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Radrada should also be a good shout. He was immense today against Wales.
I wasn't, is there much difference between a fantastic player in a team that goes out in first knockout game vs last pool game?Are you doing a seperate team of the pool stages? As well as the whole tournament.
Yeah, pressure is Hard. I'm trying to think about that with respect to radradra. Ì kind of think of the wales Fiji game as fijis final, but actually they kinda had nothing to lose. Yes they would have wanted to win really badly, but they didn't want to not lose quite so much. Australia was a bigger game in some ways, as although it wasn't must win losing would mean they had a lesser chance of making the playoffs. To ensure everyone gets equal opportunity regardless of how far their team progresses, I'm thinking of having weights, the sun of which equals 1, applied to each of a players matches, with higher weights based on pressure and quality of opposition. That way players from teams that play more pressure games won't be advantaged, but their pressure games will count for more than their non pressure games.AJ is out of the running, not a bad WC but don't think he managed to get the best out of those around him (and vice versa), too many errors.
One thing I've noticed is that 10s have been somewhat inconsistent. eg; Tamura had a shaky outing versus Russia getting massively outplayed by his opposite number with a lot of mistakes and iffy kicking then back in contention with some impressive stuff over the next couple. Yu's was not a poor performance versus Scotland but wasn't as assured as the previous couple which has to be accounted for. Is it pressure? A metric I'm trying to quantify and apply for a bit of fun too. He's still definitely in with some others though.
Weighting is definitely something worth doing... in fact I think we're all probably 'doing' it subconsciously, though all to different subjective levels I'd imagine. I personally feel the weight should be dictated by the opposition... ie if you played well against tier 1 oppo it's worth x, and so on.Yeah, pressure is Hard. I'm trying to think about that with respect to radradra. Ì kind of think of the wales Fiji game as fijis final, but actually they kinda had nothing to lose. Yes they would have wanted to win really badly, but they didn't want to not lose quite so much. Australia was a bigger game in some ways, as although it wasn't must win losing would mean they had a lesser chance of making the playoffs. To ensure everyone gets equal opportunity regardless of how far their team progresses, I'm thinking of having weights, the sun of which equals 1, applied to each of a players matches, with higher weights based on pressure and quality of opposition. That way players from teams that play more pressure games won't be advantaged, but their pressure games will count for more than their non pressure games.
https://www.therugbyforum.com/threads/scotland-inquest.44831/Perhaps as a bit of fun we could do the opposite and name the worst/disappointing team of the tournament. It would be a bit mean however.
Wales online (groan) have put a team together from the pool stages.
Would imagine the English dont think much of it... probably a bit harsh not to get any of them in it. It's debatable either way though really. Would imagine the actual team of the tournament will be quite different to this once the final's final whistle blows.
Wales online doesn't have the luxury of having 15 selectors, each able to focus on just one podition. Plus, they're reporters, not armchair experts like us.Wales online (groan) have put a team together from the pool stages.
15. Beauden Barrett
14. Kataro Matsushima
13. Timothy Lafaele
12. Sami Kerevi
11. Semi Radrada
10. Richie Mo' unga
9. Gareth Davies
8. Kazuki Himeno
7. Ardie Savea
6. Josh Navidi
5. Joot de Lager
4. Scott Barrett
3. Tadgh Furlong
2. Tolu Latu
1. Keita Ingaki
I would probably have it another way in a few positions... Horie at hooker in particular (though Latu has been very good).
Would imagine the English dont think much of it... probably a bit harsh not to get any of them in it. It's debatable either way though really. Would imagine the actual team of the tournament will be quite different to this once the final's final whistle blows.
Oh they have nothing (no sarcasm here at all) n-o-t-h-I-n-g... on us!Wales online doesn't have the luxury of having 15 selectors, each able to focus on just one podition. Plus, they're reporters, not armchair experts like us.
Hey, no biases, This is a big responsibility you carry on your shouldersRitchie didn't play well enough to earn top spot and his team isn't bad enough to earn honorable* mention like the Russian 7 was.
I'm leaning towards hooper right now but if savea plays at seven during the knockouts I think he'll get the spot.
If pocock plays a minute at open side during knockouts I might give him the spot out of bias.