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The Importance of Being Earnest is linked to three other films, via two actors.

Colin Firth was also in Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy while Judi Dench is in the Chronicles of Riddick and Tomorrow Never Dies.

This one is going to be complicated because Batman vs Superman is linked to 9 films by 8 people.

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David S. Goyer has previous form for writing screenplays that don't seem to know who the characters are, as he wrote the Blade Trinity script. He also wrote the Ghost Rider script. This has brought the "bad Marvel films" cluster down further into the main body of the network. That process was aided by the fact that Isaac Hamon also worked on the stunts for Fantastic Four (2015), which is also in that cluster.

Diane Lane was also Judge Hershey in Judge Dredd, while Laurence Fishburne was in The Matrix: Reloaded. Jeremy Irons is also in Assassin's Creed.

Steven Mnuchin also produced Inherent Vice, while Bruce Moriarty also produced Reign of Fire.

Junkie XL also did the music for DOA.

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There are many links between War and several other Jason Statham and or Jet Li films. I imagine that with a film with lots of stunts you like working with people you know know their stuff.

The links are as follows:

Jet Li is also in Romeo Must Die, Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and the Expendables - it's never his fault that these films are not good.
Jason Statham is also in Revolver, Transporter 3, Expendables, Blitz and Wild Card - ditto, he is frequently the good thing about the bad film.
Devon Aoki was also in DOA: Dead or Alive
Steven Chasman also produced Transporter 3, Blitz, Wild Card and DOA: Dead or Alive.
Brian Tyler also did the music for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the Expendables
Corey Yuen was also involved in Transporter 3, the Expendables, Wild Card and DOA.

That part of the diagram is getting distinctly crowded, which is why I've resorted to different colours and different sized fonts to try to clearly label everything.

Now that all the changes to the squads have been added, admittedly after the tournament has finished, I can update the figures. In general, the changes made very little difference.

The quarterfinals:



(Sorry to any New Zealanders for cutting off the N of the country name.)

The only difference adding Rob Herring for Sean Cronin for Ireland makes is that Leinster and Munster now both have the most players left in with 12, followed by Crusaders, Scarlets and Saracens with 11.

All 8 teams are their own communities.

Japan are the team closest to the centre still, but Yamaha Jubilo are now the team closest to the centre.

In the total players used up to the quarterfinals diagram, Canada and France have still added the most (4), then Ireland, Italy, Samoa, Scotland, South Africa and Tonga with 2 then Argentina, Fiji, New Zealand, the United States and Wales who have all added one.



All 20 teams remain their own communities.

Jaguares have the most (27) players at the World Cup, followed by Welwitschias (20) and Glasgow warriors and Benetton (16).

Scotland and Pau are the teams closest to the centre.

Semifinals:

The addition of Owen Lane for Josh Navidi changes nothing because it swapped a Cardiff Blues player for a Blues player. Therefore, the teams in the centre haven't changed from the previous version (England and Harlequins) and the teams with the most players haven't changed.



In the total players used up to the semifinals diagram, Canada and France have still added the most (4), then Ireland, Italy, Samoa, Scotland, South Africa, Tonga and Wales with 2 then Argentina, Fiji, New Zealand and the United States who have all added one.



All 20 teams remain their own communities.

Jaguares have the most players at the World Cup (27), followed by Welwitschias (20) and Glasgow warriors and Benetton (16).

Scotland and Pau are the teams closest to the centre.

Final:

No changes to the diagram showing just the finalists because I made the Ben Spencer for Willi Heinz change in the original diagram. I made it because it had an effect on how close the teams were to each other as Willi Heinz and one of the South Africans both play for Gloucester while Ben Spencer plays for Saracens.

In the total players used up to the final diagram, Canada and France have still added the most (4), then Ireland, Italy, Samoa, Scotland, South Africa, Tonga and Wales with 2 then Argentina, England, Fiji, New Zealand and the United States who have all added one.



All 20 teams remain their own communities.

Jaguares have the most players (27), followed by Welwitschias (20) and Glasgow warriors, Benetton and Saracens (16) (due to addition of Ben Spencer of Saracens for Willi Heinz).

Scotland and Pau are the teams closest to the centre.

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I wanted to see if there was any correlation between final result and players named to the squad. Obviously, teams that went further in the tournament played more games which increases the risk of injuries. Therefore, I divided the numbers of total players (and total players/original players) by the number of games played to try to account for that.

If you look at total players named to squads divided by games played versus the team final positions it looks like this:



You can see an obvious pattern. There is a similar pattern if you plot starting number of players named divided by total players named then divided by games played against final positions.



I'm not sure what to do with the information. Dividing by the number of games played has a huge effect and I don't know if the effect is out-sized. Also, it's all well and good to be able to see patterns at the end but it would be interesting to see if you could predict final positions from this sort of information at the end of the group stage.

Another interesting question, raised by L, is whether you can predict anything from number of players actually played and which teams maintained the most continuity, in terms of players who were on the pitch with each other. It's something you could probably work out from easily available data, but it will take time to do so it is being put into the future plans folder.

Watch this space, but don't hold your breath ;)

Other forthcoming plans for this data include trying to make a video showing the changes throughout the competition - the first few dry runs look very pretty but that might also take some time to perfect, but the results of that should be out sooner than the other analysis.

(With some spoilers of the results of the semifinal matches themselves)



England are now the team closest to the centre, with Harlequins the club team closest to the centre. New Zealand are the team floating out on their own, and given both theirs and Ireland's relative under-performance, it does suggest that rugby union is becoming more like football, ever more inter-linked, and that inter-linking is vital for performance.

The club teams with the most representatives are Crusaders, Scarlets and Saracens (11), followed by the Stormers with 9 and the Ospreys with 8.

All four teams remain separate communities.

No update on the all players diagrams but that should be coming soon. There will be a slight delay for RL reasons, but hopefully the quarter, semi and final versions of that should be up before the end of November.

The changes up to the end of the fourth round (again, as accurate as Wikipedia can make them):

Italy - Giosuè Zilocchi and Danilo Fischetti for Simone Ferrari and Marco Riccioni.

Argentina - Gonzalo Bertranou replaced Tomás Cubelli.

After fourth round of group games, the diagram looks like this:





Jaguares still have the most players with 26, followed by Welwitschias (20) and then Glasgow and Saracens (15). Two Benetton players have been replace, and both replacements play for Zebre.

The closest teams to the centre are either Samoa or Scotland and either London Irish or Pau. In both cases, I can't tell.

In the community view, France and Fiji have become one community:



I'm sharing the non-labelled one as well, because I think it's just so pretty.

Looking at the total players named:



Jaguares have the most (27), followed by Welwitschias (20) and Glasgow warriors and Benetton (16).

Samoa and Pau are the team closest to the centre.

From original teams being named to start, Canada and France have added the most (4), then Italy, Samoa, Scotland, South Africa and Tonga with 2 then Argentina, Fiji, Ireland, New Zealand, the United States and Wales have all added one.

In the community view, the teams are back to being 20 separate communities.

A very quick update, because nothing has changed. As some have teams have since swapped out players that were hurt in the first round, I think that if teams had their weakest opponent in the second or third round, they've rested those players to see if they will recover and only replaced them if they haven't.

There will be changes after the third round.

(This is late because I spent most of the build-up to the World Cup on holiday. I would recommend a visit to Andalusia to anyone and everyone.)

For the Rugby World Cup, you're going to get more images than usual in this kind of post. This is because the governing body, World Rugby, demand that the squads are finalised before the final warm up match (no, I have no idea why). In a sport like rugby, it's very easy for people to get injured in a match, so there are often changes between the squad being finalised and the start of the tournament.

Below is the original squads, in red and white in honour of Japan.



The labelled version is here:



As you can see, Samoa are the team closest to the centre, with London Irish being the club team closest. Jaguares are the club with the most representatives (26), followed by Welwitschias (20) and Glasgow Warriors (16).

Because of the regional way rugby union works in several countries (New Zealand, Ireland, Australia, Wales) pick all their players from very few teams (4 for Ireland, 5 for New Zealand). Ireland are the team floating on their own. In the men's football equivalent of this diagram, being so isolated is a predictor of poor performance but I don't think this will be in the rugby (this was written before Japan Vs Ireland, possibly it is more prophetic than I thought.)

The number of unattached players is higher than football. USA and Canada have the most with 5, but several other teams also have unattached players (Samoa, Fiji, Georgia, Italy and Tonga).

All 20 teams are their own communities.

However, as I said players get injured and several teams had to replace players before the start of the tournament. The diagram on the first day of the World Cup (20th September), looked like this.



The main difference is that Namibia have moved further in because they have a player (Janco Venter) who plays for Jersey Reds, and Lee Roy Atalifo, who was a replacement for Fiji also plays for them.

This means that Fiji are now the team closest to the centre, while London Irish are still the club team closest to the centre. The clubs with the most players hasn't changed.

Rugby union also does something interesting with regard to replacing injured players. In international football tournaments, teams may only replace injured players until their first game. In the rugby union world cup, teams may replace injured players throughout. I think this is because players are more likely to get injured in rugby and because there are certain positions where you need a specialist player.

These positions tend to be the front row (Hooker and Props). If a team cannot field a recognised hooker and props, scrums become uncontested for safety reasons. Backs are more interchangeable and, theoretically you can play a non-scrum half at Scrum Half, it just might not end well. (I mock with love, and no one can say that Mauro Bergamasco didn’t give it his all, because he is lovely beyond words).

With the changes that have come after the first round and will undoubtedly come after the second round, I will make more diagrams. I am also very tempted to find a way of making an animation of the changes and then do the same for a diagram of all the players who have been named in the squads. For the time being, below are all of the plays that have been named in any of the squads from the naming of the squads to the start of the tournament.



At the 2015 World Cup, Wales and Samoa went through the most players and I suggested that reflected something about the way the two teams played. This time, New Zealand, Canada, Samoa and Fiji have already had to add players, 1 each.

More soon.

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DOA has links to several films, but most of those films are films that were already linked to each other.

The links from DOA are:

Corey Yuen was also a choreographer on Transporter 3, the Expendables and Wild Card

Eric Roberts also in the Expendables and Inherent Vice

Steven Chasman also produced Transporter 3, Blitz and Wild Card

Andreas Grosch and Andreas Schmid also produced the Punisher (this caused the Punisher and Blade Trinity to swap places in the diagram)

Robert Kulzer also produced Fantastic Four (2015)

Kevin Nash is not high enough up the cast list to be the link between any of these films ;)

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The diagram definitely shows the advantage of using the blue and red spectrum colouring, it is much easier to see which are the biggest teams, and to see gradations of shade.

The national team closest to the centre is England, while Huston Dash are the club team closes to the centre. The US is linked to others by Jodie Taylor who plays for Reign FC. The three other national teams form a pretty solid triangle.

Through this link to Jodie Taylor, Reign FC are one of the teams who will have someone in the final, no matter what the semifinal results are. The other two are Bayern Munich and Montpellier.

The club with the most players left is Manchester City with 8, followed by Chelsea with 7 and Arsenal with 6. I don't know if this reflects the spending power of the Women's Super League now that most clubs are attached to Premier League clubs, or if it's pure chance.

Going to the community view, there are 4 teams left but 6 communities.
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Lyon and Wolfsburg, the two "extra" communities, link two national teams teams, with one player from each team, other clubs that are joining two teams have been put into the community of the nation who supplies the most players.

Of course none of this answers the most important question - who do I support when England play the US? The Lionesses or Megan Rapinoe's team?!