Review Grand Final, 2024 - Sydney vs. Brisbane Lions

[Grasshopper17]

The great irony of going through the Grand Final with no stats after Fages' mid-season exhortation to the players to "stick to the plan, we're actually going okay" was based predominantly on... stats.

I love it.

 

[martinson]

The great irony of going through the Grand Final with no stats after Fages' mid-season exhortation to the players to "stick to the plan, we're actually going okay" was based predominantly on... stats.

I love it.

Hmmm.

So the stats showed that even though we were losing we were actually winning.

I'm confused now.

 

[briztoon]

Hmmm.

So the stats showed that even though we were losing we were actually winning.

I'm confused now.

Fages said so himself.

 

[martinson]

Fages said so himself.

He did.

I still don't think apart from the first half against Carlton we were going all that well . But probably not as badly as the win/loss ratio.

 

[briztoon]

He did.

I still don't think apart from the first half against Carlton we were going all that well . But probably not as badly as the win/loss ratio.

I believe we had some bad loses tactically early on. Geelong in the wet being a prime example.

 

[dlanod]

Hmmm.

So the stats showed that even though we were losing we were actually winning.

I'm confused now.

Even without getting into advanced stats (which are largely hidden behind paywalls in the AFL), there's a lot of statistical evidence that your percentage says more about your actual quality than win/loss record. The intuitive reason being it smoothes out luck and individual actions over a larger sample - if you have close losses and big wins you're probably not as bad as those with big losses and close wins even if you have the same overall record.

When we were rocking in 13th we had a top 8 percentage the whole time, and other than immediately after Hawthorn beating us we actually had a top 3 percentage or better. That is pretty conclusive that we were better than our W/L but the big concern was whether we already had too many losses to get to a decent enough position at the end of the year.

 

[MSB ROYS]

Or just "shit, I forgot my glasses."

Just needed small font and take his glasses. Then read it out .