I decided to go digging into some of World Rugby’s stats and started with conversions since they are pretty easy. World Rugby displays the players with the most conversions but they don’t display their conversion success rate. And they only display the leaders, not a complete list.
Below is a complete list along with each player’s success rate through the first day of Paris. The table is sorted by total conversions to keep the most common kickers at the top. If sorted by success rate you’ll get a bunch of players who are kicking 100% on just a few attempts. But feel free to sort the table however you would like.
Eventually I plan to tie the table below to some of my data so we know each conversion’s width. Perhaps Scott Wight benefits from centered tries. Knowing the width will help us evaluate each kicker by the difficulty of the conversions they have attempted. But for now, at least we have the individual success rates.
| Player | Team | Cons | Con Attempts | Con % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Wight | SCO | 83 | 107 | 77.6 % |
| Madison Hughes | USA | 80 | 126 | 63.5 % |
| Tom Mitchell | ENG | 73 | 102 | 71.6 % |
| Osea Kolinisau | FIJ | 72 | 101 | 71.3 % |
| Ethan Davies | WAL | 72 | 100 | 72.0 % |
| Tila Mealoi | SAM | 66 | 101 | 65.3 % |
| James Stannard | AUS | 62 | 103 | 60.2 % |
| Branco Du Preez | RSA | 61 | 96 | 63.5 % |
| Nathan Hirayama | CAN | 59 | 91 | 64.8 % |
| Gaston Revol | ARG | 54 | 83 | 65.1 % |
| Terry Bouhraoua | FRA | 43 | 57 | 75.4 % |
| Katsuyuki Sakai | JPN | 36 | 50 | 72.0 % |
| Rocky Khan | NZL | 33 | 45 | 73.3 % |
| Vatemo Ravouvou | FIJ | 32 | 51 | 62.7 % |
| Beaudein Waaka | NZL | 30 | 46 | 65.2 % |
| Justin Geduld | RSA | 27 | 45 | 60.0 % |
| Samuel Oliech | KEN | 27 | 45 | 60.0 % |
| Eden Agero | KEN | 25 | 37 | 67.6 % |
| Cecil Afrika | RSA | 24 | 39 | 61.5 % |
| Daniel Bibby | ENG | 21 | 34 | 61.8 % |
| Dmitry Sukhin | RUS | 21 | 45 | 46.7 % |
| Vilimoni Koroi | NZL | 19 | 40 | 47.5 % |
| Pat Kay | CAN | 18 | 30 | 60.0 % |
| Stephen Tomasin | USA | 17 | 23 | 73.9 % |
| Tom Lucas | AUS | 16 | 21 | 76.2 % |
| Lugonzo Augustine Ligamy | KEN | 16 | 25 | 64.0 % |
| Javier Rojas | ARG | 16 | 25 | 64.0 % |
| Jean Pascal Barraque | FRA | 15 | 22 | 68.2 % |
| Leon Ellison | JPN | 12 | 16 | 75.0 % |
| Philip Wokorach | UGA | 11 | 19 | 57.9 % |
| Stephen Parez | FRA | 10 | 14 | 71.4 % |
| Gavin Lowe | SCO | 10 | 16 | 62.5 % |
| Jeremy Aicardi | FRA | 9 | 13 | 69.2 % |
| Isaac Te Tamaki | NZL | 9 | 12 | 75.0 % |
| Kitione Taliga | FIJ | 8 | 10 | 80.0 % |
| Brian Tanga | KEN | 8 | 14 | 57.1 % |
| Amenoni Nasilasila | FIJ | 7 | 11 | 63.6 % |
| Waisea Nacuqu | FIJ | 7 | 11 | 63.6 % |
| Billy McBryde | WAL | 7 | 9 | 77.8 % |
| Marcelo Torrealba | CHL | 6 | 12 | 50.0 % |
| Alivereti Veitokani | FIJ | 6 | 10 | 60.0 % |
| Will Edwards | ENG | 5 | 5 | 100.0 % |
| Arthur Clement | PNG | 5 | 8 | 62.5 % |
| Luke Treharne | WAL | 5 | 8 | 62.5 % |
| Kosuke Hashino | JPN | 5 | 7 | 71.4 % |
| German Davydov | RUS | 4 | 10 | 40.0 % |
| Sam Caslick | AUS | 4 | 6 | 66.7 % |
| Joaquin Riera | ARG | 4 | 8 | 50.0 % |
| Folau Niua | USA | 4 | 10 | 40.0 % |
| Jamie Hood | HKG | 4 | 8 | 50.0 % |
| Mike Fuailefau | CAN | 3 | 5 | 60.0 % |
| Dmitry Perov | RUS | 3 | 10 | 30.0 % |
| Alatasi Tupou | SAM | 3 | 5 | 60.0 % |
| Kevin Kermundu | UGA | 3 | 3 | 100.0 % |
| Domingo Miotti | ARG | 3 | 5 | 60.0 % |
| Emmanuel Guise | PNG | 2 | 3 | 66.7 % |
| Gregor Hunter | SCO | 2 | 3 | 66.7 % |
| Rosko Specman | RSA | 2 | 2 | 100.0 % |
| Han Gumin | KOR | 2 | 2 | 100.0 % |
| Jonathan Ruru | NZL | 2 | 5 | 40.0 % |
| Julien Candelon | FRA | 2 | 2 | 100.0 % |
| John Porch | AUS | 2 | 3 | 66.7 % |
| Fernando Luna | ARG | 2 | 3 | 66.7 % |
| Morgan Williams | WAL | 1 | 3 | 33.3 % |
| Tate McDermott | AUS | 1 | 2 | 50.0 % |
| Tim Mikkelson | NZL | 1 | 3 | 33.3 % |
| Mikhail Kudinov | RUS | 1 | 1 | 100.0 % |
| Jamie Henry | JPN | 1 | 1 | 100.0 % |
| Selvyn Davids | RSA | 1 | 1 | 100.0 % |
| Vladimir Ostroushko | RUS | 1 | 2 | 50.0 % |
| Emosi Mulevoro | FIJ | 1 | 1 | 100.0 % |
| Lautaro Bazan Velez | ARG | 1 | 5 | 20.0 % |
| Andrew Durutalo | USA | 1 | 1 | 100.0 % |
| Vincent Inigo | FRA | 1 | 2 | 50.0 % |
| Yury Gostyuzhev | RUS | 1 | 3 | 33.3 % |
| Ilya Babaev | RUS | 1 | 1 | 100.0 % |
| George Horne | SCO | 1 | 1 | 100.0 % |
| James Johnstone | SCO | 1 | 1 | 100.0 % |
| Nick McLennan | SCO | 1 | 1 | 100.0 % |
| Lloyd Evans | WAL | 1 | 2 | 50.0 % |
| Blair Kinghorn | SCO | 1 | 2 | 50.0 % |
| Josua Vici | FIJ | 1 | 1 | 100.0 % |
| Tomasi Alosio | SAM | 1 | 1 | 100.0 % |
| Ruhan Nel | RSA | 1 | 3 | 33.3 % |
| Patrick Stehlin | JPN | 1 | 1 | 100.0 % |
| Laaloi Leilual | SAM | 1 | 1 | 100.0 % |