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What unpopular AFL opinions do you have? (Part 1 - cont in Part 2)
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Neither do I but Supercoach is life.
I think context matters for all stats, including the ones you've accepted as legitimate. I don't think there's anything wrong with a commentator saying "team x is really getting beaten in the middle, they're -15 for contested possessions this quarter" Observations backed up with evidence.
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Starting to understand why you think Rance is overrated.
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Man on one site tells men who use other site they are sad.
Surely you should only make AFL commentary via a media gig when following your analogy to it's ridiculous conclusion.
Bit random I know, but I've always thought neither Nick Riewoldt's or Jonathan Brown's famous running back with the flight of the ball marks were either that good or that courageous because they were actually both essentially charging forward at the time and could see what was coming. They were in fact much more likely to injure someone else rather than themselves given their momentum. Its more courageous when a defender has to go backwards with the flight not knowing whats coming behind and also knowing that if they get hit they will come off second best because they lack the momentum of a charging defender.
It's an observation backed up with evidence but still doesn't tell us much. What we really want to know is why. What's the difference between the first and second quarter, and not in stats, but in actual game play. Did someone's tagger go off injured? Is it because they've forced more stoppages? That's context.
Some of the predictive stats are just as bad - when team X gets Y number of I50s per game, they are 40% more likely to win. Well, that's nice, but what happens to give them a higher number of I50s? It is because their midfield gets more touches, do they have more tackles inside F50?
I love my stats, don't get me wrong, but their use is pretty superficial.
To be fair to commentators, and most commentators make me want to tear my hair out, it's difficult to know what tactics and strategy are helping and hurting a team at any time, given the game moves fairly quickly, and it's hard to analyse a team's structures without some inside knowledge on what they're doing. Often those things happen because of broader structural changes in the game, rather than the actions of a specific player.
I see analysis of football games done after the fact on internet sites, and they're far more in depth as the game moves slower, there's less players and tactics are more pronounced and varied. But even in football, I don't hear it during commentary. It seems difficult to do that whilst the game is going on. I think the only games where that happens is a) gridiron, where it's purely situational tactics of specific downs, which can be broken down by say a QB commentator between downs and b) cricket which is a slower game with less moving parts and a simpler strategy (try and bowl the opposition, or intimidate them with short pitched bowling).
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Exaggerating obviously. Don't stress, my fiance, my dogs, my footy club, study, work and good beer are all 'life' long before Supercoach. But a game centred around the stats of football making potentially uninteresting games interesting is bloody good fun all winter.
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You could make a case that calling people out on harmless things they do for fun, is, well sad.
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Am i the only person who thinks the AFL have got it completely wrong when they base suspensions on the extent of damage inflicted?
So many times I have seen hard heads get whacked...but because they are tough nothing happens.
And it makes the medical reports somewhat political.
So many times I have seen hard heads get whacked...but because they are tough nothing happens.
And it makes the medical reports somewhat political.
The amount of airtime and attention the AFLW is getting. I do not give a crap about it, it angers me that it’s being shoved down my throat. Gill, AFL 360, On the Couch, news, radio, etc can go and get stuffed in the way they are trying to combine it in among the real stuff. It’s sport not a political statement!
Good on women playing footy/sport given all the benefits that go wth it but have another dedicated show or channel for those that are interested.
Good on women playing footy/sport given all the benefits that go wth it but have another dedicated show or channel for those that are interested.
The Bulldogs are wasting valuable time in appealing suspensions!
Yes, penalise the action, not the largely out of control consequences. What are they going to do if a seccesion of sling tackles results in minor damage and minor penalties, then the next one, with exactly the same action results in brain damage. Especially if the small penalties lead to players being less careful.
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The AFL women are not professionals. Put on women’s netball or soccer where they actually deserve the media attention.
AFL women should be required to do the same training as the men before they receive the same attention.
And, not my point, women should be required to play 5 sets in tennis to earn the same prize money.
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Valuable time for what?
Are players and staff not training/working while waiting for this to go through?
wasting the appeals staffs time for one
Its an open and shut case. She already had a repremand over her head. Do the crime, do the time.
The AFLW GF format is much better than the AFLM finals format.
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It’s certainly not open and shut as to whether there was a crime. It was an odd one to be picked up.
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It couldn't work in AFLM because of the inequity in the Home and Away fixture.
yes true, that brings me to my second point.
Divisional football.
Two leagues, promotion/regulation.
Two extra teams come in, two leagues of 10.
A lot more detail, but that is the gist of it.
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