Evaluating rugby manager decision-making
A rugby manager picks when to substitute each position group: bring on the front-row replacements early, or save them for the closing minutes?
The simulation below is fitted to thousands of real match events and treats every minute of a match as a model that learns the rate at which scoring events happen, minute by minute whose intensity depends on which players are on the pitch and how long they have been there.
Drag the substitution-timing sliders for each position group and watch how the predicted win probability shifts.
The link to this project can be found here.