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For a while I’ve been trying to figure out how to create as many impartial, simple-to-understand tools when attempting to analyse an AFL list. Things that you can look at and instantly glean knowledge from.
It’ll be an ongoing project, but for this year here are three tools which I’ve found extremely useful and I hope will be the same for everyone reading.
Before I explain each part and everyone scrolls to their respective team, can I emphasise that I’m as sure as sure can be there’ll be a typo or three somewhere in the graphics. If you see one, please feel free to let me know, either in the comments or over on Twitter and I’ll fix it up.
Along the same lines, if you have any ideas for things you’d like to see, or specific time frames you’d like to see analysed; i.e. a team’s record inside 50 for the second half of the season, the lines of communication are always open.
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Minutes Played By Age
Medical substitutes being awarded a game this year have messed with the trusty method of judging sides on games played. To use Brisbane’s Tom Berry as an example, he’s listed as having made 11 appearances in 2021, which seems perfectly normal.
Then you dig a little deeper to find five of those matches were as an unused sub. Three more came replacing Jarrod Berry, Darcy Gardiner and Mitch Robinson after their respective injuries. After all that you’re left with only three ‘full’ games, making the number 11 feel pointless.
That prompted a light bulb moment – what if you looked at total minutes played by each player and then sorted it by age?
Once you match this up with list demographics it gives some interesting results. For example, although West Coast has one of the oldest lists in the league they still gave a solid chunk of minutes to players not quite hitting their prime yet.
A look at Collingwood confirms a side very much in the starting position of rejigging their list, with minutes spread out evenly from young to old, while teams like Adelaide and Gold Coast fit right into expectations.
List Demographics
A self-explanatory one really, breaking down each team by age. I’ve attempted to keep track of delistings and retirements up until this point, hence the strike through text on certain players. In the interests of consistency I’ve attempted to strike through free agents who have announced they’re leaving – i.e. Jake Kelly – and kept potential trades – i.e. Callum Coleman-Jones – clean. We all know how quickly the latter can change.
Contracts
So there’s no confusion on this, none of the info in these graphics comes from me. It’s all aggregated either from work actual journalists have done, or club and AFL announcements. If I haven’t been able to find a link for any players, you’ll see their name next to ‘unknown details’ just under the team heading. At time of writing I have nine players whose status I haven’t been able to find, not including soon to sign free agents like Mabior Chol and Jake Kelly.
If someone’s Googling skills are better than mine, feel free to announce that by flicking through a link to the relevant players.
Club By Club
Adelaide | Brisbane | Carlton | Collingwood | Essendon | Fremantle | Geelong | Gold Coast | GWS | Hawthorn | Melbourne | North Melbourne | Port Adelaide | Richmond | St Kilda | Sydney | West Coast | Western Bulldogs
Adelaide
Rankings: Home & Away Season
Contested Possession Differential: 12th
Uncontested Possession Differential: 12th
Inside 50 Differential: 14th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50: 13th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50 Conceded: 14th
Brisbane
Rankings: Home & Away Season
Contested Possession Differential: 5th
Uncontested Possession Differential: 11th
Inside 50 Differential: 3rd
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50: 2nd
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50 Conceded: 2nd
Carlton
Rankings: Home & Away Season
Contested Possession Differential: 15th
Uncontested Possession Differential: 13th
Inside 50 Differential: 13th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50: 3rd
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50 Conceded: 15th
Collingwood
Rankings: Home & Away Season
Contested Possession Differential: 8th
Uncontested Possession Differential: 9th
Inside 50 Differential: 16th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50: 14th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50 Conceded: 3rd
Essendon
Rankings: Home & Away Season
Contested Possession Differential: 13th
Uncontested Possession Differential: 6th
Inside 50 Differential: 7th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50: 4th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50 Conceded: 11th
Fremantle
Rankings: Home & Away Season
Contested Possession Differential: 7th
Uncontested Possession Differential: 17th
Inside 50 Differential: 10th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50: 8th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50 Conceded: 16th
Geelong
Rankings: Home & Away Season
Contested Possession Differential: 1st
Uncontested Possession Differential: 1st
Inside 50 Differential: 2nd
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50: 11th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50 Conceded: 10th
Gold Coast
Rankings: Home & Away Season
Contested Possession Differential: 17th
Uncontested Possession Differential: 15th
Inside 50 Differential: 17th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50: 17th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50 Conceded: 7th
GWS
Rankings: Home & Away Season
Contested Possession Differential: 6th
Uncontested Possession Differential: 7th
Inside 50 Differential: 12th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50: 7th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50 Conceded: 6th
Hawthorn
Rankings: Home & Away Season
Contested Possession Differential: 14th
Uncontested Possession Differential: 5th
Inside 50 Differential: 15th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50: 16th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50 Conceded: 5th
Melbourne
Rankings: Home & Away Season
Contested Possession Differential: 2nd
Uncontested Possession Differential: 8th
Inside 50 Differential: 4th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50: 6th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50 Conceded: 1st
North Melbourne
Rankings: Home & Away Season
Contested Possession Differential: 18th
Uncontested Possession Differential: 16th
Inside 50 Differential: 18th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50: 18th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50 Conceded: 18th
Port Adelaide
Rankings: Home & Away Season
Contested Possession Differential: 4th
Uncontested Possession Differential: 4th
Inside 50 Differential: 5th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50: 10th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50 Conceded: 4th
Richmond
Rankings: Home & Away Season
Contested Possession Differential: 16th
Uncontested Possession Differential: 14th
Inside 50 Differential: 8th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50: 12th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50 Conceded: 13th
St Kilda
Rankings: Home & Away Season
Contested Possession Differential: 10th
Uncontested Possession Differential: 10th
Inside 50 Differential: 10th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50: 15th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50 Conceded: 14th
Sydney
Rankings: Home & Away Season
Contested Possession Differential: 11th
Uncontested Possession Differential: 2nd
Inside 50 Differential: 6th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50: 5th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50 Conceded: 8th
West Coast
Rankings: Home & Away Season
Contested Possession Differential: 9th
Uncontested Possession Differential: 18th
Inside 50 Differential: 9th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50: 9th
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50 Conceded: 17th
Western Bulldogs
Rankings: Home & Away Season
Contested Possession Differential: 3rd
Uncontested Possession Differential: 3rd
Inside 50 Differential: 1st
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50: 1st
Scoring Shots Per Inside 50 Conceded: 9th
Nice post, good to have a flick through some of the numbers. Could I suggest possibly adding a median and mean for minutes played by age v the rest of the competition as it would easier highlight where your respective side sits without having to go through a bunch of teams to get a good feel for it.
That’s a great idea, will figure that out and get on it soon
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This fantastic.
Thank you for your effort.
All the best
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