Historical Rankings

[TRF Mr Fish]

I've ranked the Super Rugby teams on historical rankings - that is in ascending order of their average placement come the end of each season (if a team comes 1st then loses their semi they will receive 3rd placing etc.). As a tie break, number of championships won has been used. It's quite interesting...

1 Crusaders
2 Brumbies
3 Blues
4 Waratahs
5 Hurricanes
6 Sharks
7 Bulls
8 Stormers
9 Chiefs
10 Reds
11 Highlanders
12 Force
13 Lions
14 Cheetahs
15 Rebels

The Bulls suffer due to the four or five year period where they always finished near the bottom of the table. Crusaders were comfortably first, and the other two teams in the top three round out the three first winners of the competition, so that's interesting. The Waratahs and Hurricanes have always performed pretty soundly, without ever really threatening to become some of the top teams. The Sharks are a bit like the Bulls, in that bar the odd year, they tend to either have very good or very bad results. The later added teams are at a disadvantage, in that they have less time to build towards a strong team, though the Force have still eclipsed the Lions/Cats. Basically, they suck.

 

[Gena_ZA]

This makes for some very interesting reading and goes to show how short memories are AND one is only as good as your last game

 

[smartcooky]

Interesting this.

Pick&Go has a Super Rugby ranking system too. Each team started on 80 points before the first ever match in 1996, and they move up and down relative to each other using the same points exchange system that the IRB use Exchange points are doubled for semis & finals.

This is the current order as of the end of the last round.

You can check the lastest rankings any time here... http://www.lassen.co.nz/s14tab.php#rank

 

[Gena_ZA]

Hmmm, like this format!

Good find mate

 

[TRF Mr Fish]

Interesting... So it's really just like the iRB rankings but for Super Rugby teams. Obviously that is hugely affected by the most recent results (almost solely on the last couple of years, really), which makes more sense when you want to be predicting where teams will finish, as opposed to the one I drew up which considers each year equal.

What's very cool is that you can check the rankings for any time - I can have a look at what they were at the end of the 2010 season!

 

[Cave Dweller]

Interesting... So it's really just like the iRB rankings but for Super Rugby teams. Obviously that is hugely affected by the most recent results (almost solely on the last couple of years, really), which makes more sense when you want to be predicting where teams will finish, as opposed to the one I drew up which considers each year equal.

What's very cool is that you can check the rankings for any time - I can have a look at what they were at the end of the 2010 season!

Yip and its unbiased but its flawed
http://www.lassen.co.nz/s14det.php?teamnum=13#hrh
http://www.lassen.co.nz/s14det.php?teamnum=12#hrh