of course it matters what the scoring trend accross the comp is.
if you score 2000 in a year when the highest is 2100 and only three teams score more than two thousand for the year, theres a good chance you have performed better than in a year when when you score 2100, the highest is 2500, 10 teams score more than 2000 and 7 of those teams scored more than you.
Following your simpleton line of thought, Richmond performed better in the 1972 grand final than any other grand final they played in except 1980.
Any one with half a brain understands that its not important how much you score, but how much you score relative to the competition, yet you obviously cant grasp that concept?
Firstly you didn't answer the question I posed. Why not?
Secondly, you pick the only game in VFL/AFL history when a side scored 150 points in a GF and lost. I hardly think that is the way you support your argument. You use common scenarios not a one in a million phenomenon. How about I say that in the history of footy scoring 150 points in a GF would statistically have won a premiership in any year other than 1972. That is a much better way of looking at it. Of course I understand it's how you defend as well. The problem is you cannot prove that playing Riewoldt further up field has been successful for the team. There is no statistic you can come up with that actually specifies that it was that move that improved us. So just give up because most on here agree that Richmond as a team play better when Riewoldt plays deeper forward than further up the ground. This year I believe this is the plan so let's just see if we score better. There is no way you can convince me that playing Riewoldt up the field allows us to defend better so I think that part of the argument is irrelevant.
Your question wasn't answered directly because it is unrealistic and extreme. Yet you pot me for using circumstances that have actually happened, and it highlights the folly of your line of reasoning that how much you score in comparison to the opposition is not important, just how much you score is. That is seriously down there with watching the ball as you kick it makes you a bad kick.
Nor could I give a stuff what most people agree on, consensus doesnt make it right and I'm not about to change my thinking just because everyone else thinks that way. No-one has even gone close to showing that playing jack in the goal square is better for the team than playing him further up the ground, least of all you with your airy fairy, circular non logic, deceptively excluding stats that doesn't suit your argument and throwing red herring about.
Also, as I've said, there is another very important part to the equation, but given the discussion so far, I have no doubt you would not be able to grasp that concept either.
I'm not trying to convince anyone that playing Jack further up the ground makes us defend better. where did you draw that from?
it just gets more amazingly stupid and irrational.
Just to sum your thought patterns
....do you think that if Riewoldt kicks 135 goals in 2017.....
I hardly think that is the way you support your argument .You use common scenarios ......