Lucky numbers - just the stats

Micheal Luck’s 12-season slog in the NRL will end around 5.45pm on Sunday marked by a plethora of statistical achievements which will go only part of the way to measuring his impact.

The numbers will show the sheer quantity of his workload without being able to gauge the depth of the physical output and toll involved in his grand total of 226 games, let alone the scale of the work he has done across countless weeks of preseason and in-season training.

There are statistics galore which analyse his game-by-game and season-by-season numbers for everything from minutes played to runs, metres gained, tackles attempted, tackles made and missed, the types of tackles, the speed of his play the balls, receives, off loads, passes made and so much more.

The key markers for his 225 games so far show:

• He has been on the field for 13,622 minutes, or more than 227 hours since his debut in 2001, an average of more than 60 minutes a game
• He needs only 52 minutes on Sunday to take his total playing time for the Vodafone Warriors to 10,000 minutes in seven seasons (he averages almost 67 minutes a game for the club)
• While he’s renowned as a tackling machine, he has carried the ball almost 1800 times and made more than 12,500 metres
• He has made more than 7000 tackles, an average of 590 a season or 31 tackles a game (for the Vodafone Warriors he has made almost 5600 tackles, an average of 799 a season, 37.5 a game)
• Twice he has topped 1000 tackles in a season for the Vodafone Warriors (2009 and 2001) while he made more than 900 in both 2007 and 2008
• In 120 games across the 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 seasons he made 20 or more tackles every time, 30 plus in all but seven and 50 plus 15 times including an NRL record 78 against Melbourne in 2009
• He has missed a total of only 350 tackles, an average of just 29 a season, 1.55 a game
• And he has made only 66 errors in total, less than six a season

They’re not the details he personally cares about but they still speak volumes for the value he has provided ever since he joined the Vodafone Warriors.

His final outing is fittingly his 150th game for the club, the eighth player to reach the mark and the third this year after Simon Mannering and Manu Vatuvei – but the first Australian to achieve the milestone (only two others Nathan Fien and Brent Webb have played 100 times for the Vodafone Warriors).

No other Australian has had a longer playing career than Luck’s seven seasons although Ivan Cleary had a 10-year association with the Vodafone Warriors – three as a player from 2000-2002, one as assistant coach in 2005 and six as head coach from 2005-2011.

LUCKY NUMBERS

Year Games Minutes Tries Runs Metres Tackles Missed Errors

COWBOYS
2001 16 764 2 132 1123 285 23 3
2002 18 948 0 160 1046 427 33 8
2003 22 1172 1 234 1640 444 29 10
2004 11 479 1 81 515 190 18 4
2005 9 311 1 64 487 146 15 2
Totals 76 3674 5 671 4811 1492 118 27
Avge/game - 48.3 - 8.82 63.30 19.63 1.55 0.35
Avge/season 15.2 735 1 134 962 298 24 5.40

VODAFONE WARRIORS
2006 24 1058 1 210 1532 575 28 4
2007 26 1709 1 244 1710 961 34 9
2008 25 1841 3 167 1084 978 47 5
2009 23 1825 1 193 1287 1092 44 10
2010 20 1503 0 134 936 841 33 3
2011 26 1811 1 150 1076 1037 38 6
2012 5 201 0 14 117 106 8 2
Totals 149 9948 7 1112 7742 5590 232 39
Avge/game - 66.76 - 7.46 51.95 37.51 1.55 0.26
Avge/season 21.2 1421 1 159 1106 799 33 5.60

CAREER 225 13,622 12 1783 12,553 7082 350 66
Avge/game - 60.50 - 7.92 55.79 31.47 1.55 0.29
Avge/season 18.75 1135 1 149 1046 590 29 5.50

• Statistics from NRL Stats

VODAFONE WARRIORS – AUSTRALIAN PLAYERS

Most Appearances

149 Micheal Luck 2006-2012
105 Nathan Fien 2005-2009
101 Brent Webb 2002-2006
96 Richard Villasanti 2001-2006
91 Steve Price 2005-2009
77 Jacob Lillyman 2009-2012
74 James Maloney 2010-2012
68 Grant Rovelli 2006-2008
67 Mark Tookey 2000-2004
65 Ian Henderson 2008-2010

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