Stats questions

[GrahamClayton]

The first quarter of the Western Bulldogs v Essendon match at Etihad Stadium in Round 19 of the 2017 AFL season featured only one stoppage - a boundary throw-in. I presume that there is no quarter with no stoppages, so is one stoppage the record? If so, how many times has this occurred?

 

[worbod]

No, GRLJ is the first.
Other vowel oddities:

• Facetiously, only Atu BOSENAVULAGI has all five main vowels in his surname. Allowing Y, OAKLEY-NICHOLLS, DOUBLEDAY, HRYSOULAKIS and LOVETT-MURRAY have 5 of 6

Facetious is a word featuring all the vowels in alphabetical order. If we use first and last names, Andrew Demetriou has all the vowels in his name lining up this way. Even though there are three E's, they all appear between the A and the I. Are there any other players where the vowels line up alphabetically when using first and last names?

 

[sabso]

Facetious is a word featuring all the vowels in alphabetical order. If we use first and last names, Andrew Demetriou has all the vowels in his name lining up this way. Even though there are three E's, they all appear between the A and the I. Are there any other players where the vowels line up alphabetically when using first and last names?

Mattaes Phillipou is one.

 

[emuboy]

This year it will be 23 years since there has been an AFL match that produced an aggregate score of more than 300 points. This was a match in June 2003 between mid-ladder team North Melbourne and bottom team the Bulldogs, the Kangaroos prevailing in a high-scoring thriller at Docklands 24.12-156 to 22.13-145.

This is just one of three matches from 2000 onwards that produced an aggregate of 300 points or more. One was a high-scoring win by North Melbourne over Richmond 27.8-170 to 20.14-134 early in 2000 not long after the Docklands Stadium first opened, and the other the famous Essendon win over North Melbourne again at the Docklands in the second half of 2001, the Bombers winning 27.9-171 to the Kangaroos 25.9-159.

Throughout the 2000s and into the early 2010s the Docklands Stadium would frequently see some high-scoring matches (albeit not reaching the 300-point aggregate) that stood out from the increasingly lower scoring games across the AFL, but in more recent years despite its closed roof this trend has not continued and this venue in fact has seen some of the uglier, lower-scoring games.

With games where both teams score more than 100 points or even reach a 200-point aggregate despite changes brought in to increase scoring now rare, I'm not holding my breath that this drought will break this year. At SANFL, WAFL and VFL level things are just the same scoring-wise if not worse, and the only time you see a game with aggregate scores of 200 points or more is when one of the stronger teams is thrashing a long-term struggling team, like West Adelaide in the SANFL, the West Coast Eagles WAFL team or the Northern Bullants in the VFL.

With this in mind, does anyone know the last time there was a 300-point aggregate score in a SANFL, WAFL or VFL match? In the last round of 2010 in the WAFL season there was an extraordinary match between Subiaco and South Fremantle that saw the Lions beat the Bulldogs 33.9-207 to 21.18-144, a match aggregate of 351-points. I don't recall another match getting over 300-points in the WAFL in nearly 16 years since then but if I've overlooked any please post the details, along with any high scoring SANFL or VFL matches.

 

[Wallaby]

The last 20 years or so, the effective focus has been on defensive systems. Until there is a new generation of attacking systems that works, we'll be stuck with predominately low-scoring matches. (Low scoring compared to the 70s-90s).

It will change. - eventually. All sports evolve re differences between attack and defense.

 

[X_box_X]

This year it will be 23 years since there has been an AFL match that produced an aggregate score of more than 300 points. This was a match in June 2003 between mid-ladder team North Melbourne and bottom team the Bulldogs, the Kangaroos prevailing in a high-scoring thriller at Docklands 24.12-156 to 22.13-145.

Haha I love it.

I remember that match. Digby Morrell probably played his best ever match and inspired his team to victory.

 

[emuboy]

The last 20 years or so, the effective focus has been on defensive systems. Until there is a new generation of attacking systems that works, we'll be stuck with predominately low-scoring matches. (Low scoring compared to the 70s-90s).

It will change. - eventually. All sports evolve re differences between attack and defense.

With regards to higher scoring things were looking better in 2024 when there were 9 games where both teams scored 100 points or more, but in 2025 things seemed to fall back again with just 4 of these games in the season. The standard has improved a bit since some of the awful games week after week in the late 2010s and into the early 2020s, but it would be better even if games even with scores like 17.10-112 to 13.10-88 or 19.12-126 to 14.6-90 were the main sort of scores we saw rather than the exception.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

With regards to higher scoring things were looking better in 2024 when there were 9 games where both teams scored 100 points or more, but in 2025 things seemed to fall back again with just 4 of these games in the season. The standard has improved a bit since some of the awful games week after week in the late 2010s and into the early 2020s, but it would be better even if games even with scores like 17.10-112 to 13.10-88 or 19.12-126 to 14.6-90 were the main sort of scores we saw rather than the exception.

An ideal round would see something like:

94-121.
152-191
81-235.
173-195.
157-109.
162-131.
146-158.
155-70.
182-197.

 

[mikey127]

If Dimma gets a flag at the Suns he will have been involved in premierships as a player/coach at 4 clubs has anyone else achieved this?

 

[PonsfordMagpie]

If Dimma gets a flag at the Suns he will have been involved in premierships as a player/coach at 4 clubs has anyone else achieved this?

No one has achieved this.

Four individuals have won premierships with three different clubs as a player and/or coach.

• Ron Barassi (MELB/CARL/NM)
• Leigh Matthews (HAW/COLL/BRIS)
• Mick Malthouse (RICH/WC/COLL)
• Damien Hardwick (ESS/PA/RICH)