The rarest scores in premiership rugby A few weeks ago I looked at some of the most common scores in premiership rugby, this time I'm looking at some of the rarest. The first place to start is by defining rarity so we'll look at those scores with the lowest frequencies. We'll also look at relative rarity. Rugby's rather peculiar scoring system means that some adjacent scores are much more likely than others. For example in 25 seasons premiership rugby teams scored 9 points 100 times but 8 points 194 times and 10 points 218 times. The rules At this point I should say that I've excluded those impossible scores 1, 2 and 4. I suppose those scores are rare, in the sense that you are unlikely to see them. But the comparison I'd use is that you wouldn't describe a Dodo as rare and like a Dodo these scores are extinct for now. I also excluded the Covid walkovers. Whilst there were scorelines given they didn't happen. I've used scorelines from the 25 seaso
Bringing together two of my favourite things in life Data Analysis and Sport. This blog is an attempt to try and provide some answers to questions some of which are important, but most are trivial.