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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on December 08, 2021, 03:57:30 AM
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Which clubs enter 2022 with the oldest and youngest lists?
Mitch Keating
zerohanger.com.
DECEMBER 8, 2021
Average Age↧ Age Rank Average Games Games Rank
Geelong 25.7 years 1st 96.6 games 1st
West Coast 25.3 years 2nd 89.2 games 2nd
Richmond 25.1 years 3rd 80.6 games 3rd
Western Bulldogs 25.0 years 4th 72.4 games 5th
Port Adelaide 24.8 years 5th 75.7 games 4th
St Kilda 24.8 years 6th 71.9 games 6th
Sydney 24.7 years 7th 71.2 games 8th
Melbourne 24.5 years 8th 71.4 games 7th
Brisbane 24.5 years 9th 67.8 games 9th
GWS Giants 24.4 years 10th 60.0 games 13th
Carlton 24.2 years 11th 60.0 games 14th
Essendon 24.2 years 12th 56.8 games 15th
Collingwood 24.1 years 13th 62.5 games 10th
Fremantle 24.1 years 14th 60.1 games 12th
Gold Coast 23.9 years 15th 53.3 games 17th
Hawthorn 23.8 years 16th 61.3 games 11th
North Melbourne 23.5 years 17th 55.0 games 16th
Adelaide 23.4 years 18th 46.7 games 18th
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Richmond
Average Age: 25.1 years (3rd)
Average Games: 80.6 games (3rd)
Despite an off-season that saw the Tigers farewell ageing stalwarts and acquire several young prospects through the draft, Damien Hardwick's side remain as one of the older and most experienced in the competition next year.
The arrival of Robbie Tarrant is a key factor in the Tigers keeping their experience afloat, while the departures of Mabior Chol and Callum Coleman-Jones certainly hinder their younger ranks.
https://www.zerohanger.com/which-clubs-enter-2022-with-the-oldest-and-youngest-lists-95455/
https://www.draftguru.com.au/lists/2022
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Have never placed much importance into this nonsense of the overall age of your list.
The average age of your best 22 is another thing. That 22 needs to get to so many games and a certain age to challenge.
At the other end of the scale once it hits a certain age and games played it goes into decline.
The key is having enough players who are good enough regularly coming thru to take over. Thats the importance of youth and for me its got more to do with quality than the over all numbers. Whats the point of having the most kids on your list if very few of them will step up.
Clearly all lists have to be balanced
enough of all types in all areas and enough juniors, development and mature types in those areas.
when you look at the starting 22 of all teams apart from the odd older team and the odd younger team the average age would be around 25 up.
Have a look at adelaide round 22 average age was 24/117 days but only had 1534 at 67 average games with just six players with 100 plus games.
While its still young and very inexperienced it is higher than their over all list.
The premiers a few weeks later on g/f day had an average age of 24/306 not much difference there but they had 2279 games averaging 103 games and 14 had reached 100 games.Its very similar to our age experience demographic in 2017.
Very young lists means jack poo especially if the list is riddled with too many young ordinary players.It often means you waste many years trying to develop players who never reach a high enough standard.
Geelong we all know are the oldest team in the land.
But look at the difference between best 23 and list. I will use their recent preliminary final side as best 22 although two or three were missing.
Prelim team 28yr/97d 2707 games averaging 168.5 games. Its the oldest starting 23 i have ever seen.
List 25.7yr 4146 games 96.4
By my count they have 12 juniors and another 8 aged 22 to 24. im not sure these numbers would be all that much different to most other clubs.
a quick count and we have 13 juniors with another 7 aged 22 - 24.
The bottom line is your best 30 or so is a better indicator of where you are at rather than a blanket statement of gee so and so are in a good place look at how young they are and all the kids they have