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Super 15 Rugby Team of the Competition 16 views
17 July 2012 by The Swede Eaters
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Scotty Donaldson looks at the Super Rugby Team of the Competition based on average www.testrugby.com points. Do you agree with the statistics?
Super Rugby 2012 is over for most teams and since all 15 teams have played 16 matches each it gives us a chance to make to name a team based on Super 15 Rugby 2012 form. I have based these selections solely on www.testrugby.com statistics which favour things like try scoring, assists, tackles, turnovers lost and won, lineouts, scrums, go forward and linebreaks among other things.
Selection was based on www.testrugby.com average points per game and the player must have played at least eight matches. It is interesting to see who makes this team. There are plenty of players who would be considered superior in their position, but they didn't make this team. It seems that try-scoring players have an advantage along with players who start for teams with less depth. Players like Adam Thomson and Adriaan Strauss thrived because they played plenty of minutes and remained relatively injury free. Some quality players in teams with more depth were rested and rotated.
The player with the highest average points is Adriaan Strauss from the Cheetahs with 5085 points at 339 points per game. He only just made the team ahead of Stephen Moore and Bismarck Du Plessis.
There are five New Zealand based players, five Australian and seven South Africans.
Amazingly the Rebels and Cheetahs provided three players each to this team despite their lowly rankings.
Rank Player Name Pos Team Games Total Avg Price
Sona Taumalolo FR CHF 16 3200 200 $890,000
Adriaan Strauss FR CHE 15 5085 339 $1,240,000
Coenie Oosthuizen FR CHE 11 2625 239 $682,500
Nathan Sharpe LK FOR 15 3595 240 $1,185,000
Cadeyrn Neville LK REB 8 1955 244 $505,000
Keegan Daniel LF SHK 16 4035 252 $1,322,500
Adam Thomson LF HGH 15 4390 293 $1,202,500
Victor Vito LF HUR 13 3660 282 $1,182,500
Francois Hougaard HV BUL 15 3935 262 $915,000
Johan Goosen HV CHE 9 3010 334 $610,000
Sonny Bill Williams CT CHF 16 4380 274 $1,255,000
Nick Cummins CT FOR 14 3365 240 $730,000
Julian Savea OB HUR 13 4180 322 $800,000
James O'Connor OB REB 8 2485 310 $1,197,500
Kurtley Beale OB REB 10 2835 284 $1,180,000
Do you agree with this team?
Check the statistics leaders from Super Rugby 2012 at
http://www.superrugbytips.com/2012/07/super-15-rugby-team-of-competition.html
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