Prediction 2020 Time Capsule

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Fossie 32 said:
so only guys drafted last year?
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no - but I don't think they can have played more than 10 games
There is probably an Age restriction but not sure what it is

Eg West is still eligible
 
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Thanks for the thread, as another female in the tribe, I'm hoping the girls come through with the best predictions again...

AFL
Premiers:Collingwood
Runners Up:Geelong
Wooden Spoon:Carlton
The bookies' top 8 are Richmond, West Coast, Collingwood, GWS, Brisbane, Geelong, WB, Hawthorn.
Which of these clubs won't make the finals? (you can name more than one): West Coast
Which clubs not named above will make the finals in their place?: Freo

Brownlow Medal: Marcus Bontempelli aka The Bont, who will be escorted up the red carpet by his Mum or Tom Boyd
Coleman Medal: Charlie Cameron
Rising Star: Rankine
Biggest AFL news story of the year: AFL Player contracts coronavirus (hope not though)

WB:
H&A Wins: 14
Ladder position after Rd 23: 6
How far will we go in the finals - won't make the eight, EF, SF, PF, runners-up or Premiers? Semi Final
Charles Sutton Medal B&F top three (in order): The Bont, Naughton, Crozier
Leading WB goalkicker (incl finals): Bruce
How many goals will he kick? 38
Which WB players will be in the AA side? The Bont, Crozier, Naughton
Best First Year player: Sweet
Most Improved: Tim English
Most Courageous: Bailey Smith
Rising Star nominations (name them): West
Biggest win (opponent and margin): Essendon, by 70 pts
Biggest loss (opponent and margin): Collingwood, by 48
Final membership tally: 49,999 (haha, just kidding, probably 47,988
 
Dayzleeper said:
Thanks for the thread, as another female in the tribe, I'm hoping the girls come through with the best predictions again...

AFL
Premiers:Collingwood
Runners Up:Geelong
Wooden Spoon:Carlton
The bookies' top 8 are Richmond, West Coast, Collingwood, GWS, Brisbane, Geelong, WB, Hawthorn.
Which of these clubs won't make the finals? (you can name more than one): West Coast
Which clubs not named above will make the finals in their place?: Freo

Brownlow Medal: Marcus Bontempelli aka The Bont, who will be escorted up the red carpet by his Mum or Tom Boyd
Coleman Medal: Charlie Cameron
Rising Star: Rankine
Biggest AFL news story of the year: AFL Player contracts coronavirus (hope not though)

WB:
H&A Wins: 14
Ladder position after Rd 23: 6
How far will we go in the finals - won't make the eight, EF, SF, PF, runners-up or Premiers? Semi Final
Charles Sutton Medal B&F top three (in order): The Bont, Naughton, Crozier
Leading WB goalkicker (incl finals): Bruce
How many goals will he kick? 38
Which WB players will be in the AA side? The Bont, Crozier, Naughton
Best First Year player: Sweet
Most Improved: Tim English
Most Courageous: Bailey Smith
Rising Star nominations (name them): West
Biggest win (opponent and margin): Essendon, by 70 pts
Biggest loss (opponent and margin): Collingwood, by 48
Final membership tally: 49,999 (haha, just kidding, probably 47,988
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Love the avatar pic! No need to guess which club you follow.. haha
 
AFL
Premiers: Bulldogs
Runners Up: GWS
Wooden Spoon: Adelaide
The bookies' top 8 are Richmond, West Coast, Collingwood, GWS, Brisbane, Geelong, WB, Hawthorn.
Which of these clubs won't make the finals? (you can name more than one): Collingwood, Geelong
Which clubs not named above will make the finals in their place?: Melbourne, Fremantle

Brownlow Medal: Bont
Coleman Medal: Cameron
Rising Star: Rowell
Biggest AFL news story of the year: Coronavirus sweeps through clubs and 2 rounds are cancelled

WB:
H&A Wins: 15
Ladder position after Rd 23: 2nd
How far will we go in the finals - won't make the eight, EF, SF, PF, runners-up or Premiers? Premiers
Charles Sutton Medal B&F top three (in order): Bont, Naughton, Dunkley
Leading WB goalkicker (incl finals): Bruce
How many goals will he kick? 46
Which WB players will be in the AA side? Bont, Dunkley, JJ
Best First Year player: Weightman
Most Improved: Bailey Williams
Most Courageous: Bailey Smith
Rising Star nominations (name them): Weightman
Biggest win (opponent and margin): St Kilda (72 points)
Biggest loss (opponent and margin): West Coast (42 points)
Final membership tally: 56,653
 
AFL
Premiers: Collingwood
Runners Up: GWS
Wooden Spoon: St Kilda
The bookies' top 8 are Richmond, West Coast, Collingwood, GWS, Brisbane, Geelong, WB, Hawthorn.
Which of these clubs won't make the finals? (you can name more than one): WB
Which clubs not named above will make the finals in their place?: Essendon

Brownlow Medal: Fyfe
Coleman Medal: Jeremy Cameron
Rising Star: Rowell
Biggest AFL news story of the year: AFL enforce crowed lock-outs due to virus

WB:
H&A Wins: 11
Ladder position after Rd 23: 9
How far will we go in the finals - won't make the eight, EF, SF, PF, runners-up or Premiers?
Charles Sutton Medal B&F top three (in order): Bont Macrae Dunkley
Leading WB goalkicker (incl finals): Lloyd
How many goals will he kick? 40
Which WB players will be in the AA side? Bont
Best First Year player: Weightman
Most Improved: Lipinski
Most Courageous: Bont
Rising Star nominations (name them): Weightman
Biggest win (opponent and margin): St Kilda 43
Biggest loss (opponent and margin): Giants 62
Final membership tally: 43053
 
Jeff 1975 said:
AFL
Premiers: Collingwood
Runners Up: GWS
Wooden Spoon: St Kilda
The bookies' top 8 are Richmond, West Coast, Collingwood, GWS, Brisbane, Geelong, WB, Hawthorn.
Which of these clubs won't make the finals? (you can name more than one): WB
Which clubs not named above will make the finals in their place?: Essendon

Brownlow Medal: Fyfe
Coleman Medal: Jeremy Cameron
Rising Star: Rowell
Biggest AFL news story of the year: AFL enforce crowed lock-outs due to virus

WB:
H&A Wins: 11
Ladder position after Rd 23: 9
How far will we go in the finals - won't make the eight, EF, SF, PF, runners-up or Premiers?
Charles Sutton Medal B&F top three (in order): Bont Macrae Dunkley
Leading WB goalkicker (incl finals): Lloyd
How many goals will he kick? 40
Which WB players will be in the AA side? Bont
Best First Year player: Weightman
Most Improved: Lipinski
Most Courageous: Bont
Rising Star nominations (name them): Weightman
Biggest win (opponent and margin): St Kilda 43
Biggest loss (opponent and margin): Giants 62
Final membership tally: 43053
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If we miss the 8 with the second best list it will go nuclear in here :eek:
 
Back to defend my (joint) title from 2019.

AFL
Premiers: Richmond
Runners Up: Collingwood
Wooden Spoon: Gold Coast (but they will improve)
The bookies' top 8 are Richmond, West Coast, Collingwood, GWS, Brisbane, Geelong, WB, Hawthorn.
Which of these clubs won't make the finals? (you can name more than one): Geelong and Hawthorn
Which clubs not named above will make the finals in their place?: Port Adelaide & North

Brownlow Medal: P. Cripps/Bont tie
Coleman Medal: Tom Lynch
Rising Star: Rowell
Biggest AFL news story of the year: No crowds allowed

WB:
H&A Wins: 15
Ladder position after Rd 23: 5
How far will we go in the finals -
won't make the eight, EF, SF, PF, runners-up or Premiers? Semi finals
Charles Sutton Medal B&F top three (in order): Bont, Dunkley, Crozier
Leading WB goalkicker (incl finals): Bruce
How many goals will he kick? 57
Which WB players will be in the AA side? Bont, Dunks, Crozier
Best First Year player: Weightman
Most Improved: English
Most Courageous: Crozier
Rising Star nominations (name them): West and Weightman
Biggest win (opponent and margin): Freo Marvel: 52ptd
Biggest loss (opponent and margin): Geelong in Geelong - 38pts
Final membership tally:48119
 
TIME CAPSULE RE-OPENED!

Rescue workers sifting through the wreckage of year 2020 have unearthed a fascinating Time Capsule prepared in the innocent days of the pre-Covid19 world. It has been passed on to me for analysis. Thought you might like a read of what I found…

What people thought back then (March 2020):

General AFL
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Specifically Western Bulldogs:
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Did anybody smash it? Well, no not really. Last year’s joint winners (Kermit and Dogs_R_Barking) won it with 25 points each. This year's winner got only 12.5 pts ... but of course there were extenuating circumstances.

After a lot of tabulation and calculation here’s the 2020 result:

Congratulations to Yojimbo (12.5 pts) as the nearest thing we had to a Nostradamus in 2020.

X_box_X was runner-up with 12 points and Fossie 32 finished in third place on 10.5 points.

Here’s the final points table:
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The detail, including how points were awarded:

  • Premiers (Richmond worth 4 points) – surprisingly, only 5 out of 23 chose Richmond. Maybe it’s because 9 people picked the Dogs as premiers. Richmond were the second most picked.
  • Runners-up (Geelong, worth 3 points) – only Dayzleeper picked the Cats
  • Wooden Spoon (Adelaide, 2 points) – only three got this one right, CaptainMurphy, McCraeBF and RedWhite&Blue. Most (10) thought it’d be Gold Coast again.
  • Surprise finalists (Port Adelaide and St Kilda, a point for each one right but a 0.5 deduction off that for each one wrong). AFDogs and Yojimbo did best – they picked both Port and Saints but they also picked Melbourne so they ended up with 1.5pts each.
  • Surprise non-finalists (GWS and Hawthorn, a point for each one right but a 0.5 deduction off that for each one wrong). Hawthorn wasn’t much of a surprise as 10 people thought they’d miss. Nobody picked GWS to miss out.
  • Brownlow Medallist (Lachie Neale, 4 points, or half that if you picked him and one other to tie) – nobody picked Neale outright but McCraeBF (that BF-id is now defunct) picked him to tie with Fyfe so he got 2 pts. Bont was the overwhelming favourite (16 picked him) and then Cripps (5).
  • Coleman Medallist (Tom Hawkins, 3 points). Surprisingly, nobody picked Hawkins. The favourite was 2019 winner Jeremy Cameron (7) from Tom Lynch (6). And even a couple went for Josh Bruce (hehee).
  • Rising Star (Caleb Serong, 2 pts) Nearly everybody plonked for Matt Rowell and to be fair they were on the money. He was almost an unbackable favourite at the time he ruined his shoulder and was forced to miss the rest of the season. Only the prescient Yojimbo chose Serong.
  • Biggest AFL News Story – There were no points on offer for this but it’s always a fun way to be creative or to show a true insight into the game. The responses were mainly divided between the theme of multiple concussions (4) and the emerging threat of Covid19 (8) especially the later entries when the pandemic really started to hit Australia. There were also a couple who thought Buddy retiring would be the biggest news story (I guess that depends where you get your news!) but the wackiest was undoubtedly the irrepressible Yojimbo with: “Alex Rance eaten by remote tribe in Papua New Guinea while spreading his faith.” Yep, I reckon that WOULD be a news story.
  • WB H&A Wins (3 pts). Because we only played 17 games I multiplied our 10 wins by 22/17 which came out at very close to 13 so to get 3 points you had to have predicted 13 wins. Only X_box_x did. On the whole our tipsters were a little too optimistic. The average was 15.4 wins and the median 16. Definitely top 4 material.
  • WB Ladder position (7th, 3 pts) Despite us finishing 7th in 2019 nobody tipped us to finish 7th again in 2020. So I gave 1 point to anyone who tipped us to finish 6th or 8th. There were 4 of the former and none of the latter. As you might expect there was too much optimism again – the median prediction was that we’d finish fourth and the average of all responses was 3.79 (th).
  • How far would we get in the finals? (EF, 1 point). Again this was a total fail, even though the EF was where we finished the previous year. I guess the fact that 15 of the 24 picked us to finish top 4 meant the earliest we could bow out (in their view) was a SF. Just one bold soul tipped us to miss the eight (Jeff 1975, 9th). Nobody scored any points on this one.
  • Charles Sutton Medal (Daniel-Bont-Libba, 3 points for first, 2 for second, 2 for third, 1 point for getting the right player in the wrong placing). The overwhelming favourite was The Bont again, with 22 out of 24 saying he’d win the CSM. The only one to pick Daniel as the winner was Yojimbo. McCraeBF correctly called Bont for second and nobody had Libba in their top three.
  • Most Goals (Wallis, 25 goals – 3 points for the right player and a bonus point for the right goals if you picked Wallis). Nobody had Wallis so nobody got points. 17 of the 24 said Bruce would win it. And the median tip for the goals he would kick was 48 (he ended up kicking 14). We do have to remember that they only played 16 minute quarters not 20 mins, and they played 17 rounds not 22. Plus a final. So extrapolating from that Wallis’s 25 goals would have been about 42 in a normal season. And Bruce would have kicked about 24.
  • All Australians (Bont, Macrae, Daniel – 1 point for getting each one right but a 0.5 penalty for getting one wrong). Everybody got at least one right (usually Bont) but only two people got 3 out of 3 – Bont2Bruce and Pugz86. Also Fossie 32 got all three right but he had 6 goes so he lost points for having so many chances.
  • Best First Year Player (Vandermeer, worth 2 points) Nobody picked Vandermeer but perhaps they were thrown by thinking he was ineligible, having been on our list since the start of 2019. The club deems “first year” to mean the year you debut as an AFL player. So no points for anyone. Weightman was the popular fancy (picked 20 times).
  • Most Improved (Williams, 2 points) Five people correctly tipped Williams but the most popular was Tim English (10).
  • Most Courageous (Bont, 2 points) Only one person tipped the Bont. That was Jeff 1975. Crozier and BSmith were the most popular (6 each). I reckon Bont’s much-replayed mark over Isaac Heeney did the trick.
  • Rising Star Nominations (we had none, 1 point per correct answer, 0.5 penalty for each incorrect player … but can’t go negative). Haha, trick question! The only one to predict we’d struggle to get any RS nominations was … Struggle. Well done sir, 1 point for you. Weightman was the most popular choice (19) followed by West (9). A couple picked Vandermeer who was probably unlucky to miss out. In a 22 game season he might well have had a nomination.
  • Biggest Win and Margin (Adelaide, 57 points - adjusted for the 16 minute quarters I’d accept 71 points. It was worth a point for picking Adelaide and a bonus point for the right margin). Dazb86 and McCraeBF picked Adelaide. Daz said 72 points … close but no cigar. Fremantle (8) and Essendon (6) were the most fancied to get a trouncing.
  • Biggest Loss and Margin (Carlton and Collingwood both beat us by 52 points, a point for getting either one and a bonus point for the correct margin … which would be 65 points adjusted for full length quarters). Only Dayzleeper got this one right, picking Collingwood by 48. The most picked were GWS and Geelong (6 each).
  • Official Membership (38,876, 3 points) This was a tough one given the crowdless games played in a hub. So I was prepared to allocate 3 points if anyone got within 500 of the right answer (they didn’t) or 2 points if anyone got within 1500 of the right answer (they didn’t) or 1 point if anyone got within 2500 of the right answer (Libba39 did!) Libba39 was in fact the lowest membership picked by anyone. The average was 49,351.
Yojimbo did best in the general AFL category with 7.5 points from Dazb86, Kermit, X_box_x and Fossie 32 (5 points each).

X_box_x did best on the WB-specific stuff with 7 points from AFDogs (6 pts) and Fossie 32 (5.5 points).

Congrats again to Yojimbo, and thanks to all those who joined in.

I’ll put up the 2021 Time Capsule thread some time in the January.
And I’ll see if I can remember to put an entry in this time!

Merry Christmas and a safe, healthy and happy New Year to you all.
 
dogwatch said:
but the wackiest was undoubtedly the irrepressible Yojimbo with: “Alex Rance eaten by remote tribe in Papua New Guinea while spreading his faith.” Yep, I reckon that WOULD be a news story.
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J.K Rowling could not top that dog-watch, although i don't think anyone will be making a movie anytime soon. ;):thumbsu:
 

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Found this while filing the 2020 Time Capsule stuff. A blast from the past!
Not sure why Walsh Bay is highlighted. Maybe he won on a countback?

I think MBV means most brownlow votes. SW and SL probably surprise win/loss.

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I also have some tables from the 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2019 Time Capsules if anyone's feeling nostalgic.
 
dogwatch said:
Found this while filing the 2020 Time Capsule stuff. A blast from the past!
Not sure why Walsh Bay is highlighted. Maybe he won on a countback?

I think MBV means most brownlow votes. SW and SL probably surprise win/loss.

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I also have some tables from the 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2019 Time Capsules if anyone's feeling nostalgic.
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do those who picked Mitchell and Cotchin for the BM get retrospective points?
 
TempletonTheRat said:
do those who picked Mitchell and Cotchin for the BM get retrospective points?
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Whoah! Nice pick-up. Glad you got onto it before grassman75 spotted it. ;)

The answer is no. Bookies have already paid out after correct weight was called by Andrew Demetriou on Brownlow night 2012.
There's no doubt though, that - like the Chris Grant travesty - there will be some claiming "we were robbed" decades into the future.

I remain unmoved.
 
dogwatch said:
Found this while filing the 2020 Time Capsule stuff. A blast from the past!
Not sure why Walsh Bay is highlighted. Maybe he won on a countback?

I think MBV means most brownlow votes. SW and SL probably surprise win/loss.

View attachment 1031714

I also have some tables from the 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2019 Time Capsules if anyone's feeling nostalgic.
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Marko was robbed in the BM that year :p

Great work DW
 
dogwatch said:
Whoah! Nice pick-up. Glad you got onto it before grassman75 spotted it. ;)

The answer is no. Bookies have already paid out after correct weight was called by Andrew Demetriou on Brownlow night 2012.
There's no doubt though, that - like the Chris Grant travesty - there will be some claiming "we were robbed" decades into the future.

I remain unmoved.
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I should have cleaned up that year - Only one to pick Swans for Premiers and only one to pick Cotchin for Brownlow. Still furious i didnt get paid out anything by the TAB for Cotchin. Had him at 50/1 on a paper ticket that was long discarded before Essendon cheated
 
dogwatch said:
TIME CAPSULE RE-OPENED!

Rescue workers sifting through the wreckage of year 2020 have unearthed a fascinating Time Capsule prepared in the innocent days of the pre-Covid19 world. It has been passed on to me for analysis. Thought you might like a read of what I found…

What people thought back then (March 2020):

General AFL
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Specifically Western Bulldogs:
View attachment 1031619

Did anybody smash it? Well, no not really. Last year’s joint winners (Kermit and Dogs_R_Barking) won it with 25 points each. This year's winner got only 12.5 pts ... but of course there were extenuating circumstances.

After a lot of tabulation and calculation here’s the 2020 result:

Congratulations to Yojimbo (12.5 pts) as the nearest thing we had to a Nostradamus in 2020.

X_box_X was runner-up with 12 points and Fossie 32 finished in third place on 10.5 points.

Here’s the final points table:
View attachment 1031617

The detail, including how points were awarded:

  • Premiers (Richmond worth 4 points) – surprisingly, only 5 out of 23 chose Richmond. Maybe it’s because 9 people picked the Dogs as premiers. Richmond were the second most picked.
  • Runners-up (Geelong, worth 3 points) – only Dayzleeper picked the Cats
  • Wooden Spoon (Adelaide, 2 points) – only three got this one right, CaptainMurphy, McCraeBF and RedWhite&Blue. Most (10) thought it’d be Gold Coast again.
  • Surprise finalists (Port Adelaide and St Kilda, a point for each one right but a 0.5 deduction off that for each one wrong). AFDogs and Yojimbo did best – they picked both Port and Saints but they also picked Melbourne so they ended up with 1.5pts each.
  • Surprise non-finalists (GWS and Hawthorn, a point for each one right but a 0.5 deduction off that for each one wrong). Hawthorn wasn’t much of a surprise as 10 people thought they’d miss. Nobody picked GWS to miss out.
  • Brownlow Medallist (Lachie Neale, 4 points, or half that if you picked him and one other to tie) – nobody picked Neale outright but McCraeBF (that BF-id is now defunct) picked him to tie with Fyfe so he got 2 pts. Bont was the overwhelming favourite (16 picked him) and then Cripps (5).
  • Coleman Medallist (Tom Hawkins, 3 points). Surprisingly, nobody picked Hawkins. The favourite was 2019 winner Jeremy Cameron (7) from Tom Lynch (6). And even a couple went for Josh Bruce (hehee).
  • Rising Star (Caleb Serong, 2 pts) Nearly everybody plonked for Matt Rowell and to be fair they were on the money. He was almost an unbackable favourite at the time he ruined his shoulder and was forced to miss the rest of the season. Only the prescient Yojimbo chose Serong.
  • Biggest AFL News Story – There were no points on offer for this but it’s always a fun way to be creative or to show a true insight into the game. The responses were mainly divided between the theme of multiple concussions (4) and the emerging threat of Covid19 (8) especially the later entries when the pandemic really started to hit Australia. There were also a couple who thought Buddy retiring would be the biggest news story (I guess that depends where you get your news!) but the wackiest was undoubtedly the irrepressible Yojimbo with: “Alex Rance eaten by remote tribe in Papua New Guinea while spreading his faith.” Yep, I reckon that WOULD be a news story.
  • WB H&A Wins (3 pts). Because we only played 17 games I multiplied our 10 wins by 22/17 which came out at very close to 13 so to get 3 points you had to have predicted 13 wins. Only X_box_x did. On the whole our tipsters were a little too optimistic. The average was 15.4 wins and the median 16. Definitely top 4 material.
  • WB Ladder position (7th, 3 pts) Despite us finishing 7th in 2019 nobody tipped us to finish 7th again in 2020. So I gave 1 point to anyone who tipped us to finish 6th or 8th. There were 4 of the former and none of the latter. As you might expect there was too much optimism again – the median prediction was that we’d finish fourth and the average of all responses was 3.79 (th).
  • How far would we get in the finals? (EF, 1 point). Again this was a total fail, even though the EF was where we finished the previous year. I guess the fact that 15 of the 24 picked us to finish top 4 meant the earliest we could bow out (in their view) was a SF. Just one bold soul tipped us to miss the eight (Jeff 1975, 9th). Nobody scored any points on this one.
  • Charles Sutton Medal (Daniel-Bont-Libba, 3 points for first, 2 for second, 2 for third, 1 point for getting the right player in the wrong placing). The overwhelming favourite was The Bont again, with 22 out of 24 saying he’d win the CSM. The only one to pick Daniel as the winner was Yojimbo. McCraeBF correctly called Bont for second and nobody had Libba in their top three.
  • Most Goals (Wallis, 25 goals – 3 points for the right player and a bonus point for the right goals if you picked Wallis). Nobody had Wallis so nobody got points. 17 of the 24 said Bruce would win it. And the median tip for the goals he would kick was 48 (he ended up kicking 14). We do have to remember that they only played 16 minute quarters not 20 mins, and they played 17 rounds not 22. Plus a final. So extrapolating from that Wallis’s 25 goals would have been about 42 in a normal season. And Bruce would have kicked about 24.
  • All Australians (Bont, Macrae, Daniel – 1 point for getting each one right but a 0.5 penalty for getting one wrong). Everybody got at least one right (usually Bont) but only two people got 3 out of 3 – Bont2Bruce and Pugz86. Also Fossie 32 got all three right but he had 6 goes so he lost points for having so many chances.
  • Best First Year Player (Vandermeer, worth 2 points) Nobody picked Vandermeer but perhaps they were thrown by thinking he was ineligible, having been on our list since the start of 2019. The club deems “first year” to mean the year you debut as an AFL player. So no points for anyone. Weightman was the popular fancy (picked 20 times).
  • Most Improved (Williams, 2 points) Five people correctly tipped Williams but the most popular was Tim English (10).
  • Most Courageous (Bont, 2 points) Only one person tipped the Bont. That was Jeff 1975. Crozier and BSmith were the most popular (6 each). I reckon Bont’s much-replayed mark over Isaac Heeney did the trick.
  • Rising Star Nominations (we had none, 1 point per correct answer, 0.5 penalty for each incorrect player … but can’t go negative). Haha, trick question! The only one to predict we’d struggle to get any RS nominations was … Struggle. Well done sir, 1 point for you. Weightman was the most popular choice (19) followed by West (9). A couple picked Vandermeer who was probably unlucky to miss out. In a 22 game season he might well have had a nomination.
  • Biggest Win and Margin (Adelaide, 57 points - adjusted for the 16 minute quarters I’d accept 71 points. It was worth a point for picking Adelaide and a bonus point for the right margin). Dazb86 and McCraeBF picked Adelaide. Daz said 72 points … close but no cigar. Fremantle (8) and Essendon (6) were the most fancied to get a trouncing.
  • Biggest Loss and Margin (Carlton and Collingwood both beat us by 52 points, a point for getting either one and a bonus point for the correct margin … which would be 65 points adjusted for full length quarters). Only Dayzleeper got this one right, picking Collingwood by 48. The most picked were GWS and Geelong (6 each).
  • Official Membership (38,876, 3 points) This was a tough one given the crowdless games played in a hub. So I was prepared to allocate 3 points if anyone got within 500 of the right answer (they didn’t) or 2 points if anyone got within 1500 of the right answer (they didn’t) or 1 point if anyone got within 2500 of the right answer (Libba39 did!) Libba39 was in fact the lowest membership picked by anyone. The average was 49,351.
Yojimbo did best in the general AFL category with 7.5 points from Dazb86, Kermit, X_box_x and Fossie 32 (5 points each).

X_box_x did best on the WB-specific stuff with 7 points from AFDogs (6 pts) and Fossie 32 (5.5 points).

Congrats again to Yojimbo, and thanks to all those who joined in.

I’ll put up the 2021 Time Capsule thread some time in the January.
And I’ll see if I can remember to put an entry in this time!

Merry Christmas and a safe, healthy and happy New Year to you all.
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Top job mate!! well done and thanks on the effort you put in 👏🏼🤙🏼
 
I've been lurking here for years but never bothered to post, but I thought this year might change, and might as well make my first post a memorable one.

AFL
Premiers: Western Bulldogs
Runners Up: Brisbane
Wooden Spoon: Adelaide
The bookies' top 8 are Richmond, West Coast, Collingwood, GWS, Brisbane, Geelong, WB, Hawthorn.
Which of these clubs won't make the finals? (you can name more than one): Hawthorne
Which clubs not named above will make the finals in their place?: StK

Brownlow Medal: Bont
Coleman Medal: Charlie Dixon
Rising Star: Matt Rowell
Biggest AFL news story of the year: Two new teams entering the comp in a couple of years, Tasmania and either a NT or third WA team.

WB:
H&A Wins: 18
Ladder position after Rd 23: 5th
How far will we go in the finals - won't make the eight, EF, SF, PF, runners-up or Premiers? Premiers
Charles Sutton Medal B&F top three (in order): Bont, Hunter, Macrae
Leading WB goalkicker (incl finals): Naughton
How many goals will he kick? 50+
Which WB players will be in the AA side? Bont, Daniels, Macrae
Best First Year player: JUH
Most Improved: Bruce
Most Courageous: West
Rising Star nominations (name them): JUH, Garcia
Biggest win (opponent and margin): Essendon, 100+ points
Biggest loss (opponent and margin): Carlton, 40points
Final membership tally: 46k
 

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