I don't have the stats in front of me, I am relying solely on a podcast for this information, but Serong supposedly went at 47% kicking efficiency during the U18 Champs. While Devon Robertson went at 52%.
thats not how DE% works, most players are around 50%-60% kicking and like 80-90% handball efficient (inside mids), so unless you show all the stats they can manipulate some stats to make players look worse in a really simple minded way imo, if you are winning contested ball a lot of times you are gaining meters and not so much spotting up a lead, thats a luxury the outside players have with time and space, winning the ball in tight is a skill in itself, with mostly handballs resulting, sometimes you have to kick because you dont have a team mate available to run past, so your kick is just to gain meterage and hopefully gain momentum, also if your team mate drops a regulation mark then it counts against your DE% as well so you can kick it to a leading forw, he drops it, it counts against you, that scenario was common in this years champs because of a lack of good marking forws ect...
for example last season Sam Walsh went at 52% kicking efficiency in his 12 games at TAC Cup level...... and went at 62% DE% in the TAC Cup, he isnt that bad of a player if you ask me, obviously you would love players to have over 70% DE%, but that also comes with having better team mates imo, like in an AFL environment, he is going at a decent 65.7% at Carlton, anything above 65% is average, 70% is good and 75%+ is really good kicking anyone above 80% is rare/elite and you will find most of those players are the types to get space to use the footy, not the guys who are tackling, digging, extracting the footy, which Serong and Robertson are...
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