Matt Burton’s soaring bombs have long terrorised NRL defences.Credit:NRL Photos
For rugby league fans,it is the equivalent of 16 two-metre tall Nelson Asofa-Solomonas,plus one 168cm Geoff Toovey tacked on top of each other.
Tom Stindl,a lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at UNSW,and sports data science lead at the university’s Data Science Hub,or uDASH,and Scott Sisson,a uDASH director and Professor of Statistics and Data Science,studied the video footage of the 40th-minute kick.