Tuesday 26 September 2023

Rugby Union World Cup 2023 - A closer look at England after their third game

Following three England games, what do the various charts look like now? 

The "when do England score?" chart now looks like this When-England-score-after-3-games 

It's not distinct on the chart, but it's interesting that if you split it into 20 minute chunks you get the following pattern: 
Minutes 0-20 = 3 point scoring moments 
21-40 = 13 
41-60 = 11 
61-80 = 10 

England spend the first 20 minutes feeling their opposition out.

Who scored for England?   England-point-scorers-after-3-games 

In which Steve Borthwick has created himself a problem because yes, Arundell has scored more than the player he replaced, but against Chile who are probably the weakest team in that pool. 

England's point-scoring moments by time and player: England-point-scoring-moments-by-time-and-player-after-3 That's an interesting number of unconverted tries. 

Because of the number of changes for the England vs Chile game, no England players have been present for all of England's points-scoring moments Number-of-point-scoring-moments-players-were-present-for-after-3 Elliot Daly has been present for the most, 30 out of the 37 point-scoring moments England have had.

The dendrogram looks like this Dendrogram-after-3-games This should explain who some of the missing names are in the matrix figure that comes next. (I promise I'll tidy them up once my leg is fixed)

The present at the same time matrix now looks like this.   Matrix-after-3 Although at least now they're staggered the way I was expecting so you can put them together quite easily. 

The matrix diagram really shows the number of changes from the other two matches to the Chile match, and that there have been almost two different England teams, linked by Elliot Daly.

It hasn't half messed up the network diagram though.   Network-Diagram-after-3 
I present a very odd looking blob. 

There are no changes to the concession diagrams, because Chile didn't score. It wasn't through lack of trying though, and they have heart and spirit. In the spirit of raising my hat, I present England Rugby's video from Instagram.

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