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Really enjoying watching Alex play - the stuff he does well is amazing and exciting to watch, and the few things he gets wrong are pretty clearly just the result of inexperience and nerves. Also horrifying to be watching someone this good and to know that they're several years younger than me...

Yeah, she took a medical timeout three games in to her match this morning, so she's clearly still not recovered. I definitely wouldn't be expecting her to go deep at the AO.

Muguruza withdrew from the tournament, so with Gavrilova's win over Stosur she's into the semis. Will be playing either Strýcová or Barty. Might be three consecutive all-Aussie matchups for Gavrilova! That doesn't happen often.

I feel like the ATP are going to be having some words with Dzumhur tonight... That retirement came out of absolutely nowhere, and the timing of it being immediately after he goes down two breaks to an 18-year-old is a bit dodgy to say the least. Even the journos are a bit questioning about it...

This depends on whether you count rushed behinds against the teams or not. If you don't think they interrupt the streak, the following matches at a minimum beat it: West Coast v GWS R8 2014: 18 (3 rushed) Geelong v Melbourne R9 2011: 19 (2 rushed) If you want to count rushed behinds against...

Congratulations everyone. And thanks, from the rest of us :)

Yep, and every single person participating in the AFLW is significantly older than 15.

To elaborate on this, a "normal" sized ball is a size 5, that's what's used in the Men's competition and most other major leagues. There's also a size 4.5 that is used as the standard in most pre-existing women's competitions. For reasons completely beyond the understanding of... well...

So's Pav. But on that note, anyone know how long before the match the Freo girls actually arrived in Melbourne? It did look like the travel had a huge effect on them and I'm not sure whether that's attributable to having no experience with it, having to fly in on the day to save on...

Elo rankings don't say that Adelaide 2016 was better than Port 2004, it says it was better than the competition average by a larger margin. This is extremely important, because Elo rankings rely on there being a standardised average for the entire league. Arc uses 1500 as this average. If the...

You should probably have a coffee and come back to that one. This is mostly correct! As it turns out being less injury-prone tends to be fairly positive for sports teams. Broadly speaking I'm going to expect the team consistently fielding their best 22 to one that has to ask other teams on...

The Dogs were pretty shithouse in 2014, and North's utter capitulation last year is a good idea of why you can't just blindly trust the last two months of results. Arc's model proved its success with a relatively small annual regression (10%), and because of the Elo system's natural requirement...

Women's soccer, cricket, and netball aren't even getting half of the attendance that the AFLW is right now because they didn't get that media coverage. I get your point that it's a bit unusual to see team that - let's face it - aren't very good getting such a huge coverage, but it's the only...

In fairness, Fremantle weren't nearly as bad as the scoreline would suggest. They thoroughly outplayed the Bulldogs in the second quarter and seemed to just fall off for the second half, likely due to having never had to play a game after a cross-continent flight before. You'd also have a hard...

Not really a statistical question as such, but of the statistical gurus around here, which of you are planning on keeping records on AFLW statistics? Would be nice to know what resources are out there.

It's injecting advertisement referral/affiliate links into user text, that's the second most common kind of browser malware behind search hijacking, and had me shitting myself worried that my computer had somehow gotten infected for a good half an hour before I determined BigFooty to be the...

So I feel like this has got to be on my end because no-one else has mentioned anything, but is BigFooty serving VigLink malware? I'm getting it across different browsers and different devices, and even on my phone, and haven't managed to proc it on any other websites.

I'm just waiting for Eddie's media release this week where he announces his brilliant new idea for an 18 team finals system.

It's in the match centre app, probably on the website too. Currently 45 for North, 48 for the Crows. Sorry, but there is a distinct possibility that my interest in TV shows might not overlap perfectly with yours.

Brisbane Roar have kicked more goals in a half of football against Sydney than Collingwood has.

I'm surprised she's put up with it for this long, Sydney are playing like wooden spooners and are still trashing the Pies.

During the Gold Coast v Essendon game I was thinking "Man, this commentary is actually pretty good, I might bother watching matches this year if this keeps up" Took thirty seconds for me to remember why I hate Channel 7.

I feel like that arrow is somewhat unhelpful.

North really should win that one by 5+ goals, so they're probably going to lose by a point. That said, I certainly wouldn't bet against them, never a great idea to tip a team travelling away in the first week.

Honestly their first half was pretty meh too, disposal efficiency was in the mid 60s, it's just that they aren't facing much competition.

Stats rundown leading in to the last quarter of GCS v Essendon: GCS top score: 148 v GWS R5 2013 GCS biggest win: 83 v GWS R23 2013 Most scoring shots: 43 v GWS R5 2013 All of these look feasibly broken if they don't decide to rest to avoid injuries. They'll no longer be able to break their...

I mean it is basically just a training session at this point, might as well work on your goalkicking when you're not going to be penalised for missing.

I actually really enjoyed the Brisbane R4 2014 match, it may have been boring from a competitive standpoint but we had a lot of really nice runs through the midfield and it was very nice to watch. Even in matches where I'm neutral I'm happy to see demolitions if the team doing the demolishing...

The last time we played Essendon was a post-Showdown game too, and we won that. We're not going to struggle to beat their VFL side.

...no, that's exactly the opposite of what they said.