Waterford will be savouring Allianz Hurling League glory for the first time since 2007 after beating Cork on Sunday.

But thoughts will turn to the Championship soon enough where they face the same opposition in five weeks time.

But how do league winners normally fare when it comes to the summer.

The graph below suggests that if you're not a league winner called Kilkenny, you can forget about winning the Liam McCarthy Cup in the same year.

But encouragingly, league winners do reach semi-finals on a semi-regular basis: