The Rugby League Record Keepers’ Club (RKC) has released a comprehensive record of the British game covering the entire summer era.
Vikings Club Statistician Mike Healing is a member of the club, and is responsible for entering all records from Widnes games.
The release coincides with the second anniversary of the RKC’s re-launch. During the past two years the work of the original RKC, which operated between 1972-1994 has been built on, brought up-to-date, and modernised for sharing in the digital era.
Led by Neil Ormston, leading statisticians and historians from across the UK and beyond have been compiling, cross-referencing and checking the team line-ups and scorers from all tiers and competitions of the professional game since 1996. Building on records primarily provided by Chris Heinitz, a comprehensive database has been built by Martin McDonough, and Chris Lines has designed the website to showcase the stats.
Experts from pro-clubs throughout the UK and France, together with volunteers from across the sport have verified the details and investigated discrepancies, leading to not just the first comprehensive picture of the British game to be made available online, but also one which will be the benchmark as an accurate, reliable source of information.
Over 16,000 matches, and 8,000 players are covered in the initial release. The international records included are the first to be aligned to International Rugby League’s (IRL) officially recognised international matches; earlier this year a partnership between IRL and the RKC was announced which saw the RKC become the official statistics provider to IRL.
For further updates, visit www.rugbyleaguerecords.com, or the club’s Facebook page (search Rugby League Record Keepers’ Club) or Twitter account (@RL_RKC).
