(04-09-2018, 03:33 AM)LP link Wrote:Sick of hearing those media grabs like, "Carlton won the I50 count!"
They are meaningless and worthless hyperbole twisting stats.
We spend many minutes of gut busting effort to scramble the ball a few meters inside the F50 arc usually deep in a pocket in a manor best described as a maul. Only to see the opposition sweep the ball from their defense to their goal square within a few seconds in what could be best described as a streak.
The quality of entry means something, and perhaps the ease of the exit means even more!
Each individual statistical indicator is simply one piece of a bigger picture. Each of them becomes more meaningful in the presence of other statistical indicators.
The I50 count tells you exactly what it is supposed to tell you - how many times in each game we got the ball roughly where we wanted it. This obviously tells you nothing about the way in which the ball got there, nor what happened after it got there. There's other stats for that. But I would not call it useless or meaningless. It gives one small clue about how we played the game, and any clue is useful. The more clues the better.