And being generous and assuming the chances of the QF loser's winning their home semi is 50%, 0.50^6 = 1.56% chance that happens every single year over 6 years. Not a coincidence.
It has to all come back to why there even is a boundary line in the first place - the game was first played on Yarra Park with no bounds to how wide the field was. Boundary lines were introduced to give space for spectators to safely watch and to draw a reasonable line as to how large the field...
So to solve the imaginary issue of "balls going out of bounds"(?), they introduced insufficient intent, creating a new issue when they failed to reliably interpret players' intention in a manner reasonable to the spirit of the game and human comprehension, and now are completely changing how...