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Brendan Gallagher

Why putting your faith in data doesn’t add up

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BRENDAN GALLAGHER

OF ALL the sports most ill-suited to detailed statistical analysis it strikes me that rugby union comfortably tops this list which is why I rather turn my back on the cottage industry churning out endless data. The coming six or seven weeks is, frankly, going to be a trial in that respect but I will not be swayed!
Sorry, I appreciate this makes me a bad person but I have a basic inbred distrust of data applied to sports that are manifestly not data driven. It’s artificial and rather missi...

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