With the men’s competition well underway, it’s time to take a look at the women’s tournament. Unfortunately, I don’t have anything like the data for the women’s game that I do for the men’s, so we are forced to rely on qualitative assessments. Fortunately, the hierarchy is better established than the men’s and I think… Read More A Dive into the 2021* Women’s Rugby League World Cup
I jumped the gun not long after the World Cup draw in early 2020 and ran some Monte Carlo simulations of how the tournament might unfold (it was exactly as you’d expect at the time). Then a pandemic happened and a rain of shit followed. The parochial cowards that make up the NRL clubs forced… Read More A Deep Dive into the 2021* Men’s Rugby League World Cup
After a dominating win over Great Britain, followed by a tough and exciting win over Australia, some extremely exuberant pundits decided that Tonga were the best nation in the world and worthy of Tier 1 status. Putting aside the fact that a poor island nation of 100,000 is not capable of generating enough native talent… Read More Tonga are still a long shot for the 2021 World Cup
While the recent RLWC was on, I couldn’t help but notice that the RLIF had Scotland pegged as the world’s fourth best team. Scotland hadn’t won a game since 2014 and even that was against Ireland. Since then, they’d lost to Australia, England, Ireland, Wales and France. I also got frustrated because a fifteen second… Read More Primer – Introducing Pythago World Rankings
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