Gaelic Stats

Numbers and stuff

[Gaelic Stats @gaelicstats]

Anyone interested in some of the data around rule changes. 👇

[Malachy Clerkin @MalachyClerkin]

Rob Carroll (aka @gaelicstats) spent eight years analysing every handpass, footpass, foul, score and miss in 322 football championship matches. His data was used by the committee for the proposed rule changes. Met him during the week and learned a lot.
https://t.co/iqrWbqxp3O

[Kevin Mulcahy @movementcoachkm]

They still don’t get it

None of them have ever got it.

Stop banning skills of the game.

Incentivise kicking. If you want more.

But some of the best goals ever scored had several hand passes in a row.

Not to mention it’s been trialled and it’s utterly failed. It’s too much of an intervention cognitively.

Forget the hand pass ffs

[Gaelic Stats @gaelicstats]

@cormacpro Not a clue.

[Gaelic Stats @gaelicstats]

About 40% of frees in last year’s championship took longer than 20 seconds.

[Gaelic Stats @gaelicstats]

@TsuDhoNim But there are loads of grey areas here, going to be very hard to referee. I can ignore instances in my data where there is a free and something else (injury/sub etc…).

[Gaelic Stats @gaelicstats]

I took a look at the actual data. From a sample of ~400 kickouts in the 2024 Championship. 28% of the time the ball was out of play for longer than 20 seconds.

[Maurice Brosnan @m_brosnan]

The FRC have a real communication problem.

This is the only place I saw a reference to a 20-second limit since they met with intercounty referees last week. Maybe they let teams know but the public matter too. They should do weekly updates.
https://t.co/MtFNfUbZxJ

[Gaelic Stats @gaelicstats]

@TsuDhoNim And obviously where on the pitch is going to have a big impact. So the average figure is going to be massively skewed.

[Gaelic Stats @gaelicstats]

@TsuDhoNim The short answer is a lot of frees take longer than 20 seconds

[Gaelic Stats @gaelicstats]

@TsuDhoNim I didn’t see that announcement. When was that made?

[Gaelic Stats @gaelicstats]

Not sure why the comparison of the data was made to Championship when I have supplied league data since 2019, but I always found people so dismissive of comparing league to Champ (as in this clip below) but the reality of the data suggests they are a lot closer than people think

[The Sunday Game @TheSundayGame]

Here's your mid-term report on the new rules in football.
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[Gaelic Stats @gaelicstats]

@m_brosnan @Paddyaherne Not every game, much smaller sample size but still would be a good comparison.

[Gaelic Stats @gaelicstats]

@m_brosnan @Paddyaherne I supplied them league data since 2019

[Gaelic Stats @gaelicstats]

@m_brosnan Don’t know that. Can see why they don’t to go down the road of that then tackle, but there is a way to interpret existing rules that incentivises tackler and encourages pressing.

[Gaelic Stats @gaelicstats]

@m_brosnan Not that football needs a tackle like aussie rules, but enforcing steps and being much more on the side of the tackler I think would have a big impact.

[Gaelic Stats @gaelicstats]

@m_brosnan In the international rules series (I know not everyone's favourite) they have a tackle, but the amount of tackles that occur in a game is very small. But the threat if being disposed leads to more chaos.

[Gaelic Stats @gaelicstats]

@PerformTraynor Surely not!

[Gaelic Stats @gaelicstats]

@TsuDhoNim Vast majority just feel like normal play. I think the score, time in game etc... will all play a bigger part than making a hard and fast rule of x seconds.

[Gaelic Keeper Coaching - Dr. Donal Hughes @DocKeeperCoach]

Stuck a timer on the Derry v Galway kickout just to see. It’s not Seiko timing but it’s definitely “in and around 20 seconds”!!
Crucial point in game, extremely harsh, not 30-40 seconds, and I’ve better things to be doing on a Monday morning than acting as oversight for the FRC.

[Gaelic Stats @gaelicstats]

@m_brosnan @TerenceR78 Shouldn’t this be based on evidence tho? Rather than just pick a number. What’s the average?. They could have access to this kinds of info if they just picked up the phone.