Goaltracker

[sydneybluesfan]

Ill try this again, and make the arguement even easier this time.

Last year, we had a tall forward kick 17 goals for the season, and he got delisted and retired from AFL (Andreijs Everitt).

We are doing well to be performing at the same output considering that fact alone.

I will state with confidence that scoring goals is down across the competition, irrsepective of teams at the top end kicking slightly more, as the bottom teams are conceding less on average than they did last season.

Finally, we also have another factor.  The players are more used to the decrease in rotation and are starting to combat this fact in different ways.

I'm trying to understand where the 'confidence' comes from that is the basis of your argument, because the stats I am looking at tell a different story. What numbers are you looking at??

Rd10 2017 across all teams the average score for is 92.3, Rd10 2016 across all teams the average score was 92.2. So scoring rates across the comp are identical to same time last year. By the end of 2016 the average score had dropped to 89, so you could argue that scoring rates this year are actually up versus FY last year, but it's a moot point.

Your point about AE is exactly right - if you lose a player who consistently kicks 18 goals and don't replace him with another player of similar or better output, you will go backwards. We didn't recruit anyone who is looking like doing that number, but others have improved slightly [Cas / SOJ] so we stay square. But given we were 3rd last in scoring last year, my contention is that 'staying square' is a really bad outcome. And as has been shown, because the bottom teams have improved their scoring versus last year, we are actually now ranked dead last in scoring.

I don't really follow how the rotations effect this?? The objective of reducing rotations by the AFL is to reduce congestion, which may [or may not] increase scoring because the ball is 'in play' more often. The stats shown above would say that there has been no impact on actual scoring rates thus far.