knights
Your men’s Parramatta Eels finished the 2022 NRL season in fourth place, with a 16-8 record and +119 points difference. The Eels’ points difference was the seventh best in the league, good for a Pythagorean expectation of 14.4 wins. Given the noticeable overperformance, it’d be worth keeping an eye out for an underperformance of same… Read More A Shallow Dive into the 2022 Parramatta Eels
Your men’s South Sydney Rabbitohs finished the 2022 NRL season in a relatively lowly seventh place with a 14-10 record, a slight underperformance of the Pythagorean expected wins of 14.7. The Bunnies had the sixth best attack, cracking 600 points, and conceded 474, the second worst of all finals teams. Souths went the hard way… Read More A Shallow Dive into the 2022 South Sydney Rabbitohs
Your men’s Sydney Roosters finished the 2022 NRL season in sixth place. The Roosters had a 15-9 record with a points difference of +201 but were knocked out of the finals in the first week by arch rivals, South Sydney. Sydney had the third best attack in the league, scoring just one point fewer than… Read More A Shallow Dive into the 2022 Sydney Roosters
Your men’s North Queensland Cowboys finished the 2022 NRL season in third place. The Cowboys managed a 17-7 record with a points difference of +272. Their Pythagorean expectation was even higher at 17.8 wins. Scoring 26.4 points per game, the 2022 North Queenslanders had the second best attack in franchise history (behind only 2005) and… Read More A Shallow Dive into the 2022 North Queensland Cowboys
Your men’s St George Illawarra Dragons finished the 2022 NRL season in tenth place with an even 12-12 record and -100 points difference. Their offence scored the least points outside of the bottom five and their defence was tenth best in the league. With only 9.8 Pythagorean wins, the Dragons significantly outperformed their true performance… Read More A Shallow Dive into the 2022 St George Illawarra Dragons
Your men’s Cronulla Sharks finished the season in second place on the ladder with an 18-6 record and +209 points difference. It was only the sixth Sharks team to finish on the front row of the grid in their history. The other second placed finishers include 1973, 1978 and 1997. Cronulla left the post-season in… Read More A Shallow Dive into the 2022 Cronulla Sharks
Your men’s Canberra Raiders finished the 2022 NRL season in eighth place with a 14-10 record and +63 points difference. Conceding 461 points, the Raiders had the sixth best defence but only the eighth best attack, with 524 points being more than the bottom half of the table could manage but no better than the… Read More A Shallow Dive into the 2022 Canberra Raiders
Your men’s Gold Coast Titans finished thirteenth (really, that high?) with a 6-18 record and a -205 points difference. Conceding at a rate of 27.5 points per game, the Titans had the fourth worst defence in the NRL (behind two teams that fired their coach and one that will in the next year) and the… Read More A Shallow Dive into the 2022 Gold Coast Titans
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