SA Footy

OnSong wrote:Someone been hanging out with Denis Eaton again?

OnSong wrote:It's my last day at the Producer today but I'm working on a project to fill the sport pages for the next few weeks. The top 50 players from the APFL from the past decade.

Two main criteria, players must have played at least two seasons in the APFL from that decade, while it is also broken into a loose structure of 18 mids, 12 forwards, 12 defenders, 4 wings and 4 rucks.

I've had seven judges from different clubs (not Angle Vale given they didn't see the more than half the decade) develop their lists and rank them from 1-50. Got two results back so far and this will be fairly interesting. We'll start with 50-45 next week (April 29) I think.

OnSong wrote:It's my last day at the Producer today but I'm working on a project to fill the sport pages for the next few weeks. The top 50 players from the APFL from the past decade.

Two main criteria, players must have played at least two seasons in the APFL from that decade, while it is also broken into a loose structure of 18 mids, 12 forwards, 12 defenders, 4 wings and 4 rucks.

I've had seven judges from different clubs (not Angle Vale given they didn't see the more than half the decade) develop their lists and rank them from 1-50. Got two results back so far and this will be fairly interesting. We'll start with 50-45 next week (April 29) I think.

Mythical Creature wrote:

OnSong wrote:It's my last day at the Producer today but I'm working on a project to fill the sport pages for the next few weeks. The top 50 players from the APFL from the past decade.

Two main criteria, players must have played at least two seasons in the APFL from that decade, while it is also broken into a loose structure of 18 mids, 12 forwards, 12 defenders, 4 wings and 4 rucks.

I've had seven judges from different clubs (not Angle Vale given they didn't see the more than half the decade) develop their lists and rank them from 1-50. Got two results back so far and this will be fairly interesting. We'll start with 50-45 next week (April 29) I think.

Would imagine there would be a massive difference between everyone. Especially after the top dozen or so!

Lightning McQueen wrote:One thing that increses the degree of difficulty was when Hamley had them few years of dominance, there were some very handy players but how do they weigh up against the one club consistent performers?

Swamp Donkey wrote:

Lightning McQueen wrote:One thing that increses the degree of difficulty was when Hamley had them few years of dominance, there were some very handy players but how do they weigh up against the one club consistent performers?

Hamley had one year of dominance - the absolute premiums in that team (Stribling, Dowdell, Duncan) were only there for one season, and so probably dont meet the minimum requirements.

Swamp Donkey wrote:

Lightning McQueen wrote:One thing that increses the degree of difficulty was when Hamley had them few years of dominance, there were some very handy players but how do they weigh up against the one club consistent performers?

Hamley had one year of dominance - the absolute premiums in that team (Stribling, Dowdell, Duncan) were only there for one season, and so probably dont meet the minimum requirements.

Lightning McQueen wrote:

Mythical Creature wrote:

OnSong wrote:It's my last day at the Producer today but I'm working on a project to fill the sport pages for the next few weeks. The top 50 players from the APFL from the past decade.

Two main criteria, players must have played at least two seasons in the APFL from that decade, while it is also broken into a loose structure of 18 mids, 12 forwards, 12 defenders, 4 wings and 4 rucks.

I've had seven judges from different clubs (not Angle Vale given they didn't see the more than half the decade) develop their lists and rank them from 1-50. Got two results back so far and this will be fairly interesting. We'll start with 50-45 next week (April 29) I think.

Would imagine there would be a massive difference between everyone. Especially after the top dozen or so!

Yeah, there's been a fair plethora of ruckmen alone to nail down to 4, and then to place them in an order, and then to merge them into a list of 50 with so many on-ballers etc.

There's probably half a dozen of each genre that pick themselves and the rest you could throw a blanket over and not be incorrect, I might even try one myself.

One thing that increses the degree of difficulty was when Hamley had them few years of dominance, there were some very handy players but how do they weigh up against the one club consistent performers?

mighty hounds wrote:

Lightning McQueen wrote:

Mythical Creature wrote:

OnSong wrote:It's my last day at the Producer today but I'm working on a project to fill the sport pages for the next few weeks. The top 50 players from the APFL from the past decade.

Two main criteria, players must have played at least two seasons in the APFL from that decade, while it is also broken into a loose structure of 18 mids, 12 forwards, 12 defenders, 4 wings and 4 rucks.

I've had seven judges from different clubs (not Angle Vale given they didn't see the more than half the decade) develop their lists and rank them from 1-50. Got two results back so far and this will be fairly interesting. We'll start with 50-45 next week (April 29) I think.

Would imagine there would be a massive difference between everyone. Especially after the top dozen or so!

Yeah, there's been a fair plethora of ruckmen alone to nail down to 4, and then to place them in an order, and then to merge them into a list of 50 with so many on-ballers etc.

There's probably half a dozen of each genre that pick themselves and the rest you could throw a blanket over and not be incorrect, I might even try one myself.

One thing that increses the degree of difficulty was when Hamley had them few years of dominance, there were some very handy players but how do they weigh up against the one club consistent performers?

For Ruckman you’d have to choose Light at 1 then you could throw a blanket over Walker, Feast, Ferrally for the remaining 3

mighty hounds wrote:

Swamp Donkey wrote:

Lightning McQueen wrote:One thing that increses the degree of difficulty was when Hamley had them few years of dominance, there were some very handy players but how do they weigh up against the one club consistent performers?

Hamley had one year of dominance - the absolute premiums in that team (Stribling, Dowdell, Duncan) were only there for one season, and so probably dont meet the minimum requirements.

You’ve been filthy about it ever since as well Swamp.

Swamp Donkey wrote:

mighty hounds wrote:

Swamp Donkey wrote:

Lightning McQueen wrote:One thing that increses the degree of difficulty was when Hamley had them few years of dominance, there were some very handy players but how do they weigh up against the one club consistent performers?

Hamley had one year of dominance - the absolute premiums in that team (Stribling, Dowdell, Duncan) were only there for one season, and so probably dont meet the minimum requirements.

You’ve been filthy about it ever since as well Swamp.

Guilty. We almost got them. They had some guns in that team.

OnSong wrote:I’ve collated 6 of the 7 sets of data and so far, from the squad of 200(?) or so, 80 different players have featured in at least one top 50. But of those numbers, I’d say 15 are outliers and the other 65 have been ranked in at least two top 50s.

Swamp Donkey wrote:

Lightning McQueen wrote:One thing that increses the degree of difficulty was when Hamley had them few years of dominance, there were some very handy players but how do they weigh up against the one club consistent performers?

Hamley had one year of dominance - the absolute premiums in that team (Stribling, Dowdell, Duncan) were only there for one season, and so probably dont meet the minimum requirements.

Liquid Confidence wrote:

Swamp Donkey wrote:

Lightning McQueen wrote:One thing that increses the degree of difficulty was when Hamley had them few years of dominance, there were some very handy players but how do they weigh up against the one club consistent performers?

Hamley had one year of dominance - the absolute premiums in that team (Stribling, Dowdell, Duncan) were only there for one season, and so probably dont meet the minimum requirements.

The Para Hills boys were there for 3-4 years weren't they, play Rep footy every year, gave a lot of players a fair bit of trouble.
And didn't they finish 3rd or 4th the year before the flag when Greeny and Taylor where still there.

Great lads too.

Mythical Creature wrote:

OnSong wrote:I’ve collated 6 of the 7 sets of data and so far, from the squad of 200(?) or so, 80 different players have featured in at least one top 50. But of those numbers, I’d say 15 are outliers and the other 65 have been ranked in at least two top 50s.

That's pretty consistent. YP did a similar thing and they had around 120 different names from their 12? Judges.
Look forward to reading it.