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✍️ Round 3 Results
England 21 - 42 Ireland
⭐️ POTM: Jamison Gibson-Park (63pts)
👍 Other top performers: Dan Sheehan (43pts), Rob Baloucoune & Jack Crowley (41pts).
Wales 23 - 26 Scotland
⭐️ POTM: Rory Darge (45pts)
👍 Other top performers: Kyle Steyn & Alex Mann (36pts), Finn Russell (35pts).
France 33 - 8 Italy
⭐️ POTM: Emmanuel Meafou (61pts)
👍 Other top performers: Thomas Ramos (56pts), Émilien Gailleton (45pts), Antoine Dupont (41pts).
How the table looks after Round 3:
🍀 Rob Baloucoune surges in price after two stellar performances.
🏴 Rhys Carre has risen 2.8★ after scoring a try in back-to-back rounds.
🍀 Stuart McCloskey, the in-form centre of the tournament, is now priced at 12.7★.
🇫🇷 Mathieu Jalibert’s fell 0.2★ after pulling out of Round 3 with an injury.
🏴 Duhan van der Merwe, Blair Kinghorn and Tom Jordan are on the top fallers list.
💡 Visit the Oval Office’s stats page to see all the points, price changes, and predicted points for the next round.
💯 The theoretical maximum points total was 750 points.
©️ Jamison Gibson-Park was the best Captain pick: 63 → 126pts.
🚀 James Botham was the best Super Sub: 27 → 81pts after playing 70 minutes.
🏉 The Oval Office’s Round 3 Team
The Good
©️ Thomas Ramos was the best captain pick from the personnel in our team, after our initial pick Mathieu Jalibert was ruled out through injury.
✅ Henry Pollock over Ben Earl was the right choice.
The Bad
🇮🇹 Forced change Paolo Garbisi didn’t score highly, benefitting everyone that had Russell or Crowley. It also meant we only had 3 French players.
🏴 Blair Kinghorn didn't haul as expected — Rob Baloucoune or Kyle Steyn would have been better picks.
🇮🇪 Stuart McCloksey would have been a far better pick than Huw Jones. Removing Dan Sheehan made us pay the price for removing him after 2 rounds.
😬 We only had 3/15 players in the R2 dream team.
How did we perform vs The Oval Office’s computer picks?
💻 The computer scored 415 vs an xP of 476.8 points.
Here's how the picks performed:
Player | Expected Points (xP) | Actual Points |
|---|---|---|
🇫🇷 Louis Bielle-Biarrey | 36.2 | 27 |
🏴 Blair Kinghorn | 35.5 | 19 |
🏴 Duhan Van Der Merwe | 30.9 | 5 |
🇫🇷 Fabien Brau-Boirie © | 42.2 → 84.4 | 22 → 44 |
🍀 Stuart McCloskey | 21.6 | 35 |
🇮🇹 Paolo Garbisi* | 15.3 | 15 |
🇫🇷 Antoine Dupont | 32.5 | 41 |
🏴 Henry Pollock | 32.5 | 26 |
🏴 Rory Darge | 31.6 | 45 |
🇮🇹 Manuel Zuliani | 29.2 | 18 |
🇮🇹 Andrea Zambonin | 18.2 | 5 |
🍀 Tadhg Beirne | 18.1 | 35 |
🏴 Rhys Carre | 18.8 | 29 |
🏴 Dewi Lake | 20.2 | 19 |
🇮🇹 Simone Ferrari | 14.9 | 4 |
🍀 Nick Timoney 🚀 | 12.3 → 36.9 | 16 → 48 |
✅ Our team scored 460 points (with an xP of 457.6*).
*Both teams with the enforced change of Jalibert to Garbisi.
👏 Congratulations to Conor, GeorgeFRG & The Controller, who lead the way in the Oval Office league after the Round 3.
Until next week, when we’ll send you our Round 4 preview before Ireland v Wales on Friday night!