2024 Free Kick Differential

[Demonland 66,137]

* Melbourne, Collingwood, Sydney & Richmond have all played an extra game. 

[Stevienic23 1,051]

Richmond always find themselves at the bottom of these. Even when they were good. 

[Left Foot Snap 2,009]

1 minute ago, Demonland said:

* Melbourne, Collingwood, Sydney & Richmond have all played an extra game. 

Sydney surprises me.

Also great to see the Bulldogs get their fair share of decisions against for a change!

Interesting to see if West Coast stays so high.

[Lexinator 851]

Gee, wasn't imagining it! Carlton are getting so many rubbish frees and inside their 50 that result in goals!

[Bitter but optimistic 21,483]

That Carlton figure is a disgrace.

[Whispering_Jack 28,027]

I glanced at the figures on my App close to half time and we had a big lead up to then (I think it was around 17 - 8 in our favour). Since it finished at 25 - 24, it looks like Port got the rub of the green in the second half. Either way, I don’t think they can blame the umpires for the loss. 

[BoBo 2,206]

16 minutes ago, Whispering_Jack said:

I glanced at the figures on my App close to half time and we had a big lead up to then (I think it was around 17 - 8 in our favour). Since it finished at 25 - 24, it looks like Port got the rub of the green in the second half. Either way, I don’t think they can blame the umpires for the loss. 

I said it somewhere else, but I watched our frees closely in the first qtr on reply and they were all clear frees. The 2 that we got goals from were Clarry being held so he couldn’t run in to the next contest which is 50m and Allir looking at and jumping into BBB to stop him going for a mark. Clear as day. I was just surprised they paid them at Port but that’s the ground bias coming into it. 

[Biffen 12,397]

Our final against Carlton was highly suspect in umpiring terms.

The AFL ALWAYS has an agenda.

[No. 31 612]

Most defenders struggle against Curnow and McKay, so they resort to measurers that result in free kicks. If you watch the North Melb match closley the North defenders panicked and gave away unnecessary free kicks and silly 50m penalties. Most of them weren't soft either, regulation, by the book frees and 50m penalties.

Curnow & McKay are going to be a handful for most defences this season.

[Rhino 56]

31 minutes ago, Lexinator said:

Gee, wasn't imagining it! Carlton are getting so many rubbish frees and inside their 50 that result in goals!

Carlton always gets rubbish frees in front to Harry and Charlie 

[Demonland 66,137]

Round 4

[Demonland 66,137]

After Round 8

Free Kick Ladder - 2024

Club	FF	FA	Differential
Carlton	166	134	+32
Essendon	151	122	+29
Gold Coast SUNS	174	152	+22
Adelaide Crows	158	141	+17
West Coast Eagles	149	138	+11
Port Adelaide	157	147	+10
Fremantle	145	136	+9
Brisbane Lions	150	148	+2
St Kilda	142	140	+2
Sydney Swans	158	156	+2
Collingwood	174	173	+1
Melbourne	147	147	0
Hawthorn	149	152	-3
North Melbourne	148	153	-5
Western Bulldogs	135	142	-7
Geelong Cats	110	140	-30
GWS GIANTS	121	165	-44
Richmond	117	166	-49

Free Kick Ladder - 2021-2023

Club	FF	FA	Differential
Western Bulldogs	1272	1112	+160
Carlton	1365	1258	+107
Brisbane Lions	1346	1279	+67
Fremantle	1290	1238	+52
Collingwood	1277	1227	+50
Essendon	1254	1217	+37
Melbourne	1254	1221	+33
Geelong Cats	1278	1247	+31
GWS GIANTS	1220	1206	+14
St Kilda	1271	1262	+9
Adelaide Crows	1391	1397	-6
West Coast Eagles	1229	1247	-18
Hawthorn	1232	1263	-31
Sydney Swans	1331	1370	-39
North Melbourne	1252	1326	-74
Port Adelaide	1278	1360	-82
Gold Coast SUNS	1235	1320	-85
Richmond	1148	1375	-227

[jnrmac 19,249]

Can we pre-emptively lodge a complaint to the AFL about he number of frees Carlton will get this Thursday night?

[FearTheBeard 907]

Our zero differential shows how useless the stat is when we have games where we have lost the free kick count 21-9 and won the count 24-12. Its a roll of the dice what the umps are going to do on a given day.

Its all about what doesn't get paid and where certain free kicks are paid(looking at some real soft ones Charlie Curnow is going to get in front of goal)

 

Edited May 7 by FearTheBeard

[Demonland 66,137]

9 minutes ago, FearTheBeard said:

Its all about what doesn't get paid and where certain free kicks are paid(looking at some real soft ones Charlie Curnow is going to get in front of goal)

I wish our forwards got 1/10th of the frees Curnow gets gifted. You can't go near the guy.

[FearTheBeard 907]

11 minutes ago, Demonland said:

I wish our forwards got 1/10th of the frees Curnow gets gifted. You can't go near the guy.

Doesn't help that the AFL want Carlton to do well.

[JTR 2,660]

3 hours ago, Demonland said:

I wish our forwards got 1/10th of the frees Curnow gets gifted. You can't go near the guy.

This is a bit of a myth. This season he has had 9 frees in 8 games.  Of those, 7 of the 9 frees were in games vs North and Adelaide, and in the remaining six games there have been four games where he hasn't received a free at all.

 

Edit - just went and checked last season.

Including finals, he played 26 games and got 39 frees. 

Of those 39 frees, 11 were in two games vs the Filth (LOL) and another 11 were in three games vs North, Saints & West Coast. 

Remaining 21 games he had 17 frees in total, including nine games where he didn't get any at all, two of which were against us.
 

Edited May 7 by JTR

[Demon Dynasty 15,857]

The Tiges are constantly on the bottom.  What's with that?

Three premierships in four years was enough for HQ?

[Demonland 66,137]

26 minutes ago, JTR said:

This is a bit of a myth. This season he has had 9 frees in 8 games.  Of those, 7 of the 9 frees were in games vs North and Adelaide, and in the remaining six games there have been four games where he hasn't received a free at all.

 

Edit - just went and checked last season.

Including finals, he played 26 games and got 39 frees. 

Of those 39 frees, 11 were in two games vs the Filth (LOL) and another 11 were in three games vs North, Saints & West Coast. 

Remaining 21 games he had 17 frees in total, including nine games where he didn't get any at all, two of which were against us.
 

I must have just watched all those games.

[FearTheBeard 907]

1 hour ago, Demon Dynasty said:

The Tiges are constantly on the bottom.  What's with that?

Three premierships in four years was enough for HQ?

Because they were and are dirty and have terrible tackling technique particularly around peoples necks.

[Redleg 37,929]

On 02/04/2024 at 08:18, Bitter but optimistic said:

That Carlton figure is a disgrace.

A lot about that club is disgraceful, starting with their supporters.

[1 red eye 1 blue eye 759]

The Fam and I were at the Carlton end at the final last year, horrendous, so many of them visibly shaking with aggression! There’s passion but that was something else.

[roy11 3,004]

15 hours ago, Demon Dynasty said:

The Tiges are constantly on the bottom.  What's with that?

Three premierships in four years was enough for HQ?

 

Really is fascinating. 

[Demon_spurs 1,693]

Do OOB on the full count as free kicks? On Sat night Geelong kicked at least 7 OOB on the full, if these are counted as legitimate free kicks then it sort of skews the numbers

[monoccular 16,323]

On 07/05/2024 at 15:53, FearTheBeard said:

Our zero differential shows how useless the stat is when we have games where we have lost the free kick count 21-9 and won the count 24-12. Its a roll of the dice what the umps are going to do on a given day.

Its all about what doesn't get paid and where certain free kicks are paid(looking at some real soft ones Charlie Curnow is going to get in front of goal)

 

It of course doesn’t account for the unpaid frees - we could start a book on how many throws Cripps will get away with Thursday.