Quote trys'r'us="trys'r'us"Right, let's assume that a carry is as you've said then (a terrible definition as far as I'm concerned, not through your fault, but through the fault of whoever it is that's decided to try and measure something as variable as what a carry is). The terrible, average, coasting Berrigan, this season, has an average of just over 6m per carry. The NRL-bound Houghton has an average of just under 7.5m per carry. What does that tell us? 1.5m is the difference between success and failure? Or Berrigan makes so many more carries that he doesn't have the energy to make the extra 1.5m that would elevate him to greatness? Or something else?
Sometimes, but not in this case. Again, Fitzgibbon/Tickle/tackling. That simple hypothetical remains unchallenged yet is still the massive stumbling block that these statistics haven't even got close to overcoming.'"
See for me the metres per carry is an irrelevant stat for a hooker. The better use of metres per carry is in the forward armwrestle where our great game has changed.
Moa making 8 metres per carry compared to Cusack making 4 metres per carry theoretically tells you that Moa makes twice the yards Cusack does therefore giving a better platform. Obviously before you say it the stat doesnt say how many defenders Cusack pulls in or how quick the ptb is he gets.
The telling stat for me for hookers would be around pass accuracy and speed.
Sometimes overly complication statistics and needing to consider all variables is often the blockage to moving things forward imo. (as evidenced by the debate not really moving on for 10 pages)
