Richmond's Percentage

[Tigermonk]

Round 21
Date            Home            Away          Ground    Details:
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23-Aug-96       Nth Melb        Geelong         MCG     Night
                14.12 (96)      16.13 (109)
24-Aug-96       Carlton         Footscray       OO
                13.18 (96)      9.12 (66)
                Essendon        Sydney          MCG
                14.16(100)      12.10 (82)
                St. Kilda       Hawthorn        P
                9.9. (63)       12.8 (80)
                Brisbane        Fremantle       GABBA   Night
                10.11 (71)      10.10 (70)
25-Aug-96       Adelaide        Collingwood     FP
                14.12 (96)      24.9 (153)
                West Coast      Melbourne       S
                24.7 (151)      11.12 (78)
                Richmond        Fitzroy         MCG
                28.19 (187)     5.6 (36)
Round 22
Date            Home            Away          Ground    Details:
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30-Aug-96       Essendon        Footscray       MCG     Night
                11.13 (79)      11.10 (76)
31-Aug-96       Geelong         Carlton         KP
                9.11 (65)       16.11 (107)
                Collingwood     Brisbane        VP
                15.10 (100)     6.15 (51)
                St. Kilda       Adelaide        P
                20.24 (144)     11.9 (75)
                Melbourne       Hawthorn        MCG     Night
                15.11 (101)     15.12 (102)
                Sydney          West Coast      SCG     Night
                12.13 (85)      6.14 (50)
 1-Sep-96       Fremantle       Fitzroy         S
                24.13 (157)     10.11 (71)
                Richmond        Nth Melb        MCG
                16.13 (109)     21.15 (141)


Ok it was us that lost to North that keep us out & Hawks won by 1 $^$&&&&&& point   

[wayne]

Have to look it up in some archive, l remember being at that game & we did spank them but cant if we needed another club to lose

We had to beat Nort Melbourne in round 22 to make finals.

[Tigermonk]

the way i see it is we are one of the heavier scoring sides in the comp which is a bonus for a team so young and still some way off. Our whole defensive setup needs to drastically improve. This means the whole 22 not just the back 6. We must stop those cheap unforced error goals, if we ever get that right our percentage will shoot up and we'll tear sides apart

 

[Tigermonk]

Have to look it up in some archive, l remember being at that game & we did spank them but cant if we needed another club to lose

We had to beat Nort Melbourne in round 22 to make finals.

Melbourne could have looked after thier co-tenants, 1 point we missed the finals 

[Hellenic Tiger]

Our best pecentage in the last 27 years of doom & gloom was  117% back in 1996.

We had the 5th best % in the comp that year...yet still finished 9th.

If memory serves correctly, we spanked poor old fitzroy shocking that year.

Twice the first time by 92 the second time by 151.
We also lost 7 games by less than 3 goals.

[mightytiges]

Round 21
Date            Home            Away          Ground    Details:
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23-Aug-96       Nth Melb        Geelong         MCG     Night
                14.12 (96)      16.13 (109)
24-Aug-96       Carlton         Footscray       OO
                13.18 (96)      9.12 (66)
                Essendon        Sydney          MCG
                14.16(100)      12.10 (82)
                St. Kilda       Hawthorn        P
                9.9. (63)       12.8 (80)
                Brisbane        Fremantle       GABBA   Night
                10.11 (71)      10.10 (70)
25-Aug-96       Adelaide        Collingwood     FP
                14.12 (96)      24.9 (153)
                West Coast      Melbourne       S
                24.7 (151)      11.12 (78)
                Richmond        Fitzroy         MCG
                28.19 (187)     5.6 (36)
Round 22
Date            Home            Away          Ground    Details:
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30-Aug-96       Essendon        Footscray       MCG     Night
                11.13 (79)      11.10 (76)
31-Aug-96       Geelong         Carlton         KP
                9.11 (65)       16.11 (107)
                Collingwood     Brisbane        VP
                15.10 (100)     6.15 (51)
                St. Kilda       Adelaide        P
                20.24 (144)     11.9 (75)
                Melbourne       Hawthorn        MCG     Night
                15.11 (101)     15.12 (102)
                Sydney          West Coast      SCG     Night
                12.13 (85)      6.14 (50)
 1-Sep-96       Fremantle       Fitzroy         S
                24.13 (157)     10.11 (71)
                Richmond        Nth Melb        MCG
                16.13 (109)     21.15 (141)


Ok it was us that lost to North that keep us out & Hawks won by 1 $^$&&&&&& point    

The damage was done earlier in that season and we only had ourselves to blame to being in that position. We lost to the Swans thanks to the ump pinging Richo for shepharding on the goal-line and denying us the winning goal and then the next week Naish missed kicking the winning the goal after the siren. Then from memory we lost home games to the Eagles and Bears at Princes Park. Hawthorn also had a far easier draw than we did that year and came home like a train to pinch 8th spot. That last game they played against Melbourne was the infamous merger game.

Anyway our percentage is poor because we simply are nowhere good enough yet. All our wins barring the Freo game where we ran riot in the last quarter were tough scraps. As daniel said a good side would've put Brisbane to the sword. In both games we've struggled to get on top of them until midwat through the last quarter. It doesn't help we have poor first quarters so we are often playing catch up footy and we have lapses when we get 3-4 goals in front and switch off rather than murdering a side. As RR said in the first quarter thread we are still too reactive waiting to see what the opposition are doing rather than being proactive and hitting a game from the first minute to impose ourselves on the game and apply scoreboard especially against bottom sides.

[one-eyed]

The numbers game
By Terry Wallace
Wed 13 Jul, 2011

This year we have often heard supporters questioning whether teams such as Melbourne, North Melbourne and Richmond have improved from last year. It is easy to get a line on this by comparing a team's 2010 and 2011 percentages.

 It is obviously easier when percentage is judged from year to year for poorly performed teams to rise, and at the same time more difficult for top teams to keep their percentage graph improving. 

If you have a lowly team from 2010 dropping percentage, clearly there are alarm bells, while a top team in 2010 which has increased percentage is doing a great job.

 So let's take a look at who has improved this season and who has gone backwards.


Improvement ladder (percentage change from end of 2010 to round 16 2011)

West Coast    +46.88%
Collingwood   +38.41%
Essendon      +29.59%
Carlton         +27.69%
Hawthorn      +20.86%
Richmond     +12.02%
North Melb.   +8.21%
Melbourne     +4.48%
Sydney          -0.31%
Brisbane        -4.26%
Fremantle      -6.04%   
Geelong        -12.21%
Port Adelaide -13.52%
Adelaide       -16.66%
St Kilda        -23.52%
W.Bulldogs   -27.41%
Gold Coast      N/A

The progress of the next three teams is regularly questioned, yet all are still making ground.

The Tigers may be marginally misleading as their 0-9 start to the 2010 season saw them with the poorest percentage for some time, yet they are still on the rise.

Both North Melbourne and Melbourne have young squads who in recent weeks have been under the microscope, but however you want to read their seasons, the 'improvement ladder' doesn't lie.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/118400/default.aspx

[mightytiges]

Bump.

The most disappointing thing about Thursday night is that from just kick in it during the last quarter we once again allowed a loss to blow out in the last 10-15 minutes and our percentage starts the season at just 65% with us in 15th spot. It just shows we still need to get mentally tougher as well as physically stronger before we can start moving up the ladder and matching it with the top sides.

[rogerd3]

i long for 1980 where we kicked huge scores and pummelled
teams into submission.

[smasha]

I'm a teapot.I'm a teapot.

[Sabretooth]

Bump.

The most disappointing thing about Thursday night is that from just kick in it during the last quarter we once again allowed a loss to blow out in the last 10-15 minutes and our percentage starts the season at just 65% with us in 15th spot. It just shows we still need to get mentally tougher as well as physically stronger before we can start moving up the ladder and matching it with the top sides.

The positive way of looking at the percentage, is to think that over the course of the game we saved 20.8% on the scores that were made in the previous outing against the Blues.

Rich 12.9.81 to Carl 28.16.184 = first round percentage of 44.0%

[Rodgerramjet]

It just shows we still need to get mentally tougher

Thursday night proved that we still get totally overwhelmed mentally with big occassion footy. It's the next BIG hurdle for us.

[Hellenic Tiger]

A measure of how far we come is also how much we punish the weaker sides to make up that % drop we inevitably seem to experience when we play the big boys.

A win is a win I understand but at some point in time but we need to start turning just wins into good size comfortable wins.

That will help restore the % and get us into the 95% plus which would be a barest minimum when you think we have a comp with GWS and GC who are not yet competitive enough.

[Eat_em_Alive]

Heres what ive come up with using the bailey ladder predictor completing round 6...
Its only my thoughts on the tips 
loss to pies 60 pts
beat melbourne 12 pts
loss to geelong 60 pts
beat west coast 1 pt
beat pt adelaide 3 pts

we end up with 3 of 6 wins and a percentage of 79.2% in 11th place.

Im not so sure bout winning that west coast game either 

[one-eyed]

Our percentage is back up to 98% so yesterday basically made up for any percentage loss to Carl and Coll. We are now 11th on the ladder above Collingwood  .