LandOfTheGiants
Giant Awakening
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- #26
That may be so, but it's only one factor that you have considered to the exclusion of all else.
In any case, the discussion isn't on team possessions, but individual possessions.
And it's empirically shown that there is no disadvantage in terms of accruing massive numbers of possessions by being in a Bottom 4 side.
In fact it may even be an advantage.
4 of the top 10 possession getters from last year were from Bottom 4 sides, so you have 40% of the players from only 22% of the competition in the top 10 possession getters in the AFL. Players from Bottom 4 teams are therefore over represented in terms of this stat, suggesting it's easier to get more ball in a bottom 4 side.
Have you ever given a second thought to the notion that the extremely good players will still find the football regardless of who they play for?
Your assumption that playing in a poor side is advantageous in gathering possessions borders on fraudulence and ineptitude.