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Should bonus points be included in the Six Nations Championship?

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  • Niven Winchester

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We construct strength measures based on wins and potential bonuses and use a prediction model to determine bonuses that are significantly correlated with team strength. The results reveal that the bonus for losing by seven or fewer points is strongly statistically significant, bonuses for scoring three or more net tries are moderately significant and bonuses for scoring four or more tries are insignificant. These findings indicate that if bonuses are included to reward strong teams, the Six Nations Championship should adopt the bonus system used in French domestic competitions rather than that used in the Rugby World Cup and elsewhere.

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  • Niven Winchester, 2014. "Should bonus points be included in the Six Nations Championship?," New Zealand Economic Papers, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 48(1), pages 96-101, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:nzecpp:v:48:y:2014:i:1:p:96-101
    DOI: 10.1080/00779954.2013.819776
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    1. Federico Fioravanti & Fernando Tohmé & Fernando Delbianco & Alejandro Neme, 2021. "Effort of rugby teams according to the bonus point system: a theoretical and empirical analysis," International Journal of Game Theory, Springer;Game Theory Society, vol. 50(2), pages 447-474, June.
    2. Vincent (Vincent Peter) Hogan & Patrick Massey, 2020. "Professional Rugby on the Celtic Fringe," Working Papers 202003, School of Economics, University College Dublin.
    3. Avila-Cano, Antonio & Owen, P. Dorian & Triguero-Ruiz, Francisco, 2023. "Measuring competitive balance in sports leagues that award bonus points, with an application to rugby union," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 309(2), pages 939-952.

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