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Game 24 of Saint's 2024 season was their Magic Weekend game.
I quite like Wikipedia's description of Magic Weekend - "an annual event organised by the Rugby Football League in which an entire round of Super League matches is played over a weekend at a single stadium to promote the sport of rugby league." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Weekend)
I've been lucky enough to go twice, both in Newcastle.
The only downside to Magic Weekend is, that in order to sell tickets, Super League tend to have teams play their local rivals. Which means you can end up playing the same team far too often.
And playing Wigan, again, in a year your team are already not doing well, is far, far too often.
When Saints then lose, 20-0, to Wigan, that's the pits - https://www.saintsrlfc.com/2024/08/17/saints-beaten-on-derby-day-at-magic-wknd/
On the other hand the referees let this sort of thing go:
( Picture under the cut )
Understandably, there can be no diagrams for Saints's point-scoring moments in this game, nor are their any updates to their point scoring moments for the season.
There is no pattern to when Saints conceded, except maybe a slight suggestion that they concede more in the last 10 minutes (but so does everyone else).
( Bar chart under the cut )
The "who is present when Saints concede" diagram is so weird that it made me double check that I'd not made some sort of data entry error.
It makes sense, just, if you consider that he's about the only player who didn't have an extended injury / suspension break.
It does make the "Who is present when Saints concede" matrix look intriguingly different.
( And makes the alt text tricky to write )
The equivalent network graph is shaped like a fox's face.
( Under the cut )
As Royle, Walmsley, Wingfield and Burns are the only players sticking out, it tells me that the other players who had previously been in the little "rarely but when they do they play together" sticking out blobs have now been subsumed into the central blob. This is true, as they are now at the edges of the central blob (Paasi, Vaughan and Stephens on the left hand side and Bennison, Knowles and Batchelor on the right).
That change is most interesting, and suggests Saints have had to start leaning on the full squad of players.
I quite like Wikipedia's description of Magic Weekend - "an annual event organised by the Rugby Football League in which an entire round of Super League matches is played over a weekend at a single stadium to promote the sport of rugby league." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Weekend)
I've been lucky enough to go twice, both in Newcastle.
The only downside to Magic Weekend is, that in order to sell tickets, Super League tend to have teams play their local rivals. Which means you can end up playing the same team far too often.
And playing Wigan, again, in a year your team are already not doing well, is far, far too often.
When Saints then lose, 20-0, to Wigan, that's the pits - https://www.saintsrlfc.com/2024/08/17/saints-beaten-on-derby-day-at-magic-wknd/
On the other hand the referees let this sort of thing go:
( Picture under the cut )
Understandably, there can be no diagrams for Saints's point-scoring moments in this game, nor are their any updates to their point scoring moments for the season.
There is no pattern to when Saints conceded, except maybe a slight suggestion that they concede more in the last 10 minutes (but so does everyone else).
( Bar chart under the cut )
The "who is present when Saints concede" diagram is so weird that it made me double check that I'd not made some sort of data entry error.
It makes sense, just, if you consider that he's about the only player who didn't have an extended injury / suspension break.
It does make the "Who is present when Saints concede" matrix look intriguingly different.
( And makes the alt text tricky to write )
The equivalent network graph is shaped like a fox's face.
( Under the cut )
As Royle, Walmsley, Wingfield and Burns are the only players sticking out, it tells me that the other players who had previously been in the little "rarely but when they do they play together" sticking out blobs have now been subsumed into the central blob. This is true, as they are now at the edges of the central blob (Paasi, Vaughan and Stephens on the left hand side and Bennison, Knowles and Batchelor on the right).
That change is most interesting, and suggests Saints have had to start leaning on the full squad of players.
