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2016 AFL Fixture Official Announcements [Fixture - pg 20]
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mcgarnacle
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the drawn out process is such a pain in the arse to be honest. well, that's my feeling. i can honestly say that i'm watching less and less of AFL finals each season when I should be watching all 9 matches.
one thing I love about the NFL are the post season double headers. 2 games on saturday back-to-back & 2 on sunday back-to-back in the Wk 1 & 2.
Wk 3 championship weekend are both conference games back to back on the sunday.
The drawn out scheduling the AFL implement leads to viewing fatigue for all but the die-hards.
Would it hurt the Lions to return to Brunswick street for a free open day NAB cup match?
2016 marks the anniversary... 50 years since the Lions played their last game at Brunswick st, their home since 1883.
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What if the lions built up a relationship with the Fitzroy Reds. Sponsor or something. Or am I a bit slow?Would it hurt the Lions to return to Brunswick street for a free open day NAB cup match?
agree... Weeks 2 and 3 should be on Saturday arvo and Saturday night if the finals are played at different venues... if there is a clash, only then have one on Friday night... the AFL used to do this before they made the Friday Night finals in Weeks 2 and 3 to be permanent fixtures
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jenny61_99
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Has Geelong got a dick? Oh yes, that's right, they have Dangerfield now. My bad.
^^get over it m8
Would it hurt the Lions to return to Brunswick street for a free open day NAB cup match?
what a great modest looking suburban ground, picturesque with the CBD in the background
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Which teams have the hardest and easiest draws for 2016?
There are two ways to determine this. The first way is to assign each team a number relating to the position they finished on the ladder in 2015 (taking into account the finals results). For each club we then identify who they play identified by position in 2015 and multiply this by the number of times ( 1 or 2) they play each other. Thus if Carlton (18th) played Richmond (7th) twice then for Carlton the difficulty score would be 7X 2 = 14. For Richmond on the other hand it would be 18 x 2 = 36. The lower the number the harder the match for each team.
Using this method as illustrated in the Base Score column in Table 1 for the 2016 fixture:
Hardest Fixture: Adelaide
Easiest Fixture: Essendon
The second method is based on an understanding that the AFL has supposedly moved towards a draw centred around 3 groups of six teams based on their final positions on the ladder (taking into account the results of the finals series). The advantage of this method if scrupulously followed would be no ‘meddling’ with the draw for the following season. Theoretically teams in each group of six play the other teams in their group twice and the teams from the other groups once. Using this method illustrated in Table 2 to evaluate the difficulty of the 2016 fixture the hardest and easiest fixtures are as follows.
Hardest Fixture : Brisbane and Melbourne
Easiest Fixture: Fremantle and West Coast
Expected difficulty is calculated by finding the median difficulty score for each group of six if they played each other twice and teams in other groups once.
There are two ways to determine this. The first way is to assign each team a number relating to the position they finished on the ladder in 2015 (taking into account the finals results). For each club we then identify who they play identified by position in 2015 and multiply this by the number of times ( 1 or 2) they play each other. Thus if Carlton (18th) played Richmond (7th) twice then for Carlton the difficulty score would be 7X 2 = 14. For Richmond on the other hand it would be 18 x 2 = 36. The lower the number the harder the match for each team.
Using this method as illustrated in the Base Score column in Table 1 for the 2016 fixture:
Hardest Fixture: Adelaide
Easiest Fixture: Essendon
The second method is based on an understanding that the AFL has supposedly moved towards a draw centred around 3 groups of six teams based on their final positions on the ladder (taking into account the results of the finals series). The advantage of this method if scrupulously followed would be no ‘meddling’ with the draw for the following season. Theoretically teams in each group of six play the other teams in their group twice and the teams from the other groups once. Using this method illustrated in Table 2 to evaluate the difficulty of the 2016 fixture the hardest and easiest fixtures are as follows.
Hardest Fixture : Brisbane and Melbourne
Easiest Fixture: Fremantle and West Coast
Expected difficulty is calculated by finding the median difficulty score for each group of six if they played each other twice and teams in other groups once.
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They and the Fitzroy Football Club already have a relationship. The Brisbane Lions sponsor a Fitzroy player each year, they contribute to our annual raffle and so on.
Incidentally the Fitzroy Reds finished up in the VAFA at the end of 2008. The Reds were replaced by Fitzroy Football Club for the 2009 season.
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Its a great ground. Hard to believe it used to attract crowds of 30,000 plus. Record crowd was 34,765 in 1923.
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Yes I have. I just wanted to get people's views and opinions on away travel. Is Airbnb something that people currently use a lot then?
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Used it all through Europe this year. Works really well
Yeah, but they'll still whinge. It's what they do.
MWPP
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Don't think North asked for more
MCG games , or if they did , it wasn't high on the priority list
It was one of our top, if not the top, fixture priority for us this season (we didn't ask for things like extra exposure , or beig given a window of home games at the end of the season to try and allow our veteran's record breaking match to be played at Etihad ...)
Can't play in Tas and expect extra MCG games too. You play some "away" games at Etihad against MCG tenants too, probably to make
up for the tassie factor .
But having said that yeah, we had one game (also the equal least ) in 2015 and I believe it disadvantaged us this year. We specifically asked for more games . Did north ? If north finish high enough for it to actually matter/for it to disadvantage them ....then they will ask for things to change for next year, just like we did.
boncer34
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Its quite interesting because North fans were quite vocal in screaming the Eagles lack of MCG exposure had nothing to do with the Grand Final.
So why do they now whinge about only getting 1?
If anyone wants an easy reference desktop wallpaper I made this:
There's also a thread in the Graphic Design forum with all 18 clubs' fixtures in desktop wallpaper form
There's also a thread in the Graphic Design forum with all 18 clubs' fixtures in desktop wallpaper form
MWPP
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Yep. Suggests they have different sets of standards for other teams' compared to their own, just like many supporters of every other club
Or it may suggest that some fans have different opinions even though they follow the same team
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A week off is great to freshen up, but you do feel like multiple weeks off can become a momentum killer.... If we start seeing teams getting knocked off in their home PF's more often it'll be hard to argue it's not a momentum killer.
boncer34
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Nah. Couple of the same ones that were trolling West Coast are now crying foul.
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If it increases the number of flags won by teams that play in the semi finals is that a bad thing?
The fixture isn't fair and as much as people like to say the best teams will always finish top 2 / top 4, it's just not true
consecutive 6 day breaks hurt especially when you are playing big matches against teams that are fresher than you during the season
There's always a couple of teams in the 8 that either got off to a good start / had an easy fixture / played the best teams once only and at home
