NPC 2022

[Stargazer]

[KiwiMurph]

@Stargazer Was it 4 franchises Apisai played for last season?

[Stargazer]

@KiwiMurph If he played for the Blues as well, then yes. Highlanders, Hurricanes and Moana Pasifika.

[Bovidae]

Apisai played for the Chiefs in a pre-season game, as he was in the WTG.

[Duluth]

Is any website showing live stats of the NPC? ESPN doesn’t cover the NPC

I know the official site does but the format sucks (you have to click on each players name so you can’t scan easily)

[Stargazer]

@Duluth No, only Rugbypass, but you know how terrible they are.

[Stargazer]

@Duluth I've tried archiving those pages of the official site, and the stats don't get archived, only the text. Each time you open the page, whether the original version or archived version, it has to download those stats from Opta.

So as soon as that link between the official pages and Opta is broken (for example, if they decide to go for another stats provider), you'll lose all the stats.

[bobily2]

Where are the stats on the NPC site? I can potentially see if I can collect them and display them in a more user-friendly way

[Stargazer]

@bobily2 On the pages with the team lists:

Bunnings NPC Round One: Team Lists

Provincial rivalries will ignite when round one of the Bunnings NPC kicks off on Friday 6 August.

It would be awesome if you were able to do that!

[Duluth]

@bobily2 said in NPC 2022:

Where are the stats on the NPC site? I can potentially see if I can collect them and display them in a more user-friendly way

Hidden away on the team lists page of course: link

Click on the names

[Crucial]

@bobily2 said in NPC 2022:

Where are the stats on the NPC site? I can potentially see if I can collect them and display them in a more user-friendly way

You go to these team list articles each week https://www.provincial.rugby/news/bunnings-npc-round-one-team-lists/
If you click on a player you get a range of Opta stats from the game for each

[bobily2]

It's looking a little tricky at first glance, but I think I should be able to pull something together. Watch this space

[Stargazer]

[ARHS]

Was trying to find points scorers for the weekend. Took me a while. Herald does not bother doing that any more. Espn no longer does either. But eventually found that yesterday in same place as the team lists.
Wonder if this is a strategy to drive people to a single online source of information for everything. I hope not.

[Grooter]

@ARHS my dumb self was surprised when I saw Hawkes Bay & Waikato had 3 points for their draw but then I realised the extra point is the bonus 4 tries

[Duluth]

I think the Turbos have overtaken Waikato for the worst team at keeping their fans updated

The Turbos site latest news is about the preseason and the upcoming match is apparently vs Canterbury. Links to social media from their site are broken - facebook, twitter & instagram

It seems that someone decided that keeping the Turbos social media accounts was sexist and they deleted them all and created 'Turbos and Cyclones' accounts. So thats why all the links are broken. When you do account switches like that you will lose a percentage of your followers

Do teams want fans to follow the games and maybe be engaged enough to buy a ticket?

[Bovidae]

@Duluth Ironically, the reporters from the Manawatū Standard seem to do a good job of covering their games, unlike most other regional journos. I found the Manawatū team that played Waikato in the pre-season game in one such article.

[Stargazer]

@Bovidae Yep, the only team that seems to get more media coverage is Southland.

[ARHS]

@Bovidae legacy of Peter Lampp

[taniwharugby]

@taniwharugby said in NPC 2022:

Interesting to see the movement after the opening matches...Southland big movers, going from $251 upto $81