Have a look at the first graph in this post https://thearcfooty.com/2016/08/28/matthew-pavlich-has-travelled-further-than-any-other-player-in-aflvfl-history/
1) A higher rating doesn't necessarily entail a prediction that a team will make it further in the finals.
2) If Adelaide makes it further in the finals than Geelong, I won't regard that as vindication of my ratings system, and if Geelong makes it further than Adelaide I won't regard that as a...
Cheers! Yeah I plan to do a lot more work on this when I get the time. As you said, the results with just using Fantasy points are pretty encouraging. There are a lot of stats (eg. cont poss, goal assists) that are publicly available but not incorporated in Fantasy numbers; my next step is to...
The purpose was to compare Dustin Martin's R1 2017 game to every other game by an AFL player since 1990 and show that very, very few have had more disposals and more goals in a game. What would you omit from the chart to make the point more clearly?
The reigning Premier has won their first match of the season 67.1% of the time in AFL/VFL history. If we just look at the AFL (1990-present), it's 66.7%; since 2000 it's 64.7%.