Welcome Back - A Reintroduction
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Hello nerds. Welcome back here to the SFA, and welcome to our rookie group for the very first time. The municipality of Sweet is buzzing in anticipation in this the first round of season 31! There's a lot to get excited about - the banter, the camaraderie, the quality media, the qooty, the melting, the shitposting, the statistical analysis, the heartwarming coming of age scenes, the hot takes, the inane AFL chat, the ever more sentient sim edging us ever further to an assimilation into the one world collective hivemind from which there will be no escape. Unfortunately this thread gives you absolutely none of that.
What this thread gives you though is a return of the SFA Free Kick Table, proudly brought to you by:
To remind you on how this works, here's a summary that I've borrowed from the season 30 thread: https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/bobs-stats-the-free-kick-table-for-season-30.1244126/
"Free kicks are a very emotive topic in football, however it seems that the 'random' nature of qootball displaces that emotion from umpires to the sim. One way to look at this is a free kick differential, which aggregates free kicks over a period of time and shows which teams receive more than others.
My Free Kick Table takes this one step further, and aggregates the impact of free kicks on a game-by-game basis to see who won the free kick count in each game. So pretty much what would happen if you replaced goals and points scored with free kicks received."
Here is the Free Kick table at the end of season 29:
And this is how it looked at the end of season 30, after going through a couple of iterations:
"What do the columns mean?" I hear you complain. Well complain no more:
Legend:
Win: Number of games where team's free kicks > opposition's free kicks;
Draw: Number of games where team's free kicks = opposition's free kicks;
Loss: Number of games where team's free kicks < opposition's free kicks;
Points: Like a normal ladder - 4 points for a win, 2 points for a draw, 0 points for a loss;
For: Total number of free kicks received;
Against: Total number of free kicks conceded;
Diff: Differential between number of total free kicks for and against;
Home: Free kick differential for games played at home;
Away: Free kick differential for games played away;
H/A Diff: Differential of home ground free kicks minus the differential of the free kicks from away games;
Victory: Free kick differential for games won;
Defeat: Free kick differential for games lost;
V/D Diff: Differential of free kicks in qooty victories minus the differential of the free kicks in qooty defeats;
%: Differential expressed as a percentage;
Ladder Var: Variation between position in Free Kick Table and Official Qooty (Points Scored) Table.
How bloody good hey?
I know right?
So stay tuned friends as I provide updates over the season as to how your club is faring with the qumpires on a game by game basis in season 31. Or at the very least I burn a bit more time on miscellaneous activities in an effort to entertain myself.
Hello nerds. Welcome back here to the SFA, and welcome to our rookie group for the very first time. The municipality of Sweet is buzzing in anticipation in this the first round of season 31! There's a lot to get excited about - the banter, the camaraderie, the quality media, the qooty, the melting, the shitposting, the statistical analysis, the heartwarming coming of age scenes, the hot takes, the inane AFL chat, the ever more sentient sim edging us ever further to an assimilation into the one world collective hivemind from which there will be no escape. Unfortunately this thread gives you absolutely none of that.
What this thread gives you though is a return of the SFA Free Kick Table, proudly brought to you by:
To remind you on how this works, here's a summary that I've borrowed from the season 30 thread: https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/bobs-stats-the-free-kick-table-for-season-30.1244126/
"Free kicks are a very emotive topic in football, however it seems that the 'random' nature of qootball displaces that emotion from umpires to the sim. One way to look at this is a free kick differential, which aggregates free kicks over a period of time and shows which teams receive more than others.
My Free Kick Table takes this one step further, and aggregates the impact of free kicks on a game-by-game basis to see who won the free kick count in each game. So pretty much what would happen if you replaced goals and points scored with free kicks received."
Here is the Free Kick table at the end of season 29:
And this is how it looked at the end of season 30, after going through a couple of iterations:
"What do the columns mean?" I hear you complain. Well complain no more:
Legend:
Win: Number of games where team's free kicks > opposition's free kicks;
Draw: Number of games where team's free kicks = opposition's free kicks;
Loss: Number of games where team's free kicks < opposition's free kicks;
Points: Like a normal ladder - 4 points for a win, 2 points for a draw, 0 points for a loss;
For: Total number of free kicks received;
Against: Total number of free kicks conceded;
Diff: Differential between number of total free kicks for and against;
Home: Free kick differential for games played at home;
Away: Free kick differential for games played away;
H/A Diff: Differential of home ground free kicks minus the differential of the free kicks from away games;
Victory: Free kick differential for games won;
Defeat: Free kick differential for games lost;
V/D Diff: Differential of free kicks in qooty victories minus the differential of the free kicks in qooty defeats;
%: Differential expressed as a percentage;
Ladder Var: Variation between position in Free Kick Table and Official Qooty (Points Scored) Table.
How bloody good hey?
I know right?
So stay tuned friends as I provide updates over the season as to how your club is faring with the qumpires on a game by game basis in season 31. Or at the very least I burn a bit more time on miscellaneous activities in an effort to entertain myself.



