Fixture Who has the easiest/hardest fixture 2022?

[TheUnicorn]

Who and Why ? In your opinions has the best and worst draws for the 2022 season?


According to a Fox Footy artical by Max Laughton
from easiest to hardest.

1. Carlton
2. Adelaide Crows
3. West Coast Eagles
4. Gold Coast Suns
5. Hawthorn
6. Collingwood
7. North Melbourne
8. Richmond
9. Sydney Swans
10. Fremantle
11. Brisbane Lions
12. Geelong Cats
13. Port Adelaide
14. St Kilda
15. GWS Giants
16. Western Bulldogs
17. Essendon
18. Melbourne


According to an AFL artical by "Staff Writers"
from hardest to easiest

1. Western Bulldogs
2. Melbourne
3. Port Adelaide
4. Brisbane Lions
5. GWS Giants
6. St Kilda
7. Essendon
8. Fremantle
9. Sydney
10. Geelong
11. Richmond
12. Collingwood
13. Hawthorn
14. North Melbourne
15. West Coast
16. Carlton
17. Adelaide Crows
18. Gold Coast

 

[Bobmonkey]

Double-up verdict: Who cashed in on the AFL’s ‘weighted’ fixture... including lucky 13th

Winners and losers: Who cashed in on the AFL’s ‘weighted’ fixture... including lucky 13th

www.foxsports.com.au

AFL 2022 fixture difficulty (Easiest to hardest)

1. Carlton
2. Adelaide Crows
3. West Coast Eagles
4. Gold Coast Suns
5. Hawthorn
6. Collingwood
7. North Melbourne
8. Richmond
9. Sydney Swans
10. Fremantle
11. Brisbane Lions
12. Geelong Cats
13. Port Adelaide
14. St Kilda
15. GWS Giants
16. Western Bulldogs
17. Essendon
18. Melbourne

Based on 2021 percentage of the teams they play twice in 2022

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

In my book, Geelong has the easiest fixture every year regardless of who they play, due to the 8 or 9 games they get from playing at Kardinia Park.
That's why they always make the finals and don't perform to the position they finish.
The interstate clubs always have the hardest fixtures due to the amount of travel required.
West Coast and Freo always have a difficult fixture for this reason imo.

 

[1972championsofaust]

Crows... with that fixture should be in contention for 7th-11th place!

 

[schmuttt]

Judgement of fixtures is always rubbish as people use the previous seasons ladder as an indicator, and the ladder is never the same. Early 2018 Melbourne had one of the hardest fixtures then when a grand finalist from the previous year went to s**t in Adelaide we were ‘lucky’ to get them twice.

 

[Mofra]

Melbourne are only playing teams that finished below them. Outrage!

 

[danster168]

Surprise surprise that the dogs get kissed again with an easy fixture. they play sh!t teams twice whereas the dees play the top 4 from last year all twice. Such a joke of a competition.

 

[Sttew]

In my book, Geelong has the easiest fixture every year regardless of who they play, due to the 8 or 9 games they get from playing at Kardinia Park.
That's why they always make the finals and don't perform to the position they finish.
The interstate clubs always have the hardest fixtures due to the amount of travel required.
West Coast always have a difficult fixture for this reason imo.

What's your book called?

 

[The Nostradamus]

Of course we finish last and somehow get the 6th or 7th easiest draw

 

[TheUnicorn]

Of course we finish last and somehow get the 6th or 7th easiest draw

To be fair i think your future looks brighter than pretty much everyone above you apart from maybe Carlton

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

What's your book called?

'The great Kardinia Park rort , Geelong is no longer an isolated country town and other investigations'.- By Martin Flanigan.

 

[Ricky Vaughn]

In my book, Geelong has the easiest fixture every year regardless of who they play, due to the 8 or 9 games they get from playing at Kardinia Park.
That's why they always make the finals and don't perform to the position they finish.
The interstate clubs always have the hardest fixtures due to the amount of travel required.
West Coast always have a difficult fixture for this reason imo.

*, 1st response. Impressive.

 

[Gavin Excell]

All coming up rosy for Carlton

 

[Sttew]

'The great Kardinia Park rort , Geelong is no longer an isolated country town and other investigations'.- By Martin Flanigan.

Luckily you won't have to venture down to Sleep Hollow any time soon given Richmond doesn't play there.

You'll have to tell us one day what Martin means about a "rort" and Geelong no longer being an isolated country town.

 

[Sentinel]

Surprise surprise that the dogs get kissed again with an easy fixture. they play sh!t teams twice whereas the dees play the top 4 from last year all twice. Such a joke of a competition.

Your obsession and delusion knows no bounds. Hilarious to see.

Play all of Melbourne, Geelong, GWS, Sydney and Hawthorn twice, with the AFL website ranking it the most difficult draw of all teams. Fox Footy has it 3rd.

Genuinely pleasing that this somehow bothers you.

 

[Whiskers]

In my book, Geelong has the easiest fixture every year regardless of who they play, due to the 8 or 9 games they get from playing at Kardinia Park.
That's why they always make the finals and don't perform to the position they finish.
The interstate clubs always have the hardest fixtures due to the amount of travel required.
West Coast always have a difficult fixture for this reason imo.

What a nuffy.
3 games in Geelong 2020.
Yet where did we finish? I believe we even accounted for Brisbane easily in a prelim at the Gabba.

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

What a nuffy.
3 games in Geelong 2019.
Yet where did we finish? I believe we even accounted for Brisbane easily in a prelim at the Gabba.

You played 9 games there in 2019.
Get with the program.

 

[WestCoast05]

Your obsession and delusion knows no bounds. Hilarious to see.

Play all of Melbourne, Geelong, GWS, Sydney and Hawthorn twice, with the AFL website ranking it the most difficult draw of all teams. Fox Footy has it 3rd.

Genuinely pleasing that this somehow bothers you.

Slow down there, I think this may be a case of AFL.com.au stuffing up their one job:




As I was horrified (and calling out bloody blue vfl-bias) when I saw this after missing the 8:

 

[Stabby McGee]

It’s only easy if you can beat those teams, and only hard if you can’t.
I’m glad we have ‘the hardest’. To be the best you have to beat the best

 

[danster168]

Your obsession and delusion knows no bounds. Hilarious to see.

Play all of Melbourne, Geelong, GWS, Sydney and Hawthorn twice, with the AFL website ranking it the most difficult draw of all teams. Fox Footy has it 3rd.

Genuinely pleasing that this somehow bothers you.

So ask yourself is Melbourne, Geelong, GWS, Sydney and Hawthorn twice close to playing Port, Brisbane, Dogs, Collingwood and Dockers twice?

I think not. not even close. Melbourne and Dogs cancel out. Hawks and Collingwood cancel out. GWS and dockers cancel out. So the difference is you play Geelong and Sydney twice and we play Port and Brisbane twice. Much easier than ours.

 

[freddy mercury]

Hardest draw is playing Carlton, George Hewett

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13.8

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and Adam Cerra the dynamic duo.

 

[TheUnicorn]

So ask yourself is Melbourne, Geelong, GWS, Sydney and Hawthorn twice close to playing Port, Brisbane, Dogs, Collingwood and Dockers twice?

I think not. not even close. Melbourne and Dogs cancel out. Hawks and Collingwood cancel out. GWS and dockers cancel out. So the difference is you play Geelong and Sydney twice and we play Port and Brisbane twice. Much easier than ours.

Melbourne, Geelong, GWS, Sydney all very strong teams and Hawthorn finished very strong towards the end of the year.

Port, Brisbane, Doggies all very strong teams, Collingwood wooden spoon faves IMO and Dockers nowhere near top 8 IMO.

 

[BrutThough]

So ask yourself is Melbourne, Geelong, GWS, Sydney and Hawthorn twice close to playing Port, Brisbane, Dogs, Collingwood and Dockers twice?

I think not. not even close. Melbourne and Dogs cancel out. Hawks and Collingwood cancel out. GWS and dockers cancel out. So the difference is you play Geelong and Sydney twice and we play Port and Brisbane twice. Much easier than ours.

Dogs are play 4 finals teams twice and the team who finished 14th compared to Melbourne who are playing 3 finals side, the 11th side and the 17th side.

Not sure why you are complaining about it.

 

[Sentinel]

So ask yourself is Melbourne, Geelong, GWS, Sydney and Hawthorn twice close to playing Port, Brisbane, Dogs, Collingwood and Dockers twice?

I think not. not even close. Melbourne and Dogs cancel out. Hawks and Collingwood cancel out. GWS and dockers cancel out. So the difference is you play Geelong and Sydney twice and we play Port and Brisbane twice. Much easier than ours.

So GWS and the Dockers are equivalent, despite one team finishing last season 11th and the other 6th? To a lessor extent, Hawthorn finished 14th compared to Collingwood 17th but they also 'cancel out'.

You ignore the above but think the big difference is Geelong & Sydney vs Port & Brisbane? In 2021 finishing positions that's 1 PF + 1 EF vs 1 PF + 1 SF.

Do you or the AFL have a crystal ball to determine how those respective sides will rise/fall this year?

See my earlier comment about delusion.

 

[Whiskers]

You played 9 games there in 2019.
Get with the program.

*2020