CSR evolution: National Teams

 Well, why should not I? Three months after I started blogging and only three posts.

Why not doing something cool, visually appealing and completely and utterly useless? Therefore I used the Blackout Rugby API to get the average CSR of the last international games for some countries... And then I plotted it :)

So before you see the data, some explanation:

1. Horizontal line is games. It is slightly difficult to get the season and round for international fixtures, so you should accept it with games (about 25/30 games per season). Average CSR in games dates back from season 23 so the games span about 6 or 7 seasons.
2. Vertical line is CSR average on a matchday
3. The shaded line is actually the matchday CSR, the solid line is just the moving average (what is moving average?)
4. For the first plot I chose NZ (team id = 1) PI (team id=2) and AU (team id=3) 
5. Yes, I can plot your country's data, just perhaps not in the same graph.

Plotting more than three countries is difficult unless you plot only the Moving Average. For the moment, I'll do a different plot for SA, AR and CI.

 And now, some conclusions:

• New Zealand and South Africa are steadily improving. So are Ivory Coast and PI.
• Argentina used to be the top team but are on decline.
• Australia are struggling to improve.
• Attending to CSR evolution only, the teams to look at in the future in EE.1 are Pacific Islanders and Ivory Coast.

Addendum:  As a special request by a reader, I have added the same data for some u20 teams.

Addendum 2: To fulfill another request