I wanted to say pick 6 is obviously an amazing pick because Kepler, but he didn't truly become one of the greatest players ever until he was traded to Freo.
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Pick 6 is cursed
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What about pick 119?
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I think Port fans winced at your post.
Legend of the club, top 5-10 of all time, highly decorated with multiple team and individual honours.
Yep, Scott Morrison truly was up there.
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It has a very high average for games played
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Pick 119 and 124 looking the goods.
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Based on that, Pick 65 is cursed.
An average of 10 games - yikes - if you're Pick 65 probably best to get out now while you can.
An average of 10 games - yikes - if you're Pick 65 probably best to get out now while you can.
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Interesting... Back when it was a 16 team comp the club that held pick 6 would have also held picks 22 and 38 (before trades).
All 3 of these picks are down on average games played relative to the ones around them. So maybe the curse goes deeper than we think...
The 6th pick in each of the first three rounds...
6...6...6...
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Interesting that pick one is so much higher than pick two. Wonder if that's because they are uniformly higher quality, or due to the sunk cost fallacy.
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Wingard peaked at 19 because his arrogance was a shock to his opponents. Now he's nothing more than a pretty good half forward. Limited as a midfielder and nowhere near as consistent and damaging as you'd expect him to be - Robbie Gray still the better player.
Macrae... won't say anything because Bulldogs fans will jump on me but he's pretty ineffective and quite soft. Hasn't ever won a game off his own boot and is one of those guys who only ever plays as good as his team does - will never drag his team back and if they were losing most games for years, he wouldn't be standing out.
Yarran is a shame but amazing to overcome meth addiction so good on him.
Definitely a number with some serious injuries and lack of capitalisation on talent.
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Macrae... won't say anything because Bulldogs fans will jump on me but he's pretty ineffective and quite soft. Hasn't ever won a game off his own boot and is one of those guys who only ever plays as good as his team does - will never drag his team back and if they were losing most games for years, he wouldn't be standing out.
Yarran is a shame but amazing to overcome meth addiction so good on him.
Definitely a number with some serious injuries and lack of capitalisation on talent.
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I like to contemplate what Stephen Wells would've done if he had pick 6 or lower once over the past 30 years. Probably would've turned it into an Ablett/Danger/Selwood/Motlop/Fyfe middle.
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It's weird I remember a preliminary final being literally won of his boot.
Most of them are average to good footballers that were weekly selections in their respective teams, not many stars but plenty of solid footy players.
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pick 40 seems to be where the value is.
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Great post
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Are you trying to put the mozz on young Stephenson?
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I know you could, but pick 6 averages only 51 AFL games which is the third lowest in the top 30!
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No, apparently he is electric.
