So much this, I'd say just about every score I've seen feels somewhere in the inflated to grossly overstated range. FWIW depending how you deemed his disposal the Rowell score doesn't see that far off, I thought he had a lot of ineffective/clanger plays but CD don't always agree with what I see on those.
I actually reckon the Butters and Bailey scores seem more inflated than Rowell, not that they weren't good but they felt like 115 type games to me. Berry probably the only monster that really felt in the ball park of being a monster.
Great to have numbers either way, once you allow for the inflation of preseason games, I think there's no real surprises. If Butters feels like a 115 and scores 150 and Rowell feels like an 80 and scores 115, I think that's comparable outcomes and a reasonable adjustment on most of the players.
I rewatched the game, Butters actually played better than I initially thought.
There's a huge difference between picking the ball off the ground even if it was uncontested vs receiving the handball and distributing it off.
Butters had plenty of loose ball gets which I believe are scored similarly as contested possessions despite them being much easier to obtain.
Anyways, yes, I also thought it was a 115 type game from Butters.
The CBA stats were also highly deceiving. At one stage Port was like 3 goals 11 or something, yet Butters attended all the boundary stoppages. Think the low CBA count was more that there WERENT ANY CBAS TAKING PLACE while Butters was on the ground.
Will be running a 4 - 1 (Cogs) - 3 set up in the forward line. Dunkley, Butters, Heeney locked. Dusty the only one at threat.