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Also someone's probably done this already but I can't be bothered checking the whole thread, so it would have been:
2020: Vic (but QLD cause corona lol): ? v ?
2019: WA: Richmond v GWS
2018: Vic: West Coast v Collingwood
2017: Vic: Adelaide v Richmond
2016: Vic: Sydney v Bulldogs
2015: Vic: West Coast v Hawthorn
2014: Vic: Sydney v Hawthorn
2013: NSW: Hawthorn v Fremantle
2012: Vic: Hawthorn v Sydney
2011: Vic: Collingwood v Geelong
2010: Vic: Collingwood v St Kilda
2009: Vic: St Kilda v Geelong
2008: Vic: Geelong v Hawthorn
2007: WA: Geelong v Port Adelaide
2006: NSW: West Coast v Sydney
2005: SA: West Coast v Sydney
2004: QLD: Port Adelaide v Brisbane
2003: QLD: Collingwood v Brisbane
2002: QLD: Brisbane v Collingwood
2001: Vic: Essendon v Brisbane
2000: Vic: Essendon v Melbourne
Only three times in 20 years when the host state wouldn't have had a competing team, each of them in SA (2002, 2003, 2005). That's pretty good.
11 in Victoria, 6 in SA, 2 NSW, 2 WA, 0 Queensland.
Interesting. This is what the reigning premier version would look like, following the logic of, "To be the best, you have to beat the best on their home deck".
I think you'd have some different premiers, though, like Lions vs. Port 2004 at the Gabba might have had a different result. Possibly Hawthorn vs. Freo in NSW.