Often mid-week I find myself pondering through statistics from the match prior. I have always found that to be a good way of analysing players as to why they are the best or conversely why they may stay in a side when to the eye they haven’t contributed much.
Stats can often be misleading; disposal efficiency for one can be favourably skewed by long kicks over 40m to a contest for example; or negatively impacted if the player you kick it to drops the ball and the opposition gains possession.
Metres gained is another- Take Lewis Jetta round 1, who had 16 touches. 44% efficiency according to the stats but had 472 metres gained. It’s nice to know I guess but doesn’t exactly tell you a full story of a players impact on a game.
One thing that is rock solid is goals. How a team shares that load is extremely important in the modern game. So I thought this year i might try and keep a leaderboard going on our goals kicked. I thought you all might like to discuss how this may look come round 23.
As of Round 2, here is the tally.
7. Darling
5. Lecras
4. Ryan
3. Venables
Waterman
2. Lycett
1. Hurn
Naitanui
Gaff
Duggan
Masten
Cripps
Yeo
JK to come back in, obviously that will change the order- but we’ve scored freely thus far this year- could this be the year JD hits 50-60 goals in the season proper?
Stats can often be misleading; disposal efficiency for one can be favourably skewed by long kicks over 40m to a contest for example; or negatively impacted if the player you kick it to drops the ball and the opposition gains possession.
Metres gained is another- Take Lewis Jetta round 1, who had 16 touches. 44% efficiency according to the stats but had 472 metres gained. It’s nice to know I guess but doesn’t exactly tell you a full story of a players impact on a game.
One thing that is rock solid is goals. How a team shares that load is extremely important in the modern game. So I thought this year i might try and keep a leaderboard going on our goals kicked. I thought you all might like to discuss how this may look come round 23.
As of Round 2, here is the tally.
7. Darling
5. Lecras
4. Ryan
3. Venables
Waterman
2. Lycett
1. Hurn
Naitanui
Gaff
Duggan
Masten
Cripps
Yeo
JK to come back in, obviously that will change the order- but we’ve scored freely thus far this year- could this be the year JD hits 50-60 goals in the season proper?