04-19-2023, 09:49 PM
The problem for the stats people is that all the games can be replayed, you can do so at 1/2 speed if you like, and the discrepancies between what you see and what they record is astounding, it really exposes the subjectivity of the data process.
Plus you have the official source which uses AFL definitions, and competing sources that use definitions more closely based in language.
For example, the biggest most obvious contradiction you can find is "contested", the official stat requires no physical contact at all, in fact you only have to be within a step or so away yet not within arms reach to be contesting! So a defender who is done cold by the leading forward is contesting, and the forwards mark 100% free of physical contact is contested.
Plus you have the official source which uses AFL definitions, and competing sources that use definitions more closely based in language.
For example, the biggest most obvious contradiction you can find is "contested", the official stat requires no physical contact at all, in fact you only have to be within a step or so away yet not within arms reach to be contesting! So a defender who is done cold by the leading forward is contesting, and the forwards mark 100% free of physical contact is contested.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"