Playing the pressure game

I took my standard dataset - All matches played between top team since 2019. Then I created a set of forced errors (i.e. things that a team will start doing worse if they are under pressure)

• Ruck %

• Maul %

• Scrum %

• Lineout %

• Turnovers Conceded

• Free Kicks Conceded

• Penalties conceded

• Tackle %

• Red Cards

• Yellow Cards

I looked at all the games a team played, for example South Africa. Then I looked at the forced error stats for the team South Africa was playing in each game (let's say Ireland). I compared Ireland Stats for all games against their stats against South Africa to see if they were making more or less errors. I repeated this process for all games that South Africa played to see if South Africa makes teams make mistakes - it turns out they do!

I did not have sufficient data for Chile and Namibia so I left them out

Playing the pressure game - Which team causes their opponents to make the most errors. How it was done in comments
by u/sweeney_khs in rugbyunion