Demon Dynasty

Yes no arguments from me on the role play sit. Especially that of 2021! There's so much we arent privy to with role play/fitness/loads etc... Anything we.discuss is mostly pure speculation in most cases yes?? 😂 It's too early to be making calls on any player's form anyway imv. Sometimes their form can turn around in one week as we saw with Viney against WC and they're off to the races with everyone quickly forgetting about a few early season (seemingly) out-of-character performances (whether marginal or otherwise).

Tentative in a physical contact/tackling sense maybe? Tackle average down 40% on 2021 (3.68 to 2.19) Looking at meters gained (average) he was up a massive 80% on 2021 though with 410 (2022) vs 227 (2021). Extra meters gained might also be a product of role being asked and/or ground position (kick ins from the square/lateral kicks around the back)? Seemed to play in the defensive 50 a fair bit more during 2022 and potentially a fair degree less down the attacking end.. Average Rebounds 2021 0.36 2022 5.57 Inside 50s 2021 2.59 2022 2.14 Goals (accuracy might have been off though...would need to check shots at goal!) 2021 1.59 2022 0.10

His turnover average (so far) is down 35% on last season's average. Meters gained (-40%) & inside 50s (-66%) also substantially down though. Not a big clearance role/player but marginally down here also (-24%) Slight change of role or maybe going lateral / backwards a bit more? FWIW... tackles (+8%) and score involvements (+11%) marginally up. Whatever that means.

Weighted Average Ratings up to & including Rnd 4, 2023 vs H&A Season 2022 Team rating (top 22 rated players) still tracking strongly above 2022 season & well above 2021's 67.23 rating (+12.3%) Note: Last week's season ratings were somewhat inaccurate for a few players. Now corrected ! Player 2023 Rating 2023 Rank 2022 Rating % Change vs 2022 2022 Rank Change in Rank vs 2022 C Oliver 5.688 1 5.320 6.92 1 0 C Petracca 4.475 2 4.456 0.43 2 0 J Jordon > * 4.274 3 3.164 35.08 9 6 K Pickett 4.250 4 2.118 100.66 21 17 T Rivers 4.156 5 2.423 71.52 18 13 Max Gawn # < * 4.125 6 3.215 28.30 8 2 A Brayshaw 3.781 7 3.839 -1.51 5 -2 Jack Viney 3.567 8 3.971 -10.17 3 -5 B Grundy # 3.544 9 - - - - Steven May 3.413 10 3.971 -14.05 3 -7 Jake Lever 3.369 11 2.703 24.64 14 3 A Tomlinson 3.263 12 2.079 56.95 22 10 L Hunter 3.069 13 - - - - Ed Langdon 3.031 14 3.109 -2.51 11 -3 Alex N-Bullen 2.975 15 2.688 10.68 15 0 T McDonald # 2.917 16 1.939 50.44 26 10 Jake Bowey 2.894 17 2.856 1.33 13 -4 K Chandler 2.744 18 3.128 -12.28 10 -8 T Sparrow 2.513 19 2.665 -5.70 16 -3 Bayley Fritsch 2.500 20 1.936 29.13 27 7 H Petty # 2.488 21 2.392 4.01 19 -2 Judd McVee 2.456 22 - - - - J V Rooyen # 2.350 23 - - - - J Harmes 2.225 24 3.082 -27.81 12 -12 C Spargo 2.131 25 1.981 7.57 24 -1 Ben Brown # < 2.033 26 1.759 15.58 29 3 M Hibberd * 1.788 27 2.613 -31.57 17 -10 B Laurie < * 1.150 28 - - - - J Melksham > * 1.012 29 1.947 -48.02 25 -4 Team Rating 75.49 68.89 9.58 * Played less than two full matches (in total) - average rating compromised # Hit outs to advantage not counted < Subbed Out at least once or more > Subbed In at least once or more Stats courtesy of footwire.com

OK so this could be a bit deceiving NC, depending on what one person might see as the more important key indicators (from vanilla publicly available footy stats anyway). The table below shows Gus's season averages so far vs those from his entire 2022 season. There is certainly a substantial drop off in certain stats that go towards his weighted rating (2022 & 2023), however some of them were off a very low base in the 2022 season. This means their contribution to the 2022 weighted rating was already fairly insignificant. Hence the % drop off may seem quite substantial (in a percentage sense) but its impact on the rating number isn't as dramatic as might be expected. His 2023 rating is also propped up somewhat by some factors such as tackles and score involvements being up, plus turnovers being down substantially vs 2022. Caveat though... although turnovers are well down, this might also be a factor of his dropping away in key areas (for Gus) like clearances, rebounds and inside 50s. In general it would seem he is just not getting on the receiving end 'as much' as he was in 2022 (two way running/work rate off a little?). The meters gained drop off is also concerning! Again work rate or maybe not as attacking in his general play / method as he was in 2022? Going lateral / backwards a little more etc? Early days though with only 4 matches of data to go on. So no point crucifying him at this stage imv as he has plenty of credits and more than enough time to start turning some of the not-so-good things around. In summary i would say those rating his season as a bit off (so far) are, in the main, on the money....but it is early days! I'm sure Gus & those involved with him inside the four walls will also be well aware of some of these numbers (in a real game 'involvement/output/impact' sense... not so much a numbers sense!). I'm sure he'll crank things up over the coming weeks. Not panic stations by any means but he's certainly got a bit of work ahead if he's to get back to somewhere near his 2022 / 2021 form/groove. Note: An asterisk in this table indicates the stat is used towards the weighted rating #10 A Brayshaw 2022 2023 % Change CP 7.73 6.00 -22.4 UP 18.45 14.75 -20.1 ED* 18.68 17.25 -7.7 DE% 72.35 82.73 10.4 CM* 0.55 0.00 -100.0 Mi50* 0.00 0.00 - 1%* 1.55 1.25 -19.1 CL* 1.64 1.25 -23.6 R50* 3.64 2.75 -24.4 i50* 2.95 1.00 -66.2 T* 2.09 2.25 7.6 Si* 3.82 4.25 11.3 MG 423.09 252.50 -40.3 TO* 5.00 3.25 -35.0 ITC* 7.36 7.50 1.9 T5* 0.05 0.00 - TOG% 83.32 85.00 1.7 G* 0.05 0.00 - 2022 Rating 3.839 2023 Rating 3.781 %Change -1.49

I was surprised with this rating Layzie. Even though i thought he played a VN game and was involved quite a bit, i thought the rating was a fair degree higher that what i saw. However, this is the exact reason you might take a second look at a particular player's game on occasions when you see something jump out at you. Generally you have to trust what you see / witness on the day, provided.... , that you're paying serious attention on the said player/s under consideration and taking any 'bias hat' off as well! I probably missed quite a bit, including the impact he was having at times both in general play and out of the middle. Would like to check his game out again if i had the time. There's also the things we miss on the box though that happen behind the ball or outside the viewing area of the camera that might be caught by the statisticians.

Cheers DZ ... yes great to see these three young fellas making an impact! Obviously it's a long season and rookie's can drop away somewhat as the year progresses at times but it's a great start.

From what i've seen so far, Roohey rarely misses from about 35 and under. Once he gets a bit stronger through the legs/bod he will hopefully extend his accuracy from further out.

Blake Howes is playing some very nice footy and might get a tilit at some point depending on form

Much better W. The confidence gained in his game in general from this improvement should not be underestimated

Thought he was very good today. Alot of stuff inside and out that probably went unrewarded on the sheets & unoticed.

Round 4, 2023 Optus Stadium - Eagles vs Demons Clarry on top again... need to temper that somewhat as he did have the equal most number of clangers on the day with 7, alongside Williams of WC. Rivers the most meters gained for us with 445. Only beaten by Tim Kelly who was way in front of everyone with 703. A very nice 'return to form' result from Viney i thought... 18 Effectives @ 82%, 1 mark i50, 3 one percenters, 7 clearances, 2 Rebounds, 5 inside 50s, 6 tackles (one inside 50), 9 score involvements, 2 intercepts, 1 goal, 387 meters gained and 3 turnovers. Great result for Rivers as well. Only my opinion but if he just cleans up his kicking / decision making a tad (at least some made when not under a great deal of pressure) to put some icing on what's becoming a pretty decent 2023 so far. Player Rating Rank C Oliver 6.200 1 Trent Rivers 5.550 2 Jack Viney 5.250 3 C Petracca 4.700 4 A N-Bullen 3.850 5 A Brayshaw 3.800 6 T McDonald # 3.775 7 K Pickett 3.675 8 B Grundy # 3.450 9 Judd McVee 3.275 10 K Chandler 3.175 11 Steven May 3.175 11 Ed Langdon 3.150 13 L Hunter 3.150 13 Jake Lever 3.000 15 B Fritsch 2.950 16 Jake Bowey 2.850 17 T Sparrow 2.550 18 C Spargo 2.475 19 H Petty # 1.750 20 J Jordon > 24% 1.650 21 J Van Rooyen # 1.575 22 M Hibberd < 72% 1.375 23 Team Score 74.98 Top 6 29.35 Bottom 6 12.85 # Hit outs to advantage not counted < Subbed out / TOG % > Subbed in / TOG % Stats courtesy of footwire.com

6. Viney 5. T-Mac 4. Grundy 3. Tracc 2. Clarry 1. Rivers Apologies Lingers, Fritsch & MCvee

Hunter's had a few brains snaps this season. He's good with plenty of room but a bit of a worry under heat on occasions.

WC double teaming Clarry ... a number of holds off the ball. They've called 2 so far but missed as many

Whats with the worm burning kicks inside straight to a WC defender lol?

Spargo crikey blimey

The usual biased umpiring happening in this quarter... keeping them in it

Rivers ughh

Spargo had space to run & bounce there..... kick a long kick deep inside 30 but instead only ran his measure and kicked a shallow ball to a pack of players behind the arc A bit more composure would be handy

Tracc forward and bring Kozz in the middle for 10 minutes or so? Tracc has the fumble yips again and needs to take a grab or get a few cheap ground balls / receives to get his confidence up a little IMV. If staying in the middle / around stoppage i'd instruct him to get in there and get his hands on it a bit more. Running past the contests a bit too often so far.

Frittatta is on!!

Love Rivers attack but needs to clean up his disposal. Ball murderer far too often at this level. Nice crumb from the Kozz and crumbing goal from the little one

Tracc running past so many contests that he could impact. Needs to be stronger around the drop

Lovely start from Macca. Viney looking a bit more 'on' this week