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Go home factor,lol I'd hate to see how they would cope if they were international soccer or basketball players .

 

Alot of soccer players come from hellholes like central and south America and Africa.

Those guys would literally run to the airport and never look back. Go home to hell factor not applicable.

  On 23/11/2023 at 00:02, Little Goffy said:

There's some weird use of parameters in those stats, and it completely misguides about what is going on.

The most glaring is 'Games played before exit' including only players who have already finished at AFL Level, meaning that for the incredibly successful 2015 draft where all but one player from the first round is still active at AFL level, that one player (Kieran Lovell) is the entire stat with his 2 games in three seasons before being delisted. Similarly, comparing 'how many seasons before delisted' for a recent draft which will only have early-cut players in the sample with a draft where players have had time to play out full careers is just silly.

I'm going to indulge the 2015 draft tangent:

B:       Burton        B McKay        Himmelberg

HB:     Mills          Weitering         D Rioli

C:      Fiorini          Parish            Kennedy

HF:    Gresham     C Curnow      Milera

F:      Hipwood      H Mckay       Ah Chee,

FOLL:   (M Flynn)   Oliver          Hopper

Doedee, Weideman, Schache, Francis, Cunningham,

Matthew Flynn wasn't taken in the first round but was a GWS academy selection and the first ruck taken in that draft, so I've thrown him in to complete the starting 18 for aesthetic reasons.

2015 was, by a solid margin, the best first round draft ever. The only other first round even in the conversation would be 2005.

Anyway... sloppy use of statistics irritates me.

[rant over]

I do recall a reading a book during my economics degree called " How to lie with statistics." 

A good read indeed.

 
  On 24/11/2023 at 07:20, Deebauched said:

Alot of soccer players come from hellholes like central and south America and Africa.

Those guys would literally run to the airport and never look back. Go home to hell factor not applicable.

That’s very Trumpian of you. Disgusting comment from you again. 

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