Richmond has the 3rd oldest & experienced list in 2022 (zerohanger)

[one-eyed]

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

[the claw]

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