Ladder Based on statistics

[Rapture_Shark]

http://www.nrl.com/stats-insider-th...tistics/tabid/10874/newsid/63978/default.aspx
in that link it shows that ibased on stats we should be 5th.

 

[josh11223344]

good read thanks for posting.

 

[Beejay]

Interesting on that ladder we are 7th best attacking and 7th best defensive side - yet we are 5th overall!

 

[sharkafar]

Did you know that apparently 78% of statistics are just made up on the spot...

 

[Beejay]

Nuh haha. I do know 3/4 of the people in the world represent 75% of the population!

 

[dier]

Only stat the matters is the W/L ratio.

 

[deano the p]

Sadly thats true Dier. I wish it was ranked like that artical till the finals.

 

[sharkman05]

that is interesting

 

[Mark^Bastard]

It perhaps shows we really are a better team than we think. That we're under achieving at the moment, and if the team only believed that maybe we would actually be 5th?

 

[Weaponhead]

Interesting read. IMO it shows 3 related issues about our team.
1. We lack the talented individuals to convert pressure into points. We seem to need extra chances to score and don't have the same go to plays that other sides have eg St George's left side with Boyd, Cooper and Morris.

2. We have a tendency to not deliver when it really counts. We can have teams on the rack and then lose concetration, let in a soft try and we are struggling. The Manly game this year is case in point. We dominated them and should have won by 20 but found a way to lose.

3. We are a team with fragile self belief. We rarely win when coming from behind. Some quotes attributed to our coach this week saying "We need the bounce of the ball, a touch of luck, the referees came back to us and believed Nathan Stapleton had scored against Newcastle, that would have been massive for our confidence and let us lead at half-time, but it wasn't to be. If we have no bad luck we should be OK." Todays Telegraph. The good sides find ways to overcome and we aren't there yet.

The good news is that there some strong fundamentals about the team that can be built on.

 

[stormshark]

So Irritating, winning narrow games we lost we should be a conservative four points more than we are and i guess with corresponding percentage, would make us 7th or 8th?

 

[Gards]

Our attack stats are skewed by recently playing 4 very poor sides.

Agree with Weaponheads points.

And yes stormshark it is infuriating losing so many games by close margins. It's become a trait of the Sharks over the years unfortunatly. But that's the thing, we are more than a converted try here and there from being a quality side.

 

[josh11223344]

Our attack stats are skewed by recently playing 4 very poor sides.

Agree with Weaponheads points.

And yes stormshark it is infuriating losing so many games by close margins. It's become a trait of the Sharks over the years unfortunatly. But that's the thing, we are more than a converted try here and there from being a quality side.

Everybody has played poor sides so that has nothing to do with the stats. We just can't finish off with the possesion we have, add an in form AK and a strike centre and we would be alot better off.