Who are the league's best kicks?

[Supersuns]

Steven May for us, watch him launch them off the back line. Kicks it's 50 meters and always hits targets

 

[Gumby2Hurley]

Pendles, Hurn, Dusty and Goddard. Dusty and Goddard may miss targets sometimes but they're risk takers.

Suckling most overrated imo only looks good when the rest of the team is playing well.

 

[officialjc]

daniel rich and steele sidebottom

 

[Scotland]

Dustin Martin.

Penetration, accuracy and he doesn't panic in traffic.

Our nominations are poles apart. Sam Mitchell is genuinely ambidextrous and a great decision maker, but he doesn't kick it beyond 45 or so. Andrew Gaff is compact and effective, and his 400 kicks or whatever it is a year would fit on a tight bell curve. If he has 20 kicks in a game then you can guarantee at least 15 of them will be 30-45m flat passes between HB and HF. Lewis Jetta can have his back to play, scoop the ball up off the ground then turn and hit an option no one else even saw 55m away. If he did that more than half a dozen times a season that would be swell. Shannon Hurn can kick a 60m bullet pretty effortlessly, but he doesn't get involved enough of the game and most of his kicks are in the back half in space. He averages 2 inside 50s a game. He'd be a much bigger weapon if that was 3 or 4. Chris Masten has the curious ability to be a technically great kick but an awful decision maker with no awareness or feel for the game.

 

[Eaglespur]

Hurn barely kicks it more than 45 metres nowadays. Him being an elite long kick is a thing of the past.

 

[Rustin Cohle]

daniel rich and steele sidebottom

Sidebottom is not a good kick unless he's aiming directly for goal.

 

[Cmarsh]

Josh Kelly

 

[biaseddustyfan]

dusty can be a great kick but then other times he does too much and ****s it up

dusty's long field kicking is ridiculous but yeah he shanks like half his short kicks lol

 

[Mitchell Madness]

He doesn't get much of a game, but for all the hate schoenmakers gets, he is by far the best long distance kick I've seen. Not only is he a long kick, but he is a consistent kick, and will hit the target 99% of the time over distance. His short kicking is pretty bad though.

Short kick would have to be sam Mitchell, but the player who's best over short and long distance is easily Franklin - even if he's inconsistent kicking at goal

 

[billy fragos]

From the crows Walker's field kicking is incredible when he's on, can kick 50m darts on both feet.

 

[a mayes ing]

The game's most elite kick hasn't played a game yet. He is debuting this weekend by then name of Alex Witherden. Remember than name people

 

[drazah]

I believe this stat is supposed to take that into account. the +% is how much better the outcomes of kicks are compared to the average.

"It assessed the pressure on the kicker along with the kicker's intended target and distance and direction to measure how difficult kicks were and come up with a kick's expected hit rate. The kick rating then shows the player's hit rate minus his expected hit rate to come up with a figure that is plus or minus zero."

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-02-20/who-is-the-best-kick-in-the-afl-the-results-may-surprise-you

Nathan Krakouer! Can't get a game at the moment due to Hinkley's war on kicking efficiency.

 

[Spook]

Buddy is totally underrated in his field kicking. There are times i prefer him up the ground kicking back to targets inside 50 than leading out.

He is so good and gets that many possessions for a 'key' forward he can do both - Lead up and kick for goal and push up win the ball and hit the bulls eye on a target in a congested forward line. Also his overhead marking has seemed to improve again this year on top of last couple of years. The guy is a champ who everyone loves watching play.

 

[Grrr]

Jetta is the best kick in the league hands down

Jetta's game last week for WC was amazing, just a class above everyone on the ground. Pity he doesn't do it more often. His kicking was elite.

 

[avishka5]

Luke Shuey to my surprise is up the in the worst kick rating this year but he is one of the best dual sided players going around.

 

[Rack Watts]

Daniel Rich, what a pity he can't shake a tag.

 

[Yippy Yi Yeo]

Luke Shuey to my surprise is up the in the worst kick rating this year but he is one of the best dual sided players going around.View attachment 384389

Really makes you question the method they use to calculate it, not a chance either Mcgovern or Shuey are amongst the worst kicks in the league. Shuey is hands down one of the best dual sided mids and often nails laser passes through tight gaps. Mcgovern's kicking isn't as good this year as it was last year, but he takes risky kicks more often than most people due to the penetration he can get, and often nails those passes. Very strange results.

 

[PaddyMcClunkin]

Sammy Gilbert for mine.

 

[Power Raid]

dusty

super impressive amongst the pressure and contest

 

[Laverde2Smack]

Someone from my team.

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[Gysberts2Bate]

I wish Jack Watts could kick it to Jack Watts

 

[schmuttt]

Steven May for us, watch him launch them off the back line. Kicks it's 50 meters and always hits targets

Along with Watts, Daniher and Buddy he is one of the best kicks in the league for a KPP.

 

[ashep]

Don't think I've ever seen Buddy miss a target that wasn't the goals.

 

[deck]

is there a stat that indicates a minimal distance covered by a kick? if "player A" chips far more often than "player B"n"player A will have a far better efficiency rating

The rating takes in to account the dificulty of the kick.

 

[Aeglos]

Hurn barely kicks it more than 45 metres nowadays. Him being an elite long kick is a thing of the past.

Noticed the other week his kick outs weren't landing as deep as usual