On TV, radio and in papers media types are incessantly decoding matches into confusing graphs revealing where losing teams lost the plot.
"You'll see it here", they'll bawl, as they sketch lavish circles and uneven squares around even more elaborate grids and diagrams, "This is where they fell away in their completion rates".
The belief is a high completion rate translates into success, which is wrong. Something doesn't add up!
Sure, good ball possession is important, limiting mistakes help and good kick-chases also contribute. But don't be fooled into believing impressive statistics epitomize impressive performances.
Parramatta coach Brian Smith believes completion rates simply reveal the quantity of ball possession, not the quality. Other coaches agree.
The New Zealand Warriors are currently enjoying one of their best seasons ever, however their completion rate is nowhere near as good as seasons past.
In fact, in 2000, the Warriors finished the year with the best completion rate in the competition, yet sat just off the base of the ladder and well out of finals fever.
So where does the truth lie. Losing coaches frequently bemoan their victory chances went west 'On the ground', (i.e. in the ruck area).
So what can coaches do to improve their performance in this crucial area?
"The main thing in this game is attitude", counters New Zealand coach Daniel Anderson, "It outweighs all other aspects and I'll take the right attitude over statistics any day".
No one has derived a graph representing player attitude and is unlikely to ever do so. But Anderson believes if such a statistic was presented it would demonstrate a clear correlation between appropriate attitude and winning.
Continued Monday
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