Grand Final Blowouts

[CrowToon]

As the next poster will show you, in the last 15 or so years unless Collingwood are in the GF it ends up a blowout.

It ruins the spectacle and my day.

What shall the terms of reference be for this inquiry?

What are your predictions for the outcome?

 

[Billyc]

Just need to ban the swans

 

[CrowToon]

Just need to ban the swans

You had one job

 

[Art Vandelay_]

GF's are not for how neutrals want to see it pan out. It is for two clubs and if one of them pants' the other then the fans deserve to soak it all in

 

[JackFlash]

The AFL might not want their love child to make the Grand Final for a while?

 

[Johnny Bananas]

As the next poster will show you, in the last 15 or so years unless Collingwood are in the GF it ends up a blowout.

It ruins the spectacle and my day.

What shall the terms of reference be for this inquiry?

What are your predictions for the outcome?

Sydney v Hawthorn? 10 points
Hawthorn v Fremantle? 15 points
Footscray v Sydney? 21 points

 

[HeavyPop]

14 - blowout
15 - blowout
16 - close
17 - blowout
18 - close
19 - blowout
20 - close for 3 quarters
21 - blowout
22 - blowout
23 - close
24 - blowout

So in past 11 Gf, 7 have been blowouts. It is strange and something you don’t see it other sports.

 

[CrowToon]

 

[Snarls Barkley]

20 - close for 3 quarters
21 - blowout

Embarrassingly, the Dogs were in the lead later in the game than Geelong were.

 

[ioppolo]

21 was a blowout but it was certainly a special kind of blowout. Bulldogs led in time on in the third quarter didn't they?

 

[kaiserchief13]

14 - blowout
15 - blowout
16 - close
17 - blowout
18 - close
19 - blowout
20 - close for 3 quarters
21 - blowout
22 - blowout
23 - close
24 - blowout

So in past 11 Gf, 7 have been blowouts. It is strange and something you don’t see it other sports.

Almost 1 good game every 2 years. Hopefully 2025 is a good one

 

[Dazzler9]

How often during the regular season do we get close games? Is it any higher or lower than grand finals? I imagine the stats are roughly similar.

 

[Coolangatta]

21 was a blowout but it was certainly a special kind of blowout. Bulldogs led in time on in the third quarter didn't they?

Yes, in fact I think it was half way through. The way Melbourne played for 1.5 quarters was just insane. Like you said, different. Burgess helped them that year.

 

[ApplecrossWC]

Can start by getting rid of Sydney and other teams created by the AFL like Port

 

[Captain_Bender]

Sydney are worse than Collingwood 1960-1981 and Geelong 1989-1995 in grand finsls

 

[juss]

It does surprise me too. In many other sports finalists often lift to keep it close.

In the AFL we often see the premier run away with it and just blow the opposition away.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Since 1987

0-9 points: 7x
10-19 points: 3x
20-29 points: 4x
30-39 points: 6x
40+ points: 19x

 

[Cleavy]

best of 3

 

[harper2bastinac]

Stop giving the swans academy picks and other freebies, enoughs enough

 

[Pies No 1]

14 - blowout
15 - blowout
16 - close
17 - blowout
18 - close
19 - blowout
20 - close for 3 quarters
21 - blowout
22 - blowout
23 - close
24 - blowout

So in past 11 Gf, 7 have been blowouts. It is strange and something you don’t see it other sports.

Josh Jekins was talking about it on the radio a few days ago. He said that from his own experience, when you are about 5 goals down, you keep looking at the scoreboard, then start to doubt yourself and think that you are never going to come back and it's all over.

What he says is spot on.. 5 Goals seems to be the tipping point. If you look at those blow out games, the score usually lurks around that 4 - 5 goal mark for a while, and then team in front kicks away and never looks back.

In my opinion it happens less in other sports as more can be controlled by coaches. Sports like NBA, NFL, Soccer are more techincal, have things like time outs, and a lot of stopping in the game so coaches can adjust. In AFL a lot of just up to the players, and if they are getting scored against heavily the only thing a coach can do is flood the numbers back behind the ball. Because of the free flowing nature of the game, blow outs are more ilkely when the other team mentally gives in.

 

[BigVic]

Grand Final results 1990-2001

1990: 48 points
1991: 53 points
1992: 28 points
1993: 44 points
1994: 80 points
1995: 61 points
1996: 43 points
1997: 31 points
1998: 35 points
1999: 35 points
2000: 60 points
2001: 26 points

26 points was the "closest" grand final in the first 11 years of the AFL era.

 

[joe444]

And yet I'd rather chew on glass than have to watch the "close" 2013 Grand Final again.