Rise, hold or fall: The definitive verdict on every AFL club’s list for 2021

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Rise, hold or fall: The definitive verdict on every AFL club’s list for 2021

January 28, 2021 10:03am
by DAVID ZITA
Source: FOX SPORTS

Carlton, Melbourne and Gold Coast are well placed for a surge up the ladder.

But GWS’ fortunes don’t seem as lucky after a brutal off-season and poor 2020 campaign.

Foxfooty.com.au analyses where every club’s list is at and assess whether they’ll hold, rise or fall in 2021.

RICHMOND

Average age: 24.86 (4th)

Average games played: 78.44 (4th)

It’s been said before, it’ll be said again – the Tigers are the best until proven otherwise. The average age ranking for them has gone from 10th-youngest to fourth-oldest but there isn’t really anything to be concerned about in the Richmond camp barring the off-field incidents that presented themselves throughout 2020. Simply put, the Tigers have earned the right to be backed in until they fail, so anything other than a ‘hold’ would be selling them short.

Rise, hold or fall? Hold

The others ....click on the link

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-2021-predictions-rise-hold-or-fall-verdict-on-every-club-afl-lists-2021-afl-teams-tips-afl-lists/news-story/43690dd740e8f5843c4ea6f817e54308

[the claw]

how ludicrous are some stats.
To me the overall average age of teams is meaningless when talking about premiership chances.. Every team has at a guess somewhere around 20 juniors and development players on their lists and very few actually play many games. So why are players who are unlikely to play much bought into premiership calculations.

Thru a season its mostly your mature and vets that play most games and the average age and average games played is boosted significantly.

take a look at the stats above our average total list age is 24.86 and our average games played is 78.44
Compare that to the average age of the 22 that played in the g/f it was 27y 43d and averaged 132.96 games.

its not about how old or young your list is overall its more about where your best 25 30 players are at. its all about having the team mature enough to around age 25 and it is so important that the team averages 100 games per player at least.

[Hard Roar Tiger]

I think total possessions are meaningless as well. You seem to define a play by that one dimensional, misleading stat tho. I guess some people draw comfort from using a visible, easily measured number to prove their point.