Analysis Champion Data reveals which club has the best youth crop in the AFL

[GoTigers2015]

List management is first class now. Turned over almost half our list since the 2017 flag and brought in much better talent.

Out: Ivan Maric, Chris Yarran, Steve Morris, Todd Elton, Taylor Hunt, Jake Batchelor, Ben Lennon, Ben Griffiths, Shaun Hampson, Reece Conca, Anthony Miles, Corey Ellis, Sam Lloyd, Tyson Stengle, Nathan Drummond, Shaun Grigg, Brandon Ellis, Dan Butler, Callum Moore, Jacob Townsend, Connor Menadue.

In: Jack Higgins, Callum Coleman-Jones, Noah Balta, Patrick Naish, Ben Miller, Liam Baker, Derek Eggmolesse-Smith, Tom Lynch, Riley Collier-Dawkins, Jack Ross, Fraser Turner, Luke English, Jake Aarts, Sydney Stack, Marlion Pickett, plus 6 new recruits in the ND/RD

Champion Data has rated our under 23 players equal best with the Western Bulldogs:

Champion Data reveals which club has the best youth crop in the AFL

According to Champion Data, no side in the AFL has a better group of players under 23yo than the reigning premiers.

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Looking at Champion Data’s relative ratings, both Richmond and Western Bulldogs have the league’s best group of players aged 23 and under. Champion Data’s relative ratings rank a player’s performance based on his age, position and output, and according to numbers gathered by the Herald Sun, the most young guns in the AFL below to the Tigers and Dogs.
Both sides have eight players with positive relative ratings, with GWS close by with seven. At the other end of the list, Elliott Himmelberg is Adelaide’s only player that fits the bill.

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Players who have a positive relative rating according to Champion Data
1= Richmond 8
1= Western Bulldogs 8
3. GWS Giants 7
4. Sydney 6
5= Port Adelaide 5
5= Essendon 5
5= Fremantle 5
5= North Melbourne 5
9= Carlton 4
9= Collingwood 4
9= Melbourne 4
12= Brisbane 3
12= Geelong 3
12= Hawthorn 3
12= St Kilda 3
16= Gold Coast 2
16= West Coast 2
18. Adelaide 1

 

[OptimusGrimes]

So many times a team has success and then falls all the way back to the bottom. Not us . The future is bright, both short term and long term.

 

[tigs2010]

Adelaide lol. The gift that keeps on giving

 

[JAKLAUGHING]

WOW...what a big wrap for the Club's work, even when we have won 2 GFs out of the last 3 years...Well done to all!
And the double banger in 2019...AFL and VFL Premierships...Oh the depth! the depth!...

 

[mad_tiggy911]

We’re ****ed now. CD are sh1t and get stuff wrong all the time.

 

[RunningBounce]

Most of the article is weirdly about Norf. They do have some promising young 'uns, but still a strange choice. Maybe they couldn't get a quote from anyone at Richmond or the Dogs...

Would have been interested to see the above average young 'uns named. For us, I'd be guessing - Stack, Higgins, Rioli, Bolton, Castagna, Short, Graham and Soldo, as the 8 under 23 who have played a bit of senior footy.

Happy days, with Balta, CCJ, Ross and Naish comfortably having a similar amount of potential.

 

[Dr Tigris]

Strange that the Blues, Lions etc aren't there.

How do they calculate these stats.

 

[rmcq]

Strange that the Blues, Lions etc aren't there.

How do they calculate these stats.

CD look at AFL player ratings and measure them against the player’s age, considering that players improve as they get older.

The article basically says that Richmond have 8 young players that are above average for their age. Which is the most. Which means our young players are pretty good.

 

[rfctigerarmy]

I feel like it'd be more difficult for a player in a poor performing team to have a good player rating.

Very surprised at Brisbane and Carlton's rankings.

 

[tigs2010]

Strange that the Blues, Lions etc aren't there.

How do they calculate these stats.

Carlton draft 20 kids a year and delist 19 of them 2 years later. Hardly strange

 

[GoTigers2015]

Brisbane should be higher but not convinced after Walsh about the quality of the supporting cast at Carlspoon.

 

[Dr Tigris]

Brisbane should be higher but not convinced after Walsh about the quality of the supporting cast at Carlspoon.

That Betts guy has a great highlights clip though. He's got to be a good long term prospect if a team like Carlton decide to put valuable resources into getting him. No way a team as smart as the Blues will put the short term ahead of the long term given that they had such a brilliant season in not being bottom 2. Next stop contending to be a contender for the bottom end of the 8.

 

[GoTigers2015]

That Betts guy has a great highlights clip though. He's got to be a good long term prospect if a team like Carlton decide to put valuable resources into getting him. No way a team as smart as the Blues will put the short term ahead of the long term given that they had such a brilliant season in not being bottom 2. Next stop contending to be a contender for the bottom end of the 8.

They also jumped in to get a top 6 slider in Stocker

 

[A Banderas]

* off champion data

everything they say is bullshit

 

[rmcq]

This is an example of how its determined.

For players under 25:
Club Leaders (Relative Ratings). Performance relative to expectation based on Age and Position, for players turning 25 or younger in 2019.



Spoiler: Sydney Stack the highest rated player relative to age.

 

[Bojangles17]

WOW...what a big wrap for the Club's work, even when we have won 2 GFs out of the last 3 years...Well done to all!
And the double banger in 2019...AFL and VFL Premierships...Oh the depth! the depth!...

That’s what I’ve tried to tellya , we looked just fine even when rance cotch and jack and nank were out , scary isn’t it

 

[Marcel Proust]

List management is first class now. Turned over almost half our list since the 2017 flag and brought in much better talent.

Out: Ivan Maric, Chris Yarran, Steve Morris, Todd Elton, Taylor Hunt, Jake Batchelor, Ben Lennon, Ben Griffiths, Shaun Hampson, Reece Conca, Anthony Miles, Corey Ellis, Sam Lloyd, Tyson Stengle, Nathan Drummond, Shaun Grigg, Brandon Ellis, Dan Butler, Callum Moore, Jacob Townsend, Connor Menadue.

In: Jack Higgins, Callum Coleman-Jones, Noah Balta, Patrick Naish, Ben Miller, Liam Baker, Derek Eggmolesse-Smith, Tom Lynch, Riley Collier-Dawkins, Jack Ross, Fraser Turner, Luke English, Jake Aarts, Sydney Stack, Marlion Pickett, plus 6 new recruits in the ND/RD

thats nuts

 

[JAKLAUGHING]

thats nuts

But their our nuts!

 

[Marcel Proust]

Carlton draft 20 kids a year and delist 19 of them 2 years later. Hardly strange

half of richmonds premiership side was 24 or under in 2017

6 Grigg, Shaun 29y 164d
14 Houli, Bachar 29y 141d
10 Edwards, Shane 28y 340d
8 Riewoldt, Jack 28y 334d
9 Cotchin, Trent 27y 176d
18 Rance, Alex 27y 356d
12 Astbury, David 26y 216d
2 Grimes, Dylan 26y
4 Martin, Dustin 26y
22 Caddy, Josh 25y 2d
23 Lambert, Kane 25y 308d

35 Broad, Nathan 24y 168d
5 Ellis, Brandon 24y 58d
3 Prestia, Dion 24y 353d
21 Townsend, Jacob 24y 102d
33 McIntosh, Kamdyn 23y 180d
25 Nankervis, Toby 23y 49d
1 Vlastuin, Nick 23y 164d
40 Butler, Dan 21y 119d
46 Castagna, Jason 21y 80d
17 Rioli, Daniel 20y 167d
34 Graham, Jack 19y 217d

 

[Cotcho]

 

[Not Important]

We’re f’ed now. CD are sh1t and get stuff wrong all the time.

see their guru 'luffy' has joined norf as their recruiting manager. they deserve each other.

 

[Mr Unbelievable]

WOW...what a big wrap for the Club's work, even when we have won 2 GFs out of the last 3 years...Well done to all!
And the double banger in 2019...AFL and VFL Premierships...Oh the depth! the depth!...

All I want is whenever our current era ends, we have more flags than any other team, so 17+ ... thats all

 

[JAKLAUGHING]

All I want is whenever our current era ends, we have more flags than any other team, so 17+ ... thats all

That's a reasonable and fair call...

 

[Royce Hafey]

fu** off champion data

everything they say is bullshit

Not when they rate Sheds as elite.

 

[Soberian Tiger]

Champion Data is the Razor Ray of AFL statistics.

Just like Razor, even they can manage to get the occasional thing right. Although, only equal with the Dogs is stretching the Dachshund a tad too far.