Tom Mitchell vs Matt Crouch

[La Dispute]

Who would you take?

 

[conrad_437]

Both get a lot of the ball without influencing games a lot, but Mitchell gets slightly more so I'll go with him

 

[adammania9]

Mitchell wins it more and does more with it. Crouch is like Mitchell 12-24 months ago.


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[RobbyRoy]

It's an interesting contest in my view. I feel Crouch is the better footballer in terms of ability, but Mitchell's production level is beyond denial. Of course he's two years behind, but if Crouch can get near Mitchell's level of production last year, and he has the scope to, I think everyone in Adelaide would be very happy.

 

[Back One Out]

Both get a lot of the ball without influencing games a lot, but Mitchell gets slightly more so I'll go with him

Without influencing games much???

Mitchell finished 3rd in the Brownlow with 26 votes
He was selected in the midfield the All Australian team and was a runaway winner of Hawthorn's best & fairest



He was one of only 7 midfielders who were involved >30% of their team's scores

% of their team's "score involvements" (per game)
38.4% Gary Ablett
35.2% Dustin Martin
35.0% Nat Fyfe
35.0% Dayne Zorko
31.8% Patrick Dangerfield
30.8% Scott Pendlebury
30.5% Tom Mitchell




Mitchell was the only player who ranked top 10 for contested and uncontested possessions, effective disposals and tackles.
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure nobody has ever done that before.


Contested possessions
17.9 Patrick Dangerfield
15.6 Clayton Oliver
15.1 Josh P. Kennedy
14.9 Nat Fyfe
14.8 Tom Mitchell
14.7 Ben Cunnington
14.5 Dustin Martin
13.8 Ollie Wines
13.7 Gary Ablett
13.7 Joel Selwood


Uncontested possessions
23.1 Andrew Gaff
21.5 Tom Mitchell
20.7 Rory Laird
20.6 Zach Merrett
20.4 Mitch Duncan
20.2 Sebastian Ross
19.8 Leigh Montagna
19.7 Matt Crouch
19.5 Marc Murphy
19.5 Aaron Hall


Tackles
10.7 Scott Selwood
7.9 Jack Steele
7.8 Matt Priddis
7.8 Rory Sloane
7.7 Brad Ebert
7.0 Dayne Zorko
7.0 Jack Viney
6.9 Clayton Oliver
6.9 Brad Crouch
6.5 Tom Mitchell
6.5 Josh Kelly
6.4 Taylor Adams
6.4 Scott Pendlebury
6.4 Tom Liberatore
6.3 Adam Treloar
6.3 Marcus Bontempelli


Effective Disposals
26.0 Tom Mitchell
23.9 Rory Laird
23.7 Matt Crouch
23.1 Clayton Oliver
23.1 Gary Ablett
22.1 Sam Docherty
22.0 Andrew Gaff
21.9 Josh Kelly
21.8 Mitch Duncan
21.7 Brendon Goddard
21.7 Sebastian Ross
21.7 Marc Murphy
21.2 Zach Merrett
21.2 Jack Macrae
21.2 Lachie Neale
21.0 Scott Pendlebury
21.0 Michael Hibberd





Nobody has ever had as many effective disposals in a season
Nobody has ever had as many effective disposals + effective tackles in a season


Most effective possessions in a season (2001-2017)
Eff Disp, tackles
26.0, 6.5 Tom Mitchell 2017
25.7, 4.2 Gary Ablett 2009
24.5, 4.6 Lachie Neale 2016
23.9, 2.2 Rory Laird 2017
23.8, 3.2 Scott West 2006
23.7, 4.8 Matt Crouch 2017
23.6, 2.8 Scott West 2005
23.6, 2.2 Brady Rawlings 2010
23.6, 3.0 Scott West 2003
23.4, 4.2 Gary Ablett 2010
23.4, 5.5 Gary Ablett 2012
23.2, 3.4 Dane Swan 2012
23.2, 2.7 Peter Bell 2001
23.1, 6.0 Scott Pendlebury 2011




I'm not really sure what more he can do to "influence" games.

Maybe knock a few people out and take some pack marks...

 

[scaryness]

Mitchell wins it more and does more with it. Crouch is like Mitchell 12-24 months ago.


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Crouch wins more ball taking TOG into account.

 

[StonesThrow]

Very similar. Crouch was having a blinder until doing his hammy Thursday night. Both started the season off even better than last year.

 

[Jcpdragonx]

Not because Matt ruined my SC team or anything but Titch easily.

 

[Elite Master]

Both rank up a lot of the ball and don't generally waste it despite not being ultra damaging, but I'd go Mitchell because he does it slightly better and more often.