AS a change to the norm, here are some of the sporting stories that have caught my eye this week, all of which have a numerical theme. If Carol Vorderman did sports columns...

83... The number of times the Newport Gwent Drag-ons have won a league fixture since the Welsh regions joined the Celtic League.

The Dragons have actually won 43% of their league fixtures since their inception. That’s 83 wins in 190 games. They currently sit with a record of two wins from ten.

So don’t believe the hype that it’s only financial reasons why the Dragons aren’t competitive.

Even if we just judge them by their own standards, they are failing miserably this season, just as they did last.

14... The age of Guan Tianlang, the winner of the Asia Pacific Amateur Golf Championship in Thailand.

Now, that’s some achievement in itself, but Guan’s prize is pretty decent as well. It’s just the small matter of entry into the 2013 US Masters at Augusta.

Eat your heart out Tom Daley.

1,100,000... The prize money, in pounds, for the winner of the ATP World Tour Finals at London’s 02 Arena, where Andy Murray will try to make his year even better.

That’s quite an incentive, but personally speaking I’m backing Murray for a prize he’ll want a whole lot less, but will be discussed a whole lot more, BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

It’s the toughest choice of all time to pick a winner but it should be Murray.

‘Slam’ winner Murray and Bradley Wiggins are for me the two outstanding candidates and Murray takes it by a nose for carrying a sport on his back for a decade.