This weekend Saracens take on Clermont and Toulon host Munster with the chances of a French team winning the competition estimated at over 80%. Saracens are given a fighting 44% chance of getting to the final while Munster are not rated highly at around 25%. The chances of an English team winning the competition is more or less the same…
Should the game come down to conversions of tries, as we believe it will, it’ll be the kicker who picks the optimal place to convert the try. So how should a player (without a measuring tape or protractor) choose which place to kick a conversion from? He can choose from anywhere along the red dotted line as shown here (having…