What could be the next frontier in data analytics for rugby? How about "off the ball" data? Here is a sample of an animation generated from player GPS data - this was done to investigate defensive connectivity originating from a lineout.

This is *exactly* what I've been thinking about since starting on my thesis early this year. So much off the ball movement shapes the game both sides of the ball, it feels like there's an awful lot of context to be mined there.

The smsrt mouth guards giving realtime info on how many body punishment a player takes during a game

Lots of awesome work done with those mouthguards here in Calgary @SIPRC_ @SHRedConcussio1

Confident off ball movement is what separates the best.

See you in January Andy! 👍

Out of possession rather than Off the ball ought to be a benchmark for workrate in defence and in attack

Massive potential with this stuff. You can tell players so much but this is a visual they can easily understand

Training support vector machine (SVM) or Convoluted Neural Networks (CNN) to make the call on red card head contact tackles. AI can probably do it as well as human beings.

This is a game changer for coaches & player learning .

Some sort of analysis of where it would be optimal to place the ball, and by what means