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130806 Performance Against Ranking 2013 Football Season
Introduction This is a nineteenth post about performance against ranking in three football codes in Australia. The codes are Australian Rules, Rugby League and Rugby Union You can find some background...
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Warmth on a Rainy Day
We were in Coogee yesterday. Waiting for two very important hospital appointments. It was raining. Sue and I were off to a hairdresser at the top of the town. To our delight, as we approached the...
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130813 Performance Against Ranking 2013 Football Season
Introduction This is a twentieth post about performance against ranking in three football codes in Australia in the 2013 Football season. The codes are Australian Rules, Rugby League and Rugby Union...
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130820 Performance Against Ranking 2013 Football Season
Introduction This is a twenty-first post about performance against ranking in three football codes in Australia in the 2013 Football season. The codes are Australian Rules, Rugby League and Rugby...
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130827 Performance Against Ranking 2013 Football Season
Introduction This is a twenty-second post about performance against ranking in three football codes in Australia in the 2013 Football season. The codes are Australian Rules, Rugby League and Rugby...
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Coach as Leader
This season’s AFL competition has taken place against the backdrop of ASADA investigations into the use of supplements in the sport. The Essendon club has been at the centre of these investigations. On...
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Pathways to and from the 2013 AFL Finals: Visualising Performance
I have been monitoring winning and losing performances in the 2013 AFL competition. My starting point was the rankings of the teams at the end of the 2012 season. Source: http://www.afl.com.au/ladder...
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Pathways to and from the 2013 AFL Finals: Winning and Losing
Yesterday, I wrote about visualising performance in the 2013 AFL Competition. Today, I have some data to share about winners and losers. During the 2013 season, the gaps between the average weekly...
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R U OK? Day 2013
Thursday, 12 September is R U OK? Day in Australia. The R U OK? Mission is “to encourage and empower all people to regularly and meaningfully ask ‘are you ok?’ to support those struggling with life”....
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Visualising Actual Performance Compared to Predicted Performance
Introduction The Sydney Moderns Exhibition in general, and Roy de Maistre in particular, have sent me off thinking about visualisation this week. I have been wondering if I can combine my interest in...
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Fremantle’s Path to the 2013 AFL Grand Final
Fremantle have won their way to their first AFL Grand Final after defeating Sydney. During the regular season, their scoring performance compared to the weekly winning average was: Fremantle lost five...
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Getting Ready for #ImpactS4D
Sport Matters is hosting its inaugural conference on 18 October in the Ann Harding Conference Centre at the University of Canberra from 9am to 4.30pm. There is information about the conference on the...
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Batting for the Ashes 2013-2014
The 2013-2014 Ashes Series starts this week in Brisbane. I have tracked batting partnerships in the last two Ashes’ Cricket Series (2010-11 and 2013). I am looking forward to monitoring the Series in...
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Ashes Batting Partnership Trends: Comparing 2013 with 2010-11
The 2013-2014 Ashes Series starts today in Brisbane. It will be interesting to see if there are any changes in the batting partnership trends from the Series in England earlier this year. This chart...
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GPS: Gabba Partnership Skyline 1
The 2013-2014 Ashes Series started yesterday in Brisbane. I have become particularly interested in batting partnerships as indicators of a team’s progress. This is the third Ashes Series I have...
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GPS: Gabba Partnership Skyline 2
The first innings of Australia and England concluded before the end of play on Day 2 at the Gabba in the 2013-2014 Ashes Series. Australia’s batting partnership profile was: England:
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GPS: Gabba Partnership Skyline 3
The First Test in the 2013-2014 Ashes Series concluded on Day 4 at the Gabba. The partnership skylines for both teams were:
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Batting Partnerships Ashes 2013-2014: Second Test Match
I have been monitoring batting partnership trends in Ashes Cricket from the 2010-2011 Series in Australia to the present Series. After the Second Test in Adelaide, the partnership curves of both teams...
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Batting Partnerships after 14 Ashes Tests 2010-2013
The final Test Match of the 2013-2014 Ashes Series begins in Sydney on 3 January. After fourteen Test Matches played since 2010, the partnership profiles for both teams are: Photo Credit DSCF0037...
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Batting Partnerships in the 2013-2014 Ashes Series in Australia
The 2013-2014 Ashes Series in Australia concluded this afternoon at the Sydney Cricket Ground. At the end of the Series, these are some batting partnership data extracted from ESPNcricinfo’s...
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