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Some broadcasting numbers and details about the broadcast negotiations. NPC and Aupiki on TVNZ sounds good to me (assuming it's FTA). https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/super-rugby-winning-the-battle-for-the-kiwi-broadcast-audience/VCPP27ZBNVDJ5DOC7TDVUQA2R4/

Week 9 SRS. Reference post, if needed. Largest SRS points changes: Brumbies +2.90 (-2.61 -> -0.291) Waratahs +2.62 (-8.01 -> -5.39) Blues +2.39 (-1.56 -> +0.835) Reds -2.38 (+3.68 -> +1.30) Chiefs -2.78 (+10.4 -> +7.62) Blues and Brumbies move up the rankings thanks to...

Yes, it's coded up so I will update it every Monday after I add the latest results to the input spreadsheet. No one knows what I do at work, including myself.

Failing to score at the end before conceding the final try is annoying, as were the two fluffed tries in the first half. But that was much more like what I was expecting from this season, with and without the ball. A proper killdozer approved rugger buggering. EDIT: Case in point, I forgot that...

Silence unbelievers. The Oracle of Onehunga is speaking. The Killdozer keys were found down the back of the couch at the tinnie house/business school across from Onehunga's Premier High School Educational Institution. All is well. Praise be unto Akira.

idk why we're seemingly not allowed to field both Good Christie and Suafoa in the same team.

Work is slow waiting for others, so, following on from @Wilson's effort above, I've noodled over to American sports and adapted something called the simple rating system (SRS). It's a rating system based on two components: The average points differential over the season The strength of schedule...

The five Moana, Drua, Force, and Waratahs matches are all eminently winnable. And one of those top four opponents is the Force (4-4), who are likely there on account of playing one more game than the Brumbies (4-3). That game is also at Eden Park.

Looks like Vern has found the misplaced keys to the Killdozer, so she should get a good run out on a nice sunny afternoon to utterly ruin everyone's enjoyment of Moana's freewheeling jailbreak rugby.

A basic strength of schedule measure is the combined record for their remaining opponents. Moana @ 20-29 (41%) Force @ 20-22 (48%) Blues @ 22-21 (51%) Waratahs @ 27-23 (54%) Hurricanes @ 29-21 (58%) Highlanders @ 29-20 (59%) That bodes well for Moana and Force. Though two of the Moana games...

Because the Force should spank the lolanders.

How do we summon Shiggins? I want to see the Highlanders lose with the full Force match day experience.

Many such cases. Honestly, just start the remaining games with 14 on the field.

The way God intended. Getting that try at the end would've been funny though. All the Hurricanes attacking razzmatazz only to go into halftime trailing a team that's the equivalent of hurling a pile of concrete cinder blocks through a window.

Good to see the Blues forwards finally playing like it's 2024/1954 where >1 pass is woke DEI nonsense.

They talked about returning to last years basics and they uniformly performed well last year when down to 14.

> tune in > Tuipulotu slows down a ruck alone > forces the Hurricanes to try a dinky speculative chip > Blues regather > The ginger immediately kicks it out on the full

Having Count Dracula in the coaching setup seems to have helped with their attack as well.

Me looking for the Blues 10: Guess we're waiting the ~3 weeks for Zarn Sullivan to return.