6 Nations 2021 Data Visualisation Project - France

Yes, the delay was partly making sure I didn't mispell Jalibert's name as Jalabert. Jaja forever. 

Team: France 

Number of point scoring occasions: 39 

Number of players present for at least 1 point scoring moment: 28 

Who scored the points?

 

The points scorers are more evenly spread for France, but that might be because Jalibert was injured for a match and a half. Never the less, 3 non-kicking players scored 3 times, and another 2 scored twice.

 When were the points scored?  

France like scoring points in minutes 7-11, with 4 sets of points scored then. It's also interesting how early most of the points are with most coming before the 60th minute - only 5/39 coming after then. 

Who scored when? Sorry about the colour clash between Penaud and Jalibert.  

It's interesting that the points when Ntamack took over kicking came later in matches, even in the match he started rather than coming on as a substitute for Jalibert. 

This is the % version of the same diagram -  

Who was present for more than one point scoring opportunity?  

Charles Ollivon and Brice Dulin were on the pitch every time France scored. Gregory Alldritt, Gael Fickou and Antoine Dupont only missed one. 

The French version of the time on the pitch for the players (below) clearly shows the players who play in roles that lead to being subbed off (Haouas, Baille, Willemse and Marchand). It also shows the fact that Jalibert's points all come early really well too.

 

Who was on the pitch at the same time when points were scored? 

Dendrogram

  

Heatmap

 

France don't have quite the same "two clear sets of players" as England, with France it's more a core of Ollivon, Dulin, Alldritt, Dupont and Fickou who can either play with Group 1 (Vakatawa, Villiere, Le Roux, Haouas, Baille, Willemse, Cretin, Jalibet, Penaud, Vincent, Thomas and Marchand) or Group 2 (Toafifenua, Jelonch, Ntamack, Rebbadj). It also nicely shows players who don't play together, probably because of positional overlap (Vakatawa and Villiere and Le Roux).

Matrix

   

The matrix agrees with the heatmap, with the addition of Pierre Bourgarit sticking out. 

Files for this: 

json - https://github.com/fulltimesportsfan/6-Nations-2021/commit/e5afc284ab723602f3b446b0b6276f6e940095ef?raw=true 

Rproj - https://github.com/fulltimesportsfan/6-Nations-2021/commit/e5afc284ab723602f3b446b0b6276f6e940095ef?raw=true