THE NRL will send clubs an extensive 75-page Injury Surveillance Report that will reveal their rankings in relation to injuries at their club.

Clubs will know how they are faring by being issued an injury ladder ranking but they will not be told who they are beating.

The report was compiled with the help of Sydney University professor Dr Donna O’Connor.

“We’re talking 75 pages of data that goes to clubs and gives them benchmark information across every injury across the game,”NRL Head of Football, Todd Greenberg, told NRL.com.

media_camera Kyle Turner injured during the Indigenous All Stars V NRL All Stars game at Cbus Stadium, Robina. Pics Adam Head

“It goes right down to the specifics of ankle and ligament sprains, right through to concussion, and it gives them metrics that they can actually quantify to their own staff for. It’s a highly impressive document and something that’s very important for the future of the game.”

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Detailed data also has been collected on the new concussion laws that were introduced last season and Greenberg suggested the information could lead to changes to interchange rules as soon at 2016.

“This [report] certainly allows us to look at workload. It certainly allows us to look at player recovery times, and allows us to shape that across the game for the trends of the game, not just individual clubs,” he said.

“So whilst individual clubs will be very interested to see their metrics as opposed to their counterparts, it allows us to have a look at trends inside the game.

“Ultimately that information will help us shape key decisions. Interchange is one of those things that we’ll look at, as are other things.

“This year for the first time in the game’s history, we’ve got a sideline concussion assessment policy. We know exactly how many players came off the field last year and were assessed under that policy. We know exactly the number of players that went back on, and we know the exact data about that in relation to SCAT tests.

“We know that for every player in the NRL and equally, we know that for every player in the NYC competition. That’s fundamentally important and people need to know that that’s the level of application going on behind the scenes in order to make sure we shape player safety to where it should be.”

Greenberg also said sides that have an established high-performance department did better in the report.

“This has been anecdotal for a long period of time, but the data certainly says to you that when a club has a good year of injury run, and they’ve had their best players on the field, it also equally applies to their performance at the end of the year on the ladder and in the finals,” he said.

media_camera Adam Reynolds is injured during a game against the Cowboys. pic Mark Evans

“What that means is that clubs are very sophisticated now in both their pre-hab and their rehab. They’re spending a lot of money and looking for a return on investment of how they get their players back onto the field, how they keep them on the field over the course of a year, and when they rest them.

“This report helps them assess that. It helps them look at information factually and it helps them make key decisions on both recruitment and retention.”

The findings will be kept confidential to protect the interests of each team.

Originally published as NRL to issue clubs with injury ranking