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Watching football can be an emotional experience. Particularly if you don't have children, a mortgage, or other things people often describe as providing perspective.…
Sometimes you become acutely aware that something you are doing is objectively odd. Once I went through the checkout at Woollies with several blocks…
Thanks Ryan – that article of yours makes for interesting reading (and doubles as a trip down memory lane to a time in which clubs battled to be Hawthorn’s sacrificial lamb). The observation about some of the determinations being crude due to nature of the data we have available is a good one. I considered noting that in this piece, but it was starting to get a little lengthy…
Nonetheless I agree with your sentiments regarding it being a useful framework. It’s interesting to note when the data affirms things you may have assumed based on the “eye test”, and even more so when it reveals the unexpected.
Football is a game of opportunities. How did your team use theirs in 2017?
Sorry for the confusion here folks – the tables in my working document were colour coded, which I suspect makes reading the table much easier.
AdelaideDocker is on the money with his reading though. Richmond are ranked sixth for inside 50s conceded, but 1st in the other three defensive measures (rate at which opponent scored with those inside 50s, rate at which they scored goals with those inside 50s, and their opponents were the least accurate in front of goal)
Hope that helps
Football is a game of opportunities. How did your team use theirs in 2017?
Spelt Tom Doedee’s name wrong…. d’oh
Crows good/Crows bad: Round 1 v Essendon