AFL.com.au Ladder Predictor to come back in Late June

[magpienato]

I've been waiting since this years fixture was announced for the Ladder predictor to come out. Gives me the hope at the start of the season that we can pull 12 wins and then somehow manage to win the GF from 8th



As for this message, not too sure how they could improve upon the ladder predictor. It's such a simple concept so surely it shouldn't take that long to code. Even still why couldn't they keep the old one up in the meantime? Who knows

 

[FootyJunkie]

don't understand why they don't make this available at the start of the season... bit of fun trying to predict the rest of the season each week

 

[Marmozet]

Final Siren came to our rescue earlier in the year

https://predictor.squiggle.com.au/

 

[magpienato]

Oh wow that's brilliant. Thanks for the link now I can build my hopes up for a top 4 finish

 

[Final Siren]

I got you fam.

But that's interesting! I wonder what's new and improved about it. I hope it's something cool and not just "we changed the fonts."

 

[The King!]

I got you fam.

But that's interesting! I wonder what's new and improved about it. I hope it's something cool and not just "we changed the fonts."

Links to yours?

 

[unplugged]

I got you fam.

But that's interesting! I wonder what's new and improved about it. I hope it's something cool and not just "we changed the fonts."

I could never use the AFL one on my phone without going to extreme lengths to get the flash player working. Could be something to do with it?

 

[wowlace]

I did a thing.

 

[Angus Young]

still don't get why those arse clowns never have it out at the beginning of the season.

Silent Alarm u been damm good to us this year.

 

[kranky al]

Oh wow that's brilliant. Thanks for the link now I can build my hopes up for a top 4 finish

Nothing quite like the delusion you pull on yourself when you are midrange - trying to scrape in for finals - you do the predictions and come up a game short - so you go back and look at all the ones you had pencilled in as a loss and redo it as a plucky win with some drawing of a long long bow justification.

I did that all last year - was wrong - luckily melbourne melbourned.

 

[Bardo State]

Looks like they're just adding mobile funcitonality

 

[The King!]

Just Keep refreshing and waiting

 

[juss]

This is something you build once and never have to change if you do it properly. The system doesnt change.

 

[magpienato]

Nothing quite like the delusion you pull on yourself when you are midrange - trying to scrape in for finals - you do the predictions and come up a game short - so you go back and look at all the ones you had pencilled in as a loss and redo it as a plucky win with some drawing of a long long bow justification.

I did that all last year - was wrong - luckily melbourne melbourned.

I'm usually give the 50/50 games to the other team for the sake of argument. I had us losing to Melbourne despite it being a winnable game. If we just win the games we should win and lose the others then we will be fine. Maybe we could pluck a few here and there but I don't take those chances with Collingwood.

 

[magpienato]

Looks like they're just adding mobile funcitonality

That's good, i guess? I never really go on the AFL app except to check the scores and maybe look at the ladder once in a while.

 

[wowlace]

What's the bet the AFL nerds are trying to reverse engineer the squiggle right now?

 

[kranky al]

What's the bet the AFL nerds are trying to reverse engineer the squiggle right now?

Nek minut - the twister is born

 

[wowlace]

Nek minut - the twister is born

Haha ******* campaigners.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

still don't get why those arse clowns never have it out at the beginning of the season.

Silent Alarm u been damm good to us this year.

Gralin made a good point on this.

If they have it up on the site earlier in the year, club supporters can predict their season, and perhaps disengage from the season once they realiss that their poor start has them missing finals.

No ladder predictor = keep more viewers engaged for longer.

 

[Happy Mastenator]

It's obviously coming out after the byes. The team of two underpaid interns that put out the abortion that is the afl site weren't going to have a crack at trying to work out how to manage the bye system.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

It's obviously coming out after the byes. The team of two underpaid interns that put out the abortion that is the afl site weren't going to have a crack at trying to work out how to manage the bye system.

“The team of two underpaid interns that put out the abortion that is the afl site” = Telstra.

 

[Happy Mastenator]

“The team of two underpaid interns that put out the abortion that is the afl site” = Telstra.

Optus and Telstra are giving each other a run for their money on the incompetence levels.

 

[magpienato]

Gralin made a good point on this.

If they have it up on the site earlier in the year, club supporters can predict their season, and perhaps disengage from the season once they realiss that their poor start has them missing finals.

No ladder predictor = keep more viewers engaged for longer.

That's the dumbest reason but it would make sense for the AFL to be like that

 

[magpienato]

After messing around on Squiggle I don't see any reason for me to go back to AFL.com.au

AFL Ladder Predictor, you're dead to me

 

[Final Siren]

They might have thought it was too hard to use with 100+ games remaining, because that's a lot of clicking. Especially if they stick with the thing where you need to click more times to set the margin (which they have, judging from the screenshot).

Or maybe they just under-estimated how badly some of us need to simulate ladders!

Anyway, in the meantime, here's that link again: Squiggle's AFL Ladder Predictor.

I do still need to add draws & finals.