Essendon_Fan
Team Captain
- Apr 15, 2012
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Aside from the fact we've only had 17 teams for one year and it's FAR too small of a sample to provide useful data as a team related trend, all of that is due to CIRCUMSTANCE not the amount of teams in the league.
If the talent was more spread out, not only would each player be able to showcase their skills better, but the league would be more competetive.
By the way.
2009 - 16 teams - Top 4 = 88 games/20 loss/draws = 4.4 wins per l/d
2010 - 16 teams - Top 4 = 88 games/25 loss/draws = 3.52 wins per l/d
So literally one season after another, with the same amount of teams, there was almost exactly the same difference as your claimed statistical significant difference of 15/16 (17 being ignored for obvious previously stated reasons) teams.
The level of domination of the top 4 has SFA to do with the number of teams, it is all about the circumstance of the specific season.
You are forgetting that, regardless of your argument, AFL crowds saw, on average, more losses/draws of the top four AFL clubs when there were 15 clubs rather than 16 clubs.