Interestings stats for this weekend

[Bricey]

Just had a look on the NRL website and browsed the stats page.

Interestingly I note that the Tigers have recieved 153 penalties for the season to date. The roosters, just 109

Averages per match is 6.3 to the Tigers, just 4.5 to the Roosters

Completed sets were 692 to the tigers, 618 to the Roosters

All Run Metres 32485 to the Tigers at an average of 1353.54, Roosters 30953 at an average of 1289.71

Errors 278 for the Tigers, 306 Roosters.

The only stat that I could see that the Roosters were in front of us was Dummy half runs ( which surprised the crap out of me) 566 Tigers to 632 Roosters.

The stats are not supplied on penalties conceeded and kicking meters, but both sides have kicked 4 40/20's to date this season.

Stats table can be found at http://www.nrl.com/telstrapremiership/clubstats/tabid/10254/default.aspx

 

[1973]

Great post David Middleton. Very interesting, We all know that stats mean nothing.

 

[Tiger Hawk]

I'm not surprised by the runs from dummy half. The Roosters game plan coming out from their own half is built around Perrett, Mini & SKD taking runs from dummy half - that's why Perrett was leading the league in that stat (last time I checked).

Goes without saying therefore that our kick-chase has to be spot on and not give up easy metres or get us going backwards.

 

[Tiger Hawk]

Also, as you asked for it:

Tigers have conceded 132 penalties per game, to the Roosters 154.

Roosters have kicked for 12,564 metres from 425 kicks (523.5 per game / 29.6 per kick), to the Tigers 13,383 metres from 442 kicks (557.63 per game / 30.3 per kick). Isolating it to the regular kickers (Carney, Pearce, Anasta and Farah, Marshall, Lui) and the stats are still in the Tigers favour (12,309 from 395 for 512.9 / 31.2 for the Tigers and 11,308 from 369 for 471.2 / 30.6).

This suggests to me that the Roosters rely on attacking kicks a lot more frequently than the Tigers, which would support my own observations, particularly about Pearce.

 

[gronkathon]

Tigers have conceded 132 penalties per game.

Damn Maxwell

 

[madunit]

Metres gained is only impressive if it's our farwards making the big metres.

Somehow though I can't help but feel that their forwards make a hell of a lot mroe meterage than ours do.

 

[madunit]

Another stat to check is tackles made, missed, ineffective and attempted.

And line Breaks

 

[Tiger Hawk]

Excluding kick returns, we've made a total of 29,749 metres. Our forwards have run for 15,073 metres, representing 51% of total metres made.

By comparison, the Roosters made a total of 28,780 metres (excluding kick returns), with their forwards running for 13,538 metres or 47%.

Any way you slice it, their backs do a lot of the grunt work coming out of their end, with SKD, Perrett & Mini leading their team in metres gained (Ryles & Carney in 4th & 5th). Conversely Tuqiri leads us, with Hino second, Ryan third and Ellis & Gibbs rounding out our top 5.

Our kicking game has to be spot on, and our chase has to be as well.

 

[Bricey]

Another stat to check is tackles made,

7148 R. Farah 837, C.W. Heighnington 739, G. Ellis 643, L. Fulton 557
6783 N. Myles 640, M. Aubusson 635, J. Ryles 590, F. Paul-Nuuausala 571

missed,

741 C.W. Heighnington 68, B. Marshall 66, G. Ellis 59 B. Ayshford 53
806 T. Carney 68, N. Kouparitsias 64, M. Pearce 63, S. Kenney-Dowell 53

ineffective

395 C.W. Heighnington 37, G. Ellis 37 K. Galloway 34, B. Gibbs 30
407 N. Myles 39, B. Anasta 32, M. Aubusson 32, J. Friend 28

and attempted.

8284 Tigers, 7996 Roosters

And line Breaks

112
L.Tuqiri 18 C. Laurance 14 A.Fafita 9 B. Marshall 9

125 S. Kenny-Dowell 19, T. Carney 17, M. Aubusson 14, P. Graham 11

 

[Tiger Hawk]

Forgot to mention, I didn't include hookers from either side in the above stats. But Farah made 1,555 metres last year and from what I'm able to identify, the Roosters hooking quartet (Friend, Kouparitsis, Aubusson, Brunton) made 1,534.

Relevant percentages of team metres by forwards therefore increase to 56% and 52% respectively.