Zorro's best mate wrote:99.4% of statistics are made up.......
As always, you have to read deeper than just the stats provided to get a multi dimensional picture...
For me, Pembroke are the most successful having taken out all those titles... Thier ranking would be affected by their Div 5 team but go forbid any team chopped a team to improve their stats!!!
Maybe if cash were involved, that would happen but it was good to see Pembroke have a 5th team and also good to see they were mortal as a club!
Yes, no argument from me. The table isn't meant to show the performance of individual teams, but if that is what you want to know/see, then you do have to look deeper.
Zorro's best mate wrote:
The big v small club stat doesn't hold too much water either.... It helps focus the talent but it also provides minimal depth. Successful teams have stable line ups but have the ability to fill in with quaslity when the need arises.
Not so sure that is true, though (as far as I can see, anyway).
6 of the 7 clubs with 4 or more teams finished in the Top-10. You can use a variety of sound-bites to make a guess why that is ... I'll use "Success Breeds More Success".
That would seem to indicate, at the very least, a trend?
I think it's a problem if the trend continues (7 out of 7 in the Top7 places, if you see what I mean), as potential new entrants with
only two teams (and, maybe to a bit less of an extent, existing 2-3 team clubs) start to wonder whether they can compete successfully, in what is a comparatively small league.
The league would not want to lose clubs, through them losing heart. To an extent, Windsor and especially Grads Red hold out the hope of success to other
fewer team clubs.
Zorro's best mate wrote:
I would like to see the disciplinary data mixed in as that would show an interesting trend I reckon....
A very decent suggestion.
Bit of a b*gger to do, because that stat appears only to be publically available on the "Player Stats" pages ... However, I can make that happen and I agree it will add an interesting dimension (well, one imagines an
interesting dimension).
I'll pull the data and update the table as soon as I get chance.