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The season previews are starting to roll out, spring practice is out of the way, media days are in progress and, despite the season still a couple of months away there are plenty of great games to look forward to – and maybe book some tickets for.
Fox Sports has become an easy and understandable target for many sports fans, especially recently. And now ESPN are beginning to leave many fans scratching their heads.
This week saw the release of the Ashley Madison account data, a dating site for married individuals looking for an affair. This has resulted in a few strained marriages around town.
Every season we go through the talk of the NRL draw not being fair, as fans of one team battling for a spot in the eight feel aggrieved that another team had an easier run.
When was Raelene Castle on the board of an NRL club?
We must all do better to address rugby league's harmful treatment of women
what percentage of board members of the 16 NRL clubs are female?
We must all do better to address rugby league's harmful treatment of women
The sad thing is that it has to be the NRL, not the clubs. A club can rip up a players contract, and the next week another club signs him. The NRL needs to step in to prevent the other club signing him
The NRL need to bring in punishments based on guilty verdicts. If a player is found guilty by a court, no matter the courts penalty, the player is suspended, no pay, for a set period. The penalty varies on what he was found guilty of. But the NRLPA are not interested in the game, just the wages of the top players
We must all do better to address rugby league's harmful treatment of women
You’d think the leader of the team (ie coach) would do something about a player like May at his club. Instead, he allows him to date his daughter
We must all do better to address rugby league's harmful treatment of women
https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/84b264c878394f3e8d995cd5b0e02b75?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=2336&cropW=4153&xPos=78&yPos=0&width=862&height=485
Panthers slapped with breach notices over post-grand final antics
Luke Keary was a Parra junior, he played for the Hills Bulls
They got knocked down and they got up again: Why the Roosters are so successful
Oakhill College is a short bus ride from Redfern
They got knocked down and they got up again: Why the Roosters are so successful
broadcasters are also charities, they willingly give money to leagues that get minimal viewers.
It's too soon for an 18th team... but the NRL should still expand
yet no premiership to show for it
Of Bryan Fletcher, Pythagoras and the Pope: Measuring the value of NRL players
Fitzy is more like an out of date calendar.
Peter Fitzsimons blows up at Dolphins CEO to his face over Redcliffe name change
Mitch Moses will be Pope Joan
Of Bryan Fletcher, Pythagoras and the Pope: Measuring the value of NRL players
You need to think what you are trying to calculate. Is it a zero sum state? Or is it a total at the end of the season, for example at the end of the season WAR across the MLB totals 1000. WAR has a set adjustment based on position.
A replacement level player has a WAR of zero, and is basically a 4A player. In the NRL this would be somebody too good for state cup, but not good enough for NRL. Think Will Smith at Parra.
The place to start would be to get the stats that correlate with the points scored and points conceded. Create a formula off this and calculate it for each player
The hard bit is correlating the stats to points. Most widely used stats are useless in this regards, so ignore anything on the NRL site or published by fox
ELO is best used for individual sports. It was created for chess and is widely used in tennis, darts, snooker, etc. Most famous for the formula written on the window for the rating girls program in “The Social Network”. Pythag NRL is best ignored, he doesn’t really understand his own concepts. for example the exponent in the NRL for Pythag theorem isn’t close to 1.9
Of Bryan Fletcher, Pythagoras and the Pope: Measuring the value of NRL players
Johns might be a funny comedian, an ex-good player
he is neither
'One of the game's heartlands': Matty Johns' surprising pick for 18th NRL team
It has the legs of a munchkin
'One of the game's heartlands': Matty Johns' surprising pick for 18th NRL team
The Wolf of Wall Street was severely lacking in wolves
Pure joy: The TV sports show about human connection that is perfect for our times
For a show called The Sopranos it sure lacked opera singers
Pure joy: The TV sports show about human connection that is perfect for our times
membership is an AFL thing, it is a minor thing in the NRL. Comparisons are irrelevant
Heritage vs Expansion: Full time for the Bears or one final chance?
The NRL is an extension of the old NSWRL, not QRL
Heritage vs Expansion: Full time for the Bears or one final chance?
These “research” reports are built to give the answer the organisation paying for it wants. Questions will be skewed to make them look good, like “Do you support the return of the North Sydney Bears?”, and that can be interpreted as a support for the Bears, and “Would you go to a game if the North Sydney Bears were playing?”, and that is interpreted as potential supporters at a game, and not fans going to the see the opposition, i.e. the team they support, play.
Other questions will be so that there is no possible negative response, like “How much important is it to you that the North Sydney Bears are reinstated in the NRL?” And the only options are a) a little, b) a lot, c) it means everything. No option is available for “not at all”
Happens in every industry, every day
Heritage vs Expansion: Full time for the Bears or one final chance?
Raelene Castle did a better job then David Tapp and John Lee
We must all do better to address rugby league's harmful treatment of women