New year so thought I'd run through some of the footy stuff I've been proud of over the course of 2023. First priority for 2024 is properly automating the visual match reports.
Suggestions on improvements, new ideas, what you'd like to see more or less of more than welcome.
@_tdprater
@MichaelJ0087
@sassybibrarian
A “small” number of actual offenders doesn’t matter when the church as an institution decided to protect offenders and allow them to continue abusing children. The entire church disgraced itself, as do any who attempt to defend or downplay it.
2020 - dogs match bid for JUH at pick 1
2021 - rules change to disallow matching for high picks
2023 - dogs draft Sanders from North NGA at pick 6
2024 - rules change to re-allow matching high picks again
Must be nice.
@realCarrickRyan
You’re missing the important context that Ben is catering to an audience consisting solely of the stupidest people ever to walk the Earth.
Very excited to be able to put out version 1 of my AFL single-page match report.
I'll do a quick summary in this thread, and based on feedback will turn that into something a bit more detailed on my blog.
You're one-on-one inside 50 with a 9-gamer, surely you're safe? ...not if it's Harley!
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Has he considered….not whacking people off the ball?
Absolutely farcical stance by the PA to put the interests of the ones repeatedly being dickheads above the interests of those that might just want to play footy without copping random punches to the gut
floating fixture doesn't go far enough. Only the home team should be announced ahead of time.
They run out onto the ground, everyone is looking around
*glass shatters*
*Birds of Tokyo starts playing*
A month and chance since Angus Brayshaw retired
Two days since Spud’s game
Half an hour since a player got stretchered off after high contact
Can the prime time commentary team maybe not describe a big forearm to the back of someone’s skull as “making him earn it”?
80,000 members, finals on the line, against the
#1
team that has a strong Victorian following and the crowd is 33k?
I’m sure that will get as much scrutiny as Melbourne has the past couple weeks.
Bont is comfortably the best dog ever yeah? Captaining a premiership or a brownlow would be the icing, but I don't think it's actually necessary for him to be
#1
LISTEN | Port's Darcy Bryne-Jones denies there was a plan to target Izak Rankine in the Showdown.
"There was no formal plan to target Izak... I don't think you go into any game trying to target, or injure any player. He's so talented you've got to put time into stopping what he
If criminally charging sam kerr for calling some idiot cop a stupid white bastard isn't enough to get a republic referendum up then what is wrong with this country.
This is the stupidest thing the tribunal has ever said. He gets off with a fine for rough conduct because he has an excellent record due to having got off with a fine in his three previous charges of rough conduct
@FOXFOOTY
The AFL Tribunal found that this was 'medium' impact, but downgraded the sanction from a one-match ban to a fine based on exceptional and compelling circumstances.
Here are the full reasons on that:
We turn now to exceptional and compelling circumstances.
We find that those
all the players that have been suspended for tackles are going to be pretty miffed that they should have actually got off because they were football acts
There is no suggestion Maynard jumped off the ground to knock Brayshaw out.
He jumped off the ground to spoil. A football act.
Goodwin is sticking up for his player, I get it - but his description in the press conference seems strange
How scoring chains start gets used more and more in mainstream coverage, but I'm not sure I've seen a good guide as to what you should expect as a baseline - so here's the averages for this season
Probably not something I'll do every week, but thought I'd play around with finding and pulling key vision. So in
#AFLPiesSwans
@sydneyswans
had 10 inside 50s resulting in a mark or free kick within the corridor.
Q1
#1
- Grundy ruck free, direct to Amartey
One of the most galling things about
#freekickdogs
is the covering for it by commentators. Blatant dropping the ball there and they just stare at the replay in silence.
#AFLDogsSwans
@KetanJ0
@WithDownes
Almost like we need to legislate producers having responsibility for the whole of lifecycle impacts of their products. If only we had some kind of act for the stewardship of products sitting there ready to go…
Melbourne has played 10 of our last 15 H&A games vs geelong @ kardinia park, so personally I'd like it if essendon, carlton, collingwood occassionally had to travel more than 5 minutes to share the load a bit.
Possibly a bit mad, but what if xScore but for general play?
What is the expected next scoring event if you take a mark/free-kick on the field... Lots more to do on this, and probably need to do a proper post to work through it. Has potential though I think.
This week: a look into what makes up a contested possession and whether they really matter.
Huge thanks to Andrew (
@andrew_whelan
@WheeloRatings
) for collaborating on this one. Wheelo is about the best single source for AFL stats right now.
@Paul_Karp
Australian journalists almost universally have two approaches to assessing policy: ignoring the policy altogether and commenting only on how it will affect opinion polls, or attempting gotcha questions on statistics. zero room for actual meaningful analysis.
How does an afl standard umpire miss this? Clear best position in the marking contest, and the opponent just shoves in the back with both arms. Where else was the dickhead looking?
Thought this raised some interesting questions, so tried to shed some light on the subject - probably badly in need of an edit but hopefully it's worth a quick read nonetheless -
AFL Ratings don't make any sense.
Banfield & Sturt & Tom McDonald better than Treacy?
Oliver & Pickett & Billings (sub) better than Fyfe?
Langdon better than Sharp?
Amiss, Freddy Turner & JVR worst few on ground?
Melksham better than May?
#AFLFreoDees
🤦♀️
Do non-victorian fans actually think we're sitting around going "oh no, I'm shattered the people I have to share a city with aren't doing better than us".
If my team isn't winning, I want everyone else within 100km to be miserable with me.
@thhamilton
“Those who were shielded by the lockdowns” - look I’m not saying an army consisting entirely of 80 year olds and the immunocompromised can’t work, but there’s probably a reason it hasn’t been tried before.
If accurate it’s an absolute disgrace by the club to have let him back on the field. Players are competitors and will generally want to compete, it’s the clubs job to step in and protect players from themselves when needed.
Via
@tommorris32
: Christian Petracca had surgery overnight. He sustained four broken ribs, lacerations to the spleen, plus a small puncture in the lung.
The extent of his layoff will become clearer over the next few days.
#9WWOS
#AFL
Debuting a new module on matchSLICE for
#AFLCrowsDees
- territory and timeline, as well as putting in some additional explanations to help read each module which I've been meaning to do for some time
@abcnews
How is converting owner-occupier properties to investment properties a solution? The would-be owners don't just disappear, instead of owning a place they're competing with other renters and increasing demand.
@sirswampthing
@AFL
@aflwomens
List of players that have kicked 5 goals in a game at Optus Stadium since September 9 2021
MAX GAWN
BAYLEY FRITSCH
DAISY PEARCE
Some really quick and dirty rankings from the season so far. The most obvious thing that sticks out is that the best teams care a lot less about winning stoppage, and a lot more about what they do post-stoppage both attacking and defending