- Jan 1, 2007
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This is spurred in part by boredom and in part by some lovely Essendon supporters at the game on Sunday, referring St Kilda as a bunch hack number one draft picks.
I've collated the draft history of our 22 from Sunday. For traded players, I've used the number that WE used to obtain said player, what WE gave up to get the player. In some cases - for example, Gardiner and Ray - this works in our favour, that is, we gave up less than the original market figure. In others - eg, Schnieder and McQualter - it doesn't.
For rookie drafted players I've simply added 70 draft picks to their figure. That is, 13 in the rookie draft equals 83 overall. The addition of 70 is arbitrary but if used as a constant when comparing with other teams, sound.
I realise there are a few methods you could use go about this, but this is my preliminary attempt.
STKFC:
Blake – 24
Dawson – 83
Ball – 2
Goddard – 1
Roo – 1
Kosi – 2
Joey – 37
Hayes - 11
S Fisher – 55
Gilbert – 33
Gardiner – 43
King – 94
Jones – 79
McQualter – 17
Baker – 27
Milne – 93
Schnieder – 26
Geary – 128
Gwilt – 63
Dal – 13
Ray – 31
Gram - 23
Now, the result.
The average draft pick 'age' of our team on Sunday - according to the above figures, divided by 22 - was 40.27.
I would suggest a combination of very smart recruiting and a few early draft picks is in combination here, resulting in a well-drilled team that is travelling pretty bloody nicely.
It would be interesting to see the results of a similar survey from other teams - especially Essendon, Carlton and Hawthorn.
So much for the myth of St Kilda being a team of gifted high draft picks!
I do wonder how certain other Clubs would fare...
This is spurred in part by boredom and in part by some lovely Essendon supporters at the game on Sunday, referring St Kilda as a bunch hack number one draft picks.
I've collated the draft history of our 22 from Sunday. For traded players, I've used the number that WE used to obtain said player, what WE gave up to get the player. In some cases - for example, Gardiner and Ray - this works in our favour, that is, we gave up less than the original market figure. In others - eg, Schnieder and McQualter - it doesn't.
For rookie drafted players I've simply added 70 draft picks to their figure. That is, 13 in the rookie draft equals 83 overall. The addition of 70 is arbitrary but if used as a constant when comparing with other teams, sound.
I realise there are a few methods you could use go about this, but this is my preliminary attempt.
STKFC:
Blake – 24
Dawson – 83
Ball – 2
Goddard – 1
Roo – 1
Kosi – 2
Joey – 37
Hayes - 11
S Fisher – 55
Gilbert – 33
Gardiner – 43
King – 94
Jones – 79
McQualter – 17
Baker – 27
Milne – 93
Schnieder – 26
Geary – 128
Gwilt – 63
Dal – 13
Ray – 31
Gram - 23
Now, the result.
The average draft pick 'age' of our team on Sunday - according to the above figures, divided by 22 - was 40.27.
I would suggest a combination of very smart recruiting and a few early draft picks is in combination here, resulting in a well-drilled team that is travelling pretty bloody nicely.
It would be interesting to see the results of a similar survey from other teams - especially Essendon, Carlton and Hawthorn.
So much for the myth of St Kilda being a team of gifted high draft picks!
I do wonder how certain other Clubs would fare...