MONEY BALL

Increasingly, rugby selection is being driven by data feeds. We haven’t reached the stage yet where coaches will work exclusively off a spread sheet to pick their team, but we have reached the point where they wouldn’t dream of picking anyone on gut instinct alone.

It was probably inevitable that professional rugby would go down this road – of using technology to gather information about players. Information that is measurable and comparable and capable of providing a much deeper picture about athletes and what they are