AFL Autopsy Smashed by port

[Old Campaigner]

I don't understand the pressure rating. Is it a combination of various stats like tackles, turnovers etc?

Not surprised we were lowest though, we were awful.

THE PRESSURE RATING

SET - Manning the mark = 75

NO PRESSURE - No opponents nearby to force a decision in live play = 100

CORRALLING - Defender guarding space in front of ball carrier = 120

CHASING - Defender gaining ground from behind a running ball carrier = 150

CLOSING - Defender taking ground from ball carrier from front or side = 225


PHYSICAL - Contact made with ball carrier at or before disposal = 375



“Every time someone disposes of the ball, there’s a pressure rating on that disposal,” Simpson said.

The formula for the rating is simple. You add up all the points value and then divide that number by the number of acts.

For example, in a passage of play, a defensive team accumulates 1225 rating points. That play involved eight events, which means the pressure rating is 153.

 

[SpeckieMcVeigh]

THE PRESSURE RATING

SET - Manning the mark = 75

NO PRESSURE - No opponents nearby to force a decision in live play = 100

CORRALLING - Defender guarding space in front of ball carrier = 120

CHASING - Defender gaining ground from behind a running ball carrier = 150

CLOSING - Defender taking ground from ball carrier from front or side = 225


PHYSICAL - Contact made with ball carrier at or before disposal = 375



“Every time someone disposes of the ball, there’s a pressure rating on that disposal,” Simpson said.

The formula for the rating is simple. You add up all the points value and then divide that number by the number of acts.

For example, in a passage of play, a defensive team accumulates 1225 rating points. That play involved eight events, which means the pressure rating is 153.

For context, the all-time low score vs Port was 149, less pressure than spending an entire game chasing.

161 was the score vs Hawthorn, slightly more pressure than chasing for a whole game.

 

[bombersim]

I think it’s been that in perpetuity. We’ve refused to rebuild properly and we’ve recruited poorly. I’m hoping we’ve turned the corner with the latter but that’s all it is, hope. We needed to offload some senior players who still have currency. We needed to make tough decisions with players that were all love (or don’t).

This. We have never rebuild correctly - always half arsed. At least now we will get through elite talent in by finishing low on the ladder (probably last), largely by force.
If the hierarchy has any brains whatsoever, they will trade Merrett and others to accelerate the rebuild.

Keeping Brad around - even as a development coach - I think we’ll hold the team back, as he has proven incapable of actually teaching a modern game plan, and having the capacity to motivate players.
Also, I’d rather play a whole team of junior players who give their all but get flogged, then have half of them senior players who don’t try and pass on bad habits, and get flogged anyway.

Time to cut away the deadwood of the previous generations that have passed down entitlement from the post saga players that stayed, and rebuild correctly, properly, and not to appease the moronic part of the supporter base that doesn’t want a rebuild.
Play all the kids (even Tsatas), see what they can do, and get serious about a rebuild.

Also, if we could get a Luke Hodge style leader and general, that would be ideal.
But get some experience players in, that have experience actually worth having, and not the crap we have now.

 

[bombersim]

Did you rant like this when we turned down the offer? You are ranting with post-loss emotion. The offer was shit and really wouldn’t have helped our rebuild. We did well to get pick 13 anyway. We’d be handing Hawthorn the last piece of their premiership puzzle too. That trade wasn’t getting us out of the shit. We got the perfect draft haul as far as I could see. The kids we got in all look very likely types. There’s so many other things we need to get right. Keeping Merrett has a lot more merit than you think.

We could have said you can go, if you are open to other offers. Had did it been known early, who’s to say he wouldn’t have gone to the Gold Coast rather than Petracca, and we’d have two top 10 pics? If he didn’t want to go interstate, there would’ve been numerous Victorian clubs interested in acquiring him.

At the very least, it would have given other clubs time to put together an appealing package and sell their vision to him. Instead, we sat on our hands waiting for Hawthorn to give us something of note, and shot ourselves in the foot by waiting till the end of trade period, rather than make clear our demands for a player of note up front.

Someone will reply with that we did that, but that was later in the trade period, and our real position was we were going to hold him regardless.

The Hawthorn offer wasn’t great, but will we get any better this year, particularly after Zack plays out a very predictably depressing year? And if he gets injured, we are massively fluffed.

Two things can be true at the same time - that the Hawthorn offer was ordinary (and the delivery of it downright disrespectful), but that we should have traded Zach. We played it all wrong and got a crap outcome, and we have less leverage this year. More Essington crap.

 

[Blind Turn]

We could have said you can go, if you are open to other offers. Had did it been known early, who’s to say he wouldn’t have gone to the Gold Coast rather than Petracca, and we’d have two top 10 pics? If he didn’t want to go interstate, there would’ve been numerous Victorian clubs interested in acquiring him.

At the very least, it would have given other clubs time to put together an appealing package and sell their vision to him. Instead, we sat on our hands waiting for Hawthorn to give us something of note, and shot ourselves in the foot by waiting till the end of trade period, rather than make clear our demands for a player of note up front.

Someone will reply with that we did that, but that was later in the trade period, and our real position was we were going to hold him regardless.

The Hawthorn offer wasn’t great, but will we get any better this year, particularly after Zack plays out a very predictably depressing year? And if he gets injured, we are massively fluffed.

Two things can be true at the same time - that the Hawthorn offer was ordinary (and the delivery of it downright disrespectful), but that we should have traded Zach. We played it all wrong and got a crap outcome, and we have less leverage this year. More Essington crap.

There’s a good chance he’ll win our BnF again. If not he’ll still be our best player. We can still work at getting a top ten pick for him if we have multiple clubs bidding. Thats a decent risk to take for the preservation of contract integrity. You don’t get bent over by one club when your captain is contracted. Thats a precedent you don’t want when you’re a struggling club. We didn’t need 3 picks in the last draft either. The ‘take whatever you can get’ mentality is a loser mentality.

 

[MiguelM]

14 players did not lay a tackle (both teams combined).

That is as bruise free as you can get. That is what the AFL want I suppose.

Still, to win finals you must put your body on the line.

Really miss the contested fooy I grew up with.

 

[Calthorpe14]

14 players did not lay a tackle (both teams combined).

That is as bruise free as you can get. That is what the AFL want I suppose.

Still, to win finals you must put your body on the line.

Really miss the contested fooy I grew up with.

Johnson, Nguyen, Wright & McKay are yet to lay a tackle so far this year.

All would want to see a big lift this week

 

[MiguelM]

Johnson, Nguyen, Wright & McKay are yet to lay a tackle so far this year.

All would want to see a big lift this week

Maybe we need to invite some of the Rugby boys down to training and do a few sessions!

 

[EnolaGay]

To put things into perspective, the pressure rating we had against Port was the lowest single game rating in the history of the stat, which goes back I think 13 years.

See, we can win at something!

 

[jdstorm]

Maybe we need to invite some of the Rugby boys down to training and do a few sessions!

How bout some of the run it straight boys