Rugby Goal Kick Success Percent
Pool actual rugby goal kicks over matched opportunity counts, not unweighted match percentages or general success inference.
Description
Goal-kick success is conditional on actual kick opportunities.
Goal-kick success is conditional on actual kick opportunities. Pooling counts avoids equal weighting of unequal match exposures.1
The returned values include Pooled goal kick success percent. The How section below explains the calculation, input rules and interpretation.
When to use Rugby Goal Kick Success Percent
Use Rugby Goal Kick Success Percent when you need to evaluate the supplied records under the calculation and evidence rules below. No future kicking success or causal ability is inferred.
Prepare the observed race, match or training records and the stated units. Supply independently verified rule editions, calibration tables and targets where requested.
How to use Rugby Goal Kick Success Percent and understand its results
- Prepare the observed race, match or training records and the stated units. Supply independently verified rule editions, calibration tables and targets where requested.
- Enter observedGoalKickAttempts, observedSuccessfulGoalKicks using the field table and calculation rules, then run the tool.
- Read pooledGoalKickSuccessPercent. The explanation below defines the units, signs, ordering and any flags or placeholder values.
- If the tool reports an input issue, correct the values and run it again. Apply the stated assumptions when interpreting a successfully returned result.
| Input field | Meaning | Value type; see rules below | Requirement |
|---|---|---|---|
| observedGoalKickAttempts | Observed goal kick attempts | list of number | Required |
| observedSuccessfulGoalKicks | Observed successful goal kicks | list of number | Required |
Enter aligned nonempty integer attempts 0–1000000 and successes 0–matched attempts with positive pooled attempts. Return pooled percent.
success%=100sum(successes)/sum(attempts) Units, indexing, boundary conditions and exceptional cases are defined in the calculation rules above.
| Output field | Meaning | Value type |
|---|---|---|
| pooledGoalKickSuccessPercent | Pooled goal kick success percent | number |
{
"input": {
"observedGoalKickAttempts": [
5,
10
],
"observedSuccessfulGoalKicks": [
2,
6
]
},
"output": {
"pooledGoalKickSuccessPercent": 53.333333333333336
}
}Limitations and assumptions
No future kicking success or causal ability is inferred.
Numeric inputs, where present, must be finite. Follow the calculation-specific rules for overflow, underflow and exceptional cases. Numeric lists are limited to 10,000 entries; string lists to 128 strings of at most 128 characters each. The rules above may impose smaller limits. Missing required fields, extra fields, wrong value types and violations of the calculation rules are input errors.
Alternative or Complementary methods
Use Middle-Third Pass Completion %: Middle-third pass completion pools opportunities across records. Match percentages should not be averaged without exposure weights. For a complementary task, use Ace Rate Per Match Calculator: Aces per match and aces per hundred service points measure different exposures. Unequal match lengths affect the pooled rate.
References
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Rugby Goal Kick Success Percent — tool.io
Similar or alternative tools
- Middle-Third Pass Completion %
Middle-third pass completion pools opportunities across records. Match percentages should not be averaged without exposure weights.
- Ace Rate Per Match Calculator
Aces per match and aces per hundred service points measure different exposures. Unequal match lengths affect the pooled rate.