Super Rugby – interesting average age stats
Fox Sport Australia published a statistical list of Super Rugby average ages per team on 14 February 2020.…
Stats
Rugby ranking model based on number of schoolboys
Queenian has ranked the based on how they stack when comparing their performance factor (P/Factor) which is where they should rank (S/be Rank) given the the number of boys at the schools minus their actual ranking positions as per the BHP Top 50 for 27 April 2015.…
Wildeklawer 2015 organisers get it spot on
Take a bow, the fixture list arrangers of Wildeklawer. Not only is the Skouspel widely acknowledged as the premier school rugby festival in South Africa, setting itself apart by showing 9 games live on television but as far as points difference per match is concerned, Wildeklawer also proved to be the most competitive festival in a survey of 12 festivals from around the country.…
KZN defines high school rugby running time vs playing time
From the KZNRU High Schools Rugby Association
…RE: PLAYING TIME FOR HIGH SCHOOL MATCHES
FAQ: how long is the school rugby sin bin time?
Schoolboy rugby players don’t often get sent to the bin but when they do this sort of thing happens a lot: someone in the crowd turns to you or the guy sitting near you and asks how long the player has to stay in the bin. Well if you didn’t know the answer to that question, here we go. On their website, the the SA Referees have specified maximum playing times for various age-group levels and provided the sin bin times to coincide with these playing times. …
Analysis of SA Schools Cricket, Hockey, Rugby & Water Polo Representatives for 2014
UPDATED
Far below is a list of 73 players that represented SA Schools in four of the major boys’ school sports being cricket, hockey, rugby and water polo.…
Surely no stopping Nelspruit’s finest now?
I have to say that in my mind Nelspuit Old Boy Duane Vermeulen should have walked away with SA rugby’s big award for being the country’s best rugby player in 2013 already. To me it’s debatable whether or not Vermeulen has had a better season this year compared to last year. Nevertheless I have to applaud the IRB Rugby Player of the Year 2014 nominee for being consistently good these past two seasons. Vermeulen is up for the SARU Player of the Year again this year…
Test Springboks : leading schools’ per position
By BHP
Stats as at 31 October 2014…
Total Springbok Caps per School
By BHP
Stats as at 31 October 2014…
Springboks by Province / Region through the Eras
By BHP
Stats as at 31 October 2014…
Springboks by School through the Eras
By BHP
Stats as at 31 October 2014…
Number of rugby players per high school in South Africa
In 2011, Paarl Gymnasium compiled a data analysis of all the schools that participated in their annual under-16 tournament. This analysis indicated the number of students attending each school, the number of students that were boys and the number of boys that played rugby. The findings of their research are tabulated below with a couple of extra fields added.…
SchoolBoy Rugby Blog Top 60 Table – April 2014
This is NOT this website’s rankings. It is merely a table that sets out to rank 60 of the schools who are tracked on the blog, using their results. Very little consideration has been given to the strength of opponents played by each school, as a good ranking system would. …
Easter Fest 2014: which school has the hardest fixture list?
This is an exercise to determine which school has the hardest Easter Festival fixture list based on the historical ranking information made available via the BHP formula driven ranking system for 2009 to 2013 combined (link here : BHP Top 75 2009-2013).…
Kearsney ERF Squads with stats
The Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival Squad player name, dates of birth, height and weight stats:…
St John’s Festival Squads with player stats
The 10 squads with date of birth, weight and height:…
The BHP Top 50 Ranking formula explained
The 2014 school rugby season is in full swing now with the first proper rankings expected to come out just after Easter. Here is an explanation of how the BHP statistics are derived.…
Recap of the biggest school rugby upsets & surprise results of 2013
The 2014 school rugby season has barely started but already Sentraal and Grens have already recorded two upsets that could quite easily rank amongst the biggest upsets of 2014 when the season is done. …
SA Schools Cricket & Rugby Analysis : 1994 – 2013 (20 seasons)
This is an analysis of the of SA School cricket and rugby selections 1994 – 2013, in other words the last 20 years. For the sake of creating a common base of measurement, schools have been assigned to their rugby regions as opposed to their cricket regions which differ in some cases. …
Rating the Grey College 1st XV’s from 1972 – 2013
With the aid of Grey College results available on Nelio’s website rugby15.co.za (link: http://www.rugby15.co.za/2011/06/grey-college-1st-xv-school-rugby-historic-results-overview-from-1894-2011/ ) I’ve compiled two tables ranking their 1st XV’s from 1992 – 2013 (5-point try era) and 1972 – 1991 (4-point try era).…
Analysis of SA Schools Cricket, Hockey, Rugby & Water Polo Representatives for 2013
Analysing the 78 SA Schools representatives for 2013, shows that Kearsney from Botha’s Hill in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) and their Methodist brother school St Stithians from Randburg in Gauteng top the list with 5 representatives apiece followed by the likes of Affies (Pretoria), Paarl Gymnasium and Rondebosch (Cape Town) with 4 each. As a provincial region, no one comes close to the Western Cape (41%) and even by splitting the province into Western Province (WP), Boland and South Western Districts (SWD), WP still commands a 33% share of the overall pie.…
Glenwood ‘Green Machine’ Rugby – 1910 to 2013 (KZN Opposition)
Check this out. All the Glenwood rugby head-to-head for games against other KwaZulu-Natal opponents from 1910 – 2013:
http://www.schoolboyrugby.co.za/GlenwoodRugby19102013.pdf
(summarised 3mb version)
http://www.schoolboyrugby.co.za/GlenwoodRugby05012014.pdf
(full 15mb version)
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Heyneke Meyer currently second best post-isolation Bok coach
Believe it or not by the time this End of Year Tour is over, current Springbok Heyneke Meyer will be the fourth most experienced Bok coach of all time, overtaking both Rudolf Straeuli and the legendary Doc Danie Craven to claim that spot. The Boks’ 24-15 win over Wales on the weekend, also pushes Meyer up into second place since test rugby readmission. This second place is in terms of both win percentage and a specially devised rating formula which takes the quality of the test opponents into consideration.…
Stats on Springbok players for EOYT 2013
Heyneke Meyer’s 32-man squad to play against Wales (09 November: 19h30), Scotland (17 November: 17h00) and France (23 November: 22h00)…
Is date of birth important in rugby?
Thank you very much to Tzavosky for this wonderful contribution that analyses the birth dates of the Craven Week players and the current Springboks:
It has been known for some time and supported by several studies in different sporting codes that an athlete’s date of birth can determine their success at an elite level in that code. Studies have been done for soccer, Australian league and Canadian Ice hockey that I’m aware of.…
Craven Week finalists over the years
UPDATED.
| # | TEAM | P | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Western Province | 20 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 382 | 352 | 30 |
| 2 | Free State | 17 | 8 | 0 | 9 | 317 | 275 | 42 |
| 3 | Blue Bulls | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 221 | 144 | 77 |
| 4 | Golden Lions | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 139 | 160 | -21 |
| 5 | Eastern Province | 7 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 110 | 116 | -6 |
| 6 | Pumas | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 66 | 57 | 9 |
| 7 | South Western Districts | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 69 | 67 | 2 |
| 8 | KwaZulu-Natal | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 53 | 76 | -23 |
| 9 | Boland | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 44 | 43 | 1 |
| 10 | Golden Lions | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 46 | 120 | -74 |
| 11 | Griffons | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 31 | -15 |
| 12 | Border | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 23 | -1 |
| 13 | Pumas | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 18 | 1 |
| 14 | Leopards | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 16 | -7 |
| 15 | Valke | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 30 | -11 |
| 16 | Griquas | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | -11 |
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Springbok squad analysis by school 2013
Initial research by Djou. A look at the players’ schools, franchises, movements, Craven Week and SA Schools history.…
Top 30 rugby schools in South Africa & Wildeklawer
Along with the recently update formula that drives the BHP rankings comes a recalculation of who the Top 30 schools in SA have been since 2009 (including the present season 5 of 2013 ).
The rankings confirm that the organisers of Wildeklawer are pretty much on the ball when it comes to inviting the cream of the crop to attend the annual showpiece which will be held from 02 – 04 May at Maritzburg College in Pietermaritzburg this year.…
Schools of the 2013 SA Super Rugby squad players
Taking the South African Superugby wider squads for 2013 as they appear on Wikipedia, here is the long list of the 202 players with the schools that 197 of them attended. The 5 Kings foreigners are overlooked.…
KZN school rugby coaches over the years
There have been plenty of changes at the KwaZulu-Natal Tier-1 rugby schools over the last few years. Here is a list of coaches both past and present.…
Where the 2012 school rugby players will be in 2013
Here is a list containing the names of 140 top school rugby players as well as where they are coming from and where they are going to after school.…
School Rugby Derby Head to Head Records
HELP! I’m trying to build a comprehensive head to head database of the traditional derbies. Your assistance would be appreciated. Please comment below or email me at beetb@telkomsa.net. Thanks!…
Springbok test record: 1992 – 2012
This exercise below covers the Springbok rugby period from world rugby readmission in 1992 until present day. It started out as an attempt to work out the number of schoolboys in any given year that would go on be capped at Springbok level, based on historical data.…
SA school rugby regional rankings 2012
Schoolboy rugby statistician Boishaaipa, who’s formula driven national rankings system is used by another website and often complimented as being the most accurate one in South Africa, has taken it upon himself to determine the “regional champions” for 2012. He has used the same formula and criteria that drives his national rankings and applied it to results achieved by schools within their own regions only.…