The Group Games at the 2019 Rugby World Cup concluded with the Japan v Scotland fixture (link).
World Rugby provided data about each game. From these data, I recorded: penalties and free kicks conceded; kicks; passes; scrums: lineouts. My median profiles for the Group Games were:
- Penalties and free kicks conceded: 16
- Kicks: 58
- Passes: 264
- Scrums: 14
- Lineouts: 25
I was also interested in ratio of passes to kicks and lineouts to scrums as a dynamic measure of each game (link). My median ratios for Group Games were: 4.55 passes to kicks and 1.79 lineouts to scrums. I used these ratios to derive a single number for each game to describe what kind of game it was. My median ratio for the Group Games was 2.55.
My ratios for the Group Games were:
Below the median:
Above the median:
Other data from the official website included officiating:
Passes and kicks in each of the Group Games:
Games with 300 or more passes:
Lineouts and scrums per Group Game:
Games with 30 or more lineouts:
Photo Credit
Japan v Scotland (World Rugby)
