u/smooothsides

The results spreadsheet has been updated for the final time this season. 41 responses this week which further supports the theory that people fill it in less when England win!

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The Scrum push over try wins moment of the match, narrowly denying Feyi-Waboso a hat trick of awards.Feyi-Waboso (8.71) also has the highest average rating. It's the highest rating by some distance, with Tommy Freeman (7.55) the second highest average despite not receiving any man of the match votes.Immanuel Feyi-Waboso wins man of the match by a massive margin, Fin Smith is 2nd which means that he has an impressive time of 1st, 1st, 2nd over this block, is it enough to have nailed down the shirt long term?Immanuel Feyi-Waboso wins man of the match by a massive margin, Fin Smith is 2nd which means that he has an impressive time of 1st, 1st, 2nd over this block, is it enough to have nailed down the shirt long term?

Feyi-Waboso (8.71) also has the highest average rating. It's the highest rating by some distance, with Tommy Freeman (7.55) the second highest average despite not receiving any man of the match votes.
The bench struggled a lot with only Henry Pollock (6.02) rising above a 6.

The Scrum push over try wins moment of the match, narrowly denying Feyi-Waboso a hat trick of awards.
Looking at this block of internationals as a whole, Fin Smith(7.62) has the highest average rating across the 3 games. Feyi-Waboso (6.89) is second and Genge (6.75) is third. Smith also had the most man of the match votes, which is no suprise as he won twice.

the results spreadsheet has been updated. 44 responses, there is a bit of a trend to be fewer responses when England win!

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Fin Smith wins his second man of the match award in a row, in even more convincing fashion that last time. Marcus is 2nd which is pretty impressive considering he covered 9 fora good while.

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Henry Pollock (8.88) just edges out Fin Smith (8.79) for the highest average rating. No one else scored above an 8, although Marcus Smith (7.98) was very close. Overall that's a low set of ratings for such a massive win.

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Pollock dominated the moment of the match voting, scoring 1st, 2nd and 3rd place, but the hattrick as a whole had the most votes.

The results spreadsheet has been updated if you want a more complete picture of what the ratings said, but there's some brief highlights below. 66 Responses which is a pretty solid sample size.

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Fin Smith (12 votes) wins Man of the match by a pretty big margin, 50% more votes than George Martin (8) in 2nd place. Damian Willemse (6) rounds out the top 3.

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George Martin (6.73) has the highest average rating, very marginally higher than Fin Smith (6.68).

The forwards (5.6) averaged a considerably higher average score than the backs (4.78)

The bench also really struggled in the ratings, averaging 4.5, compared to the starting line up’s average of 5.2.

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Moment of the match is the George Martin try by some distance, no real surprise there as its the moment of most hope in the game
As a final note, all scores of 1 and 10 were removed, the game didn't really warrant it and it skews the data quite a lot

A slightly ridiculous wall of images is the only fair way to post the results really, there's not really any commentary needed as its all very self explanatory! 79 responses so far with more coming in. if you want to see results which update with the latest responses click here

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Using the season long player ratings as a starting point, there's one more form this season. There's a couple of general questions around player of the season, a couple looking at specific performances and then a couple looking ahead to next season. I couldn't put every player in every category, so its mainly based on number of prem / Europe appearances but there's an other box for every question if i've missed out someone who deserves it in your eyes

the results spreadsheet has been updated once again, 55 responses this week which is a great sample size. There will be another form at some point this week with some overall season rating questions and some award style questions, so if there's anything you want to see then let me know

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Henry Pollock (22 votes) wins man of the match by some distance. Shockingly, for the first time this season.

Alex Coles (10) is a clear 2nd although he should lose some points for that trim. This is also the game with the most different players receiving votes for man of the match, with 9 of the starting 15 getting at least 1 vote, and the whole pack apart from the props.

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Every player received at least 1 score of 10, which isn't a surprise and given its the final I'm not filtering out the responses of all 10's.

Pollock (9.22) also had the highest overall rating, again by some distance with Coles (8.66) closest but still some way off.

It was a much better bench performance that recent times, with an average of 7.57 off the bench compared to 6.8 against Tigers.

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Moment of the match is a combination of the end / winning / lifting the trophy as expected, and that's an incredibly positive note to leave the season on.

The results spreadsheet has been updated. 53 responses which is a big number, there's definitely always more responses the more the game matters!

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Tom Litchfield wins his third man of the match of the season on the back of a first half hat trick. Both of his other wins have come against Exeter...

8 different players received votes for the award, which is the 2nd most in any one game, pointing towards how much of a team performance it was.

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Litchfields 9.45 average rating is the 2nd highest ever, just beating Hendy off the bench against sarries, and behind McParland against Bristol (9.56).

Fin Smith (9.19), Henry Pollock (9.17), and George Furbank (9.04) all had a rating above 9. This is the highest number of players to ever have a rating above 9 in one game.

It was definitely a game for the starters, with the first 15 averaging 8.19 against 6.8 for the replacements. Some of this is definitely down the limited time a lot of them got though.

The lowest average rating was Weimann (6.19) which i think is very harsh, he did a fantastic job feeding the ball into 1 scrum. Amongst those who started it was Manny Iyogun (6.69). Prop is probably the hardest position to get a good rating in though.

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Moment of the Match was by some margin the final saints try, and another incident that makes me consider moving from the Barwell stand.

The results spreadsheet has been updated for the last regular game. Only 17 responses this week which is much lower than recent games, hopefully it's just down to this game not being that important.

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Jonny Weimann (8 votes) wins his first man of the match award on the back of a 2 try performance, with Josh Kemeny (6) a close 2nd. Kemeny has received votes in 7 of the 9 competitive games he's played in that ratings have been done for, which is a pretty impressive record.

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Weimann (7.56) is a rare winner of man of the match who didn't have the highest overall rating, that just belongs to Kemeny (7.59).

Callum Chick (7.24) was the only other player to average above 7.

The two centres had very similar ratings underpinning the difficulty facing Dowson with selection for friday., with Litchfield (6.59) slightly higher than Dingwall (6.47), the difference is explained entirely by a generous 10 to Litchfield.

Tom Lockett (5.71) had the lowest average rating amongst those who started, but it was a very tight bunch with pretty much everyone between 6-6.5.

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Weimann gets the 2nd hattrick in a row, winning moment of the match for his 2nd try of the game.

The results spreadsheet has been updated. 28 responses which isn't too bad at all. The scores across the board are way lower than the Bristol game which shouldn't surprise anyone, Ed Prowse (7.08) had the lowest rating amongst the first 15 against Bears but that would have been the 5th best score this week.

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George Furbank has a decent advantage in the man of the match race. This is the 2nd time he's won, after Castres away earlier in the year. Alex Coles is in 2nd place for the 2nd week in a row.

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Furbank (7.52) also had the highest average rating, to again draw comparison to the Bears game, this would have been the 3rd lowest rating in that game. It's also the third lowest highest average rating, only beating the highest from Tigers (A) and the prem cup semi final.

Tommy Freeman (7.52) had the 2nd highest average rating, Coles and Tom Pearson (7.10) tied for third.
Robbie Smith(5.07) had the lowest average rating for the 2nd time in 3 games, which really illustrates how poor the lineout has been, perhaps not a reflection of Smith himself so much?

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Furbank's try to win it gets moment of the match, completing the hat trick of awards for him in his last regular home game which feels like a fitting way to see him off.

Fin's try did run it closer than I anticipated though.

In the form next week there will probably be some additional season long questions, so if you have any ideas on what could be included do let me know, or they might wait until the end of the Saints season.

I can see Ainsworth-Cave and Ulcoq getting some more minutes next year so really pleased they've signed on

Freeman Nominated for Prem player of the year and England player of the year

McParland and Todaro for breakthrough player

Dows for DOR of the year

Tom James for community player of the year

The results spreadsheet has once again been updated. Before i start the rating analysis a bit of a moan that's also a fun stat: Something I saw a lot of bristol fans blaming was their small squad and injuries meaning that their players played more minutes and so were just tired. I thought that sounded like a load of nonsense so I had a look at the minutes played by the starting 15's and Bristol had 18,083 minutes, Saints had 17,123. That's a difference of 960 minutes or 64 minutes per player, which really isn't enough to explain shipping 60 points in a half.

This was definitely more interesting to pull together than the last one, and unsuprisingly there's a few records being set for the highest overall ratings.

47 responses which is a new record too, there's always more when Saints win.

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Archie McParland (31) wins Man of the Match with the most votes ever for a man of the match, with a single vote more than Freeman against Bath 2 weeks ago, it's also the biggest margin of victory (25 votes more than the closest competitior).

Alex Coles (6) is in second on his return from injury whilst Hendy's 4 tries is only good enough for third place.

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Every player got at least 1 score of 10, which seems overly generous but i'm not filtering them out because the team scored 94 points so it would be too hash.

McParland also had the highest overall rating (9.59), beating Hendy's previous record of 9.44 off the bench against sarries in the cup. Coles also averaged 9.00. These are only the third and fourth average scores of 9 or more 9, the other being Callum Chick against Sale away.

Every starting back averaged over than 8, with Furbank the lowest (8.41)

It wasn't a great game for big locks, with Ed Prowse the lowest starter (7.11) and JJ Van der Mescht (6.87) the lowest rating overall.

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Moment of the match goes the Freeman's break from the charge down, leading to McParlands try

In celebration of Freeman getting the record for the most saints prem tries, I've pulled together a few quick stats that are slightly interesting:

• Freeman has played in 82 games, and scored 52 tries in those games, which is an average of 0.63 tries per game
• the current season is already the most prolific with 15 tries in 11 games, which is a ridiculous 1.36 tries per game, or averaging a try every 48 minutes he's on the pitch. 21/22 is the second highest with 13 tries, 0.93 tries per game.

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• The only Prem team Freeman hasn't scored against is Wasps, who he likely never will now.
• Tommy has scored 10 tries against Bath, but before this season where he's had 2 hat tricks against them, they were very mid pack
• Against both Bristol and Newcastle, he's scored 6 in 6 games, making them the most likely team he is to score against.
• They're also the 2 teams he's scored in the highest percentage of games, scoring in two thirds of appearances against them
• Tommy has 4 prem hat tricks, 3 of which came this year against Saracens (4 tries), Bath, and Bath again. The only other hattrick was in June 2022 against Newcastle.

the results spreadsheet has once again been updated. 36 responses this week which is again good, although down to 32 once i removed 4 responses which gave pretty much everyone a score of 1, becuase it's just not representative. I think a couple were tigers fans, which is just a weird thing to do to be honest.

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Freeman currently has a lead of 2 in the Man of the Match vote, the second week in a row which he's won the vote. This game had the most votes for opposition players, and the largest number of opposition players nominated, which says a lot about how the game went.

Kemeny is 2nd again, and Pollock got another vote which means they've continued their remarkable consistency and now had votes in 5 of the last 6 games.

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Freeman (6.13) also has the highest average rating. Kemeny (6.03) is the only other rating above 6. Fin Smith (5.94) has the 3rd highest. No other player has an average rating higher than 5 which means that this is by far the lowest set of results this season.

The two hookers had the lowest (and nearly identical) average ratings. Robbie Smith (2.65) was slightly lower than Craig Wright (2.68).

Chunya Munga appears twice as it was too late to remove Tom Lockett, so i've just repeated Munga's scores in 4 and 20.

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Unsuprisingly the end is a clear moment of the match winner.

I want to end on a slightly more optimistic note: Saints haven't lost 2 in a row this year, the last time they did was at the end of last year against Bordeaux and Gloucester which doesn't really count given the team sent to Gloucester. The last time before that was over a year ago, last March when Saints lost to Tigers 33-0 at home and then away to sharks 27-24 the week after