Thrice

Oliver - will be the best player in the comp by the end of the year

I'm in: team name for this year is Gee God Boy Wow!!. It was Lever to Beaver last year. 

Harmes

Oliver

Gawn

Salem

Jones

Spargo

Lever

Smith

1 hour ago, Dee Zephyr said:

Trac v Milkshake is shaping up as a beauty.

I think we know who DV8 will vote for 

Petracca

Lewis

Hibberd

Mitch Hannan
Corey Wagner
Kade Chandler
Aaron Nietschke
Charlie Spargo

Smith

Fritsch

Petty

Sparrow

On 1/14/2019 at 12:45 PM, dazzledavey36 said:

I still believe the club will continue to throw him in the midfield at times. Just to add more depth and class going through there. But i like him down back setting us up from behind.

Speaking of class, i genuinely think he'll develope into Shaun Burgoyne clone for us. Has all the attributes to become a seriously class player us over the journey. 

Roosy was banging on about him as our Jarrad McVeigh On The Couch toward the end of the season, mentioned it more than once. Highlighted a few of the bits of play you would've been referring to in your earlier post as evidence of slowing the game down and choosing the right option to open up the game. 

5 hours ago, Frank Costanza's Lawyer said:

Give this result of a wooden Spooner,  Whack! Jots it down to a new club. 

Jack Watts. Love a good spooner one!

1 hour ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Knightmare’s Phantom Draft 

AFL Phantom Draft: Rounds 1, 2, 3

I can absolutely guarantee that Port won't pick the other King twin at 6. They didn't trade up in the draft to pick a Victorian. Will most likely be Rozee unless Lukosius or Rankine are miraclulously still available.

1 hour ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Is that you Krausey?? 

Not actually my surname!! (maternal side)

Could tell you a few more stories about his career... and his bone dry sense of humour (the story above is a good one... he was a ruck, so Barassi didn't pinch his spot!!)

5 hours ago, Loose Men Everywhere said:

At my Auntie’s 80^th birthday party I got chatting to an old bloke who was a friend of hers. The conversation turned to footy and after a while I found out he used to play for the Dees. Alan Krause, #13.

I asked him how long for etc and he told me only a couple of years then he was cleared to Sandringham.

Why? I asked.

His reply: ‘’a young feller called Ron Barassi came in and took my spot” - said with a chuckle!

Risking outing myself here but Alan Krause is my grandad.

Bloody small world!

The Hogan trade values him at pick 2.

The Beams Trade values him at pick 9 (assuming Pies top 4 next year) with the late pick swaps.

Assuming GWS and Bombers both 5-8, Shiel valued at pick 5.

We did better than the Bombers, that's for sure. 

One of those facebook rumour sites has Robbie Gray coming to the Dees. Apparently he is unhappy with the direction Port are taking and wants to move back to Victoria.

I'm only reposting because he's just about my favourite non-MFC player and would love to see him in our colours, not because I think there's any substance in the rumour.

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12 hours ago, Colin B. Flaubert said:

This is the Battleship Potemkin of music videos.

Not that I'm necessarily expecting a straight answer, but I always wanted to know: are you the real Colin B Flaubert? 

I know someone who knew him and am reliably informed he is in fact a dees supporter and is a school teacher out Knox/Rowville way. So at the very least it's a degree of esoteric screen name creation that deserves commendation. 

5 hours ago, beelzebub said:

I'd love to know how they actually determine those numbers. Criteria ? Sample etc. Ouija board ?

It's from Roy Morgan's nation-wide all-encompassing survey of 14,000 people. Then extrapolated out to the nation population over the age of 15. That's a really solid survey population, it would be accurate to within 2-3 percent.

The question will be something like: do you follow AFL (y/n). If so, which team do you support. Naturally within those numbers there will be plenty that take only a passing interest. We regularly boast that we have one of the highest conversion ratios of supporters to members, that's the stat that matters.  

From Roy Morgan (2017), number of supporters of each AFL club. Both us and Tigers are at the pointy end of converting supporters to members. 

Stevic also good.

The Footballistics book released a couple of months ago analyses the 'noise of affirmation' and it is real. Furthermore, it is the single largest source of home ground advantage in the AFL (as it is in most sports, it turns out: see Russia's performance in the World Cup as a neat piece of anecdotal evidence). It leads to an average of 1-2 goals advantage per game to the home side against an interstate club. The effect is severely diminished when two clubs from the same state play each other, as the crowd noise is more even. To further prove the point, the effect is greatest in WA and SA where they still get highly partisan crowds for the derbies.

The greatest concern is that that AFL umpring department refuse to acknowledge it. If they were to acknowledge it exists they could coach the umpires on strategies to deal with it. 

19 minutes ago, praha said:

we'd have beaten them when they were in the top 8. that is how the stat is calculated.

Nope, Ben's right.

We beat North Melbourne and Adelaide (first time) when they were both in the 8. It is calculated on the top 8 as it stands right now. Indeed, the wins against those two are the reason they aren't in the 8. (The less said about the Cats the better).

11 hours ago, whatwhatsaywhat said:

#1, #3, and #17

pies, freo, tigers and north the only other teams with three representatives in top 30

these stats are completely meaningless of course; my tigers mate swears blind that grimes should be leading their b&f and that neck tatts is having a 'poor' year

the biggest issue with champ data rankings - which is essentially supercoach points - is that they are still dependent upon stats, i.e. possessions and scoring chains etc., meaning that role-players like grimes, or jetta, or alex pearce, or scott thompson are completely absent from consideration

These are the AFL Player rating stats, which are based on impact on the game, not fantasy points. It is as absurd to say that they are completely meaningless as to say that they are the only system that provides any insight into a player's value.

For what it's worth, this system is the one taken most seriously by AFL coaching panels. The players at the top end of this are all at the pointy end of the AFLCA votes. A good example is the contrast between Tom Mitchell's game and Clarry's on the weekend. Mitchell scored 159 supercoach points, but only 16 Player rating and didn't get a single coaches vote. Clarry got 136 supercoach points and 29 player rating points and 7 AFLCA votes (Max go the 10 votes with 131 and 26).

16 hours ago, WERRIDEE said:

2 genuine busts there.

Kennedy Harris when we could have had Ben Brown.

Hulett when we could have had Menegola.

Still don't think the Kelly trade was a bust Salem is playing good footy unfortunately Tyson isn't.

Menagola wasn't on anyone's radar kicking dew around the WAFL. Geelong scouted him and got him. Well done. But in reality we got Fritsch in similar circumstances. 

Ben Brown had an unspectacular junior career and North took a chance on him as a 21 year old. He'd been playing more as a ruck and was only the season before he was drafted that he switched to a key forward. Again, see Fritsch.

Hulett didn't make, but he was a fourth round pick based on needs moreso than best available. Similarly, it's a bit of a stretch to call a bloke who's played 30 games across 4 seasons taken a pick 40 a bust. There's plenty taken in the third round that play precisely 0 AFL games. 

4 hours ago, Salems Lot said:

Fair enough Mach; my only concern is that we don't just opt for the option closest to hand.  JM sounds like a good operator; I am sure the Board will make the right appointment.

I posted some research early in this thread that points to organisations that recruit a CEO from within their organisation typically outperform those that recruit from outside. It is generally only when an organisation is a basket case that an external appointment is a better option.

Further to that, in about two thirds of cases CEOs are internally appointed.