Just had another read of the new thread mate and wanted to say thanks again.
I'm throwing a few left of centre ideas around and was wondering if you had any stats on Robbie Gray's transition from 2013-2014. I see him as fully priced to a degree, but when you consider where hes come from and the heights that some can still go I'm wondering whether 110ppg is just the tip of the iceberg. Could he actually be underpriced?
There are 28 occassions in which a player has increased his average by 20+pts/game to a 110+ average.
Goldstein, Mumford and Rockliff have done it twice each, which means 25 different players have achieved this.
5 players achieved it this season, so we can't see how they went the season after. (Gray, Jacobs, Martin, Mumford, Rockliff)
That leaves 23 occassions to look at, so we can see how they went the next season.
After achieving a 20+ jump to an average of 110+:
Ablett went
+18.0, and Swan went
+3.7
Chapman -2.6, Jack -3.1, Scotland -3.6, Dangerfield -6.0, Goldstein -6.6, Bartel -9.6, Cox -9.9.
The other 14 dropped off by between -10.4 and -48.5! The average of all 23 players, including Ablett and Swan is -14.6.
It all backs up what we already know. The higher you score, and/or the bigger you jump, the harder it is to maintain the standard.
The other thing that worries me, is that Gray took 8 seasons to join the 110+ Club. Yes, there were excuses for his "delayed development", but history also points to this being a spike of some sort.
There have been 68 players record 110+ seasons, and they have managed that 147 times between them. Some of the comparisons become a bit sketchy, as some of the players did it in the early days of SC, but not the early days of their careers.
Boyd joined in his 9th season, and has dropped average every season since.
Montagna joined in his 8th season, and has dropped 4 out of 5 seasons since, never getting within 10/game of his "joining" score.
Sandilands joined in his 8th season, and like Joey, has never beaten that first 110+ score.
SJ joined in his 12th season, and dropped 9.3 in his only other season.
Cross joined (?) in his 9th season, and has dropped all 4 seasons since, never getting closer than 15.4/game lower.
Watson joined in his 8th season, and has never got closer than 9.5 behind his joining score.
Minson joined in his 10th season, and scored 21 less in his only other season.
Griffen joined in his 9th season, then fell 17.7 in his only other season.
Deledio did it in his 8th season, and hasn't got within 13 in his only other 2 seasons.
36 players have recorded more than 1 110+ season. 14 players have recorded a season better than their joining season, at some stage after their joining season. Apart from Goddard, who joined in his 6th season, none of them took more than 5 seasons to join the 110+ Club.
Everything points to Gray possibly struggling to meet his price, but that doesn't mean he is a bad selection, just a risky one.