Demon Dynasty

He showed something up forward in 2019. Nice and mobile, presented & seemed to time his leads well. Strong overhead mark with courage coming across in front of packs. Decent kick for goal even from a fair way out. I'd be getting him up and setting him for a big 2021 with a view to over taking T-Mac in 2021+

The Hawks remind me of us under Neeld right now. Good for a laugh.

Weighted Averages up to and including Rnd 12, 2020 Have included an extra column to show the adjusted performance from this year vs 2019 allowing for the 20% time reduction this season. Player 2020 Weighted Score 2020 Rank 2019 Weighted Score % Change vs 2019 % Change vs 2019 w/ 20% time reduction 2019 Rank Change in Rank vs 2019 Clayton Oliver 3.986 1 4.643 -14.15 7.31 1 0 Christian Petracca 3.691 2 2.616 41.09 76.37 10 8 Max Gawn # 3.039 3 3.256 -6.66 16.67 4 1 Jack Viney 2.825 4 3.068 -7.92 15.10 5 1 Christian Salem 2.648 5 3.448 -23.20 -4.00 3 -2 Ed Langdon 2.605 6 - - - - - Steven May 2.498 7 2.446 2.13 27.66 14 7 Angus Brayshaw 2.414 8 2.894 -16.59 4.27 6 -2 Tom Sparrow 2.338 9 1.075 117.49 171.86 37 28 Michael Hibberd 2.218 10 2.124 4.43 30.53 20 10 Braydon Preuss # * 2.150 11 1.521 41.35 76.69 33 22 Jake Lever 2.075 12 2.313 -10.29 12.14 17 5 James Harmes 2.052 13 3.850 -46.70 -33.38 2 -11 Nathan Jones 1.871 14 2.711 -30.98 -13.73 8 -6 Oscar McDonald 1.825 15 1.877 -2.77 21.54 26 11 Harley Bennell 1.790 16 - - - - - Alex N-Bullen 1.683 17 1.984 -15.17 6.04 21 4 Tom McDonald # 1.654 18 2.150 -23.07 -3.84 19 1 Jay Lockhart 1.636 19 1.660 -1.45 23.19 31 12 Mitchell Hannan 1.625 20 1.325 22.64 53.30 36 16 Sam Weideman 1.614 21 1.818 -11.22 10.97 27 6 Bayley Fritsch 1.600 22 2.641 -39.42 -24.27 9 -13 Adam Tomlinson # 1.582 23 - - - - - Trent Rivers 1.388 24 - - - - - Luke Jackson # 1.354 25 - - - - - Aaron Vandenburg 1.350 26 - - - - - Neville Jetta 1.305 27 2.264 -42.36 -27.95 18 -9 Charlie Spargo 1.242 28 1.375 -9.67 12.91 35 7 Jake Melksham 1.182 29 1.931 -38.79 -23.49 23 -6 Joel Smith 1.158 30 - - - - - Toby Bedford * 1.150 31 - - - - - Kysaiah Pickett 1.142 32 - - - - - Jayden Hunt 0.858 33 1.958 -56.18 -45.22 22 -11 Mitchell Brown * 0.625 34 - - - - - Average Team Score -Top 22 49.837 59.623 -16.41 4.48 # Hit outs to advantage not captured * One match only, not an average Stats courtesy of footywire.com

Rnd 12, 2020 Gabba - Demons vs Pies Weighted Scores - Magpies Player Score Rank Brodie Grundy 3.900 1 Taylor Adams 3.725 2 Steele Sidebottom 3.500 3 Scott Pendlebury 3.075 4 Tom Phillips 2.925 5 Travis Varcoe 2.750 6 Darcy Moore 2.700 7 John Noble 2.575 8 Josh Daicos 2.300 9 Josh Thomas 1.950 10 Jack Crisp 1.925 11 Jack Madgen 1.900 12 Rupert Wills 1.550 13 Brayden Maynard 1.450 14 Jamie Elliott 1.400 15 Will H-Elliott 0.900 16 Callum Brown 0.900 17 Ben Reid 0.750 18 Darcy Cameron 0.675 19 Lynden Dunn 0.500 20 Trey Ruscoe 0.400 21 Brody Mihocek 0.000 22 Team Score 41.750 Top 6 19.875 Bottom 6 3.225 # Hit outs to advantage not captured Stats courtesy of footywire.com

I hear you Polly. Stats in general are, to various degrees, flawed regardless of how good the stat itself might be (in the case of some of the non-public Champion data stuff). Let alone publicly available stuff that i use as the basis here which is, in the main, flawed. Some of it a little more robust than others but we do our best to paint some sort of picture with the limited stuff we have available to work with. Now the one thing that stats don't do (at least the publicly available ones and probably even most of Champion data's with maybe some exceptions) is measure things like you have highlighted. Crashing packs, going back into an on coming marking contest. Going back with the flight or laterally to spoil a boil with courage as we saw with Vanders yesterday. All they are there to do is try and capture a very basic overview of who produced what results / output on the day in a very rough guide sense that may (or may not) be an indicator of who performed sub par, ordinary/average, above average, good to very good or excellent to off the charts. They generally don't cover the points you highlighted and they certainly don't cover things like a lock down player playing his role in keeping a top opponent's output well down below his usual. A defender keeping a top KF very quiet vs his usual. A KF having a somewhat quiet day up forward but still doing the little things at the contest that bring others into the game, score assists, spoils from behind, hit outs to advantage when taking forward ruck duties etc. Stats also don't measure the quality of an opponent or the opposition. These are all analogue / qualitative factors which sometimes get overlooked with pure stats alone. That's why i always say, don't judge any player on stats alone and certainly don't look at these weighted scores in isolation wherever possible.. Watch the entire game first and determine for yourself how that player went as stats alone can never capture the entire story of what went on on the field. A very rough guide that sometimes works and sometimes a fair way off, sometimes partially correct. With regard to Weid's output in this particular match and what made up his lowish output / score of 1.375 and a ranking of 19th on the day? Let's look at what went into that score. 5 effectives running at 62.5% efficiency. About 10% below the AFL average although i don't know what that is for KFs. Probably somewhat less than 73% given the pressure they're under. One contested mark, three marks inside 50, two 1%ers, two inside 50s, one tackle (inside 50), three score involvements, two goals and two turnovers. Now let's look at the previous week where he finished with a score of 2.675 and equal 9th alongside T-Mac against the Roos in Rnd 11. He had 10 effectives running at 76.9%, roughly 4% above the AFL average DE %. three contested marks, five marks inside 50, two 1%ers, eight score involvements, two goals and two turnovers. As you can see, more than double his effective disposals against the Pies, nearly twice as many marks inside 50 and two extra contested marks. Add to that nearly three times as many score involvements. Same goals, same turnovers. So in many areas more than double the output with the same score and turnovers, producing a statistical weighted score just under twice that of his match against the Pies. As you can see it's merely the statistical results / output produced on the day that make up this score. Did he play an ordinary game against the Pies however? In my view no. He contributed and still produced the same number of goals, brought the ball to ground on occasions as you have highlighted. He played his role. Was his match against North nearly twice as good in comparison? Really hard to call. Honestly, i forget much of what happens in most matches fairly quickly and would need to watch it again and then watch the Pies match again to be sure. And who has time to do this? If i was getting paid for it...maybe! He contributed nicely yesterday and we won by a very solid margin. As did Vanders albeit he didn't rack up many possessions and turned it over quite a bit. He also played his role in various ways throughout the day, played a hard at the pill game and lead the way with a number of courageous acts. As we know, those courageous acts (aside from the actual spoil against opponent itself as a 1%er) aren't captured in this data. It is what it is as they say and we spifflicated the Pies. All is well!

Rnd 12, 2020 Gabba - Demons vs Pies Holey moley Batman. Fabulous team effort from the boys and it all stems from the defence holding up big time post the Port match, the forward line finally starting to click along with more efficient ball use in general. Let's look at some of the outcomes... Team DE % at 78.13% ... 5% above the usual AFL team average. Only bettered by a smidgen in Rnd 7 vs the Hawks. Disposals per goal at a season low 20.12 % of inside 50s into Goals 40% Conversion % at 80% Those last three above the best for the season. Gus heads the stats table for the first time this season with 18 effectives @ 78%, 4 clearances, 4 tackles, 3 rebounds, 6 score involvements, 8 intercepts (only beaten by Hibb with 9) and a goal. Tracc topping the meters gained count with 505 followed closely by Jakey snakey with 407. Turnover kings this week were AVB with 8 closely followed by Fritta with 7. Player Score Rank Angus Brayshaw 4.475 1 Christian Salem 4.125 2 Clayton Oliver 4.125 2 Ed Langdon 3.850 4 Steven May 3.425 5 James Harmes 2.950 6 Christian Petracca 2.900 7 Tom Sparrow 2.525 8 Nathan Jones 2.325 9 Michael Hibberd 2.325 10 Braydon Preuss # * 2.150 11 Charlie Spargo 1.900 12 Jake Lever 1.900 12 Tom McDonald # 1.750 14 Jake Melksham 1.700 15 Jack Viney 1.675 16 Jay Lockhart 1.475 17 Adam Tomlinson 1.450 18 Sam Weideman 1.375 19 Bayley Fritsch 1.100 20 Kysaiah Pickett 0.800 21 Aaron Vandenberg 0.500 22 Team Score 50.800 Top 6 22.950 Bottom 6 6.700 # Hit outs to advantage not captured * Not an average, only one match played Stats courtesy of footywire.com

Recovery not so good post 50 Dazzle. Enjoy!

Waking up without the hangover? ?

This has to be up there... ..."[censored] those Melbourne [censored]... Checkers goes down & they're high fiving each other, go & get f@#4*d, you pillow biting s%*t infested c*&@s!".... END

Might be a be a season too early but that's LJ in the not too distant future imv CB. Might even make it back and get lucky before this one is up. Stranger things have happened.

Yeh a commitment worth keeping! No doubt i'll pay for this in the morning. Cheers W4 you also

Ha! yeh that's a wedding gift special from back in the day. But you're right pretty bog ordinary. You should see my tumblers!

Buckley excuses his little outburst.... “I just had a really expensive game of tennis during the week.”

Cheers Uncle! Not a bad drop!

Into the top eight beating the Filth....and by a big margin. Very noice. Bottoms up Uncle!

Just airing the Wolf Blass grey!

Welcome back BB! Your self iso is done ?

Some solid work but that's your goal Charlie. Awful kick straight to a Pie when he just needed to go to the hot zone

That last goal... Clarry to Tracc to Langdon... Started that bounce with Clarry vs Pendles, Tracc vs Sidey. Great to see our two young guns win that one with no Maxy ? ? Pruess getting shaded in the middle but holding his own elsewhere and giving some back ✊

How was that NOT paid a mark to Fritta!??? Deesgracefull decision

Great steal Clarry to Tracc...Langdon gets the spill goal

Lever 2 indirect goals now. Ordinary stuff

Charlie front square.... off the Tommy attempt....woot!!

Thanks Unc. Shall do!

Charlie you beauty!!