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Most discussion around footy is based around emotion and personal opinions, (which is what makes it interesting). But I thought I would put together a basic graph of our performance between 1987 to 2015 to visualise where we have been and where we are now. It is hard to get passionate and argue about a bunch of colourful lines after all.
Many factors impact a season, like difficulty of the draw, injuries, form slumps and just plain luck; but for the purpose of this exercise just throw all that out and focus on what the data says. Looking at the graph, this is what I see (most of it obvious):
· The contending and rebuilding phases can clearly be seen. We are currently at the beginning of our next contending phase. 2011 and 2012 were outliers; we weren’t ready.
· We have taken about 5 years to build the team from bottoming out to premiership chance for the last 2 cycles (2001-2005 and 2010-2015).
· To be a legit contender, history says we need between 9-11 home wins and at least 6 away wins. The team has always struggled away from home. This is nothing new.
· There was a lag between our home and away performance from 2001. It took a couple of seasons for the away form to pick up to premiership winning level. Could this be happening again now? We are trending in the right direction.
Many factors impact a season, like difficulty of the draw, injuries, form slumps and just plain luck; but for the purpose of this exercise just throw all that out and focus on what the data says. Looking at the graph, this is what I see (most of it obvious):
· The contending and rebuilding phases can clearly be seen. We are currently at the beginning of our next contending phase. 2011 and 2012 were outliers; we weren’t ready.
· We have taken about 5 years to build the team from bottoming out to premiership chance for the last 2 cycles (2001-2005 and 2010-2015).
· To be a legit contender, history says we need between 9-11 home wins and at least 6 away wins. The team has always struggled away from home. This is nothing new.
· There was a lag between our home and away performance from 2001. It took a couple of seasons for the away form to pick up to premiership winning level. Could this be happening again now? We are trending in the right direction.
