Australasia's Best Sporting Team
Ranking Team Name Competition Country/State ABT Score1 Melbourne Storm NRL VIC 3.24
2 Crusaders Super Rugby NZ 2.90
3 New South Wales Breakers WNCL NSW 2.71
4 Sydney FC A-League NSW 2.46
5 Hurricanes Super Rugby NZ 2.42
6 Victoria Sheffield Shield VIC 2.34
7 Richmond Tigers AFL VIC 2.268 Sydney Roosters NRL NSW 2.22
9 CBR Brave AIHL ACT 2.05
10 Sydney University Lions NWPL NSW 2.04
11 West Coast Eagles AFL WA 2.02
12 Melbourne United NBL VIC 1.93
13 Perth Wildcats NBL WA 1.92
14 Brisbane Bandits ABL QLD 1.80
15 Townsville Fire WNBL QLD 1.72
16 Geelong Cats AFL VIC 1.71
17 Perth Scorchers BBL WA 1.65
18 Sydney FC W-League NSW 1.58
19 Adelaide Strikers BBL SA 1.56
20 Perth Lynx WNBL WA 1.51
21 Sydney Sirens AWIHL NSW 1.38
22 Greater Western Sydney AFL NSW 1.35
23 Melbourne Ice AWIHL VIC 1.33
24 Melbourne Victory A-League VIC 1.29
25 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks NRL NSW 1.28
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ABST Annual AwardStarting in 2019, Platinum will present an annual award to the team that is currently at the top of its game, achieving the best outcome over the most recent rolling 5-year period. The basic principles are the same, but reflect excellence over shorter, yet still meaningful, period. The goal continues to be to help those in need, whilst recognising success.
MethodologyThe period of observation for the 2019 award is 2015-2019. Every game in every sport in Australasia that conducts an ongoing home/away or equivalent competition that included Australian and New Zealand 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.
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 consistently because of the impact that player trading cycles have on competitiveness.
Eligible teams, of which there are 138 are then ranked on their adjusted Z-Scores, to provide the definitive list of Australasia’s Best Sporting Teams over the period. The 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.
Read more here: https://www.platinum.com.au/abst2019
