Official NRL Grub Rankings 2015 - Part Three

You can read part one here and part two here. They cover positions 43 to 12. This is now the top eleven grubs.

Official NRL Grub Rankings 2015 - Part Two

You can read part one here. It starts the countdown from 43, and gets through the first 16 players, so we commence part two at #27. Part one also explains some of the basic rationale behind the rankings.

Official NRL Grub Rankings 2015 - Part One

“Grub” is a word I never hear or read, unless hearing or reading discussions about rugby league players, where it is perhaps the most overused term ever.

A player can be accused of being a grub for any number of reasons, ranging from dirty play bordering on criminality through to simply playing for the wrong (grubby) team. When a player is labelled a grub with evidence cited to support the charge of being the grubbiest player who ever grubbed, if you disagree, the most common defense is to exclaim “it's not his go!”. This normally leads to a stalemate in the debate and no clear determination of the player’s grubbiness.

It is a complicated issue.

This is why I have developed the official NRL Grub Rankings. I initially included forty NRL players often accused of grubdom, but have added another three that made late claims in the months since I started this project.

Expected Value in Rugby League

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A Draft PhD Idea for Someone a Who Just Wants To Watch Footy

The Rugby World Cup

The rugby union World Cup is almost here.

One thing we can all agree on is it's not some farcical joke like that silly rugby league world cup. This is the third biggest sporting event in the world - well, according to the International Rugby Board's own commissioned reports, and no other credible source or basic common sense. Plus loads of countries play and can win. In its history, the 20 finals spots have been taken up a massive 25 teams, of which four have won and five have made the final, way more than the three winners and four finalists in the rugby league world joke!

Most importantly, these are real national teams playing for real national pride. Not a bunch of Aussie and Kiwi mercenaries making up numbers.

So let's look at each team alphabetically and some of their most patriotic players:

Tantrums

These tantrums all happened in the last seven days.

NRL Ladder Prediction - Revisited

At the start of the season, I tried to predict the ladder. I got it mostly wrong. Here's the final scorecard...