Review Hamish 2021

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Absolutely.

It's impossible to view that draft without the decision to retain Lynch.
You don't think the hamstring crisis derailed our 2018 season when we were still top 4 going into the bye then the injuries finally caught up to us after the bye? Even you would have gone up in arms if we had traded a core player after a very disappointing end to the 2nd half of 2018 when our list was supposedly in the premiership window.
 
FFS the story shifts so ******* quick it’s amazing anyone can keep up 🤣🤣🤣
When has this shifted? It has been always been reported Pyke has mentioned he wanted speed in the midfield (which even you would have noticed was a need), hence Hamish picked a fast player in the draft so Gallucci was indirectly a Pyke selection.
 

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You don't think the hamstring crisis derailed our 2018 season when we were still top 4 going into the bye then the injuries finally caught up to us after the bye? Even you would have gone up in arms if we had traded a core player after a very disappointing end to the 2nd half of 2018 when our list was supposedly in the premiership window.

I don't need your fantasies about my views at the time. I'm on the record, and entirely vindicated.

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Well, you are always a negative poster so that's not saying much.......you must have made heaps betting against us as we enter 2019 as still one of the premiership fancy.

Absolutely. I've already retired off the back of my 'always bet against ABAB's opinion' rule.
 
At the end of the day, I think the AFC recruitment and draft processes are quite archaic compared to the rest of the competition.

It's still built around the scouting done by a limited number of individuals who are probably looking for the same thing.

I know many other clubs are investing heavily in technology and artificial intelligence in this space because they feel scouting reports can sometimes be too biased.

My understanding is they feed all the scouting reports and stats from around the country in the system which is designed to learn and filter out the biases, such as "he comes from a great family" or "the ball sounds great coming off his boot". The system is also programmed and weighted with key kpis that are specific to your club, for example Richmond would value particular things that would be different to Adelaide. This then spits out the true rating of players.

Adelaide are known to be way behind and always late to the party when it comes to these things and yes, way behind Port, who were one of the first with this sort of system in the AFL.
 
At the end of the day, I think the AFC recruitment and draft processes are quite archaic compared to the rest of the competition.

It's still built around the scouting done by a limited number of individuals who are probably looking for the same thing.

I know many other clubs are investing heavily in technology and artificial intelligence in this space because they feel scouting reports can sometimes be too biased.

My understanding is they feed all the scouting reports and stats from around the country in the system which is designed to learn and filter out the biases, such as "he comes from a great family" or "the ball sounds great coming off his boot". The system is also programmed and weighted with key kpis that are specific to your club, for example Richmond would value particular things that would be different to Adelaide. This then spits out the true rating of players.

Adelaide are known to be way behind and always late to the party when it comes to these things and yes, way behind Port, who were one of the first with this sort of system in the AFL.
Dunno how true that is, we were one of the first teams in the league to invest in analytics and bring in dedicated resources in that area.
 
At the end of the day, I think the AFC recruitment and draft processes are quite archaic compared to the rest of the competition.

It's still built around the scouting done by a limited number of individuals who are probably looking for the same thing.

I know many other clubs are investing heavily in technology and artificial intelligence in this space because they feel scouting reports can sometimes be too biased.

My understanding is they feed all the scouting reports and stats from around the country in the system which is designed to learn and filter out the biases, such as "he comes from a great family" or "the ball sounds great coming off his boot". The system is also programmed and weighted with key kpis that are specific to your club, for example Richmond would value particular things that would be different to Adelaide. This then spits out the true rating of players.

Adelaide are known to be way behind and always late to the party when it comes to these things and yes, way behind Port, who were one of the first with this sort of system in the AFL.

But what if we genuinely value coming from a great family? Does the rating system give a weighting for that?

Also, whilst I'm here, did you ask if we were running those old school IBM computers, and punch cards to calculate our rating system?
 

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Feel free to disagree, fine by me.

If not for Nigel Smart we would have been at the table a lot earlier with this stuff and have better Data Science partners.
So there is no actual factual evidence or not?
 
At the end of the day, I think the AFC recruitment and draft processes are quite archaic compared to the rest of the competition.

It's still built around the scouting done by a limited number of individuals who are probably looking for the same thing.

I know many other clubs are investing heavily in technology and artificial intelligence in this space because they feel scouting reports can sometimes be too biased.

My understanding is they feed all the scouting reports and stats from around the country in the system which is designed to learn and filter out the biases, such as "he comes from a great family" or "the ball sounds great coming off his boot". The system is also programmed and weighted with key kpis that are specific to your club, for example Richmond would value particular things that would be different to Adelaide. This then spits out the true rating of players.

Adelaide are known to be way behind and always late to the party when it comes to these things and yes, way behind Port, who were one of the first with this sort of system in the AFL.
Wouldn't it be better to apply machine learning based on results, rather than person-chosen filters? Use all previous drafts as training data, with actual info about plyers' careers.
 
dogs, I want you to build that machine and have it on my desk by this time Monday morning. No excuses.

And send me all of the github repositories... for science.
 
Feel free to disagree, fine by me.

If not for Nigel Smart we would have been at the table a lot earlier with this stuff and have better Data Science partners.
I don't think he's disagreeing with you Bunji, he's asking you to provide a basis for the accusation you're making.

Which is a fair question to ask given its nature
 
dogs, I want you to build that machine and have it on my desk by this time Monday morning. No excuses.

Bit beyond me and my programming skills. Been to plenty of seminars where machine learning is being applied to all sorts of data though and it would certainly be a feasible use of the methodology.
 
Dunno how true that is, we were one of the first teams in the league to invest in analytics and bring in dedicated resources in that area.

Might not be true but we're definitely one of the biggest investors in analytics/innovation. There've been cuts to the industry left right and centre but I know we have at least two dedicated analytics guys in our football department (Binuk Kodituwakku and Dean Dagan).
 

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