What a week of NRL action it was, star performances, hard working players giving it their all, and win for the Titans, who knew. But surprise Sunday afternoon results aside, we dive into who were the players that were the best of the best this week in the NRL. Let our NRL Round 22 Team of the Week explain.
We have taken some of the key stats and assign various scoring methods against them, all in the good intention of making the various types of stats even out across the position.
An explanation of what is included and points assigned is right at the bottom.
This may be all good in hindsight, but could also help the odd desperate Supercoach player, or down on his luck sports gambling investor.
It’s time to unveil the NRL Round 22 Team of the Week, so enjoy.
NRL Round 22 Team of the Week
So we’ve used the stats for each position and picked the best starting 13 players from the most recent round, the stats and points assigned are explained at the end.
On top of the best starting 13, we include the best four interchange players of the week. Seeing who has provided maximum impact from the bench.
NRL Round 22 Key Player Stats
Want to see which players topped the key stats for Round 21 of the NRL?
Help yourself to the below.
A FEW BARELY INTERESTING STATS:
Tohu Harris’ 234 run metres this weekend was the highest return for any Warriors player in a single game this season. In fact, three of the top four individual run metre efforts for the Warriors season came this weekend.
Only six times this season has a player made more than 60 tackles. There were two this weekend. Damian Cook (2), Cameron Murray and Reuben Cotter are the other players to manage the feat.
Sharks player Teig Wilton joins a rare club for 2022 NRL Player Stats – only five players this have have given up 1+ Errors, 1+ Penalties, 1+ Ruck Infringement and 1+ Sin Bin in the same game.
Teig Wilton R22
Anthony Milford R18
Coen Hess R15
Elliott Whitehead R15
Jeremy Marshall-King R6
For average penalties per game per position Lock is the most penalised position, followed by Hooker and Five Eighth.
The record for bomb kicks in a single game this season is ten by Lachlan Ilias in the Round 19 rare win for the Rabbitohs over Melbourne.
NRL 2022 Season Team of the Year So Far
So here is the Team of the Season so far based on the Stats we have compiled.
Hard to argue with a lot of them, although the centres would have been left field choices at the beginning of the season.
NRL 2022 Player Top Season Stats
Here’s a season glance on the stats we used for the Team of the Week.
How the Team of the Week works
Want to know how we come up with the numbers to rank the players, the below table should explain hopefully.
Andrew spent most of Saturday (August 13) flooding his Facebook page with ILHD posts, articles about famous left handers, other articles about how hard it is to be left handed, and various ’funny’ memes and videos about left handers. And his mates are sick of it.
”Seriously, the way old mate carries on, you’d think being left handed was the hardest thing in the world!” said his longtime Belconnen Bulls Fourth XI teammate Peter. “I get they have to make a few adjustments, and the poor bastard hates using can openers or scissors, but it’s not that bad. All the boys know to avoid Andrew today and let him get it out of his system.”
Andrew reportedly capped the day by watching the ‘Leftorium’ episode of The Simpsons, and then a marathon of every MCU movie/Disney+ show featuring Black Widow and Hawkeye, respectively played by famous lefties Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner.
Welcome to our Fantasy Premier League FPL Captain Preview GW2 for the first time this season.
Come for the Fantasy Premier Captain picks, stay for a plethora of FPL stats.
Every gameweek we take a truckload of stats and compile them into our Captain’s table and then have a score out of 100 who we think should be captain.
This week the winner is in the 90’s. Even if his birth date isn’t.
Along with the Captain’s Table is a load of key stats for general FPL knowledge, like who is taking the most shots, chances created, FPL Bonus Points and more.
All of those stats await, but first help yourself to a seat at the Fantasy Premier League FPL Captain Preview GW2 Captain’s Table.
FPL Captain Preview GW2 – Captain’s Table
Here are the FPL Captain Picks GW2 results. A full explanation and full list of the stats and calculations are provided at the end.
Stats are based up to the previous GW except for scoring records v opposition. Where there is no opposition history we have all time Premier League season’s stats (in yellow text).
FPL Captain Preview GW2 Thoughts
HELLO – Erling Haaland / Mo Salah
Bit of a cop-out but how do you choose, for those lucky enough to have the two players.
Both teams have easy games on paper, but both their opponents Crystal Palace and Bournemouth were quite good last weekend. However, both teams have outstanding records vs this week’s opponent. Man City have never lost to Bournemouth and won 11 in a row. Liverpool have won ten in a row v Crystal Palace by a margin of 30-6.
Both Haaland and Salah got double figure points last weekend. Both were impressive. We guess it comes down to personal choice, but we guess the jury will be out on Haaland for a bit, while Salah is tried and true. Salah has scored seven goals and provided six assists v Crystal Palace in ten meetings.
We advise flipping a coin or picking the player or team you like the most.
CALL ME MAYBE – Bukaya Sako / Kevin de Bruyne
Sako has a great record of scoring and assisting v Leicester, and Arsenal looked quite good last weekend. Sako getting among the points as well. Arsenal have a great home record v Leicester too, losing just one of their last 29 clashes.
Kevin de Bruyne has the Man City dominance over Bournemouth on his side, but his record v the Cherries himself is surprisingly average as per the Captain’s table above. But
GOODBYE – Kane / Son
You’d think after last weekend’s table topping win over Southampton that the Spurs duo would rate highly this week. But they don’t and it’s all about the fixture – Chelsea. Neither player has a great record v Chelsea, and the team’s record v Chelsea is worse. Chelsea have won six and drawn one from their last seven v Spurs in the league and Spurs have failed to score in six of those seven games.
Before one ventures into the new gameweek, how about a review of who is doing the best at the moment across a wide range of key stats.
We’ve hand picked the best of them from this season so far and last weekend’s action. Which of course at the moment is the same thing.
But here are a few points of interest first.
Darwin Nunez has more Shots from Inside Penalty Area & Six Yard Box combined than any other players despite his late entrance into Liverpool’s game v Fulham. Haaland was second.
Newcastle topped GW1 for Key Passes and Shots on Goal. Man Utd had the third highest total of shots.
Nottingham Forest were the only team without a shot on target in GW1. For the record, Everton had the highest Shot on Target % at 50%. Spurs and Newcastle were 2nd and 3rd.
Erling Haaland is already 0.7 clear in expected goals than the next best.
Excitement machine Allan Saint-Maximin is the leading player for touches deep into opposition territory.
Leeds’ Jack Harrison created more chances (6) in GW1 than Bournemouth, West Ham and Nottingham Forest. Aston Villa created eight chances yet lost 2-0 to Bournemouth.
To get the best from the below visuals, click on them to zoom in.
FPL 2022-23 Season Stats So Far – Chances Created
FPL 2022-23 Season Stats So Far – Touches
FPL 2022-23 Season Stats So Far – Shots Taken
FPL 2022-23 Season Stats So Far – Key Passes
FPL 2022-23 Season Stats So Far – Expected Goals
FPL 2022-23 Season Stats So Far – Bonus Points
Early days, but here are the Bonus Points totals from GW1.
One week down in the Premier League, and we can barely conceal our excitement of having football back. Slightly less exciting is our 2022-23 Premier League Week 2 Predictions + Stats Preview is a stat filled, barely interesting look at a bunch of Premier League stats and things.
Each week we provide a meandering look into the upcoming round of Premier League football, with not only our predictions for the upcoming Premier League fixtures, but offer up a wide range of H2H and in-season stats and barely interesting facts.
There’s so much to go through we can barely contain it to just one long page.
Here are our fearless predictions for the fixtures ahead, and tune in below for all the stats and barely interesting stats that go along with them.
Aston Villa 2 Everton 0
Brighton 0 Newcastle 1
Man City 4 Bournemouth 0
Southampton 0 Leeds 0
Wolves 0 Fulham 1
Arsenal 3 Leicester 1
Brentford 1 Man Utd 0
Nottingham Forest 1 West Ham Utd 1
Chelsea 0 Spurs 1
Liverpool 3 Crystal Palace 1
22-23 Season Record – 60% – 6/10 – 1 Correct score
Read on for the match by match full preview and stats.
2022-23 English Premier League Week 2 – Quick Stats
EXPECTED GOALS FROM GW1
EXPECTED GOALS AGAINST FROM GW1
2022-23 Premier League Week 2 Barely Interesting Stats
Everton haven’t beaten Aston Villa since 2016 – seven meetings ago.
Aston Villa have scored three goals and won both of their last two home games v Everton.
Newcastle (D3 L2) haven’t won at Brighton since 2017 – six games ago.
It is 1989 and six games for a win at Brighton on a Saturday for Newcastle, including two FA Cup losses.
Man City have never lost to Bournemouth in 17 meetings and have won 11 in a row. They average almost three goals a game in that run.
Only Man City and Leicester won all six games v promoted sides last season.
Southampton have won four games straight v Leeds at home on a Saturday. Three of those games finished 1-0.
Wolves are on a run of three straight wins v Fulham, all wins were 1-0.
Wolves (W12 D4) are also on a run of 16 unbeaten games v Fulham at home, and last lost in 1985.
Leicester have won just once in 29 games at Arsenal going back to 1974.
Brentford last beat Manchester Utd in 1938 – eight games ago.
Brentford’s W2 D2 L8 was the best record of a promoted side last season v Big Six clubs.
Four of the last five clashes between Nottingham Forest and West Ham have seen five goals. The other was a pathetic three goals. All four of those 5+ goals games were on a Sunday.
West Ham scored the third highest total of goals v promoted sides away last season.
Spurs (D1 L6) have failed to win their last seven league clashes with Chelsea, and failed to score in six of those games.
Liverpool have won ten in a row v Crystal Palace, and by a margin of 30-6.
2022-23 Premier League Week 2 Predictions – Match by Match Stats Previews
Our big, beautiful full visual preview of each game is below.
More stats than you could probably ever want or need, for now.
The finals are fast approaching, and so NRL tipsters everywhere need more help than ever to pick a winner or eight. So here are our bold NRL Round 22 Tips Summary and Stats Preview with no weak dog action here.
Each week we offer up a quick preview glance for each match, a bunch of barely interesting stats, probably more than one could ever need or want.
We also offer up some alternative tips. These alternative tips are often based on a rugby league stat, and sometimes something completely absurd, and are aimed at those NRL tipsters who just can’t be bothered.
This week we have really run out of ideas and doing it based on alphabetical order.
So enjoy the 2022 NRL Round 22 Tips Stats Preview + Alternative Tips where there’s something for everyone. Mostly.
2022 NRL Round 22 Tips – Alternative Tips – August Winning %
Short on inspiration already? Or looking for that edge to your tipping that no one else in your competition has? Well here are the Alternative NRL Tips for this round.
It’s been a long season and we have really run out of ideas for an alternative tip. So alphabetical order it is.
Simples.
ALTERNATIVE TIPS 2022 PROGRESS – 62% – 99/160
2022 NRL Round 22 Predictions – Gurgler Tips
Can we beat our own Alternative NRL tips? Usually not, so again we’ll have to keep trying.
Panthers by 6
Bulldogs by 8
Rabbitohs by 10
Cowb0ys by 2
Sharks by 12
Broncos by 16
Dragons by 2
Sea Eagles by 20
OUR TIPS – 66% – 106/160
2022 NRL Round 22 Weekly H2H Stats
Looking for a cheat sheet for the weekend’s upcoming games?
Here’s as much information that we could cram into one size fits all visual.
Here we take the best points of interest for each match coming up this weekend, and share them with you for no cost. Feel free to share with friends and family.
Melbourne have scored just six points in their last two games v Penrith.
Penrith have won 12 games in a row at Penrith Stadium against teams from outside NSW, their last loss was in July 2019. In that 12-game run, the Panthers have not conceded more than 14 points including three shutouts.
Penrith have played teams outside NSW 24 times since the start of 2020, they have lost just once – a 37-10 loss to Melbourne last August.
Penrith have also won 10 in a row on a Thursday night – last loss April 2019. Melbourne have lost their last three Thursday games.
Warriors have won three straight v Bulldogs.
Bulldogs have lost their last six away trips on a Friday and ten of their last 11 going back to mid 2017.
Souths have only won two of the 10 matches against Parramatta at Parramatta Stadium (and other names) since 1998. But those two wins did come on a Friday (Friday record 2-1).
Parramatta have won their last four Friday games v Sydney teams. They have also conceded exactly 20 points in three of those games.
Parramatta have conceded the fewest Penalties/Ruck Infringements combined this season. Melbourne are the worst.
Roosters have won all four games v North Queensland since Covid.
Roosters are on an eight game winning streak v Queensland sides.
North Queensland have won five of their six away games v Sydney sides this season.
North Queensland have the second best away record this season behind Penrith.
Brisbane have won all five home clashes against Newcastle on a Saturday night since 1998.
Broncos have won 27 of 32 homes games against NSW sides on a Saturday. They did however, lose their first three at the renovated Lang Park in 2003. Since then it is just two losses in 19 games including their last start loss to the Tigers.
Newcastle have lost their last 15 away games to a Queensland side. Their last win was against Gold Coast Titans in March 2015.
Canberra have lost one game in a row to teams that allegedly contain weak-gutted dogs.
Canberra have won 14/18 home games v St George-Illawarra. They have won all four on a Sunday. They have also scored between 30 and 32 points in those four games.
Gold Coast have won one game since March.
Gold Coast are 3/6 for games v bottom eight sides (based on ladder position going into game). No side has played fewer games against this calculated bottom eight than the Titans. For the record four teams (Souths, Parramatta, North Qld and Melbourne) have played the bottom eight the most (12 times).
2022 NRL Round 22 NRL 2022 Season – Team Stats
We have taken the best of the NRL data and turned them into visuals you can use to enjoy your rugby league this weekend.
There’s run metres, kicking stats, errors, tackled and lack of tackles.
Plus we also have each team’s record against the top and bottom teams and home v away.
There’s so much you’ll need to stop halfway to catch your breath.
TEAM RECORD V TOP & BOTTOM EIGHT SIDES
Note – top / bottom eight is decided at time of match not current ladder.
TEAM RECORD – HOME & AWAY
Note – not the awful soap on Channel 7
TACKLES AND BREAKS
Who are the Running Men?
RUNS, OFFLOADS, POST CONTACT METRES
Here is the break down of who is breaking through to the other side.
KICKING STATS
Note: last graph is a 100% breakdown of kick types.
BAD BOYS
Want to know which team gives away the most penalties? Or makes the most errors? Or a report card with Sin Bins and Send Offs. It’s all yours below.
2022 NRL Season Prediction Results
Our tips jumped ahead of the alternative tips last week, so now onto bigger and better things.
ALTERNATIVE TIPS 6/8 First Round Form 4/8 More Dangerous Mascot 3/8 Best H2H 6/8 April Fools 7/8 Bad Boy Points (Penalties/Sin Bins etc) 5/8 Greens Votes 6/8 Marginal Seats 5/8 Covid Cases 6/8 May Record 3/8 Suncorp Stadium Record 4/8 ALP Voting 2/8 Green / Teal Colour Wheel 1/4 June Form since 1998 6/8 Post Origin I Form 5/8 Winter Form 5/8 Post Origin II Form 4/4 Kicking Kings 5/8 Post Origin III Form 3/8 Twitter Followers 6/8 Current Ladder 7/8 August Form
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times, and now the Wooden Spooners have returned to cast their eye over the latest weekend of rugby league that was with the NRL Round 21 Results & Headlines.
Going beyond the scores, the NRL Round 21 Results & Headlines gives the extra insight in the NRL that only the Wooden Spooners can.
All reports are unconfirmed and please contact our Legal team or Buzz Rothfield aka Hans Moleman for complaints.
NRL ROUND 21 RESULTS HEADLINES
RICKY STUART WAS ACTUALLY TRYING TO REPLICATE THE CLASSIC OLD JOHN WEST AD WHERE HE GETS THE DOG SALMON
Many people were looking to the real reason why Ricky Stuart blew up about Jaeman Salmon after the Raiders were beaten by Penrith on Saturday, and the popular consensus is that it was typical Ricky trying to deflect blame after a potentially final series hopes ending loss. But the Wooden Spooners have it on good authority it was something else that Ricky himself would never admit to.
For you see, the Wooden Spooners have it on good inside information that Ricky Stuart wanted to be an actor as much as a rugby league players, and he loves 1980’s commercials.
The problem on Saturday was he was trying the old John West ad, but sadly it was way too obscure and people didn’t get the reference.
Refer above and you’ll see what we mean.
PAUL KENT MYSTERIOUSLY FINDS NOTHING WRONG WITH RICKY STUART SHOOTING HIS MOUTH OFF LIKE A JERK
Rugby League’s biggest mouthpiece – Paul Kent – leaped to Ricky Stuart’s defence after his failed John West commercial on Saturday.
This came as no surprise to the Wooden Spooners team because Paul Kent is a bit of a jerk.
NRL BOSSES ALLEGEDLY OFFERS EACH CLUB $100K MAD MONDAY BONUS FOR ROUND 22 FOR AVOIDING CONTROVERSY FOR AT LEAST A WEEK
It’s been a bad run for the NRL in recent weeks. The Great Wests Tigers Swindle in North Queensland rolling into the Manly rainbow jersey drama then being parlayed into Ricky Stuart’s performance on Saturday night.
Desperate for a week with no bullshit and to get the NRL out of the breakfast news cycle, NRL Godfather Peter V’landys has, according to Wooden Spooners insiders, offered each club a $100K each to add to their Mad Monday plans if the players and clubs agree not to do anything controversial.
It is believed that the clubs have agreed in principle but were quick to point out that the Wests Tigers-North Queensland debacle was actually the NRL’s fault.
CHANNEL NEIN SECRETLY PUTTING THE SHITTIEST GAME POSSIBLE ON A SUNDAY TO DRIVE DOWN NEXT TV RIGHTS DEAL
Sunday afternoon saw yet another dud Sunday afternoon 4pm game, and while the common denominator is usually Newcastle or the Wests Tigers, the ultimate denominator is Channel Nein.
For a long time Sunday afternoon rugby league used to be a premium timeslot. You’d know because Gus Gould would carry on with that for about the first ten minutes of each Sunday broadcast. Well, that’s from our pre Fox League experience.
But these days it seems to be a dumping ground for the worst game of the week, of course due to the unwritten rule, it must feature a minimum of one Sydney team.
When the Wooden Spooners snooped around after finding themselves in the press box with the lights off after clearly sleeping through the second half of the Tigers-Knights game and the next two hours, we spoke to a cleaner who was kicking us out, and he informed via reliable source (his cousin was a produced up to last season) that Channel Nein are purposely putting on shit games to drive down the price of the next TV deal.
ANTHONY GRIFFIN RUNNING OUT OF ASSISTANT COACHES TO FIRE
St George Illawarra coach Anthony Griffin is under pressure to retain his head coaching gig at the Dragons, especially after Fox League could no longer crowbar their mate Shane Flanagan into the Wests Tigers.
Griffin has gone down the Flotsam route in recent weeks, getting rid of as many coaches as possible that aren’t himself. Sadly another loss on Saturday to local rivals leaves his team with little hope of finals football, and himself with fewer people to fire instead of himself.
No doubt there will be an article or two aimed at the Dragons this week on Fox Sports.
WOODEN SPOONERS UNFAIR QUESTION OF THE WEEK
Q: Was the Tigers-Knights game the worst of the season?
A: No, the Tigers v Titans game earlier in the season was.
SOCIALS OF THE WEEK
Our NRL Social of the Week is from a Simpsons Related NRL Memes Facebook Pagelike it always is these days which is a must for those who love NRL, Simpsons and a laugh.
THE SHANE FLANAGAN NEW COACHING GIG-O-METER
With Shane Flanagan in the commentary box for Fox League in 2022, we can continue to expect subtle digs at teams who are struggling and that he can see a possible way in for.
So each week as part of the Wooden Spooner’s NRL Headlines, we’ll bring you the New Coaching Gig-O-Meter. This features which teams are hot for a new coach, or a team that was and is going cool.
With the news that the Wests Tigers are going back to the future with Tim Sheens and Benji Marshall, this means the year-long campaign to shove Shane Flanagan in as the Tigers coach is over.
Flanagan is running out of clubs, but that won’t stop the Fox League machine.
Two weeks ago it was a Dragon, last week it is a Knight. This week it could be anything.
What a week of NRL action it was, star performances, hard working players giving it their all, and something about a dog. But feisty press conferences aside, we dive into who were the players that were the best of the best this week in the NRL. Let our NRL Round 21 Team of the Week explain.
We have taken some of the key stats and assign various scoring methods against them, all in the good intention of making the various types of stats even out across the position.
An explanation of what is included and points assigned is right at the bottom.
This may be all good in hindsight, but could also help the odd desperate Supercoach player, or down on his luck sports gambling investor.
It’s time to unveil the NRL Round 21 Team of the Week, so enjoy.
So we’ve used the stats for each position and picked the best starting 13 players from the most recent round, the stats and points assigned are explained at the end.
On top of the best starting 13, we include the best four interchange players of the week. Seeing who has provided maximum impact from the bench.
NRL Round 21 Key Player Stats
Want to see which players topped the key stats for Round 21 of the NRL?
Help yourself to the below.
A FEW BARELY INTERESTING STATS:
Cooper Johns’ seven combined Try Assists + Line Break Assists is the first time any player this season has managed to achieve that in a single game.
Joseph Tapine has now passed 1,000 Post Contact Metres for 2022. That’s more than players like Alex Twal, Jack Bird and Matt Lodge have made in All Run Metres.
Alex Johnston has made at least one line break in every game he has played in since Round 10.
Corey Oates made five errors in the match against the Roosters, a player making five errors or more has happened just 12 times this season. The 2022 record is held by Jason Saab in Round 15 against the Cowboys with eight errors. Four players have made six errors in a match this season. Selwyn Cobbo and Zac Lomax both feature twice in the 5+ list.
NRL 2022 Season Team of the Year So Far
So here is the Team of the Season so far based on the Stats we have compiled.
Hard to argue with a lot of them, although the centres would have been left field choices at the beginning of the season.
NRL 2022 Player Top Season Stats
Here’s a season glance on the stats we used for the Team of the Week.
How the Team of the Week works
Want to know how we come up with the numbers to rank the players, the below table should explain hopefully.
A podcast focusing on actors and the Hollywood lifestyle has been engulfed by its own self-indulgence.
The Actor ‘Cast started in early 2022 with a rotating roster of well-known TV and movie actors, with the aim to give listeners a taste of a professional actor’s lifestyle and inside information on upcoming projects.
Unfortunately, that noble goal was quickly forgotten as the featured actors (who have all worked together on various projects) started disappearing up their own arses with in-jokey tales about them and their celebrity mates, as well as praising each other on their best roles.
Sarah Livingstone, who hosts the podcast (and works behind-the-scenes in Hollywood), knew the writing was on the wall early.
”Things started to derail after the fouth episode. I tried to start a topic about the Oscars and that led to 60 minutes of stories of who has the best after parties and who gives the best [REDACTED FOR LEGAL REASONS] and the longest [REDACTED],” said Sarah.
With the first season almost finished, Sarah has given up pretending to care about the podcast’s quality. “All I do now is introduce the guests and sit back and play games on my phone or catch up on emails for 90 minutes. If I let the guests do whatever they want and don’t interrupt, then they invite me to lunch or dinner after the show. They still talk absolute nonsense full of blatant name dropping, but at least I get a nice meal and a few cheeky wines.”
Everyday News is a brand new general news/parody section of The Gurgler, and definitely not a lame rip-off of ‘The Betoota Advocate’. We swear.
Anasta will star in the new Netflix rom-com The Ex-Player, with shooting to begin in America in December. Anasta plays a former rugby league player who moves to Los Angeles after a messy divorce and falls in love with a quirky indie rock singer/owner of a local karaoke bar (played by Zooey Deschanel).
While Anasta didn’t return the Everyday News Staff Writers’ calls to confirm this, mail is that he “knew the right people” to score the role.
But Anasta’s co-star Deschanel actually had manners and spoke to our Staff Writers.
“I had no idea who he was when we had our initial meeting. I assumed he’d won some Australian reality show and this was his prize? He said he was a ‘Bulldogs, Roosters, and Tigers legend’, whatever that means. At least he likes animals,” said Deschanel. “Then he showed me his highlights packages on YouTube, which comes in handy when I want to get to sleep. I’m out less than two minutes in.”
Deschanel (who made her film debut in 1999) said she wasn’t phased by’s Anasta acting inexperience. “The main reason I took this role is because I get to sing a lot. The soundtrack’s gonna go through the roof on Spotify.”
Though Deschanel said there was an ulterior motive for Braith’s new role.
”He’s been trying to recruit me for some 360 show. He says he can teach me enough about ‘footy’ so I can replace Buzz. If he wants to get rid of a bee so much, I’ll buy him some fly spray.”
Everyday News is a brand new general news/parody section of The Gurgler, and definitely not a lame rip-off of ‘The Betoota Advocate’. We swear.
Welcome back to The Gurgler’s F1 Season G-Power Ratings and Rankings – our way of using various F1 based stats for 2022 to determine the most recent race and the season’s best drivers so far. Our 2022 Hungarian Grand Prix Ratings is a unique collection of stats that try and find a different way to determine the best drivers.
The Power Rankings goes a little bit deeper than just points scored on the Sunday. We take on board Free Practice, Qualifying, performance in relation to team mate, fastest lap, and a few more stats that are attempting to highlight a driver outperforming the car.
A full explanation on what is included and the points awarded is below the visuals.
The 2022 French Grand Prix Ratings is more than just a score for driver of the day, we have other F1 based points of interest in easy to consume visuals to tell the story of the season so far.
2022 F1 Season Power Rankings – Race 13 2022 Hungarian Grand Prix Ratings
Here is the breakdown of the best and blurst driver from the most recent race at the Red Bull Ring.
2022 F1 Season Power Rankings Progress – Martini Medal Driver of the Year
Here are the current overall standings for our Driver of the Year winner – the Martini Medal. Named in honour of one of F1’s most unsung heroes – Pierluigi Martini of Minardi fame.
We have the overall scores as they stand, plus a visual which shows the flow of each driver’s position throughout the season.
2022 F1 Season Power Rankings – Other Interesting Stats
DRIVER 2022 H2H RECORD
QUALIFYING
Here our qualifying analysis covers the average grid position as well as the gap to pole.
For the gap to pole the % from pole is relative to the fastest lap in whichever qualifying session was the final one for each driver.
FIRST LAP POSITION GAINS
Here is the summary and details for first lap movement for the 2022 season so far.
Some drivers are punished for first lap shenanigans, but maybe they should behave themselves.
FASTEST LAP STATS
Want to know more about the drivers in race trim? Well here are some Fastest Lap details.
FREE PRACTICE STATS
2022 F1 Season Power Rankings – Points Explanation
Here’s how the points work this season. Essentially the perfect race (Win from Pole, Fastest Lap, thrash team mate, best in race etc) should amount to the perfect 100 points.
FIRST LAP GAINS +0.5pts per position gained -0.5pts per position lost.
CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS – 25pts to 1pt as per World Championship – Sprint Race Points added.
BEAT TEAM MATE (RACE) – 10pts (if both finish or other driver got self inflicted DNF)
FASTEST LAP – 5pts – 1pt for top five drivers.
GRID POSITION TO RACE POSITION – formula +/- relative finish to grid
BEST OF THE REST (RACE) – 5pts to 1pt – top five non Mercedes-Red Bull drivers
QUALIFYING – 20pts to 1pt – Grid Position 1 to 20.
BEAT TEAM MATE (QUALIFYING) – 5pts
BEST OF THE REST (QUALIFYING) – 5pts to 1pt – top five non Mercedes-Red Bull drivers
GREAT/GRAPE – 5pts Great 2pts Honourable Mention -2Pts Dishonourable Mention -5Pts Grape
BEAT TEAM MATE (QUALIFYING) Time Gap – Formula for % beaten team mate by
BEAT TEAM MATE (QUALIFYING) Position – 0.5 Pts for every position team mate is beaten by. 0 points for second car.
FREE PRACTICE HERO – 10Pts to 1Pt – Average Position across all three practice sessions.
WIN FROM POLE – Bonus 5 Points
WIN FROM POLE WITH FASTEST LAP – Bonus 10 Points
SPRINT RACE – Points awarded as per F1 points from 8 to 1.
SPRINT RACE RACE GAIN – Net position from Qualifying divided by two.
