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  • ugg
    Can you feel it?
    Site Admin
    • Jan 2003
    • 15980
    #1

    Roos: Stats schmats

    http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/common/story_page/0,8033,21756739%255E19773,00.html

    So many of the statistics we get are flawed because of the way they are collected," he said. "We've done an analysis on kicking efficiency and you'd be staggered to see what is considered to be an ineffective kick. It's amazing.
    We were last in kicking efficiency in 2006 and yet

    http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21756062-5012432,00.html


    Five of Sydney's players are ranked in the 20 worst performers in the AFL when it comes to hitting targets with their kicks. The only other club that has had so many players in that category in recent times was wooden spooner Carlton last year.
    Last edited by ugg; 19 May 2007, 10:30 AM.
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    • Legs Akimbo
      Grand Poobah
      • Apr 2005
      • 2809
      #2
      Originally posted by ugg
      http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/foo...E19773,00.html

      We were last in kicking efficiency in 2006 and yet

      http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...012432,00.html
      The last little bit is telling - the bit about dropping the mark counting against the disposer not the receiver. Rather than being a measure of kicking efficiency, it is a measure of 'linking'. How well these players generate a successful disposal linking two pieces of play. As a measure of overall team effectiveness, it still tells a compelling story.
      He had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.

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        • ROK Lobster
          RWO Life Member
          • Aug 2004
          • 8658
          #3
          Paul has his hand on it again. Of course Kirk's kicks are less likely to be marked. They float in from 30m coming straight down into a pack. A bloke like Malceski will have much more efficient disposal because he will drill the ball and time the pass. Kirk's overall value to the team should not be measured by the efficiency of his disposal - and I don't think it ever has been. But don't make excuses for him Paul, he is a poor kick and always has been. It probably had something to do with why he was delisted the first time.

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            • stellation
              scott names the planets
              • Sep 2003
              • 9737
              #4
              The terrible thing is that (apart from the usual "kick it to Hall only" option, which you could argue is not overly safe and Jude's "bang it on the boot" love) in general 3 of the 5 players listed with bad hit rates usually take the safe option only with their general field kicking (Fosdike and Buchanan at least are willing to try and be creative, Fosdike in particular).
              I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
              We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his time

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                • ScottH
                  It's Goodes to cheer!!
                  • Sep 2003
                  • 23665
                  #5
                  Once inside 50 - Swans score 48.3% of the time (Ranked 14th)

                  After Round 8

                  Year W/L After
                  2006 5-3 - won 7 of next 10
                  2005 4-4 - Won 4 of next 6
                  2004 3-5 - won 6 of next 7
                  2003 5-3 - won 7 of next 9

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