Fitzroy's 100 season in the VFL / AFL - interesting stats

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After getting the idea from the following article ( http://footygeek.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1932&Itemid=83 ), I decided to use it as the basis to work out how many times clubs just missed the finals over the first 100 VFL / AFL seasons (from 1897 to 1996):

Anyway, it turns out Fitzroy was pretty unlucky, finishing 1 spot out of the finals on 14 occasions in our 100 seasons in the VFL / AFL.

(Number of Seasons played b/w 1897 and 1996 in brackets)

GEELONG 15 (97)
FITZROY 14 (100)
CARLTON 11 (100)
S.M / SYDNEY 11 (99)
COLLINGWOOD 9 (100)
MELBOURNE 9 (97)
RICHMOND 9 (90)
HAWTHORN 6 (72)
ST.KILDA 5 (98)
ESSENDON 4 (98)
FOOTSCRAY 4 (72)
NORTH 2 (72)
ADELAIDE 0 (6)
BEARS 0 (10)
FREO 0 (2)
UNIVERSITY 0 (7)
WEST COAST 0 (10)

 

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I also looked at the number of years each club made the finals between 1897 and 1996:

The first number is the number of years in the finals in the first 100 seasons. The number in brackets is the percent of years in the finals.

COLLINGWOOD 70 (70.0)
CARLTON 61 (61.0)
ESSENDON 54 (55.1)
GEELONG 42 (43.3)
RICHMOND 33 (36.7)
MELBOURNE 32 (33.0)
HAWTHORN 23 (31.9)
FITZROY 29 (29.0)
NORTH 20 (27.8)
S.M / SYDNEY 25 (25.3)
FOOTSCRAY 16 (22.2)
ST.KILDA 17 (17.3)

WEST COAST 8 (80.0)
BEARS 2 (20.0)
ADELAIDE 1 (16.7)
FREO 0 (0.0)
UNIVERSITY 0 (0.0)

 

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And for completeness, here is the list of the number of premierships (and wooden spoons in brackets) won by each club from 1897 to 1996:

CARLTON 16 (0)
ESSENDON 15 (4)
COLLINGWOOD 14 (1)
MELBOURNE 12 (9)
RICHMOND 10 (4)
HAWTHORN 9 (11)
FITZROY 8 (8)
GEELONG 6 (5)
S.M / SYDNEY 3 (11)
NORTH 3 (13)
WEST COAST 2 (0)
ST.KILDA 1 (25)
FOOTSCRAY 1 (3)
ADELAIDE 0 (0)
BEARS 0 (2)
FREO 0 (0)
UNIVERSITY 0 (4)

By the way, all of these stats I worked out thanks to the following excellent website:
http://afltables.com/afl/afl_index.html