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Adrian Caruso was a data guy out of Champion Data then Bulldogs then Fox Footy. He's GWS's long-term recruiting manager but his role also has some list mgmt, reporting to Football GM Jason McCartney

A rational team wouldn't do that, because at some point getting two 30% picks is better than one 50% chance. There are no guarantees with any draftee, it's all probabilities of developing them into an elite player. An economist will tell you the benefit of an auction is that bidders can express...

I wrote that! It became the basis of the father-son & academy points, but unfortunately just became a misaligned currency. I also took the concept to the NBA and the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston 2013, with an auction using points for the first group of picks instead of a fixed...

The record is seven, achieved twice. The closest interval is remarkably only 8 years, between 2002 (Port, Bris, Adel, Coll, Ess, Melb, NM, WCE) and 2010 (Coll, Geel, StK, WB, Syd, Freo, Haw, Carl). The other is 1998 to 2013, where only Sydney appeared in both finals series and Essendon would...

The 1914 Port Adelaide team then won the club's fourth Championship of Australia, defeating Carlton 9.16-70 to 5.6-36. The next week they also thrashed a composite side chosen from the six remaining SAFL clubs, 14.14-98 to 5.10-40. With the outbreak of war, the Championship was discontinued...

Led by two points halfway through the third quarter. Failed to score after that. Still won. Sorry I missed this at the time.

This used to happen a bit, e.g. Sydney Rounds 7-8, 1987 played the only Sunday game then backed up on Friday night

Blue & White! Was that our away strip against the red & black Adelaiders?

It's pretty brutal compared with a normal fixture, especially if you're Essendon or Melbourne and have to play eight games in about 38 days with back-to-back matches every 5.3 days (normally 7). LiveLadders.com has constructed a possible fixture with typical gaps so you can see how it works.

True. However: Geelong's opponents' average goal kicking accuracy in 2019 was 41.5%, a fair bit lower than that. Make of it what you will.

Solution: Wells = Kolodjashnij (Ukrainian) Bright = Lukosius (Ancient Greek) Flaxfield = Vlastuin (Dutch) Lock / Bristle = Cerra (Spanish-Italian) Little Bear = Hartigan (Gaelic, little Art = bear or stone or hero) Hope = Saad (Arabic) Sugar = Zaharakis (Greek) Silk = Sheed (Gaelic) Blossom =...

Nope, try Spanish. Digging deeper I think I've made a mistake and he should be Bristle (old Italian-Spanish)

People who are struggling to finalise their backs. I'll post the solution tomorrow, but reckon they'll all be solved quickly. The followers are probably easiest

Everyone here played at least 13 games, and there's good midfield depth. B: Wells (Geel), Bright (GC), Flaxfield (Rich) HB: Lock (Freo), Little Bear (Adel), Hope (Ess) M: Sugar (Ess), Silk (WC), Blossom (GC) HF: Onion (NM), Hair (NM), Valleyhouse (Geel) F: Chestnut (Rich), Mt Heaven (GWS)...

Best ever trip to the SCG, Round 10 1998. Sydney were second on the ladder, 7-2 with a percentage of 128.5. St Kilda were fifth but with a percentage of 97.5. Saints by 101 points! Sziller kicked six, the only time in his career he had more than two goals.

Someone stole the point posts??

A little obscure ... the Bulldogs yesterday scored five behinds, all in the second quarter. The other three quarters combined were 11.0. When was the last time a team scored all its behinds in one quarter, and has it ever been as many as five?

All these examples are for teams being held at one end, scoring at the other. Geelong's burst was in the 2nd & 3rd quarters. Is it the biggest win by a team that lost two quarters at different ends of the field? (i.e. 1&2,1&4,2&3 or 3&4)

Jonathan Giles GWS (NSW), Essendon (Vic), West Coast (WA), never played for Port Adelaide in his home state (SA) despite four years on their list, two SANFL premierships with Centrals and a B&F at Sturt

Not even the first with three non-Vic states. My first thought was Adam Heuskes

Carlton committed the fewest turnovers of any team this year: 1493, or 68 per game.

This is actually called The Plugger Exception at CD. If the player only has to score to win the game after the siren, a behind is considered effective.

The most famous example is St Kilda defeating West Coast at Subiaco on 3rd May 1998. Daniel Healy and Peter Everitt each kicked six goals on their shared 24th birthday.

Is this complete? I have a memory of a match where one team had a streak of nine goals then the other had 12. I thought it was Richmond vs Hawthorn in the mid 2000s. Edit: this one

That's an amazing season! One loss by 12 points, four draws, and nine wins including margins of 2, 4, 8, and 11. Coming into the last match, they were narrowly ahead of Saints (9W+3D+1L=42 vs 9W+1P?+3L=38? 40?) but behind on percentage, needing at least a draw against them to finish on top. They...

Carlton trailed Fremantle by 70 points at half-time, won the 3rd quarter, won the 4th quarter, and still lost by 57. They would have done OK under the netball ladder system this year. As the late KT would've said, there's always a parallel: 1996 R3, West Coast trailed 2.3 (15) to Essendon's...

This is a brilliant table, thanks Ron. However, surely the 216-104-5 for teams on a seven day break versus fourteen days is a typo? Did you include finals? That would make a bias, but the other way. In either case, I can't imagine something structurally that would cause that.

And at the end of Round 3, Geelong was on top of the ladder after losing its first game!