Football Related Random Thread

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Continued in Part 2

Football Related Random Thread - PART 2

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[Gadzorks]

With Richmond thinking the afl is out to get them thought this might be interesting.

There's a sailing race series call sail GP - they use the boats call F50 wing sail boats (with the moving side arm foiler).

The competition is a series of two day regattas round the world. The guy from Oracle owns series, and the series owns this boats. They record all the data - so sail settings, foil settings, tactics, positions on course- and make it available to the other teams daily. This is is a big advantage to boats that didn't win. They learn what and how the opposition sail so they can beat them.

There are six races in each regatta. Five include every team, the last is the three top boats with the winner of that to take max points. So you can win five out of six races and still come third.

The Grand final is the two best teams over the season based on the above scoring process going head to head.

It's set up to be as unpredictable as possible to keep it entertaining.

Australia are leaders. Captained by Tom Slingsby.

Interesting fact - each sailor sails with an attached a regulator and small compressed air tank for when they capsize.
And a knife to cut rope and another knife to cut net.
They travel at over 90kmph at top speed, in wind half that strength.
The boats are over $10 million each.
When they capsize it's immense.

 

[briztoon]

With Richmond thinking the afl is out to get them thought this might be interesting.

There's a sailing race series call sail GP - they use the boats call F50 wing sail boats (with the moving side arm foiler).

The competition is a series of two day regattas round the world. The guy from Oracle owns series, and the series owns this boats. They record all the data - so sail settings, foil settings, tactics, positions on course- and make it available to the other teams daily. This is is a big advantage to boats that didn't win. They learn what and how the opposition sail so they can beat them.

There are six races in each regatta. Five include every team, the last is the three top boats with the winner of that to take max points. So you can win five out of six races and still come third.

The Grand final is the two best teams over the season based on the above scoring process going head to head.

It's set up to be as unpredictable as possible to keep it entertaining.

Australia are leaders. Captained by Tom Slingsby.

Interesting fact - each sailor sails with an attached a regulator and small compressed air tank for when they capsize.
And a knife to cut rope and another knife to cut net.
They travel at over 90kmph at top speed, in wind half that strength.
The boats are over $10 million each.
When they capsize it's immense.

Can you join the dots between Richmond conspiracy nutters and crashing boat’s please.

 

[Dalions]

Can you join the dots between Richmond conspiracy nutters and crashing boat’s please.

Because Richmond r crashing?

 

[Gadzorks]

Can you join the dots between Richmond conspiracy nutters and crashing boat’s please.

Lol Was a bit too far off topic. Was trying to say that some of the most exciting competitions deliberately establish formats that encourage randomness to increase participation and engagement of audience. Our 6-6-6 draw is exactly that.

The sail GP set up specifically embraces randomness, and they reckoned they had 250 million viewers in the first season. Seems to be working.

And I love sailing boats.

 

[Cubs2Lions]

Because Richmond r crashing?

Crashing back down to their original position again I say (9th)




But still, not in as bad of a position as those Collingwobbiles though are

 

[royboy2]

 

[Dalions]

Rayner in a race to be ready for finals!

 

[M Malice]

Rayner in a race to be ready for finals!

If the reaction in the background was to Cam doing laps I wonder if it was a milestone ticked off in is rehab timetable, the boys were up and about.

On finals, I'd be mightily surprised if he plays, he ruptured his ACL on March the 8th so early September would be only 6 months on, no way in the world.

 

[Dalions]

If the reaction in the background was to Cam doing laps I wonder if it was a milestone ticked off in is rehab timetable, the boys were up and about.

On finals, I'd be mightily surprised if he plays, he ruptured his ACL on March the 8th so early September would be only 6 months on, no way in the world.

Very doubtful for finals but great to see him running and attacking his re-hab.

 

[bungalow_bill]

No way we're rushing Cam back for the finals best to play it safe

 

[BangyBangy]

I don't want to take all the credit for this happening with my recent complaining but....

Friday night football set for time change in huge win for fans

Sam Edmund has the exclusive story.

www.sen.com.au

 

[Dalions]

I don't want to take all the credit for this happening with my recent complaining but....

Friday night football set for time change in huge win for fans

Sam Edmund has the exclusive story.

www.sen.com.au

Just take it!

 

[Gadzorks]

I imagine this is the sort of testing that will eventually be used to assess head injuries. Years away, but it's a possibility.

Summary - developing tests to look for proteins that are the breakdown product of damaged brain cells. Will eventually be a blood test. This reference is looking at early dementia diagnosis, but brain cell breakdown also occurs in concussion.

Australian researchers discover simple blood test could diagnose dementia

As the first symptoms of dementia are often depression and anxiety, many people do not realise they have the disease. This was the case for Darren Tofts.

www.abc.net.au

 

[MSB ROYS]

I imagine this is the sort of testing that will eventually be used to assess head injuries. Years away, but it's a possibility.

Summary - developing tests to look for proteins that are the breakdown product of damaged brain cells. Will eventually be a blood test. This reference is looking at early dementia diagnosis, but brain cell breakdown also occurs in concussion.

Australian researchers discover simple blood test could diagnose dementia

As the first symptoms of dementia are often depression and anxiety, many people do not realise they have the disease. This was the case for Darren Tofts.

www.abc.net.au

FYI. The Sydney company Glia Diagnostics has been working on something similar for quite awhile.

 

[BrainOfMorbius]

Interesting article: https://www.theinnersanctum.com.au/lions-forward-line-still-evolving/

 

[BuntonRules]

The AFL should lobby the government that footy fans get immunisation first, Members first. Problem solved.

 

[briztoon]

Little austerity relief for AFL clubs, but part of coach’s pay could be exempt

The soft cap for AFL clubs is expected to rise only slightly next season, from $6.2 million to about $6.4-$6.5m.

www.theage.com.au

 

[BangyBangy]

How good is the game scheduling system that the AFL rolls with now? At least it's one positive from the shit show that was the covid affected 2020 year.

The old way of picking the broadcast games would've left us with a year with heaps of the prime time slots being skewed to St Kilda & Collingwood not realizing how crap they were going to be. Would've been horrible. Unwatchable prime time games.

 

[Section 5]

A little article from Fox mostly on Brisbane Lions
...
Speaking on Fox Footy’s First Crack, Hawthorn great Ben Dixon lauded the list management strategy of the Lions, which boiled down to ‘Injured Targets’, ‘Retired Stars’, ‘Slow Midfielders’, ‘Undervalued Stars’ and ‘Vic Country Players’.

Full article link below

Revealed: The ‘moneyball’ strategy behind AFL’s most dramatic rise... and how it exposed a rival

Revealed: The ‘moneyball’ strategy behind AFL’s most dramatic rise... and how it exposed a rival

www.foxsports.com.au

 

[briztoon]

A little article from Fox mostly on Brisbane Lions
...
Speaking on Fox Footy’s First Crack, Hawthorn great Ben Dixon lauded the list management strategy of the Lions, which boiled down to ‘Injured Targets’, ‘Retired Stars’, ‘Slow Midfielders’, ‘Undervalued Stars’ and ‘Vic Country Players’.

Full article link below

Revealed: The ‘moneyball’ strategy behind AFL’s most dramatic rise... and how it exposed a rival

Revealed: The ‘moneyball’ strategy behind AFL’s most dramatic rise... and how it exposed a rival

www.foxsports.com.au

Watched it last night.

It was pretty slap dash, and doesn’t truly cover our list build strategy.

 

[Gadzorks]

A little article from Fox mostly on Brisbane Lions
...
Speaking on Fox Footy’s First Crack, Hawthorn great Ben Dixon lauded the list management strategy of the Lions, which boiled down to ‘Injured Targets’, ‘Retired Stars’, ‘Slow Midfielders’, ‘Undervalued Stars’ and ‘Vic Country Players’.

Full article link below

Revealed: The ‘moneyball’ strategy behind AFL’s most dramatic rise... and how it exposed a rival

Revealed: The ‘moneyball’ strategy behind AFL’s most dramatic rise... and how it exposed a rival

www.foxsports.com.au

we will lose players from the twos that will be seen as ‘undervalued’ by the clubs they go to. Like Ben Keays, they’ll go to second tier teams and do very well. And we’ll devote hundreds of posts to debating their loss.

Long love BigFooty.com!! These discussions give us something to do when we’re bored at work.

 

[Elixuh]

No way we're rushing Cam back for the finals best to play it safe

Hear me out, the siren blows on the 2021 Toyota AFL Grand Final. The Lions are victorious over the Melbourne Demons 233 to 47. Cam Rayner is called up to be presented his premiership medal as a matchday medical sub. #getCamapremiershipmedal

 

[briztoon]

I wonder how long before the AFL get all the teams out of Victoria.

FoxFooty now reporting 6 new cases added to the 5 reported this morning.

 

[jackess]

I wonder how long before the AFL get all the teams out of Victoria.

FoxFooty now reporting 6 new cases added to the 5 reported this morning.

From the look of things whenever they do it, it'll be about a week late.

 

[MSB ROYS]

From the look of things whenever they do it, it'll be about a week late.

Hoping for the best is not good crisis management practice.