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AFL players with the worst win-loss records

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While all players go into their AFL careers with high hopes of nothing but finals and premierships, unfortunately for some, things don’t turn out as planned.

While players like Joel Selwood have won more than 75% of the games they’ve played (plus a few flags, if you don’t mind), others aren’t quite so lucky.

So who is the most unsuccessful player currently playing in the AFL?

The lamentable honour goes to ruckman Jonathan Giles, who through his 63 games at the Giants, Bombers and Eagles has won just 19.05% of the games he’s played in.

Given the youthful and inexperienced start, GWS players and former players dominate the list, which also details the painful career of some Melbourne stalwarts.

Here’s the list courtesy of AFL Tables, you can also discuss this list on the forum here.

AFL players with the worst win-loss records
Win% Current Player Teams
19.05 Jonathan Giles GW,ES,WC
20 Lewis Taylor BL
22 Marco Paparone BL
23.55 Stefan Martin ME,BL
23.73 Will Hoskin-Elliott GW,CW
24.14 Curtly Hampton GW,AD
25.2 Jeremy Howe ME,CW
25.89 Martin Gleeson ES
26.24 Matt Shaw GC
26.95 Lynden Dunn ME,CW
27.17 Nathan Jones ME
27.27 Dom Tyson GW,ME
27.78 Dean Kent ME
27.93 Tom McDonald ME
28.4 Sam Mayes BL
28.43 Patrick Cripps CA
28.7 Adam Treloar GW,CW
28.71 Neville Jetta ME
28.9 Tom Lynch GC
29.03 Alex Sexton GC
Minimum 50 games played

It could be worse, spare a thought for the late (we assume) Ted Hall, who between 1897 and 1902 won just 1.37% of the 73 games he played.

To save you doing the maths, that was one win out of 73.
 
It could be worse, spare a thought for the late (we assume) Ted Hall, who between 1897 and 1902 won just 1.37% of the 73 games he played.

To save you doing the maths, that was one win out of 73.
Poor Ted seems to have been as unlucky in life as he was in his football career, dying in 1903 (the year after his last VFL game), aged just 27!:-

http://australianfootball.com/players/player/Ted+Hall/1068

Born
8 February 1876
Died
30 December 1903 (aged 27)

Age at first & last AFL game
First game: 21y 89d
Last game: 26y 121d
 
Ted Pool of Hawthorn has the worst win/loss record for a player who has played 200 games or more:

Playing from 1926-1938, when the Maybloomers were perennial cellar dwellers....Pool had a 42-1-157 record from 200 games @ 21.25%....That's essentially 1 win from every 5 games.....Ouch.
 

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Poor Ted seems to have been as unlucky in life as he was in his football career, dying in 1903 (the year after his last VFL game), aged just 27!:-

http://australianfootball.com/players/player/Ted+Hall/1068

Born
8 February 1876
Died
30 December 1903 (aged 27)

Age at first & last AFL game
First game: 21y 89d
Last game: 26y 121d

We might've curtailed a few careers at Richmond but we never killed a bloke. For shame, Saints.
 
Giles has launched a herculean effort with his arrival at West Coast, to boost his W/L% to the cusp of 20% after crawling along at barely 10% for his earlier career as a Giant. After two seasons he was 3 wins and 39 losses!!

But two wins out of his first three games in 2014 elevated him to 5 and 40, 11.1% before nine more losses shared between six for GWS and three for the Bombers in 2015. Five wins from 54, and back to under 10%.

But joining the Weegles in 2016 has seen his win tally blossom, indeed more than doubling his career win tally in his last NINE game than he had in his first 58. Now with 12 wins and 51 losses, he is rapidly heading towards the 20% mark, and with the Lions looking pretty ordinary, Lewis Taylor may soon claim the mantle as the 'losingest' current player.
 

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