Another round of rugby league action is done and dusted, and before it is boxed and ready for shipping to Wikipedia, we thought we’d bore folks just a little with our NRL Round 4 Results Stats Review.
Instead of just providing the scores and the scorers, we dive a little further into the stats to provide a handful of barely interesting stats to get your working week started.
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NRL ROUND 4 RESULTS MAIN STATS
WORST PERFORMANCE BY THE BOTTOM FOUR TEAMS IN THE LAST TEN YEARS
There has been some discussion this season that the gulf between the good and the bad (no ugly) has increased, and based on some of our diving into the data you’d say they have a point.
So we have looked at the bottom four teams from the previous season, and compared the results of the following season’s first four rounds to see the comparison. And it works out nicely keeping everything in fours.
No matter which way you look at it, last season’s bottom four is underperforming compared to the previous ten seasons.
So 2020’s bottom four have just one win between them so far in 2021. The next worst season was 2014/2019’s bottom four with four wins in total.
Last season’s bottom four not only have the worst points difference by over double, but it is the only season since 2010 where every team has a negative points difference.
There’s also three teams with a points difference worse than -100. No other team team in the previous ten seasons cracked -100.
This season sees three teams with zero wins after four rounds, there are just four teams combined in the prior ten seasons with zero wins.
So fair to say that this season’s bottom four is underperforming much worse than previous season’s at this stage. And of those teams, there has been a change of head coach in three of the teams. So not even a “new manager bounce” seen in the English Football League.
Can any of them turn it around? Maybe not this season, but despite scoring zero points for a third consecutive weekend, the Bulldogs looked the best of these four sides in Round Four.
RECORDS AFTER FOUR ROUNDS FOR THE PREVIOUS SEASON’S BOTTOM FOUR SIDES
THIS HAS HAPPENED SINCE THE BULLDOGS LAST SCORED…..
OK, this might be a little unfair to the Bulldogs, who put a spirited fight against the Rabbitohs in the Good Friday clash, but is still barely amusing and/or interesting.
- It has been 244 minutes since the Bulldogs last scored a point.
- Greater Brisbane was placed into lockdown and re-opened in the gap between Bulldogs points.
- There have been another 12 Million cases of Coronavirus added to the tally
- There have been only a handful more vaccines rolled out by the Federal Government than Bulldogs points.
- If you walked at 6km/hr for 12 hours a day for every day since the Bulldogs scored, you could get from Belmore to Airlie Beach and gateway to the Whitsundays by today.
- Josh Papalii has scored one more try
BITS AND PIECES
- It is nine losses in a row for the Broncos v Storm. And 12 in a row for Melbourne v Queensland opposition.
- St George Illawarra remain the best NRL over the Easter Weekend since 1998 after their win over Newcastle.
- Ryan Papenhuyzen has scored more points in his three games this season than the bottom three have managed in four games.
- Three fullbacks ran more metres by themselves than Manly’s starting props and second rowers.
- Angus Crichton made more than 100 post contact metres.
