Interesting stats...

[Roachy8]

Not really huge information but still.
I was rooting around looking at various Tiger statistics this year and when you have a look at marks taken ytd so far...

Equal 1st (50) = Grigg & Houli
Next (45) = Conca

So our top 3 'mark takers' this year so far are in their first year at the club... probably coincedental but also a little surprising.

Also of interest is the player leading in 'average marks per game'... on 7.2 it is Alex Rance!
Many here were concerned about his ability under the high ball... seems to go OK after all perhaps.

Anyway... carry on.

 

[Wallaby]

Grigg, Houli and Conca are our 3 least-regarded HB/mids - so they are the ones that get left alone when we are bringing the ball out from defense. Batchelor plays more of a lock-down role and doesn't push up the ground as much, while Cotchin, Deledio, Newman and Martin are the ones who get the tag and the pressure - so they don't get as many of the easy 'Bowdens'.

A lot of clubs are the same - Heppell is Essendon's 2nd leading mark taker (behind Hooker, with Fletcher a long way behind - yet Fletcher's the guy they would want to get it). Shiels is the leader at Hawthorn.

It shows that a hell of a lot of stats - while fun - are misleading.

 

[Roachy8]

True enough but it does perhaps illustrate the shift in key/quality personel (via drafting and recruitement) that we have available this year plus the evolving of our game plan.

Last years top 10 Tiger mark takers:
Reiwoldt - 123
Deledio - 116
Moore - 106
Newman - 101
Connors - 93
Tuck - 91
Cousins - 68
Nason - 65
McGuane - 62
Astbury - 57

Now half of these guys have not played or hardly played for various reasons in 2011 and the top 3 YTD spots have been filled by new Tigers.

4 to 10 for this year so far:
Newman - 45
Rance - 44
Nahas - 40
Martin - 36
Reiwoldt - 35
Deledio - 34
Vickery/Graham - 30

Quite a different profile so again, reflects our preferred squad this year and the way we are playing I reckon.

 

[SteveoTheTiger]

Change that to Contested Marks and it looks like this...

Top 6
Jack Riewoldt 17
Tyrone Vickery 12
Dustin Martin 6
Brad Miller 5
Brett Deledio 5
Chris Newman 5

The 4 players mentioned..
Bachar Houli 3
Alex Rance 2
Shaun Grigg 0
Reece Conca 0

However you probably dont want Rance trying to take contested marks at FB when a good punch/spoil is usually called for. And the other 3 guys are doing pretty well for inside 50's so to me their spread is good. They are finding space, taking an easy mark and kicking it inside 50.

 

[R.F.C 4 life]

The positive I see with those stats is that Jack has not been able to play one on one all season and his marks tally has suffered because of it, and yet he still leads the Coleman medal race. He has improved his uncanny ability to read the ball off packs and crumb goals from ground level.

 

[Bojangles17]

yeah I too noticed that with JR, not taking nearly the number of marks he did last year, that said he is kicking goals and the load is spread

 

[Del65166]

i love the way jr has adapted to changes and still a dangerous dangerous forward

 

[CallMeAl]

Grigg, Houli and Conca are our 3 least-regarded HB/mids - so they are the ones that get left alone when we are bringing the ball out from defense. Batchelor plays more of a lock-down role and doesn't push up the ground as much, while Cotchin, Deledio, Newman and Martin are the ones who get the tag and the pressure - so they don't get as many of the easy 'Bowdens'.

A lot of clubs are the same - Heppell is Essendon's 2nd leading mark taker (behind Hooker, with Fletcher a long way behind - yet Fletcher's the guy they would want to get it). Shiels is the leader at Hawthorn.

It shows that a hell of a lot of stats - while fun - are misleading.

Stats are not misleading, it's how they are interpreted than can be misleading.