Warrington Wolves' regular season in numbers with key stats analysed

WHAT happens in the coming weeks will determine how Warrington Wolves’ 2024 campaign will be remembered.

Regardless of what happens in the play-offs, however, The Wire have enjoyed their best Super League regular season in quite some time.

Here is our final wrap-up of Wire’s 27 rounds of league action…

A rare points marker hit

Warrington won 20 of their 27 regular-season games to finish third in the table for the third time in the past five seasons.

Bar Salford Red Devils, by whom they were beaten in both meetings in the league phase, they beat every other Super League side at least once.

They finished on a total of 40 points – a marker they reached for just the sixth time in the Super League era.

The last time they did so was in the League Leaders Shield-winning season of 2016 when they reached 43, which is one shy of their club record of 44 achieved in the 2011 season in which they also finished top of the table.

They totalled 42 points in 2012 and 41 in 2013, finishing second in both seasons, while the 2010 season saw them finish third on 40 points.

Friday's win over London Broncos saw Wire finish the season with 40 points in total for the first time since 2016 (Image: Olly Hassell/SWpix.com)

Leaders on both sides of the ball

Wire finished the regular season having scored more points (740) and conceded fewer (319) than every other Super League club.

On average, they scored just over 27 points per game across the 27 rounds and conceded 11.8 per game.

They did not, however, score the most tries in the competition – that distinction belongs to Hull KR, who touched down 133 times. The Wire follow closely on 126, just ahead of table-toppers Wigan Warriors on 125.

What edges them ahead, then, is their goal-kicking – they finished with the most landed goals in the competition with 114, just ahead of Wigan (111) and comfortably clear of the Robins (93).

Their goal-kicking success rate works out at 81.4 per cent, which is above Wigan and Hull KR but behind the likes of Leeds Rhinos (83 per cent) and Salford Red Devils (89 per cent).

Wire are also top of the pile in several other metrics – they gained more metres (36,171), missed fewer tackles (705) and conceded fewer penalties (198) than any other Super League side.

Despite the latter of those statistics, Warrington are among the competition’s most carded teams having been shown 15 this year (13 yellow, 2 red) to put them behind only Huddersfield, Salford (both 16), Leigh (19) and Hull FC (23).

They come second to Wigan in terms of average gain (6.99m per carry, Wigan 7.04m) and clean breaks (156, Wigan 160) while they have the third-lowest number of errors (253) behind Wigan (251) and Hull KR (247).

Warrington Wolves player stat leaders 2024

TRIES

Matty Ashton leads the way in this one with 21 Super League touchdowns, closely followed by Matt Dufty (17) and Josh Thewlis (12).

Ashton is second in the competition’s try-scoring charts as a whole behind Wigan’s Liam Marshall (27).

Matty Ashton finished the regular season with 21 tries to his name (Image: Olly Hassell/SWpix.com)GOALS

Thewlis leads the way for Warrington with 65 successes and 20 misses, giving a success rate of 76.5 per cent.

Stefan Ratchford has also kicked 39 goals this year with a success rate of just under 87 per cent.

TRY ASSISTS

Dufty and George Williams share top spot in the club charts for assists with 19 each.

Both are in the top 10 for the competition as a whole, with Hull KR’s Mikey Lewis and Leigh’s Lachlan Lam leading the way with 24 apiece.

TACKLES

Ben Currie, who was named as the club’s player of the year on Saturday night, tops the Warrington tackle charts with 705, with Danny Walker (681) and Matty Nicholson (648) close behind.

For the competition as a whole, Leeds Rhinos skipper Cameron Smith leads the way with 992.

Ben Currie topped Warrington's tackle charts for the regular season (Image: Paul Currie/SWpix.com)MARKER TACKLES

Nicholson has been the top tackler out of marker for Wire this year with 145, with Walker (138) very close behind.

Salford Red Devils captain Kallum Watkins (200) tops the Super League list.

MISSED TACKLES

Going in for more tackles also means you miss more, and Walker has the most misses among his Wire teammates with 56, with Nicholson on 53.

Salford’s Oli Partington (103) has the most missed tackles in the competition

TACKLE BUSTS

Dufty has broken through more tackles than any of his teammates with 165, which is second only to Leeds’ Lachlan Miller (206) in the competition as a whole.

Josh Thewlis (115) is also in the Super League top 10 for tackle busts, with Matty Ashton (88) inside the top 20.

ATTACKING KICKS

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Williams leads the way for Warrington with 103 with half-back partner Josh Drinkwater on 67.

Both are in the competition’s top 20 in this metric – Williams is sixth, Drinkwater 15th – but Salford’s Marc Sneyd (224) is far clear at the top.

CARRIES

Dufty again leads the way among the Wire squad for carries of the ball during the regular season – he took it in 458 times, with only Miller (489) and Hull KR winger Ryan Hall (513) recording more.

Williams is in the top 10 with 423 – the second-most for a half-back, one less than Leeds’ Brodie Croft.

METRES

Dufty is peerless in this respect – his 4,234m gained is almost 500 more than any other Super League player. Hall (4,778m) is the next best.

Ashton (2,975) is inside the competition’s top 10 for ground gained with the ball.

Matt Dufty made nearly 500 metres more than any other Super League player (Image: Neil Ashurst/P&B Pictures)AVERAGE GAIN

It’s another one in which Dufty tops the club charts – his carries gained an average of 9.24m each during the regular season.

Wingers Thewlis (8.59) and Ashton (8.57) are very closely matched.

CLEAN BREAKS

Ashton has been the club’s most prolific line-breaker with 31 this year – the second-most in the competition behind Wigan flyer Marshall (36).

Dufty (24) is close behind while Thewlis (18) is just outside the competition’s top 10.

RUNS FROM DUMMY-HALF

No player in Super League has run from dummy-half more than Walker, who has done so 137 times during the regular season – 20 more than the next highest figure, which belongs to Leeds’ Andy Ackers.

Toby King (32) has the next most among Warrington players.

ERRORS

Not a list anybody wants to be top of but among the Wire squad, Thewlis has made the most errors with 28 followed by Dufty (25) and Ashton (23).

Super League’s leading error-maker is Hull FC winger Lewis Martin with 39.

FORTY-TWENTIES

Another feather in the cap for Walker, who is a perhaps surprising competition leader for 40-20s during the regular season having kicked four.

The only other Warrington player to have kicked one in Super League this year is Sam Powell.

OFFLOADS

King is Warrington’s leading offloader having successfully completed 43 during the regular season – the fifth-most in Super League.

Hull FC prop Herman Ese’ese is top of the pile with 61 completed offloads.

PENALTIES CONCEDED

Warrington’s most penalised player during the Super League regular season was Adam Holroyd, with the young back-rower conceding 12. Williams and Paul Vaughan have 11 each.

The competition’s most penalised players are Wigan half-back Harry Smith and Leeds back-rower James McDonnell, who have both conceded 23 each.

YELLOW CARDS

Lachlan Fitzgibbon is the only Warrington player to be sin-binned more than once in Super League this year having been yellow-carded twice.

The competition leader for yellow cards this year is Leigh captain John Asiata, who has been sin-binned four times.

RED CARDS

Vaughan and James Harrison have one red card each having been sent off at Leigh Leopards in Round 24 and St Helens in Round 18 respectively.

Three players – Hull FC’s Ligi Sao, St Helens’ Tommy Makinson and Huddersfield’s Andre Savelio – have been sent off twice.