Monday 3 June 2024

Saints Ahoy - Visualisations from game 7 and the season to date

(Sorry for the break, RL happened with a vengeance) 

The most important thing about Easter weekend was that the forces of Good (Saints) beat the forces of Evil (Wigan) in the Good Friday game, somewhat against the run of form. 

In the sort of derby where it was 2-0 at half time, 3 people went off for Head Injury Assessments and there was somehow only 1 yellow card 

https://www.saintsrlfc.com/2024/03/29/saints-defeat-wigan-on-good-friday/ https://twitter.com/SuperLeague/status/1773756078875959601 - Tommy, Tommy Mak 

Those are the important rugby points ;) 

There is still no obvious pattern to when Saints score Bar chart showing when Saints score.  There are a couple of points where they have scored two points but no obvious pattern has emerged. Percival and Lomax, the kickers, are still the people with the highest number of point-scoring moments, as expected. Tommy Makinson is still doing his thing (Tommy Tommy Mak!) Percival has still has the most point-scoring moments with 11, then Lomax with 9.  Mbye, Matautia, Knowles, Hurrell and Blake have one each. But there's also no pattern to when they score. Bar chart of when Saints score, coloured by scorer. Only 3 players have been present for all point-scoring moments, Whitley, Welsby and Lomax. Bar chart showing which Saints players have been present when they scored.  Three players have been present for all point-scoring moments, Whitley, Welsby and Lomax who have been present for all 48.  Davies has been present for the least, with 4. In the matrix, the cluster of always theres has moved into the middle, possibly because there's so few of them. The purple in the middle is the ever-presents.  Paler means present together less often. There are now 19 people in the present when Saints score network graph, a central 15, plus Mbye, Lees, Knowles and Walmsley stuck out from them. Network graph.  There are a central 15 players and 4 around the outside.  The 4 around the outside are Mbye, Lees, Knowles and Walmsley. Moving over to when Saints concede. Our three ever presents are here as well but Bennison is there as well, which is unexpected. Not sure if he's just been unfortunate to be on the pitch when Saints are short-handed, or if I need to start shouting about defensive practise. Purple is the players who are together often when Saints concede.  Whitley, Welsby and Lomax are there as expected, but there is an extra purple line for Bennison. The network diagram for when Saints concede now has 13 players. The thirteen players in the present when Saints concede diagram are Bennison, Bell, Wingfield, Makinson, Welsby, Sironen, Lomax, Blake, Whitley, Delaney, Clark and Dodd, with Hurrell sticking out to the left. ~~~~ 
Given the sad news - Rugby league legend Burrow dies aged 41 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/articles/c2qqwvwzp5zo) - if you like these posts and have a few quid to spare, there's a couple of funds that could do with donations: 
Motor Neurone Disease Association - https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/robburrow 
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