Stirling work by Phil.
Perhaps someone can answer this for me, but CD do this in real time (no replays), and so it seems to me that each game must be scored by the one person in the moment or there will be conflicts to be sorted out and resolved..Technology will help but a lot of it will still fall back to an individual's training, judgement and competence on the day. So there will inevitably be differences of opinion coming into the ranking because it involves humans. The speed with which they finalise the scores means there is no chance for review or correcting mistakes.
Finally, it seems to me useful to remember that CD is not only part of the AFL behemoth but ultimately depend on a group of people possibly part-time employees every game day that are paid to be professional and accurate in what they do. If there is favouritism it is probably due to the methodology rather than anyone in CD having preferences.
Disclaimer: I have nothing at all to do with CD and if you review my posts you may see a few rants at the scoring in there!
. There is a guy at work who does game day work for the AFL and he is reluctant to discuss exactly what he does which makes me wonder if he is employed by CD. He does it as a second job to pay off his house. I'll grill him further when I next see him.
Just my thoughts on the matter.