I'm just putting this out there as a very basic line by line look at experience between the teams tomorrow for anyone who might be interested.

This may be a one off depending on the response it gets or the lack thereof lol.

Please note that this is the team line ups as named. I'm not expecting the teams to line up exactly in this order obviously. There's so many variables in terms of where they might start, i haven't the time to start guessing and shifting the match ups.

I'd love to include other stats across the lines also and possibly weight them for each position in order to arrive at some sort of comparable 'player rating or ranking' so we can view it pre-match. Stats such as clearances, contested possessions, effective disposals, tackles, contested marks, hit outs to advantage etc. Would take serious time commitment though and not sure how much value it would add, if any, other than for mere curiosity purposes. Then again, we might just find a magic formula for predicting wins/losses and make a fortune lol. Not that i'm condoning betting or anything of that nature

The stats below are purely total games played so far for each player and across each line and the differences between us and the our arch enemy. Stats courtesy of footywire.com. Cheers.

Total Games

Surplus/Deficit by line

BL:

Davis

212

O'Brien

121

Reid

39

372

FL:

Bennell

43

Sylvia

112

Green

230

385

Positional Surplus/Deficit

-169

-9

191

13

HBL:

Toovey

76

Maxwell

147

Shaw

125

348

HFL:

Howe

1

Watts

28

Gysberts

11

40

Positional Surplus/Deficit

-75

-119

-114

-308

C:

Goldsack

59

Sidebottom

46

Wellingham

62

167

C:

Scully

22

Moloney

118

Jurrah

27

167

Positional Surplus/Deficit

-37

72

-35

0

HFL:

Tarrant

242

Dawes

40

Krakouer

111

393

HBL:

Morton

55

Rivers

116

Strauss

3

174

Positional Surplus/Deficit

-187

76

-108

-219

FL:

Didak

192

Cloke

134

Brown L

231

557

BL:

Nicholson

2

Frawley

70

Macdonald

101

173

Positional Surplus/Deficit

-190

-64

-130

-384

Foll:

Wood

52

Pendlebury

112

Ball

176

340

Foll:

Martin

38

Trengove

25

McKenzie

25

88

Positional Surplus/Deficit

-14

-87

-151

-252

Int:

McCarthy

13

Buckley

27

Fasolo

0

Blair

21

61

Int:

Jones

102

Gawn

1

Jetta

27

Evans

3

133

Positional Surplus/Deficit

89

-26

27

-18

72

Arghh. The table didn't post properly. Oh well. I tried lol. Mods can you delete this thread please. Soz

B)

If the formatting of it was better it'd be good, actually. I see what you're getting at.

Nah dont delete it, if you take the time to read it, it makes sense.

Very interesting. Shows regardless of the injuries Collingwoods team is still so so far in front of us in terms of experience.

Maybe I'm not so confident in us winning after all..

Interesting comparison. If I read the table correctly, Collingwood have had 1078 more games experience at 49 more games per a player!

Go Dees

Interesting comparison. If I read the table correctly, Collingwood have had 1078 more games experience at 49 more games per a player!

Go Dees

I think that's pretty correct. I posted the basic experience stats on the 'pinned' Melb/Coll preview post up the top of the forum which is much more readable. Sorry bout the quality of this. Nothing worse than trying to decipher a mess of stats.

I have an excel/word version if anyone would like me to send them a copy. Just leave your email details via my profile if you'd like and i'll send to you this evening/ASAP.

Edited June 12, 201114 yr by Rusty Nails