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Rugby league Elo models, player ratings and statistics

Tag: wins above replacement

Rugby league’s replacement player

Last week we looked at valuing players, specifically Tom Trbojevic, Daly Cherry-Evans and Addin Fonua-Blake, by their contributions to Manly’s winning ways. There were two problems though: How do we deal with someone like Marty Taupau? He’s played all of the games this year so we can’t find an understudy to compare him to. What if… Read More Rugby league’s replacement player

August 13, 2019September 9, 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

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