Using the mathematics of dominance matrices we have analysed the season so far to ascertain just who is the highest lowest rated team statistically. Sometimes the ladder doesn't actually demonstrate the worst or best team in the competition.
By way of demonstration, in 2016 North Melbourne...
FB19 Here is the first installment
https://www.afl.com.au/video/1480576/vfl-match-replay-r1-box-hill-v-sydney?videoId=1480576&modal=true&type=video&publishFrom=1773970500001
After the easy win against Ireland Australia face Japan.
Japan won the toss and decided (for some reason) to bat.
Looks a sightly unever pitch with reward to the bowlers in the early overs.
Japan struggling to score 1/17 off 7 overs, having just hit their first boundary.
So it's a runaway horse we may as well embrace it.
What are some of the goal celebrations we'd like to see?
One would be a player giving the goal scorer a speeding fine after streaming through the fwd 50.
Watson waving a wand.
Painting a masterpiece.
Lighting the cigar.
What are some others?
I was (I know, I know) reading a facebook post where someone asked why Breust was being managed, and some idiot replied, because he can't get a kick.
I thought about how much game time Breust has had and how many goals he'd have kicked if he played out entire games this season and where that...
You know how it is, the umpire blows his whistle to start the match. He bounces the ball and seconds into match, he blows his whistle and there's some free kick lottery in the ruck contest. Some larrikin in the crowd calls out "He's been doin' it all DAY umpire!" and nobody actually knows...
Next in our series of Relevant or Not, are kicks.
The game is called Qootball after all, so using your qeet woud have to be one of the primary skills in the game. Does this premise translate to success on the score board?
OF COURSE IT DOES!
When we plot kick differential against scoreboard...
The next stat in our "Relevant or Not" series is hand balls.
Does your team gain an advantage on the scoreboard by hand-balling more often.
There is a slight positive trend in the relationship between hand ball differential and score differential (Correlation coefficient = 0.45 - in the...
The next stat we'll be covering in our series "Relevant or Not" is total disposals differential. Does having the qootball in your possession help you win matches?
Let's find out.
If we plot disposal differential against score differential, there seems to be a pretty decent correlation (0.71)...
We've all seen the odd club captain perform the perfect tackle, earn a free kick and get a three week suspension for his troubles, but are tackles really a part of the game that should just be rubbed out?
If you plot tackle differential against score differential you get a very slight...
If we plot hit outs in every game this season against team score there is a moderate correlation, this however is expected regardless of the effect of the number of hit outs on scoring, there is a profound effect the other way. ie scoring causes hit outs. (The more goals you kick the more...
Couldn't find a thread so I made one.
We have been dominating play, Richmond 4 goals out of nowhere, killing them in clearances, but we can't hold marks above the shoulders.
Commentators giving Richmond a rub down and hugs all round.
After three games, a lot has been said about our midfield not pulling its weight and our backline doing the heavy lifting.
I thought I'd look at I50 data in both directions and how well teams have scored and defended scoring.
First table: ratio of I50 gained and conceded.
Second table...
It's that time again. Last couple of seasons has been too depressing but it hasn't been often I can post a ratings table like this: Hawthorn on the top Essendon on the bottom and Richmond ninth.
1
Hawthorn
100.000
2
Collingwood
68.680
3
Melbourne
48.587
4
Sydney
48.047
5
Carlton...
Round 3
Teams rated against the highest rated team out of 100. North not doing so well. Early days and things will swing wildly for a few weeks.
Western Bulldogs100
West Coast68.84
Sydney64.25
Port Adelaide25.38
Melbourne18.05
Richmond17.68
Collingwood9.92
Gold Coast7.83...
Cyril's debut game for the Tiwi Bombers is being streamed live today here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YaQ5It1mHs
It has the number of hours until the start on the screen until it begins. At the time of posting it was 7.