So let’s narrow this down to the modern VFLW, starting in 2017 at the same time as the AFLW. Records are shonky as prior to that – though a few seasons had a bonus round or three (the latter only in 2011), perhaps cancelled by 3 week final series.
So for EFC, Tamsin can easily win this race in the first half of next year: has played 13+15+15=43 games so far. Dicker is on 41 and debuted for us on the same day, but is older than her.
My first thought was she was probably unlikely to be THE league leader… BUT… the lost season of 2020 makes things interesting. If you had to span over that, you almost certainly would lag behind Tamsin. You’d need to play before 18yo and pretty much not miss a game.
So my first check will be whether any team played 50 games in 2017-2019 (Pies?). The answer is probably no, in which case the chase is narrowed down to 2021 babies.
More to come…