The Roos broke their duck, the Dees continued their red hot start, and the Bombers won a close one. Read on for my Round 9 power rankings. 18. Hawthorn Hawks (down two) When you lose to North Melbourne you’re going to fall down these rankings. When you lose to North when you have a five-goal […]
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I’ve decided that it’s too risky to make predictions only about the margin of victory for a particular team, possibly the most veiled of all outcomes to forecast.
So in the interest of increasing my odds of success for each game, I will also be presenting ‘safe predictions’ for the games as well.
Mind you, the forecasts we’ve been making have been fairly safe already. With seven more correct last weekend we’ve now picked 47 winners out of 72 for the year, and the ELO-Following Football rating system is a more impressive 51 of 72 on its own after I made some rather unsafe overrides of the system early in the season.
Five talking points from AFL Round 8 A Set the default text size A Set large text size
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A bit of a whirlwind round awaited us in Round 8. Plenty of strong wins, a lot of high-flying speckies and an unusual amount of talk about prison bars. Here are the talking points.
Grand final rematch flips the script, but a new character proves the difference
In last year’s decider, it was the Cats who led comfortably at halftime, before Richmond emerged from the break with a stunning run of football that allowed them to come back and then some.
Five talking points from the AFL Round 5 A Set the default text size A Set large text size
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Round 5’s in the books.
Apologies for a shorter than usual piece – time constraints plus a day at the footy yesterday (paired with celebratory drinks) disrupted the usual writing process, but never fear, there’s plenty to discuss all the same.
West Coast and Richmond get the wins they needed
Cast your minds back to July 2017, where the Tigers and Saints met at Marvel Stadium in a primetime match. And now specifically cast your minds back to halftime in that clash, where St Kilda led a horrendous Richmond by 81 points.
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Round 5’s in the books.
Apologies for a shorter than usual piece – time constraints plus a day at the footy yesterday (paired with celebratory drinks) disrupted the usual writing process, but never fear, there’s plenty to discuss all the same.
West Coast and Richmond get the wins they needed
Cast your minds back to July 2017, where the Tigers and Saints met at Marvel Stadium in a primetime match. And now specifically cast your minds back to halftime in that clash, where St Kilda led a horrendous Richmond by 81 points.