Richmond ranked 5th best sporting team in Australasia

[one-eyed]

AUSTRALASIA'S BEST SPORTING TEAM

Platinum
December 1, 2020

The annual award recognises the strongest franchise on a rolling five-year period.

Ranking   2019 Rank   Team Name   Competition   Country/State   ABT Score
1   1   Melbourne Storm                NRL              VIC                  3.24
2   2   Crusaders                          Super Rugby  NZ                  3.21
3   4   Sydney FC                         A-League       NSW                  2.71
4   3   New South Wales Breakers WNCL             NSW                  2.65
5   7   Richmond Tigers                AFL                VIC                  2.61
6   -   Melbourne City                  W-League       VIC                  2.46
7   16   Geelong Cats                    AFL                 VIC                  2.25
8   -   UNSW Wests Magpies        NWPL              NSW                  2.13
9   9   CBR Brave                        AIHL               ACT                  2.05
10   13   Perth Wildcats                   NBL                WA                  1.98
11   -   Chiefs Esports Club            OPL                NSW                  1.97
12   10   Sydney University Lions     NWPL              NSW                  1.91
13   -   Brisbane Heat                   WBBL              QLD                  1.91
14   6   Victoria                           Sheffield Shield  VIC                  1.85
15   -   Melbourne Vixens             Netball              VIC                  1.82
16   21   Sydney Sirens                  AWIHL              NSW                  1.80
17   11   West Coast Eagles            AFL                   WA                  1.79
18   5   Hurricanes                       Super Rugby      NZ                  1.76
19   8   Sydney Roosters              NRL                  NSW                  1.75
20   -   Penrith Panthers              NRL                  NSW                  1.73
21   -   Drummoyne Devils          NWPL                NSW                  1.58
22   -   Sydney Sixers                 BBL                   NSW                  1.54
23   14   Brisbane Bandits             ABL                   QLD                  1.52
24   18   Sydney FC                      W-League          NSW                  1.52
25   -   New South Wales            Sheffield Shield  NSW                  1.46


Methodology

The period of observation for the 2020 award is 2016-2020. Every game in every sport in Australasia that conducts an ongoing home/away or equivalent competition that included Australian teams has been analysed subject to the competition meeting specific criteria. More than 8,000 individual match results are in the dataset.

To be considered for the Best Team award a team must have played in each of the last 5 seasons. For each team in the competition, their win/loss record is looked at season by season, along with their position within the competition. More recent years are weighted more highly, as is the win-loss record, over the position. This recognises consistency over seasons as opposed to the one-off nature of finals.

For each of these measures, a Z-Score is created to show the relative raw performance within competitions and to enable comparison across all the competitions.

An adjustment is applied to reflect the stability of the competition over the last 10 years, This places the raw performance output in context - stable competitions being harder to perform well in consistently because of the impact that player trading cycles have on competitiveness.

Eligible teams, of which there are 152 are then ranked on their adjusted Z-Scores, to provide the definitive list of Australasia’s Best Sporting Teams over the period. This website contains the Top 25 overall, Top 3 by sport and Top 3 by state/country.

To be the best team in a sport over a prolonged period requires dedication, endurance, excellence and cohesion. To be the best overall, is a step beyond.

1. The Melbourne Storm have been very consistent in recent years and another great season, led to very little change in their total versus last year.

2. The Crusaders had another successful year finishing on top of the Super Rugby Aotearoa ladder, leading to their fourth title in a row, and increasing their score versus 2019. Their weaker 2016 season will drop out of ABST 2021.

3. Sydney FC won their third title in four years, increasing their score versus 2019. Their weaker 2015/6 season will drop out of ABST 2021.

4. NSW Breakers were runners-up this year, after winning three titles in a row, and slipped back a little in the ABST rankings as a result.

5. Richmond won their third premiership in four years, boosting their score versus 2019. Their weaker 2016 season will drop out of ABST 2021.

Results based on all competitions completed by 15 November 2020.

https://www.platinum.com.au/abst2020#

[Diocletian]

Well as long as we beat the Drummoyne Devils....hate those bastards...

[wayne]

Seriously, what sport is the NSW Breakers?

[Tiger Tragic]

Seriously, what sport is the NSW Breakers?

Women's cricket

[MintOnLamb]

Wallabies, All Blacks, Kookaburras ? Do not fit criteria?

[Diocletian]

They're national teams not clubs or franchises...

[one-eyed]

Why Melbourne Storm pipped Richmond Tigers for Australasia's greatest team

By Zachary Gates
Nine wwos
3 December 2020

Thousands of pundits were stunned when the Melbourne Storm this week pipped Richmond for the title of Australasia's greatest sports team of the last five years, as judged by a sports-analytics company.

But the founder of Gain Line Analytics, former 28-Test Wallaby Ben Darwin, has set out in clear terms why the powerhouse NRL club received the crown.

Many avid sports followers pointed to the fact the Tigers won three premierships and the Storm only two in the years spanning 2016-2020, but Darwin says Craig Bellamy's men edged Damien Hardwick's troops in one key area.

"Statistically, Richmond didn't do that well in the 2016 season. Richmond have won grand finals, yes, but the difference is Melbourne Storm over that time have won more games," Darwin said on SEN's Breakfast with Vossy.

"Richmond, in order to win this award, have to win consistently over that five-year basis.

"It's hard to win this. Richmond has done fantastically well and they planned this. They sat down in 2010 and said, 'We want to win three grand finals by 2020' - and they've done that. But they haven't quite done enough to win this award."

The Tigers won 79 of their 117 matches between 2016 and 2020 for a win percentage of 67.52, an outstanding record that is elevated by deep runs in the finals in four of the last five seasons.

The highlights of their glowing CV were romping home to beat Adelaide in the 2017 grand final, slaughtering Greater Western Sydney in the 2019 decider and fighting back to beat Geelong in the 2020 big dance.

But Melbourne won 91 of their 116 games between 2016 and 2020 for a win percentage of 78.44, while their premiership victories over North Queensland in 2017 and Penrith in 2020 gave the Storm's analytics a boost.

The Crusaders, NSW Breakers, Sunshine Coast Lightning and Sydney FC are among the other highly successful clubs of the last five years.

Darwin said he had a clear vision for the analysis when the award was launched in 2019.

"What we wanted to do was put all of the teams (in Australasia) against each other: put women's teams against men's teams, put small teams against big teams and create a criteria that says, 'Who is the best of these teams?'," Darwin said.

He also says it's easier to win a six-team competition than an 18-team tournament, while the stability of the competition is also considered, citing his belief it's harder to win an NRL premiership now than it was in the late-1990s.

The Storm also claimed the inaugural award in 2019.

https://wwos.nine.com.au/nrl/melbourne-storm-richmond-ben-darwin-best-australasian-sport-team/c503ad77-a3f9-49f2-a660-dcd756c3fed1

[mightytiges]

Accept the Storm being rated at #1 as their record is amazing. Only missed the finals twice from memory since they entered the NRL 22 years ago.

However, Sydney FC has never won a single A-League GF in regular time and only won one which didn't involve the Russian roulette luck of a penalty shootout  . Compare that to Richmond running away with the result in all 3 GFs. In soccer terms, ours wins would be 3-0 vs Adel, 6-0 vs GWS and 3-1 vs Geelong (0-1 at HT). Sydney FC's 2016 was just as ordinary as ours by the way too.