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by plaid_pants (2019-05-22 19:33:48)
Edited on 2019-05-22 22:46:24

In reply to: Or go without equipment like Rugby *  posted by ND_Navy


But I have just spent two years watching NRL, AFL and Super Rugby all season long, and the number of head injury assessments per game seems higher than what is reported in the NFL.

The linked academic study documents the following:

"In one study of three National Rugby League (NRL) clubs, a concussion incidence rate of 14.8 concussions per 1000 player match hours was reported [13], while a rate of 28.3 concussion per 1000 player match hours were reported from one NRL club over a 15-year (1998–2012) period"

Edit to include: NRL has 13 players from each side on the field for 80 minutes, so one game would equal 35 player match hours, so 1,000 match hours is about 28 games. The stats above indicate a rugby concussion rate of about 0.5 to 1.0 concussions per game. This current rugby season, my guess is that players are taken off the field to be assessed for concussions at a rate of about 3 per game.