Rankings from our 79-year history

[X_box_X]

Top 10

1) 1998 – The Bulldogs spent 15 weeks heading the top of the table, with seven weeks in second position. For the whole of the home and away season, the Bulldogs never fell out of the top 2. We started the season very impressively with a 10-2 record. (16-8) 115%.

2) 1953 – Finished the Home and away season with a 13-5 record, with our best ever percentage of 136.5. This year was our first ever finals win, and we could’ve easily been worthy flag winners. (14-6) 131%.

3) 1992 – Finished the home and away season with a 16-6 record, and had a percentage just under 130 for the home and away season. However, two bad losses in the finals saw this year fall in 3rd. (17-8) 120%.

4) 1985 – Finished the home and away season with a 16-6 record, and had a percentage of 121 at the conclusion of the regular season. Never in the mix to challenge Essendon, but we still received individual awards for the Coleman and Brownlow Medal. (17-8) 115%.

5) 1938 – Finished the home and away season with a 13-5 record, and had a percentage of 125. We were four points away from the minor premiership. (13-6) 120%.

6) 1999 – Finished the home and away season with a 15-6-1 record. The flag could’ve gone to any team in the top 4 that year, as it was even between the awesome foursome. We only lost 2 of our last 15 games for the season, which were both by less than a kick. We could’ve easily finished on top that season. (15-8-1) 114%.

7) 1954 – In our premiership season we finished the home and away season in 2nd place, with a rather poor record of 11-6-1. We had a healthy percentage of 130, which is a rather good percentage for that home and away record. Two comfortable finals victories didn’t affect this ranking either. (13-6-1) 133%.

8)1955 – Amazingly, this season the Bulldogs never made the finals, but managed to end the home and away season with a better record than in our premiership season of 1954. Our highest ranking for a non-finals year. (12-6) 131%.


9) 1942 – Due to the war, the Bulldogs had two byes this year. However, we still managed a strong 10-4 record, with a healthy percentage of 126. Bad kicking in the semi final blew our chances of a premiership. (10-5) 126%.

10) 1946 – Our best ever start to a year. We opened with a 9-0 record, but a bad finish to the year really cost us a top two-spot and a higher ranking. We only managed four wins from our last 11 games (including one final) (13-7) 116%.

[Captain Sensible]

Havent you done this before Xsie?

[X_box_X]

11-69

11) 1931 – (12-6) 110%.
12) 1951 – (12-6) 113%.
13) 1944 – (12-5-1) 107%.
14) 1961 – (11-7) 110%.
15) 1997 – (13-9) 103%.
16) 1956 – (11-7) 114%.
17) 1994 – (13-9) 111%.
18) 1974 – (13-8-1) 109%.
19) 1962 – (11-7) 109%.
20) 1945 – (12-8) 109%.
21) 1948 – (12-7) 103%.
22) 1941 – (10-8) 111%.
23) 2000 – (12-10) 104%.
24) 1933 – (11-7) 98%.
25) 1940 – (9-9) 109%.
26) 1988 – (11-11) 104%.
27) 1928 – (9-9) 109%.
28) 1990 – (12-10) 99%.
29) 2002 – (9-12-1) 104%.
30) 1976 – (11-10-1) 97%.
31) 1957 – (9-8-1) 99%.
32) 1932 – (9-9) 104%.
33) 1977 – (10-11-1) 101%.
34) 1995 – (11-10-1) 92%.
35) 1993 – (11-9) 99%.
36) 1987 – (11-10-1) 96%.
37) 1986 – (11-11) 98%.
38) 1975 – (11-11) 95%.
39) 1984 – (11-11) 94%.
40) 1970 – (11-11) 91%.
41) 1971 – (11-11) 89%.
42) 1972 – (11-11) 95%.
43) 2001 – (10-12) 94%.
44) 1947 – (8-10-1) 96%.
45) 1964 – (9-9) 88%.
46) 1943 – (7-8) 94%.
47) 1983 – (10-12) 87%.
48) 1991 – (9-12-1) 88%.
49) 1963 – (7-11) 88%.
50) 1958 – (6-12) 97%.
51) 1929 – (6-11-1) 87%.
52) 1960 – (6-12) 90%.
53) 1949 – ((7-12) 84%.
54) 1927 – (6-12) 85%.
55) 1934 – (6-12) 85%.
56) 1973 – (7-14-1) 88%.
57) 1978 – (7-15) 91%.
58) 1950 – (5-13) 92%.
59) 1969 – (6-14) 86%.
60) 1936 – (5-13) 87%.
61) 1989 – (6-15-1) 87%.
62) 1979 – (7-14-1) 82%.
63) 1925 – (4-13) 83%.
64) 1968 – (5-15) 83%.
65) 1952 – (5-14) 77%.
66) 1937 – (4-14) 82%.
67) 1939 – (4-14) 83%.
68) 1996 – (5-16-1) 77%.
69) 1965 – (4-14) – 77%.

[OldSchool]

Xie,

Whats going on ?

4 Nathan Brown threads on the AFL Board and now this

[X_box_X]

Worst 10

70) 1926 – (4-14) – 76% - 10th
71) 1930 – (4-14) – 76% - 11th
72) 2003 – (3-18-1) – 75% - 16th
73) 1966 – (4-14) – 69% - 10th
74) 1980 – (5-17) – 75% - 10th
75) 1967 – (4-14) – 72% - 12th
76) 1959 – (3-15) – 73% - 12th
77) 1982 – (3-19) – 75% - 12th
78) 1935 – (2-14-2) – 74% - 11th
79) 1981 – (2-20) – 66% - 11th

[Chicago1]

Originally posted by OldSchool
Xie,

Whats going on ?

4 Nathan Brown threads on the AFL Board and now this

School holidays!:p

[X_box_X]

Originally posted by localyokel
Havent you done this before Xsie?

Yes, but that was our 78-year history. ;)

[Captain Sensible]

Originally posted by X_box_X
Yes, but that was our 78-year history. ;)



Fairy 'nuff. Cant argue with logic like that.

[sigscotty]

This has been pointed out to you before i know, but the thing is the aim of a footy club is to WIN THE FLAG. Thus, 54 is better than any other season. If you are not going to use how well a team did at reaching its aim as the parameters of your rankings, whats the point?

[SonOfScray]

Agreed sig, appreciate the effort put into the stats and all that jazz but really Flags are the measure of success in footy and really '54 has to be considered number 1 in my books. 15 weeks at the top in 1998 didn't mean dog excrement at the end of the day, will we remember in 50 years that we came 3rd in 98? Probably not, yet people always recognise '54.

Just on this year, anyone rate this as the worst year you've had to endure? Obvsiously '89 was pretty rough but this year has taken the cake for me as I can't really remember much about 89.

[Bulldog1954]

Xie mate, get a life


And to not have 54 as best is just ridiculous. And for that matter 61 should be second, not 14th