Dons currently where our team experience says we should be.
Bomberblitzes favourite master coach, Brad Scott, took the leagues 5th most experienced team to 14th on the ladder.
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Art of the spare hardly mentions stats at all. Not that theres anything wrong with that.
Fascinating.
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Also shows how good Richmondâs system is the fact that they rank #10 on individual experience per game.
No matter what the individual experience, they play a role and can slot into the system without too much disruption to the overall team game-plan.
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Also Freo punching above their weight IMO due to another systems based coach in Ross Lyon.
SoâŚwho is going to tell him?
Richmond interesting theyâve still got plenty of shared experience- youngsters integrating into a well established team.
Ross is simply a marvel in his ability to gel a group into a cohesive system quickly (what one thinks about said system on the other handâŚ)
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Finally the answer to what a Bentick is.
Hap or Choppy for me.
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Why is pairwise experience per game?
The amount of games players in the team have played with each other.
This was covered in Footballistics, and as shown here isnât a particularly strong indicator of likely performance. Does likely reflect whether teams have favoured a trade heavy or âgrow your ownâ approach to list management.
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Interesting, kinda throws out the Woosha cohesion and time together excuses.
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Yep.
Personally I think an underrated idea (which I have no stats for!) is experience depth.
When Gaff got suspended last year the Eagles put Sheed in his role and were barely worse off for it. Ditto the Pies when Treloar went down and Adams stepped up.
Our best 22 looks solid, but we donât have many 100+ gamers ready to roll when the injuries start.
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I mean you could statistically analyse it, but there are so many parameters to try capture itâd be well beyond the required effort.
An example would be: Say a midfielder goes down. Do you count depth as shifting a best 22 player off a flank into the midfield and replacing the flanker, or bringing in a depth midfielder as like for like? Then youâd have to calculate all those permutations for every position.
Edit: I know other sports have depth charts, but they are often where players specialize in one role. That is less common in AFL.
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Freo vs Norf is an interesting tale.
That approx 100 game mark appears to a bit of a milestone too. I think the more of them you have the better, but i have no data on it at all.
HPN have us with an elite defense, average midfield and poor forwardline.
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Agree on that.
No coincidence that our injuries have been nearly entirely focused in the forward line.
There was an article on Fox Footy that ranked teams accuracy based on their actually conversion compared to their expected conversion - when taking into account the type of opportunity created.
While we are middle of the pack for conversion, I was fairly alarmed to see that we had (by quite a way) the worst expected conversion in the league.
I think - and please correct me if Iâm reading this wrong, that this means we are creating the worst shots on goal in the competition and would lend weight to the feeling you get watching us that our forward line isnât functioning well at all.
Hereâs the table
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