Give the Useless AFL stats page a follow.

I'll post any useless Demon related stats here.

This is an interesting one. Since our loss to the Bulldogs by more than 2 points the other week we only hold a positive margin against 3 sides in St Kilda (+1077), Gold Coast (+383), and North Melbourne (+276).

Any chance we get beaten by 1,078 points by St. Kilda this week?

 

Beat this useless stat for 2019 (from 2 weeks ago).

 

The Ides of May?

 

I thought this thread was going to be about useless Demons rather than useless statistics. It's marginally more interesting than what I was expecting. Just.

Edited July 25, 20196 yr by La Dee-vina Comedia
typo

21 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

I thought this thread was going to be about useless Demons rather than useless statistics. It's marginally more interesting than what I was expecting. Just.

I didn't even think of that. Unintentional click bait title. 

Please close this thread before it does my head in

There is only 1 relevant stat - 3 to 17.

 

17 minutes ago, Demonland said:

 

Is it a negative, or is it a positive - in that whilst we are performing poorly - , actually we are relatively so close score wise to our opponents throughout matches?

ps: ripper thread....

My own personal useless stat:

Since choosing to follow Melbourne in 1965, I have experienced 

471 wins

5 draws

743 losses

This includes 31 finals in that period of which we won 18 and lost 13.

Edited July 29, 20196 yr by demonstone
maths

A ? in the hand is worth ? ? in the bush

 

 

You had me at Useless Demons !!

If we lose by 100 points this weekend (very possible), we'll have experienced the largest year-on-year decrease in percentage (as a %, not a subtraction) this century.

Current rate:

Carlton 2001-2002	-43.13%	5th-16th
West Coast 2007-2008	-41.04%	3rd-15th
Melbourne 2018-2019	-40.72%	5th-17th
Richmond 2015-2016	-35.42%	5th-13th
Fremantle 2015-2016	-37.41	1st-16th

 

16 minutes ago, Demonland said:

 

Supports my theory that the leading reason we were awful this year is that Angus Brayshaw was awful. Get him right and we go a long way to fixing our problems.

42 minutes ago, Chook said:

Supports my theory that the leading reason we were awful this year is that Angus Brayshaw was awful. Get him right and we go a long way to fixing our problems.

Him and about half the list Chook!

Brayshaw's third place is the most overrated stat around. We mock Brownlow votes for being ridiculously slanted to midfielders and know full well he wasn't in the top 30 players in the league last year let alone top three but still get caught up in comparing his seasons like there's something new to be learnt. We all know he was ordinary this year, don't need umpires to tell me.

2 hours ago, Supermercado said:

Brayshaw's third place is the most overrated stat around. We mock Brownlow votes for being ridiculously slanted to midfielders and know full well he wasn't in the top 30 players in the league last year let alone top three but still get caught up in comparing his seasons like there's something new to be learnt. We all know he was ordinary this year, don't need umpires to tell me.

Umpires should give 1, 2, 3... 42, 43, 44 votes. 

4 hours ago, Tony Tea said:

Umpires should give 1, 2, 3... 42, 43, 44 votes. 

Would help identify the regulars who shouldn't be playing.

 

 

 

Premierships in the last 54 years ...  we all know that one !!