AFL Statistics

[Wedgie]

Home free kick differential against travelling sides since 2007:

Games Difference
West Coast 115 +602
Port Adelaide 112 +295
Geelong 82 +211
Adelaide 113 +187
Fremantle 114 +157
Brisbane 115 +64
Sydney 122 +42
GWS 59 +28
Gold Coast 66 +16

What is that as a percentage of free kicks given?

Ie if it's 1% or something then it hardly matters. (It's going to be more than that though)

Dunno mate but I've always had an issue with West Coast at home, it's so glaringly obvious and those stats are massive and back up what I'm saying. I assume those stats are solely with teams who have a distinct home advantage and don't include Geelongs home games in Melbourne hence the game differintial.

[bennymacca]

would be interesting to know whether its 1%, 5% or 20% more - and also needs to be normalised against their general free kick stats - i.e west coast might get more than their fair share away too

the west coast one at least is likely to be an outlier anyway but it would be interesting to see what the crows or freos ones are like for instance

[Trader]

If you assume 35 free kicks per game, then over 115 games, +602 leads to a 2313:1711 count. Or 57.48%:42.52%
That's starting to get fairly high.

Port 53.76%
Geelong 53.68%
Crows 52.36%

[bennymacca]

This is for west coast. (Trader's assumption wasnt far off)

for west coast, it Makes a huge difference.

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For teams other than west coast though, it is maybe a couple of percent

[saintal]

Interesting comparing last year’s ladder to this year’s.

Adelaide and WCE finished on 64 points last year, good for 5th and 6th respectively. This year 62 points was enough for Adelaide to claim top spot.

[MW]

Interesting comparing last year’s ladder to this year’s.

Adelaide and WCE finished on 64 points last year, good for 5th and 6th respectively. This year 62 points was enough for Adelaide to claim top spot.

Not related, but I found this interesting also... rd 23 2016 WCE beat ADEL 100-71. 2017, exact same 100-71 loss

[Wedgie]

Clubs Ranked By 2017 Debutants

North Melbourne 11
Geelong 8
Carlton 7
Fremantle 7
Brisbane Lions 6
Gold Coast 6
Port Adelaide 6
Sydney 6
Richmond 5
GWS 5
Hawthorn 5
Melbourne 4
Adelaide 4
Collingwood 3
Essendon 3
St Kilda 3
Western Bulldogs 3
West Coast 2

[Booney]

Clubs Ranked By 2017 Debutants

North Melbourne 11
Geelong 8
Carlton 7
Fremantle 7
Brisbane Lions 6
Gold Coast 6
Port Adelaide 6
Sydney 6
Richmond 5
GWS 5
Hawthorn 5
Melbourne 4
Adelaide 4
Collingwood 3
Essendon 3
St Kilda 3
Western Bulldogs 3
West Coast 2

Looks good for Geelong, Port, Sydney, Richmond and GWS that they can blood so many youngsters and still make it into the finals race.

I'll come back in later in the week and post how many of them will be playing this weekend.

[MatteeG]

My son met Tom Mitchell at an open training at Waverley a couple of weeks back and his first words to him was "I love your stats"

[bennymacca]

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Looked up Rocky’s stats for Bedge and the thing that struck me was how many current players were up there - the game is obviously a lot more about possession than it ever has been.

Makes the feats of someone like Greg Williams even more special.

[Booney]

Looked up Rocky’s stats for Bedge and the thing that struck me was how many current players were up there - the game is obviously a lot more about possession than it ever has been.

Makes the feats of someone like Greg Williams even more special.

Yes and no. Williams was never rested on the bench with rotations, no resting in the forward pocket, he would have spent every bit of 100% game time on the ball, Williams was THE only in and under player in most sides he played in, far more defined roles in that era and that's reflected with the goal kickers of that era, Lockett, Dunstall, Ablett etc.

[Lightning McQueen]

Looked up Rocky’s stats for Bedge and the thing that struck me was how many current players were up there - the game is obviously a lot more about possession than it ever has been.

Makes the feats of someone like Greg Williams even more special.

Yes and no. Williams was never rested on the bench with rotations, no resting in the forward pocket, he would have spent every bit of 100% game time on the ball, Williams was THE only in and under player in most sides he played in, far more defined roles in that era and that's reflected with the goal kickers of that era, Lockett, Dunstall, Ablett etc.

25 minute plus time on quarters too.

[beef]

Looked up Rocky’s stats for Bedge and the thing that struck me was how many current players were up there - the game is obviously a lot more about possession than it ever has been.

Makes the feats of someone like Greg Williams even more special.

Yes and no. Williams was never rested on the bench with rotations, no resting in the forward pocket, he would have spent every bit of 100% game time on the ball, Williams was THE only in and under player in most sides he played in, far more defined roles in that era and that's reflected with the goal kickers of that era, Lockett, Dunstall, Ablett etc.

Fair effort to kick 5 goals in 95 GF without resting forward. Think you'll find he "rested" forward regularly it just wasnt talked about so much. Abletts 1000 goals when first few years of his career on a wing is the best stat. His goal per game ratio would be number 1 easily if based on when he just played full forward.

[Rik E Boy]

Looked up Rocky’s stats for Bedge and the thing that struck me was how many current players were up there - the game is obviously a lot more about possession than it ever has been.

Makes the feats of someone like Greg Williams even more special.

Yes and no. Williams was never rested on the bench with rotations, no resting in the forward pocket, he would have spent every bit of 100% game time on the ball, Williams was THE only in and under player in most sides he played in, far more defined roles in that era and that's reflected with the goal kickers of that era, Lockett, Dunstall, Ablett etc.

Fair effort to kick 5 goals in 95 GF without resting forward. Think you'll find he "rested" forward regularly it just wasnt talked about so much. Abletts 1000 goals when first few years of his career on a wing is the best stat. His goal per game ratio would be number 1 easily if based on when he just played full forward.

Should have kicked ten. We were shithouse that day. Worst day as a Cats fan ever.

regards,

REB

[Booney]

Looked up Rocky’s stats for Bedge and the thing that struck me was how many current players were up there - the game is obviously a lot more about possession than it ever has been.

Makes the feats of someone like Greg Williams even more special.

Yes and no. Williams was never rested on the bench with rotations, no resting in the forward pocket, he would have spent every bit of 100% game time on the ball, Williams was THE only in and under player in most sides he played in, far more defined roles in that era and that's reflected with the goal kickers of that era, Lockett, Dunstall, Ablett etc.

Fair effort to kick 5 goals in 95 GF without resting forward. Think you'll find he "rested" forward regularly it just wasnt talked about so much. Abletts 1000 goals when first few years of his career on a wing is the best stat. His goal per game ratio would be number 1 easily if based on when he just played full forward.

Sorry, I meant to say "sometimes resting in the forward pocket", bloody stock take limiting my posting time!

[Spargo]

Looked up Rocky’s stats for Bedge and the thing that struck me was how many current players were up there - the game is obviously a lot more about possession than it ever has been.

Makes the feats of someone like Greg Williams even more special.

Yes and no. Williams was never rested on the bench with rotations, no resting in the forward pocket, he would have spent every bit of 100% game time on the ball, Williams was THE only in and under player in most sides he played in, far more defined roles in that era and that's reflected with the goal kickers of that era, Lockett, Dunstall, Ablett etc.

Fair effort to kick 5 goals in 95 GF without resting forward. Think you'll find he "rested" forward regularly it just wasnt talked about so much. Abletts 1000 goals when first few years of his career on a wing is the best stat. His goal per game ratio would be number 1 easily if based on when he just played full forward.

Should have kicked ten. We were shithouse that day. Worst day as a Cats fan ever.

regards,

REB

Worst day ever? No one gave you a real chance in ‘95, Carlton were that dominant. I would’ve thought ‘92 or ‘94 would’ve been worse - or even the ‘06 Prelim?

[beef]

My memory was there was a lot of delusional Geelong fans in 95 thinking they could win. 92 was the one that they could've won. Hawthorn 89 / WCE 94 / Carlton 95 were all clear favourites in my opinion

[MW]

Looked up Rocky’s stats for Bedge and the thing that struck me was how many current players were up there - the game is obviously a lot more about possession than it ever has been.

Makes the feats of someone like Greg Williams even more special.

Yes and no. Williams was never rested on the bench with rotations, no resting in the forward pocket, he would have spent every bit of 100% game time on the ball, Williams was THE only in and under player in most sides he played in, far more defined roles in that era and that's reflected with the goal kickers of that era, Lockett, Dunstall, Ablett etc.

Fair effort to kick 5 goals in 95 GF without resting forward. Think you'll find he "rested" forward regularly it just wasnt talked about so much. Abletts 1000 goals when first few years of his career on a wing is the best stat. His goal per game ratio would be number 1 easily if based on when he just played full forward.

Should have kicked ten. We were shithouse that day. Worst day as a Cats fan ever.

regards,

REB

There's a few to pick from!

[daysofourlives]

Beat me to it MW, surely 08 sits at the top, $1.20 fav lost one game all year

[Corona Man]

Beat me to it MW, surely 08 sits at the top, $1.20 fav lost one game all year

A very enjoyable day 2008. Absolutely stole that one, still makes my giggle.