The AFL 2025 Fixture

[No. 31 1,220]

17 hours ago, DeeZone said:

Well No.31 that is why we warmed to you in the first place you obviously associate with our colours and wish you had been born into a demon family Or have strong links to Ronald Dale Barassi .😁

Cheers, I very much associate with the Navy Blue in the Demons colours 😁 RDB helped set up a the Blues to be a force again in football in the late 1960s and it was the start of an era that saw 8 Flags in less than 3 decades [reverent bowing emoticon] 😎

[Demonsone 2,036]

Consolation is no interstate trips in the last 7 rounds

[Diamond_Jim 12,541]

For those interested in the mechanics of putting together the AFL fixture today's Age gives some insight.

They use a third party computer product supplied by US Sports software coy, Fastbreak.

The program then builds in various rules.. stadium availabity,  breaks between matches etc etc

Then most important are the "priority rules". These are designed as follows:

There are over 400 rules or constraints in the system. That’s everything from what venues aren’t available, so we’ll have a venue block, through to the standard rules – we have rules around a five-day break, each club has to have 11 home, 11 away games, so on and so forth,” Bowler said.

They essentially get preloaded into the system, and then we adjust the priority of those rules from there.”

The priority of those rules has been to maximise attendances and broadcast ratings in the first year of a $4.5 billion deal with Seven and Foxtel, and culminated this week in the release of the 2025 schedule, which, as always, left some clubs and fans happier than others

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/the-big-fix-revealing-the-secret-formula-that-goes-into-making-the-most-read-list-in-australian-sport-20241115-p5kqtz.html

[spirit of norm smith 16,283]

It’s not a draw or a fixture… it’s a collusion of AFL scheduling.   The AI would have 250 lines of predetermined code by the AFL. All the must have games and blockbusters and manipulation.  That’s it’s, let’s call it the “AFL MANIPULATION “ 
 

[spirit of norm smith 16,283]

Fox Footy Analysis - ambivalence… 

From a rest point-of-view, there isn’t a plethora to be concerned about at Melbourne, with one five-day break and one nine-day break in the first half of their season. Match-up wise however, they look to have struck gold if 2024 results are anything to go by. They’ll play all of North Melbourne, Gold Coast, St Kilda and West Coast twice, who they will back themselves in to give a good run for their money each outing. The main downside of note? The Demons intriguingly play three away games in a row, with a bye in between to break them up. As a result, they won’t play in Melbourne between Rounds 14 and 17. The Demons look winners from the fixture release, but how much will that time outside of Victoria run them down?

Fixture difficulty (based on double-ups): 2nd-easiest

Grade: A-

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F them

[spirit of norm smith 16,283]

Bizarre … why wouldn’t the Dees play in Alice Springs for Doug Nicholls round  

Another AFL [censored] up

ROUND 10 (Sir Doug Nicholls Indigenous Round)

Sunday May 18

Brisbane Lions v Narrm/Melbourne, The Gabba (3.20pm) 

ROUND 11 (Sir Doug Nicholls Indigenous Round)

Sunday May 25

Narrm/Melbourne v Sydney Swans, MCG (3.20pm)

ROUND 12

Sunday June 1

Melbourne v St Kilda, TIO Traeger (3.20pm)

[Timothy Reddan-A'Blew 5,073]

On 14/11/2024 at 13:25, Lucifers Hero said:

Based on 2024

• 5th - Hawks (7th pre finals)
• 9th - Pies
• 12th - Saints
• 13th - GCS
• 16th - WCE
• 17th - North

In terms of groupings:

• 1 from top 6
• 2 from middle 6
• 3 from bottom 6

And had we made up that less than 1% to get into the middle 6, we would have had a Saints-type draw:

Based on 2024

• 4th - Cats
• 6th?5th? - Giants
• 7th - Dogs
• 10th - Dockers
• 13th - Saints
• 18th - Tigers

In terms of groupings:

• 2 from top 6
• 2 from middle 6
• 2 from bottom 6

[whatwhat say what 22,699]

23 hours ago, Fat Tony said:

Are Saturday night games on free to air next year? I thought they were all on pay TV?

first 16 rounds or so

saturday is a black out for free to air; subs only