6. Rangi Chase

engage Super League Round 1

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rugbyleague.com brings you the Opta Sportsdata engage Super League Player Ratings and Team of the Week

Every week Rugby League stats experts at Opta Sportsdata use specialist video technology and software to analyse the performance of every player, in every team, in every round of engage Super League.

Players are measured across a series of key performance and skill categories which are regarded as the most accurate method of evaluating how well an individual has played in any one game.

In simple terms, players are awarded points for good play and loose points for bad play.

Scoring tries generates the most points and points are also awarded for the 'importance' or 'significance' of plays in the overall context of the 80-minutes. For example, good play early in the game is better rewarded than play that happens later in the match when fatigue may be a factor.

The rating system is also weighted according to the score in the game at the time the plays are made. The example here would be scoring try when your team is winning 50-nil is not as well rewarded as scoring a try when it is nil-nil.