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Mercurial89
Brownlow Medallist
i'm fairly certain there was an article rating him one of our best users earlier in the year.
really my point is the metrics they're using are junk.
It just requires a bit more thinking then "top 10 inside 50 kicks are good".
As he went on to say when he was quizzes on it, if you bomb it into a forward 50 to a contest and it spills your way it's considered a good entry.
So if Caldwell hits Langford on a lead out of congestion it's rated the same as if Martin makes a dumb decision and bombs it to a two on one to stringer who gets lucky and dribbles it off the ground.
It does appear they consider scoring as very key to their metric, whilst others use the retain statistic which doesn't always take into account the quality of the scoring opportunity it creates, or the difficulty of the kick going in.
Which is how you should rate good kicks, personally I don't care if a player in space under little pressure hits a leading forward. That's a kick you should make as an AFL player, that doesn't make you a good kick.
I'm more interested in a weighted pass over a defender after breaking from a pack that leads the forward and brings them to space, that is a much harder kick and id consider that player better skilled.
It all requires context, instead we get it presented and farmed out on socials as a list ranking and people take it at face value.
Caldwell is one of our better kickers, generally speaking. Does that make him a good kick? No.
I much prefer the ball in his hands than many on the team.