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Can you just give it a rest? Do you realise how you seem? You don’t have to be ‘on’ all the time.

Getting my Pfizer in Sept.

I think everyone has to get their head around at least a prelim that you won’t be able to go to if you live in Melbourne. These are the cards that the AFL has been dealt and I would say there I such a slim chance of a PF/GF at the G that you should steel yourself for it not to happen. I am so sorry in both senses of the word and I have missed my fair share of Dees footy over the past decade that I have a callous toward the pain - but as the saying goes - Go Dees. rp

Good start next year and we will get to 60k next year

Thanks Nasher. I couldn’t read you losers for a few hours. Was not pleasant.

Hi Bombers fans…

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Nice try Angus but the club doesn’t read Demonland.

The benefits of a truly National game

You know there’s a pandemic on when they send Collingwood down to Hobart…

Heat maps can be helpful IF you have the right parameters and of course the data. That paper is 5 years old so I wonder what of that they are doing regularly still. It alludes to clubs looking at leading patterns and understanding how to play two similar players in the same forwardline… So if you are focussing in say Ben Brown and how he leads in chains we score in - the parameters would need to allow you to weed out ‘defensive’ movement, slow ball movement for an ‘out’ kick on the boundary (or not depending on what you are trying to ascertain), and maybe times he isn’t ‘in the play’ and entirely ignored. Then you are left with a heat map of where he is moving (and how quickly) in successful scoring chains. From that paper it said that CD still didn’t have the GPS data from the clubs but that may have changed in 5 years.

I would argue that most people include these visualisations with no idea of it’s intended purpose or meaning. And it is visualising data. I organise the purchase of these tools for a big govt dept up here in Canberra so I know a little bit. I will say that some of the active visualisations in the cyber sec world are more impressive using Splunk and the like, but in my experience, I deal with a lot vendors who treat users like the shallow idiots that they are… Harsh but that’s how I have seen it.

Well most of it doesn’t work so… I am guessing you’re in the data world? Am I lifting the lid on your faux code and ****ty ‘insights?’ God I hate the data apparatchiks…

There would be rule around proximity to the others that would do that. The Spargo one you had above had two ‘hotspots’ of 2 touches nearer to each other, and the singular ones a bit further out from each other. Below is the ridiculous one from the weekend… Scott was hot everywhere…

I think he should take a year off…

That was Cairns. Please know The Dee-sasters.

Nah, there’s no brains like that. They wouldn’t even have the above data to plug in. Theres a laughable one last week with Scott at the Dogs last week where he has for ‘red hot’ spots for his 4 touches and the ‘effects’ on the highlighted area is purely based on where the other 3 ‘hot touches’ were. As a feature, it’s classic data visualisation technique that looks good but makes you dumber.

The ‘heat map’ is just where they got their disposals. We don’t have access to GPS data.

Hang on a second - we have the best ruck in the game (or so everyone tells me) - he can do his job and ruck for most of the game and then Jackson is most definitely susceptible to getting replaced by Weideman. LJ is a jet but he may not be the best option to win in 2021 - regardless of how the FD and Goodwin are using him and Gawn.

Yes, of course, Lever gets injured. Petracca’s form continues to nose dive, the forwardline remains schizophrenic and messy. These are reasons why we may not get to the mountain top. But they are all within our control, which is always the hardest for us to compute - the FD, the team, the leaders, Goodwin - they hold their fate in their own hands and that is a scary proposition for a group that’s always had good excuses.

Well, that was an interesting thread… Lot of demonlanders looking for an easy excuse to ‘excuse’ the team falling off a cliff 2004 style… No, the fixture is not an excuse, no COVID isn’t either, training loads 6 weeks ago are not either…