Sunday 13 February 2022

6 Nations 2021 Data Visualisation Project - Ireland

Team: Ireland 

Number of point scoring occasions: 41 

Number of players present for at least 1: 32 

Who scored the points? 
Johnny Sexton. 

  uRqXXQ.png 

No really, as an Ireland fan, I am not at all terrified by how dependent Ireland are on a now 37 year old Johnny Sexton. And that domination is with him missing a game due to concussion protocols. 

 When were the points scored? uRqi0x.png 
A lot of Ireland's points were scored in minutes 30-50. 

Who scored when? 
  uRqA81.png 

And now the percentage view. uRq61n.png 

This view makes it even more clear how dependent Ireland are on Sexton. 

Who was present for more than one point scoring opportunity? uRqCLs.png 

Only Hugo Keenan was present for all of Ireland's points. uRqtvN.png 

Because Ireland's team were more mix and match there is less of a "and these are players who swap for each other", except for Josh van der Flier and Tadhg Furlong. 

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

Dendrogram
uRqhSJ.png
Heatmap
uRqEyj.png 

The mix and match nature of the Irish team shows up in the heatmap, with there being sort of a 8 core, followed by another bunch of 8, then a less used 8, then the least used 8 (including Peter O'Mahony who was banned for 3 games after that sending off). There's also more of a weaving of colours.

Matrix
  uRqU32.png 

Again, the matrix view supports the information from the others, that Ireland swapped a lot of players in and out, with a lot of players in it as co-occurring, even though they missed several matches. 

(Files for this: 
json - https://github.com/fulltimesportsfan/6-Nations-2021/blob/main/Irelandpoints.json?raw=true Rproj - https://github.com/fulltimesportsfan/6-Nations-2021/blob/main/Six%20Nations%202021%20Ireland.R?raw=true )

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