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How many points?
DIR By: simjam
Date: February 17, 2019, 7:23 am
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The way this season is going i reckon 62 points will be a top 4
spot this year.
So 5 more wins and 4 more bonus points then.
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Re: How many points?
DIR By: deadlyfrom5yardsout
Date: February 18, 2019, 9:27 am
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ok.
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Re: How many points?
DIR By: DOK
Date: February 18, 2019, 11:34 am
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Interesting to check out the roadmap, conceived before a ball
was kicked this season.
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This suggested 64 was the figure needed, and suggests we should
be on 42 points at this point (as opposed to our actual 38) if
we want a top 4 place.
it suggests we'll win Bristol (H), Gloucester (H), Saints (H)
and Tigers (H). So we need a win from Bath (A), Saracens (A),
Sale (A), Exeter (A) or Wasps (A). Am I being hopelessly
optimistic to say I believe we can win those home games and then
pick up a couple of away wins?
In which case a top 4 place is a distinct likelihood!
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Re: How many points?
DIR By: Quinston Churchill
Date: February 18, 2019, 2:21 pm
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It’s ambitious, but I wouldn’t say it’s ‘hopelessly optimistic’.
Right now, I think we can feel reasonably confident about our
ability to win our home games and all of our remaining fixtures
at the Stoop are against teams that are below us in the table
(largely because of their away form).
Without wanting to make this too geeky, our current win
percentage is 54.8% (7 wins form 13 games). To get 5 wins from
the remaining 9, it would need to be 55% so it’s very close.
On the one hand, you could argue that we have more away fixtures
at the end of the season which may negatively impact our
chances. However, on the other, I’d argue that we’re quite a bit
better than we were in the first quarter of the season.
We’ve also scored 10 bonus points this season which is excellent
(Exeter are the only team with more). If you extrapolate that
out across the 13 fixtures played it’s roughly .77 bonus points
per game. Across the remaining 9 games, a similar return would
give us 6.93 bonus points. Even if we round that down, it’s more
than the 4 DOK suggested we need.
I think we can win the four home games and pick up at least 1
BP. That’s another 21 points. I also think we can one of our
away games - Bath, Sale and Wasps are all beatable IMO. If we
win one of those and pick up at least one more losing BP, that
gives another 5 points and the magic number of 64.
In summary, ambitious; yes, impossible; no.
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Re: How many points?
DIR By: Rocker
Date: February 18, 2019, 2:58 pm
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Yes I'd say optimistic, but not improbable. We should win our
home games and I agree that Sale, Wasps and Bath are all
vulnerable.
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Re: How many points?
DIR By: Quinston Churchill
Date: February 18, 2019, 3:53 pm
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Oops, just realised I gave us an extra home fixture in my points
round up.
That means we’d need 4 more BPs to hit the magic number of 64.
Looking at the table, 60 could well be enough for 4th.
Wasps points difference is -36 which seems crazy for a team in
5th.
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Re: How many points?
DIR By: deadlyfrom5yardsout
Date: February 19, 2019, 2:40 am
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Bit like their -£48M finances...
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