Stats observations

[emuboy]

The following scores have never occurred as a team’s final score in any VFL/AFL match, although all scores obtained by adding or subtracting one goal or behind have:

1. 9.27 [(81)]
2. 10.26 [(86)]
3. 17.28 [(130)]
4. 18.26 [(134)]
5. 25.8 [(158)]
6. 23.26 [(164)]
7. 24.24 [(168)]
8. 28.11 [(179)]
9. 27.24 [(186)]
10. 28.20 [(188)]

Which seems the most improbable non-occurrence do you think?

In 1991 there were two unique and quite similar (inversed) scores which had not occurred before and never since. The first was 27.28-190 by Geelong in a 102-point demolition of the Brisbane Bears (12.16-88) at the GABBA in Round 4, the second was 28.27-195 by Hawthorn when it thrashed Fitzroy (10-9-69) by 126-points at Princes Park in Round 21.

Although other teams have scored 190 and 195 points in other games, no team has kicked the same exact scores as the Cats and Hawks did against the Bears and the Lions back in 1991, and now probably never will.

Another interesting case involving a strange lack of flexibility with scoring combinations is a match in which one team doubles its opponents score to win by 51-points, i.e. 102 vs 51. This has only come up four times, but in each time it has only ever been 15.12-102 vs. 7.9-51. This was by Footscray over Melbourne in the 1954 Grand Final, astonishingly another win by the Bulldogs over Melbourne in 1977, a win by Melbourne over Carlton in 1948 (interestingly a Demon premiership season) and a victory by St Kilda over Hawthorn in 1929.

Yet despite these scores appearing fairly average across all eras of football, that it has been seen so infrequently and with no variation is a little odd. There has never been an accurate game with scores of 16.6-102 to 8.3-51, variations of the existing score such as 14.18 to 7.9 or 15.12 to 6.15, or an inaccurate match resulting in scores of 13.24 to 6.15.

 

[GrahamClayton]

After Ron Dunn transferred from Fitzroy to Essendon for the 1952 VFL season, Essendon would not take in a player from another club until 1972, with Des Tuddenham transferring from Collingwood and Bruce Brown from Melbourne.

 

[Lingsface]

Clinton Benjamin and Warren Benjamin are two brothers drafted to the AFL, both didn't play a game of AFL. Are they the only brothers to ever do this?

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Warren Benjamin

In 2009 and 2010, the Roos had:

Benjamin Warren.
Warren Benjamin.

Not sure this has happened before and definitely hasn't happened since among teammates.

 

[mianfei]

After Ron Dunn transferred from Fitzroy to Essendon for the 1952 VFL season, Essendon would not take in a player from another club until 1972, with Des Tuddenham transferring from Collingwood and Bruce Brown from Melbourne.

No doubt they only did so because they had been so bad in 1971, winning only four games and none against the top eight clubs (though they did draw with Collingwood in Round 3).

Reminds me of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club only using players from inside the county until the featherbed pitches — actually more like modern covered pitches than those of other county grounds at the time — in the immediate postwar years at their home venue of Trent Bridge precluded any local spin bowler developing. As a result, with spin important on the uncovered pitches at the time, Nottinghamshire engaged Australian Bruce Dooland, who was the leading first-class wicket-taker in his first two seasons and won them almost as many games in two seasons as in the previous seven.

 

[emuboy]

In 2009 and 2010, the Roos had:

Benjamin Warren.
Warren Benjamin.

Not sure this has happened before and definitely hasn't happened since among teammates.

Sometimes you get players with very similar names at the same time, like Ricky Nixon (Carlton, St Kilda and Hawthorn) and Richard Nixon (Richmond) in the late 1980s and early 1990s (although they were never opponents in the same match). There's also Matthew Mansfield (Bulldogs plus a year at Fitzroy without a senior game) and Matthew Manfield (Fitzroy & Richmond) in the 1990s, with Michael Mansfield (Geelong and later Carlton) thrown in for good measure.

But I've never seen this with inverse names before, much less at the same club just a year apart like with Benjamin Warren and Warren Benjamin, this is absolutely amazing.

 

[stemline]

Yeah that is bizzare. Probably beats Hawthorn trading out Mitchell and Lewis and instantly picking up Mitchell Lewis

2

Mitchell Lewis

Age

27

Ht

199cm

Wt

99kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

9.5

2star

K

5.9

2star

HB

3.6

3star

M

3.4

3star

T

1.3

3star

G

1.2

4star

D

4.3

1star

K

2.8

1star

HB

1.5

1star

M

0.8

1star

T

0.3

1star

G

0.3

3star

D

8.6

3star

K

4.6

2star

HB

4.0

3star

M

2.6

3star

T

1.8

4star

G

0.6

3star

.

 

[X_box_X]

Another bizarre and uncommon theme are sets of brothers being TV stars and AFL footballers.

Jonathan Griffin played for Adelaide and Fremantle while his brother Peter Griffin was a star on Fox Network's Family Guy.

Adam Simpson, former North Melbourne premiership star as a player and West Coast premiership coach is the brother of Fox Network's Homer Simpson.