South African franchises won two of the four matches they were involved in in round-five of the Super Rugby competition over the past weekend.
Cheetahs fullback Willie le Roux and Lions flyhalf Marnitz Boshoff continue to make major contributions for their respective teams, as is evident from statistics taken from the Vodacom Rugby Stats App.
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Dead-eye Boshoff was once again the leading points-scorer this weekend as he contributed 24 of his side’s points with three conversions, four penalties and two drop goals.
He was the only player that has scored points through drop goals in the fifth round as the Lions edged the Blues 39-36 at Ellis Park.
Boshoff is only two penalty conversions away from reaching 100 points in only six Vodacom Super Rugby matches.
Boshoff is the leading points machine – scoring at an average of 18.8 points per match – with Cheetahs flyhalf Johan Goosen 40 points behind him in second spot.
Meanwhile, the fleet-footed Le Roux has been in superb form for the Cheetahs, despite his side struggling to hit their straps in their first five matches of the season.
Le Roux made 18 carries – the most over the past weekend – in the Cheetahs’ 60-27 defeat to the Hurricanes in Wellington on Saturday.
He is followed by Beauden Barrett, who was the Hurricanes’ star-performer against the Cheetahs, and is level on 15 carries with Luke Braid (Blues), Sarel Pretorius (Cheetahs), while Ben Smith (Highlanders) made 14.
Le Roux is the leading the overall carries from all five rounds with 53, and also shares the top spot in the offloads category with Blues fullback Benji Marshall with five apiece in their respective matches this weekend.
The stats from the Cheetahs’ match against the Hurricanes paint a picture of tireless tackling by the South African franchise. The Free State side made a whopping 170 tackles compared to the 112 by the Hurricanes, and it is not surprising that Cheetahs players top the tackles made category from round five.
Cheetahs forwards Boom Prinsloo (24 tackles), Lood de Jager (17) and Phillip van der Walt (17) made the most tackles of the weekend. They were followed by Lions captain Warren Whiteley (17) and the Western Force’s Matt Hodgson.
Round 5 Stats:
Points:
1. Marnitz Boshoff 24
2. Beauden Barrett 23
3. Tom Taylor 20
4. Patrick Lambie 19
5. Nicholas White 18
Offloads:
1. Benji Marshall 5
2. Willie le Roux 5
3. Aaron Cruden 3
4. Beauden Barrett 3
5. Boom Prinsloo 3
Carries:
1. Willie le Roux 18
2. Beauden Barrett 15
3. Luke Braid 15
4. Sarel Pretorius 15
5. Ben Smith 14
Tackles:
1. Boom Prinsloo 24
2. Lood de Jager 17
3. Phillip van der Walt 17
4. Warren Whiteley 17
5. Matt Hodgson 16
Lineouts won on own throw:
1. De Kock Steenkamp 8
2. Rob Simmons 6
3. Scott Higginbotham 6
4. Franco van der Merwe 5
5. Francois Uys 5
Overall stats after Round 5:
Points:
1. Marnitz Boshoff 94
2. Johan Goosen 54
3. Patrick Lambie 50
4. Beauden Barrett 48
5. Tom Taylor 43
Penalty goals:
1. Marnitz Boshoff 20
2. Patrick Lambie 13
3. Johan Goosen 11
4. Tom Taylor 11
5. Demetri Catrakilis 9
Drop goals:
1. Marnitz Boshoff 6
2. Jacques-Louis Potgieter 2
3. Angus Roberts 1
4. Johan Goosen 1
5. Louis Fouche 1
Kicks from hand:
1. Willie le Roux 48
2. Marnitz Boshoff 46
3. Beauden Barrett 45
4. Johan Goosen 44
5. Faf de Klerk 37
Metres run:
1. Willie le Roux 434
2. Aidan Toua 314
3. Israel Folau 309
4. Charles Piutau 305
5. Julian Savea 301
Carries:
1. Willie le Roux 53
2. Charles Piutau 50
3. Luke Braid 47
4. Ben McCalman 46
5. Israel Dagg 46
Tackles:
1. Phillip van der Walt 78
2. Matt Hodgson 69
3. Lappies Labuschagne 69
4. Warren Whiteley 64
5. Francois Venter 60
Turnovers won:
1. Adriaan Strauss 9
2. Marcell Coetzee 7
3. Michael Hooper 7
4. Deon Fourie 6
5. Francois Venter 6
Kicks caught:
1. Willie le Roux 35
2. Jurgen Visser 26
3. SP Marais 22
4. Jesse Mogg 20
5. Johan Goosen 19
A lot of interesting info here thanks and we could spend ages dissecting and talking about all the various numbers. I know it must be quite a comprehensive data base so maybe not practitcal to list all the various stats and expanding on them,for example metres gained from all the kicking tackle success percentage wise, and also that the context of the article is highlighting the contributions Boshoff and Le Roux are making for their teams, but still for me the most important numbers are missing – detail about tries scored.
What is the defintion of “offload” as quoted here, it surely can’t merely be passing as you would think scrumhalf and flyhalf would be leading this not a fullback, do they maybe when getting the pass away once in full flight and have gained certain ground?
@ Bullscot:
I think offload refers to a player passing the ball as he gets tackled
@ Bullscot:
Bullscot, all these numbers comes from a vodacom sponsored database, all you need is a smartphone and download the Vodacom Rugby Stats App.
Boshoffs stats are
Penalties = 20
Drop goals = 6
Points = 94
Kicks from hand = 46
Minutes Played = 400
Conversions = 8
Kicks Caught = 13
Loose Ball collected = 10
Missed Penalty goals = 2
Passes = 83
Metres run = 153
Try Assists = 1
Defenders Beaten = 5
Carries = 24
Missed Tackles = 4
Knock ons = 3
Handling errors = 3
Offloads = 2
Clean Breaks = 1
Tackles = 17
Turnovers won = 1
Penalties conceded = 1
There are stats like these on all the players.
@ Bullscot:
If you thought you were goign to spend ages disecting the stats in this articles you are going to spends a thousand years disecting the stats of 350+ players
JL Potgieters stats are:
Penalties = 8
Drop goals = 2
Points = 41
Kicks from hand = 21
Minutes Played = 150
Conversions = 3
Kicks Caught = 1
Loose Ball collected = 2
Missed Penalty goals = 2
Passes = 26
Metres run = 31
Try Assists = 0
Defenders Beaten = 6
Carries = 6
Missed Tackles = 2
Knock ons = 0
Handling errors = 0
Offloads = 0
Clean Breaks = 1
Tackles = 10
Turnovers won = 0
Penalties conceded = 0
Tries = 1
Louis Fouche
Penalties = 3
Drop goals = 1
Points = 12
Kicks from hand = 22
Minutes Played = 100
Conversions = 0
Kicks Caught = 12
Loose Ball collected = 4
Missed Penalty goals = 4
Passes = 14
Metres run = 52
Try Assists = 0
Defenders Beaten = 1
Carries = 16
Missed Tackles = 1
Knock ons = 1
Handling errors = 2
Offloads = 1
Clean Breaks = 0
Tackles = 8
Turnovers won = 0
Penalties conceded = 0
Louis Fouche kicked the ball once every 4.5 minutes!
Boshoff every 8.5 mins
Potgieter every 7 mins
Lambie every 7 mins
Goosen every 8 mins
Demetri every 9 mins
Cruden every 13.5 mins
@ MacroBull:
Thanks for that help regarding offloads defintion MacroBull. Will have a look and see if its a free App may be worth downloading although would it work over here or just on SA, Aus, NZ phones? Yeah you are right it would take forever to get through that all, detail on more than 350 players is a lot, stuff in percentages and also grouped by teams is also what I find interesting and a much smaller amount of info to take into account, for example try assists, time spent in opposition half versus tries scored, tackle success rate of the team… could go on for a long time. From the detail you gave me it seems our SA flyhalfs kick a lot, even Lambie playing in a team that is scoring lots of tries kicks quite a bit, almost twice as often as Cruden.
@ MacroBull:
While not showing up as much of a running, passing flyhalf, Boshoff’s stats show he is a really valuable player, apart from the obvious ability with the boot and being well in front as top scorer, I see he has had to make quite a lot of tackles in that channel and is succesful just more than 80% of the time with his tackling (so maybe could up that a bit), but also does quite a lot of ‘covering’ work for a flyhalf – quite a good number of kicks caught and loose balls collected says he is really valuable in his defensive effort to me, only 1 try assist though so hopefully he will increase that, will be interested to see how far back in a try scoring move do they go to decide ‘try assist’, surely it can’t be given to the one providing the final pass, what credit is given to all the forwards for example involved in multiple phase play and retention in the lead up to the try… PHEW too much information, time to go
9 @ Bullscot:
should be surely can’t ONLY be given to the one providing the final pass.
It tells me one thing for sure, Willie le Roux gets a shitload of ball – most kicks and meters made – interesting reading
Getting stats on most tackles missed would be interesting as well
Gena_ZA wrote:
All these stats(remember i loved my stats) must be seen in a result context
like WleR doing whatever but look at his TEAM. What is it worth? Losing cant be blamed on him but his team might build far too much around his brilliance. are the not getting to predictable? CHEETAHS lost 4 out of 5.
The Lions results are looking greater with 3 wins out of 5 games. They play more as a team? Playing his position well in a TEAM context makes his stats more valuable.
2 years back Elton Jantjes had a lot of high counts but his individual tricks did not work for the Team.
Willie 12 tackles
10 missed tackles!
Eish
8 @ Bullscot:
It is a free app and there’s no reason why it wouldn’t work in Blighty.
Vodacom have spent a kakhuis vol amount of money promoting the app with the media contingent at SR games with give aways and competitions, as well as on DSTV advertising.
If it’s not on your phone’s app shop, you can download it from Vodacom’s website.
I have no problem with drop goals only that if you miss and the ball goes dead the ball is taken back to the kick.
This eliminates a pot shot and then a 22 kick to give them back possession.
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