Involvement Rate is an advanced statistic for rugby league that I created to identify players who have a high workload but don’t play a lot of minutes. Traditional rugby league statistics are counting stats and volume based, and the important work of middle and interchange forwards in the NRL goes largely unrecognised. If you’re new to the site and want to understand how it works, I would recommend reading this post on Involvement Rate. To put it simply, it is a combination of Run % and Tackle % which shows the estimated percentage of plays that someone completed a run...
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NRL Round 14 advanced statistics – Involvement Rate
Involvement Rate is an advanced statistic for rugby league that I created to identify players who have a high workload but don’t play a lot of minutes. Traditional rugby league statistics are counting stats and volume based, and the important work of middle and interchange forwards in the NRL goes largely unrecognised. If you’re new to the site and want to understand how it works, I would recommend reading this post on Involvement Rate. To put it simply, it is a combination of Run % and Tackle % which shows the estimated percentage of plays that someone completed a run...
Continue reading...NRL Round 13 advanced statistics – Involvement Rate
Involvement Rate is an advanced statistic for rugby league that I created to identify players who have a high workload but don’t play a lot of minutes. Traditional rugby league statistics are counting stats and volume based, and the important work of middle and interchange forwards goes largely unrecognised. If you’re new to the site and want to understand how it works, I would recommend reading this post on Involvement Rate. To put it simply, it is a combination of Run % and Tackle % which shows the estimated percentage of plays that someone completed a run or tackle during...
Continue reading...NRL Round 12 advanced statistics – Involvement Rate
Involvement Rate is an advanced statistic for rugby league that I created to identify players who have a high workload but don’t play a lot of minutes. Traditional rugby league statistics are counting stats and volume based, and the important work of middle and interchange forwards goes largely unrecognised. If you’re new to the site and want to understand how it works, I would recommend reading this post on Involvement Rate. To put it simply, it is a combination of Run % and Tackle % which shows the estimated percentage of plays that someone completed a run or tackle during...
Continue reading...NRL Round 11 advanced statistics – Involvement Rate
Round 11 is complete and it’s time to look at another advanced statistic, this time Involvement Rate. If you’re new to the site, there’s a primer on Involvement Rate in the articles section which will explain this statistic in more detail. Here’s the top 20 chart for Involvement rate for all players for Round 11 Rhys Kennedy also locks up the all minutes Involvement Rate chart, purely from his limited minute performance against the Storm, involved in nearly 30% of all plays whilst on the field. Jai Whitbread from the Titans was the only other player above 25% for the...
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Before the charts this week, I wanted to clear up the “Total Plays” column based on some Twitter feedback. The “Total Plays” column is the total plays for a particular game, and not the minute adjusted number of plays a player was on the field for. The adjustment for minutes played is made in the Involvement Rate % calculation. I’ve left the “Total Plays” unadjusted get an idea of how many opportunities to run the ball or complete a tackle. Generally, NRL games have around 300 play the balls. If you’re seeing a team with more than that number of...
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