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Refer to round 1
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Respectable game in the top of the table clash.
Won a half each.
Hanley was the difference, 224m and involved in everything. These ringins are game changing!
Won a half each.
Hanley was the difference, 224m and involved in everything. These ringins are game changing!
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thats an interesting take.
Just sounds like bad coaching
That certainly cant be discounted.
Neither can the fact I was playing against the program designer
Some of us don’t coach like the Roosters and buy wins
Controversial take!That certainly cant be discounted.
Neither can the fact I was playing against the program designer
You’re all overthinking it. Work out your weaknesses & adjust your tactics. It’s possible that could involve trading your best players to the DictatorsSome of us don’t coach like the Roosters and buy wins
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Its not just your strategy but also what your opponent picks up, and along with their team. I do not believe a stick and watch strategy would work in this game. Every action has a counter. Also keep note that much of the game was played in wet conditions which leads to more errors.
As for your direct questions:
- you received 11 six agains, fiji had 12. basically even.
- you committed 6 penalties, fiji 8.
- it looks like we both played same defence.
Each ref for each game (random) referees the game differently. Some will play more open, some will blow the whistle more. Some will favour of the home teams based on the crowd etc. There are different ref personalties built in, and they are not named for legal reasons
why it feels like a flood? because fiji has more of the possession (369 tackles to 295), therefore more ruck scenarios -> natural infringement opportunities especially if other team has the ascendency in the ruck.
i just checked, none of your injuries were bugs. Fein and Alexander had essentially same severity of injuries, but each injury has a different roll of the dice to put it in basic terms, one was deemed ok to continue, one wasnt. Kata had a HIA and returned. Your 3 forced reshuffles happened between 31 -62 min period. Thats just unlucky rather than a system bug.
Barnett did not play halfback. Gene Ngamu took over kicking duties when Alexander was off, and then Nathan Fien when he came on. They had 14 and 9 kicks respectively. Barnett did kick 4 times, but that was because your halves situation was in disarray, and probably because he was closest to ball on last tackle.
Well, when Luke Metcalf is taking Dean Bell under his wing at practice and passing on his experience.... you have to wonder.
Unless of course Dean Bell breaks down next game and is injured for an extended period of time by picking up on LM's experience....
I guess we will find out next week whether it was a controversial comment or not
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I had your game checked. see response below:
Taranaki Tortoises 28 – 30 Las Vegas Knights (Game 927)
- Weather: light rain — this is the hidden accelerant. Light rain applies +15% error
rate, −15% offload rate, −8% line break rate. Any damp-ball game pushes handling
numbers up for both sides; the Knights just wore the wet-ball penalty better on the
night.
- Errors: 14 / 150 runs = 9.3% — above the dry-weather 7–9% band, but exactly where
you'd expect in rain. Breakdown: 6 knock-ons, 6 handling errors, 3 intercept passes
(Knights intercepted you 3 times). The intercepts are your biggest controllable loss
— choosing running attack in the rain is high-risk.
- Missed tackles: 25 / (333 + 25) = 7.0% — right at the NRL average ceiling. Not a
defence collapse.
- Your plan was conservative defence, which gives attackers +15% line-break
multiplier (softer line, more space). Ironically your line-break count (6) was still
higher than the Knights' (5), so you weren't bleeding breaks, you were bleeding
ruck control.
- You still scored 28 points and lost by 2 — the error count wasn't decisive. The
decisive stat was kick metres: Knights 569m vs Tortoises 321m. They played field
position with bombs (10) and you played ball-in-hand. In the rain that trade
favoured them.
Quick recommendation for both coaches: the engine is doing what the dials say.
Standard/conservative defence ≠ bad, but both are low-pressure settings. If you want
fewer errors against you and more dominant ruck control, the lever is aggressive
defence (more penalties both ways, more turnovers) rather than chasing imaginary
anti-home-team bias.
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lol i chuckled at that too. I suspect its because only warriors games are taken into account (i dont have a history of all games a player has played at all, especially if played in ESL). So it would consider Bell a rookie hence that..but yeah i agree but dont know how i can fix something like this as getting all players historical games is rather outside of the scope of the game. I do get them for guest legends (but not for warriors players).
you shallguess we will find out next week whether it was a controversial comment or not
i honestly do not control anything or put any bias towards my team at all.
Its not just your strategy but also what your opponent picks up, and along with their team. I do not believe a stick and watch strategy would work in this game. Every action has a counter. Also keep note that much of the game was played in wet conditions which leads to more errors.
As for your direct questions:
- you received 11 six agains, fiji had 12. basically even.
- you committed 6 penalties, fiji 8.
- it looks like we both played same defence.
Each ref for each game (random) referees the game differently. Some will play more open, some will blow the whistle more. Some will favour of the home teams based on the crowd etc. There are different ref personalties built in, and they are not named for legal reasons
why it feels like a flood? because fiji has more of the possession (369 tackles to 295), therefore more ruck scenarios -> natural infringement opportunities especially if other team has the ascendency in the ruck.
i just checked, none of your injuries were bugs. Fein and Alexander had essentially same severity of injuries, but each injury has a different roll of the dice to put it in basic terms, one was deemed ok to continue, one wasnt. Kata had a HIA and returned. Your 3 forced reshuffles happened between 31 -62 min period. Thats just unlucky rather than a system bug.
Barnett did not play halfback. Gene Ngamu took over kicking duties when Alexander was off, and then Nathan Fien when he came on. They had 14 and 9 kicks respectively. Barnett did kick 4 times, but that was because your halves situation was in disarray, and probably because he was closest to ball on last tackle.
So same defence in same conditions but I'm conceding more errors and possession?
Halves in disarray? Gene Ngamu and Nathan Fein are both good halves, even taking in to consideration Fein having an injury there is no way Barnett kicks the ball 4 times in any game.
I get things happen in games but its a lot to happen in one game plus the off field stuff as well.
Am I missing something? Where do you see the weather prediction before the game starts?
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Ill have a look at the Barnett kicking but initial check suggested it was just background noise rather than he was their goto kicker. Will need to prob check his kicking ratings to see how it compares to the other two.
There is a lot more to just defence. How oppositions attack, and the other strategies contribute to it. And then theres the players that are being asked for whichever attack/defensive duty Its like saying Knights or whatever team played conservative defence but still got 30 points against them. Just because something worked before and you won before using that strategy against other teams does not mean you can continue to expect the same results.
I dont want to say it, but it seems your team was severely outcoached
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You do not. There is weather in the game though. Also wind that favours one team one half and then the other. Weather forecast will be coming either for next round or the week after though to give an indication on how to potentially play. But upto you to take word of the weatherman reports.
Outcoached is always a possibility... or taking out two of my spine and injuring another as well as reshuffle for another player getting an HIA had a small impact. Oh and programming my prop forward to take over field kicking....Ill have a look at the Barnett kicking but initial check suggested it was just background noise rather than he was their goto kicker. Will need to prob check his kicking ratings to see how it compares to the other two.
There is a lot more to just defence. How oppositions attack, and the other strategies contribute to it. And then theres the players that are being asked for whichever attack/defensive duty Its like saying Knights or whatever team played conservative defence but still got 30 points against them. Just because something worked before and you won before using that strategy against other teams does not mean you can continue to expect the same results.
I dont want to say it, but it seems your team was severely outcoached
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btw i have no idea why you didnt play Hohaia. What was the reasoning behind that?
He dropped to something like 70% fit so I didn't know if that was actually risky or not to play him. And I had CNK there. I could have done a recovery session but went for defence training with selected players as my edges got a number of missed tackles the game prior.
I was looking at rotating my squad as the season goes on but I'm not sure if that's a good thing to do or not. Is having players sitting out for long runs of games an issue?
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As coach you should try to run some defensive tackling sessions. I can understand why you were wooing @ShaunJohnson7 as an assistant coach now. Maybe he can help guide both you and @wizard of Tauranga
Barnett prob thought 'fuck it, these losers dont know how to kick so ill do it myself'.
