AFL Rd 13 2024 Post Game Celebrations - Carlton vs Essendon

[kruddler]

Sample size is important, no doubt about it.

But no matter how big the sample size, the data is garbage if the definitions used in the collection methods are flawed, and ultimately that is the problem with many of the AFL stats, the problem is in the methods.

The R&D saying, "Garbage In = Garbage Out, you can keep piling it higher but it's still garbage!"

There are more stats the AFL used, which i've eluded to previously, that the general public does not have access to but a got a glimpse of last year.
Talks about ruck hitouts sharked etc on top of that.

Nobody is saying its perfect.
But its not black and white either.
That information is better than no information. It paints a better picture than no information.

You've argued about how the midfield does half the work for the ruckman in the past......to which i've responded with relativity in that Pittonet was consistently above TDK despite using the same midfield and same rotations.

So, don't go better your house on these stats. But if its a choice between betting your house on these stats, or 1 persons individual opinion on any given battle, i'm putting my money on the stats because the opinions vary so wildly.

Someone bagged out TDKs game this week, i think in the in-game thread, then he got BOG from both coaches.