NRL 300 Club Rankings, Part Two

Introducing the Top Ten best players to have played 300 NRL matches.

The other 21 are covered HERE, from John Morris in 31st through to Cooper Cronk in 11th.

I actually searched for a pic of John Morris and Cooper Cronk together. It was a long shot, and nothing came up - but Google did find this meme...

Two comments on this:

1. I can't believe there's some Tigers/NRL fan that actually made this; and
2. To answer the question... yeah, nah.

The match totals for the Top Ten are correct the end of Round 8, 2018.

That time I slept in a park because I was sick and have children

Let me explain.

Comm Games Medal Table, Per Capita

A cursory google reveals a complete absence of statistical attempts to devise weighted medal tables for the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

So I've done it.

I've chosen to go with a weighted medals per capita, like in this Olympic Games analysis, where a gold medal is worth four points, a silver two points, and a bronze one point.

Population metrics are from the United Nations World Population Prospects, the 2017 Revision (via Wikipedia). For Australia I've subtracted the Norfolk Island population, as they are a separate entity for the Games. For the United Kingdom, I've prorated the 2017 population into England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland using earlier splits.

And after all that, the per capita winner is...

Stuff My Kids Say, Part 12

I thought about changing this series of blogs from Stuff My Kids Say, Part 12 to SMKS12.

Like how New Kids On The Block became NKOTB and went onto bigger and better things from there.

As always, these are actual things my actual kids said. They are pictured below. Stories are laid out step by step, it's the right stuff.

R, O and J