Anders,
Specialising may be a good idea - have you put together an NRL stats deal?
What I would like to see is (and maybe a good halfway point newspaper article that maybe is a good focusing punting one) is a good analysis - bit late for Super 12 of each team,and the importance of the players, strengths and weaknesses etc., you never see rugby league journalism like that that I can recall, then again, live in Melbourne, so we don't see it much at all, but on the web even
So you can combine some punting research with some stuff for the paper if you get your editor to buy it
I would also be interested in what you think is the relative importance of each position in a rugby league team, all other things being equal?
I wrote something once equating stuff to American terms for the foreigners, but don't think you need that for us, but it might enlighten the septics and others, anyway.
Same thing for rugby union of course would also be useful, as some of it may be instinct to you - or even to me occasionally in a rugby test at least, but putting it down in electrons would be handy.
Pity public access to statistics is so shitty for us, or would make it quite a bit easier. Lots of the important stuff not presented at all now, which is a shame.