Research Historical results/ladders - Dump them here

[Connor7395]

Came across this in my travels for a project I'm working on currently. We often see lopsided scores in women's competitions, but this is truly demoralising. I actually thought it was an error at first, but given all the opposition scores differ wildly each week, I am led to believe it's legitimate.

As a precursor – not that I think that this board would do any of the sort – but please don't direct any criticism towards this team, the league, or women's football in general. I am merely pointing this out as a statistical curio.

It is almost certainly the worst performing season in history by a senior Australian rules football club. In the 2023 AFL Broken Hill Women's competition, West Broken Hill finished the season with a record of 0–13 from 14 games, with 1 forfeit. Their total 'points for' for the season was... 1. Their 'points against' was 1277. This yielded a percentage of 0.08%, again almost certainly another record.

Their results per round is below. The Round 12 result is a forfeit, with the default score (0–60) given.

RND	DATE	TIME	VENUE			OPPOSITION
2	25/04/23 (Tue)	12:00	Jubilee Oval​	0.0-0		Central Senior Women	14.14-98	View
3	05/05/23 (Fri)	19:20	Jubilee Oval​	0.0-0		South Senior Women	10.12-72	View
4	13/05/23 (Sat)	11:25	Jubilee Oval​	0.0-0		North Senior Women	14.17-101	View
5	20/05/23 (Sat)	11:25	Memorial Oval (Broken Hill)​	0.1-1		Central Senior Women	9.17-71	View
6	27/05/23 (Sat)	15:50	Jubilee Oval​	0.0-0		South Senior Women	13.14-92	View
7	03/06/23 (Sat)	11:25	Jubilee Oval​	0.0-0		South Senior Women	17.11-113	View
8	17/06/23 (Sat)	11:25	Jubilee Oval​	0.0-0		North Senior Women	13.15-93	View
9	24/06/23 (Sat)	11:25	Memorial Oval (Broken Hill)​	0.0-0		Central Senior Women	11.11-77	View
10	15/07/23 (Sat)	11:25	Jubilee Oval​	0.0-0		Central Senior Women	12.10-82	View
11	22/07/23 (Sat)	11:25	Alma Oval​	0.0-0		South Senior Women	22.5-137	View
12	29/07/23 (Sat)	11:25	Jubilee Oval​	0		North Senior Women	60	View
13	05/08/23 (Sat)	11:25	Jubilee Oval​	0.0-0		Central Senior Women	9.13-67	View
14	12/08/23 (Sat)	11:25	Jubilee Oval​	0.0-0		South Senior Women	18.16-124	View
15	20/08/23 (Sun)	10:25	Jubilee Oval​	0.0-0		North Senior Women	12.18-90	View

I really can't see this being beaten by any senior team in the future.
I wonder who scored the point.

 

[MortlockWatcher]

Can anyone tell me when the Weekly Times started putting the country ladders each week into its newspaper. I know they have had them for a while (at least back to the 1990s when I worked in a newsagency), but did they include them in the 1970s or 1980s?

Hopefully some learned footy ladder buff can help me with my query.

Connor7395 Todman

 

[Todman]

Can anyone tell me when the Weekly Times started putting the country ladders each week into its newspaper. I know they have had them for a while (at least back to the 1990s when I worked in a newsagency), but did they include them in the 1970s or 1980s?

Hopefully some learned footy ladder buff can help me with my query.

Connor7395 Todman

late 1990s

 

[MortlockWatcher]

North Central Football League - 1981


1st Semi Final (August 29)
Donald 17.14.116 def St. Arnaud 15.19.109

Grand Final (September 27)
I have Wyche-Port 20.14.134 def. Boort 14.13.97

worbod

I have these results courtesy of the Bendigo Advertiser.

 

[Gibbsy]

Have just recently finished researching and uploading the entire history of the Mid North Women's Football Competition, based in Crystal Brook, South Australia.

Thank goodness for the league's Facebook page – it was the keeper of essentially 90% of the historical scores, uploaded through weekly posts over the years (the administrators were/are fairly lax with PlayHQ, SportingPulse etc.)

Couple that with the reliance on referring to teams by their nicknames or abbreviations (it took me a decent while to work out who "Sollys" [Solomontown] were in the earlier years, especially as there is no men's comp equivalent), and the strange omission of posting scores from most Grand Final days – just images of the winners – and this was quite the task.

But I managed to fill the gaps through club FB pages, a rare newspaper report or two, and even watching back a live stream of the 2023 GF.

It's nice to have these pioneering women's comps, especially the more rural and remote ones, archived for all to see.

Australian Football - MNWFC default - Season 2024

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