Breaking down half-term team and player stats

Half-term team and individual statistics have the Vodafone Warriors well-ranked in the vast majority of the various categories after the first half of their 2018 NRL campaign.

After all 16 teams had played 12 matches each, the Vodafone Warriors ranked top for off loads and also 40/20s as well as boasting the top equal try-scorer in David Fusitu’a.

They were second for most line engaged runs and sat in the top five for completions, line break assists, line breaks, run metres and post contact metres while only one team had fewer ineffective tackles.

In the individual categories, Fusitu’a was third equal for most line breaks, Peta Hiku fifth for most off loads, Issac Luke second for most dummy half runs, Blake Green fourth for most line engaged runs and first equal for most 40/20s and Roger Tuivasa-Sheck was fifth for most kick return metres.

Tuivasa-Sheck also ranked highly in a number of other areas – sixth equal for tackle breaks, eighth equal for off loads, eighth for most runs and seventh for most metres.

Here are the numbers after all teams had played 12 rounds (leading team or player in brakets).

HALF-TERM STATISTICS

Team:

Tries | 40, 7^th (South Sydney 50, 1^st)

Possession | 50.75%, 6^th (St George Illawarra 54.25%, 1^st)

Completions | 78.28%, 5^th (Newcastle 79.67%, 1^st)

Try assists | 31, 6^th (Cronulla 36, 1^st)

Line break assists | 33, 4^th (South Sydney 41, 1^st)

Line breaks | 48, 5^th (South Sydney 60, 1^st)

Tackle breaks | 360, 10^th (St George Illawarra 449, 1^st)

Off loads | 171, 1^st (Wests Tigers 155, 2^nd)

Receipts | 4517, 8^th (South Sydney 4726, 1^st)

Runs | 2016, 6^th (St George Illawarra 2083, 1^st)

Run metres | 18,128.3, 5^th (South Sydney 19,189.2, 1^st)

Dummy half runs | 146, 7^th (Canberra 188, 1^st)

Line engaged runs | 150, 2^nd (South Sydney 174, 1^st)

Post contact metres | 5850.8, 4^th (Penrith 6216.9, 1^st)

Kicks | 207, 9^th (Wests Tigers 240, 1^st)

Kick metres | 5316.8, 6^th (Brisbane 6074.9, 1^st)

40/20s | 4, 1^st (Manly 2, 2^nd)

Kick return metres | 1848.6, 11^th (Penrith 2372, 1^st)

Tackles | 3789, 9^th (Parramatta 4156, 1^st)

Missed tackles | 416, 3^rd (Wests Tigers 457, 1^st)

Ineffective tackles | 150, 15^th (Sydney Roosters 265, 1^st)

Handling errors | 41, 13^th (Melbourne 63, 1^st)

Errors | 114, 12^th (Sydney Roosters 156, 1^st)

Penalties conceded | 107, 8^th (Penrith 124, 1^st)

Decoys | 644, 4^th (South Sydney 722, 1^st)

Supports | 1601, 10^th (Sydney Roosters 1915, 1^st)

Individual stats:

Tries | 12 – David Fusitu’a, 1^st equal

Try assists | 6 – Blake Green, 15^th equal (1^st: 12 – Ash Taylor, Gold Coast)

Line break assists | 7 – Blake Green, 11^th equal; 6 – Tohu Harris and Peta Hiku, 16^th equal (1^st: 12 – Kalyn Ponga, Newcastle)

Line breaks | 10 – David Fusitu’a, 3^rd equal (1^st: 12 – Nick Cotric, Canberra)

Tackle breaks | 53 – Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, 6^th equal (1^st: 89 – Kalyn Ponga, Newcastle)

Off loads | 23 – Peta Hiku, 5^th; 20 – Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, 8^th equal (1^st: 40 – Andrew Fifita, Cronulla)

Receipts | 930 – Issac Luke, 9^th (1^st: 1288 – Cameron McInnes, St George Illawarra)

Runs | 192 – Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, 8^th; 185 – Ken Maumalo, 10^th (1^st: 238 – Blake Ferguson, Sydney Roosters)

Run metres | 1810.7 – Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, 7^th; 1769.8 – Ken Maumalo, 8^th (1^st: 2359.5 – Blake Ferguson, Sydney Roosters)

Dummy half runs | 59 – Issac Luke, 2^nd (1^st: 69 – Damien Cook, South Sydney)

Line engaged runs | 44 – Blake Green, 4^th (1^st: 56 – James Maloney, 56, Penrith)

Post contact metres | 616.1 – Ken Maumalo, 10^th (1^st: 877.3 – David Klemmer, Canterbury-Bankstown)

Kicks | 113 – Blake Green, 9^th (1^st: 138 – Cooper Cronk, Sydney Roosters)

Kicking metres | 3100.9 – Blake Green, 9^th (1^st: 4033.3 – Cooper Cronk, Sydney Roosters)

40/20s | 2 – Blake Green, 1^st equal

Kick return metres | 499.6 – Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, 5^th (1^st: 682.3: Kalyn Ponga, Newcastle)

Tackles | 354 – Tohu Harris, 33^rd equal; 342 – Adam Blair, 39^th (1^st: 510 – Damien Cook, South Sydney)

Missed tackles | 51 – Peta Hiku, 3^rd (1^st: 81 – James Maloney, Penrith)

Ineffective tackles | None in top 50 (1^st: 26 – Boyd Cordner, Sydney Roosters)

Handling errors | 7 – Issac Luke, 9^th equal (1^st: 11 – James Tedesco, Sydney Roosters)

Errors | 16 – David Fusitu’a 12^th equal (1^st: 22 – Matt Moylan, Cronulla)

Penalties | 14 – Issac Luke, 4^th equal (1^st: 19 – Jake Trbojevic, Manly-Warringah)

Decoys | 83 – Adam Blair, 17^th equal (1^st: 120 – Angus Crichton, South Sydney)

Supports | 171 – Blake Green, 22^nd (1^st: 334 – James Tedesco, Sydney Roosters)