Juan Cornetto wrote:
In the Wigan game Kirke went off injured and only had few minutes on the field yet he still managed to almost double the average gain on Bailey with 32 metres in 3 carries.
Are all metres gained the same?
I wondered at the time if Kirke's metre stats were correct and as he was only on for a very short stint I bothered to check them. As it happens I think his 3 carries for 32 metres is fairly accurate but not all the metres were hard fought, indeed if I recall correctly more than half of them came courtesy of the kick return from the monster 70 metre drop out by Pat Richards.
Stats can be mis-leading without further analysis even when they are accurate and those posters who like to refer to them will surely appreciate how a small sample such as Kirke's in that game, which included a cheap metre return, can skew the results when averaged.
