Player Watch Sam Walsh is ranked 16th in the AFL for turnovers when under no pressure

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Intersting article saying Champion Data has Sydney Stack, Connor Rozee and Bailey Smith ranked above Sam Walsh for Rising Star Award. https://m.afl.com.au/news/2019-06-2...ar-stats-say-gun-blue-is-not-in-the-top-three

"EARLY in the season, it seemed a fait accompli the No.1 draftee from last year, Sam Walsh, was destined to win the NAB AFL Rising Star Award. Now, the stats reveal he might not deserve to finish on the podium.

That's the verdict from Champion Data, which has a surprise name in the top three, ahead of the ultra-impressive Blue."
Just another reason why Gryan will be this years NAB winner
 
I'm just amazed the recruiters are still prejudiced.I thought that all stopped when Matt Rendall got sacked.
So you are now putting it out there that 17 clubs passed on Stack because he's black?
 

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Yes, he's averaging 17 possessions I think at over 80% efficiency. No other first year playa comes close to that efficiency.
Josh Rotham from West Coast
Bailee Scott from North Melbourne
Bailey Smith from the Bulldogs

All average over 80%.

Also Bailey Smith also averages more touches.

But no other first year player comes close? I'ld say Bailey Smith comes closest without going under Stacks 80%
 
So you are now putting it out there that 17 clubs passed on Stack because he's black?
I'm saying they judged him incorrectly on 2nd hand info, they got him a job in a bank and he quit after one day and after that he was called lazy and undiciplined.
He's fitted into AFL as well as any other recruit. To answer yr question he was stereotyped imo.
 
I'm saying they judged him incorrectly on 2nd hand info, they got him a job in a bank and he quit after one day and after that he was called lazy and undiciplined.
He's fitted into AFL as well as any other recruit. To answer yr question he was stereotyped imo.
17 other clubs each got him a job at a bank? And he quit each of the 17 jobs after one day?:p
 
Just another reason why Gryan will be this years NAB winner

makes a decent case.

walsh should get it though, we have a young team, being beaten all over the field, of course he will be giving up some of his touches when his targets are being beaten.

just quietly though that group he's in will almost all be in brownlow contention. so where's stack?
 
Sometimes statistical models are informative and useful, and helpful in developing a more complex analysis of the game.

Sometimes, they throw up numbers that contrast so far from what is actually happening in reality that you have to question the assumptions underpinning the model, and perhaps change the model so it better fits reality

This is one of the latter situations
 
Would you admit the recruiters got it wrong originally , including Richmond ?
Would have been a wasted pick at any club without a strong culture. Remembering that Richmond overlooked him 7 times (4 X N/D + 3 X rookie) fair play to them for finally selecting him. Suspect that Tiger supporters are so happy about their draft "steal" that they may be slightly going overboard, particularly as this thread is not about him.
 
Would have been a wasted pick at any club without a strong culture. Remembering that Richmond overlooked him 7 times (4 X N/D + 3 X rookie) fair play to them for finally selecting him. Suspect that Tiger supporters are so happy about their draft "steal" that they may be slightly going overboard, particularly as this thread is not about him.
The young man will be a star.He'll probably get 6 to 8 Brownlow votes.
 

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Why disguise a Stack jackoff thread as a Sam Walsh bashing thread? One flag in 30 years and Richmond supporters show us how they lost their minds...
Don't blame me, blame Champion Data and the AFL website.
 
I'm saying they judged him incorrectly on 2nd hand info, they got him a job in a bank and he quit after one day and after that he was called lazy and undiciplined.
He's fitted into AFL as well as any other recruit. To answer yr question he was stereotyped imo.
Second hand info? He also got suspended for not rocking up to training. As on the record. How is that second hand info?
 
He missed training once.
He missed training once for the State Team

he no showed for two training sessions at WAFL colts and was not in contension for games for a month because of his efforts

Look we all like Stack. Im a fan, However you have just posted absolute shit and taken shots at others as a case for Stack, Log off .
 
Walsh is breaking records because he's the only 18yo to play midfield every game because of the deficiencies in SOS's list. If Stack was playing mid, he would have better numbers imo.
But he's also having to match up against the 2nd best opposition midfield each week. If Stack played in the mid against the oppos second best mid each week he'd get beaten like a red headed step child.
 
WTF is with certain posters on Bigfooty and trying to downplay Walsh’s ability?

He’s playing all his footy in the midfield because he’s already right at home and plays like someone who has been around for ages. Other than sides like GWS and the Pies who have serious midfield talent he’d play in the middle for every other team I reckon.

Only on Bigfooty as well is it a crime to be amazingly fit and have a great knack for finding the footy. That just mean he’s the next Tom Scully because they’re both fit! What a comparison.

Only footy fans could somehow watch a kid be a magnet from day one and then downplay his ability or put low ceilings on where his footy could end up.

Walsh isn’t some fitness freak finding some cheap footy in a shit side. He finds contested ball at a rate much better than many guns did in their early years. He weaves in and out of stoppages and he puts his body on the line. Watch his games for ****s sake.

If you want to fap over Champion Data OP, they believe he can one day be as good as Tom Mitchell at finding the footy. The dude that just won the Brownlow.
 

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