• Ladder Predictor

    Ladder Predictor

    Start of the season always brings Max Laughton’s great work over at fox on the ladder prediction. Rather than selecting a winner and loser for each match through the season, Max uses a win % for each game to calculate projected wins. This makes a lot of sense. A team like Brisbane might go into…

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  • Creating credible threat

    Creating credible threat

    This week I want to talk about how to dissect a bubble (carefully I guess). Last week on This Week In Footy Jasper Chellappah talked about bubbles when examining Carlton, after Adam Simpson brought it up on his segment on AFL 360. In the modern game teams generally defend space more than they defend players.…

  • Eppur si (non) muove

    Eppur si (non) muove

    This article was originally published on This Week In Football. In news that will surely make David King’s heart sing, Fremantle are by one metric the most stop-start team of any from 2021 onwards. In the season to date, only 26.4% of frees or marks to Fremantle sees them do something other than taking the…