Media Are hit-outs useful.

[grumbleguts]

I wanted to see how useful the hit-out actually was. I mean, does the ruckman winning the tap translate to scoreboard ascendancy?

I looked at a plot of a team's total hit-outs against their percentage on the ladder. I figured a team's percentage is a decent indication of success on the scoreboard. Here's what i found:



It appears there is a fairly decent correlation between hitouts and percentage (Pearson's correlation coefficient of 0.69). Considering the sheer number of other factors involved, this is a fairly substantial correlation.

It appears that ruck taps in this game have a strong impact on final score board.

 

[Dav]

I wanted to see how useful the hit-out actually was. I mean, does the ruckman winning the tap translate to scoreboard ascendancy?

I looked at a plot of a team's total hit-outs against their percentage on the ladder. I figured a team's percentage is a decent indication of success on the scoreboard. Here's what i found:

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It appears there is a fairly decent correlation between hitouts and percentage (Pearson's correlation coefficient of 0.69). Considering the sheer number of other factors involved, this is a fairly substantial correlation.

It appears that ruck taps in this game have a strong impact on final score board.

Oh s**t, look what you've done. Don't enable them!

 

[grumbleguts]

Oh s**t, look what you've done. Don't enable them!

I know I know....

I actually thought I'd be putting them in their tall, thin, uncoordinated box. But the stats actually paint a rather ugly picture that they are an necessary evil.

 

[Dav]

I know I know....

I actually thought I'd be putting them in their tall, thin, uncoordinated box. But the stats actually paint a rather ugly picture that they are an necessary evil.

It figures. Hitouts only occur after goals in the sim. Higher score equals more hitouts. Teams with more high scores tend to win more games. Therefore win more games equals more hitouts.

 

[grumbleguts]

It figures. Hitouts only occur after goals in the sim. Higher score equals more hitouts. Teams with more high scores tend to win more games. Therefore win more games equals more hitouts.

But you could hit it directly to your opponents and concede more goals and still have heaps of hitouts.

 

[Dav]

But you could hit it directly to your opponents and concede more goals and still have heaps of hitouts.

You're right, my explanation would support a parabola not a linear distribution.

 

[Harvey Manfrenjensenden]

Came in to gloat.

no need, OP's done all thework for me

 

[Ned_Flanders]

Pffffff

Rucks are more useless than a Freo trophy cabinet

 

[Barrybran]

U2tigers

 

[U2tigers]

My job is done.

Rucks Rule.

 

[Tigerturbulance]

Rucks are and always will be the most significant position on the qooty field.
First touch of the qooty increases the opportunity of any team to move fwd and score, it's just the midget mids that continually f@ck up and cough the qooty up that hurt teams and the fwds who can't kick straight

 

[U2tigers]

Rucks are and always will be the most significant position on the qooty field.
First touch of the qooty increases the opportunity of any team to move fwd and score, it's just the midget mids that continually f@ck up and cough the qooty up that hurt teams and the fwds who can't kick straight

Took the words right out of my mouth.

 

[Dav]

Took the words right out of my mouth.

Didn't take his dick out though.

 

[manangatang]

Delicious.

 

[TJASTA]

.....
ffs, now all of the Shaun Hampson's of the league will begin to circlejerk.

 

[Ned_Flanders]

Rucks are and always will be the most significant position on the qooty field.
First touch of the qooty increases the opportunity of any team to move fwd and score, it's just the midget mids that continually f@ck up and cough the qooty up that hurt teams and the fwds who can't kick straight

Having a the ball bounce off your scone does count as a first touch, yes. It then takes us mighty mids to clean up after you

 

[TJASTA]

Having a the ball bounce off your scone does count as a first touch, yes. It then takes us mighty mids to clean up after you

can confirm

 

[U2tigers]

.....
ffs, now all of the Shaun Hampson's of the league will begin to circlejerk.

We are all Shaun Grigg's get it right.

 

[TJASTA]

We are all Shaun Grigg's get it right.

No, Shaun Hampson. Because the only thing you guys are good at is tapping balls down.

 

[Tigerturbulance]

Didn't take his dick out though.

He can now; lve finished