One of my favourite tools to use, highlighting how minutes played are broken down by age.
It’s a great insight to which parts of the list are given responsibility, and digs past the standard ‘average age’ and ‘average games’ stats to unveil a little more info.
The first 2023 update will come after Round 4, and then every month afterwards. The original plan was every fortnight, but it turns out the changes are too small to matter much.
League Wide Comparisons
2022: Minutes played by age 22 year and under
2022: Minutes played by age 23 to 25 year
2022: Minutes played by age 26 to 28 year
2022: Minutes played by age 23 to 28 year
2022: Minutes played by age 29 year and over
Adelaide
2022 Minutes Played By Age
2021 Minutes Played By Age
Brisbane
2022 Minutes Played By Age
2021 Minutes Played By Age
Carlton
2022 Minutes Played By Age
2021 Minutes Played By Age
Collingwood
2022 Minutes Played By Age
2021 Minutes Played By Age
Essendon
2022 Minutes Played By Age
2021 Minutes Played By Age
Fremantle
2022 Minutes Played By Age
2021 Minutes Played By Age
Geelong
2022 Minutes Played By Age
2021 Minutes Played By Age
Gold Coast
2022 Minutes Played By Age
2021 Minutes Played By Age
GWS
2022 Minutes Played By Age
2021 Minutes Played By Age
Hawthorn
2022 Minutes Played By Age
2021 Minutes Played By Age
Melbourne
2022 Minutes Played By Age
2021 Minutes Played By Age
North Melbourne
2022 Minutes Played By Age
2021 Minutes Played By Age
Port Adelaide
2022 Minutes Played By Age
2021 Minutes Played By Age
Richmond
2022 Minutes Played By Age
2021 Minutes Played By Age
St Kilda
2022 Minutes Played By Age
2021 Minutes Played By Age
Sydney
2022 Minutes Played By Age
2021 Minutes Played By Age
West Coast
2022 Minutes Played By Age
2021 Minutes Played By Age
Western Bulldogs
2022 Minutes Played By Age
2021 Minutes Played By Age
How a season evolves
This is more of a ‘watch this space’ as teams evolve in the back half of 2023.
The goal here is to show how teams either consolidate and focus on experience – potentially a greater focus for finals teams – compared to those on the lower rungs who give more opportunities to youth.
We can see some injury-enforced changes to teams so far in these two blocks. Ideally there’ll be more to assess in six more weeks, otherwise I have wasted my time setting these up.
