Richmond's quirky stats (afl site)

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Stats incredible: Your club's quirky numbers

Jennifer Phelan
afl.com.au
25 July 2018

Hardwick's handballers
We know all about the Tigers' pressure and the fact they love to use handballs to cut through congestion and move the ball forward. Their use of handballing as a propelling mechanism has been more effective than any other team, having gained a whopping average of 507 metres per game from handballs alone, which ranks them first and measures 250m more than any other side.

Behind blitz
The Tigers have registered the most rushed behinds of any side this season, having racked up a total of 56 points not scored directly off the boot. It's an amusing stat given the inadvertent input 265-game Tiger Joel Bowden had in the 2009 implementation of the rushed behind rule that awards a free kick for deliberately taking the ball over the line. Bowden rushed two behinds in a row in a home-and-away match in 2008 to waste time, before the Hawks rushed 11 behinds in the 2008 Grand Final.

Stoppages schmoppages
They're top of the table so it doesn't seem to be hurting them, but the Tigers don't have a strong focus on winning contested possessions at stoppages, which is reflected in their differential of minus-119, ranked last in the League. They save their hardest work for what happens next, with a post-stoppage contested possession differential of plus-38 (seventh).

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-07-25/stats-incredible-your-clubs-quirky-numbers

[one-eyed]

And for an even more math geeky statistical analysis try this:

https://www.theroar.com.au/2018/07/25/math-geeks-guide-true-afl-ladder/

Richmond is in a class of their own right now. Their lead stands out like a sore thumb when you see it like this – no other team is a full deviation above the average anywhere, but the Tigers are about one and a half deviations up in every system.

Right now, no matter how you measure it, Richmond is a couple of cuts above the rest.

Remember, though, the only thing our four systems measure is current performance. If Dustin Martin and Alex Rance get injured, everything could change in a heartbeat.

Also, these systems only compare apples to apples. It says nothing about how 2018 Richmond would do against, say, the 2000 Bombers, the 2009 Cats, the 2013 Hawks or the 1929 Magpies.

[YellowandBlackBlood]

I am 100% certain right now, we'd smash the 1929 Magpies.