6 Nations 2021 Data Visualisation Project - Scotland

Team: Scotland 

Number of point scoring occasions: 39 

Number of players present for at least 1: 35 

Who scored the points? 

   

Scotland's points were quite evenly spread between Finn Russell and Stuart Hogg, this is partly because of Finn Russell's injuries/yellow cards, but it also shows that they have two attacking prongs, which I think is part of why they did better in 2021. 

When were the points scored?  

Scotland's points are remarkably evenly spread out through out the 80 + extra time minutes. 

  Who scored when?

 

 The point scored by Russell and Hogg are also reasonably distributed by time, neither of them was "the one that scored at the start of the match" or "the one that finished matches off".

 

Percentage version of the previous 

Who was present for more than one point scoring opportunity?  

No Scotland player was present for all the points. Those present for the most were Stuart Hogg and Duhan van der Merwe who were present for 39/41 points.  

Scotland probably shows the best what I wanted to describe with this visualisation, so you can see that Matt Fagerson, Rory Sutherland, George Turner, Darcy Graham, Sam Johnson, Sam Skinner and Finn Russell were the players subbed off (I think in Russell's case, to prevent him picking up yet more yellow cards). 

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

Dendrogram

 

There does look to be a clump of Hogg, van der Merwe, the two Fagersons, Jamie Ritchie, Sutherland, Turner, Ali Price, Russell, Chris Harris (no, not that one) and Cameron Redpath (who makes me feel ancient) and then everyone else.

Heatmap

    

The number and the mix and match nature of the Scotland team is born about by most of the heatmap being very pale, with only really Hogg, van der Merwe and Hamish Watson always being together.

Matrix

    

That's also borne out by the matrix view, which has a lot of players on it (23), but the previously identified central chunk with lots of players sticking out from it. 

(Files for this: json - https://github.com/fulltimesportsfan/6-Nations-2021/blob/main/Scotlandpoints.json?raw=true 

Rproj - https://github.com/fulltimesportsfan/6-Nations-2021/blob/main/Six%20Nations%202021%20Scotland.R?raw=true )