Original Thread
The formatting in some of these old threads is a bit squiffy, from when we changed sites. My opologies that some the tables are pretty much unreadable.
Chasing Last Years Points.....
Chasing Last Years Points (MkII) ....
2014: Chasing Last Years Points .....
One of the main points to come out of the original thread, was that
players that make a 20+ jump in SC average, and land on an average of 102+, basically never have an increase again the following season. In the original, only Ablett and Swan bucked the trend, from 29 players that had achieved it.
So how does it look now?
Well, there are now 73 players that fit the 2 criteria of a 20+ jump in average, and their average going into the 102+ area.
@wogitalia asked me in the QFR thread "But how do they go in the season after they fail to back up their jump?".
Good question! So I have added to the analysis. In the table below you will see 3 Rows.
0 refers to the year they made the jump.
1 refers to the year after they made the jump.
2 refers to 2 years after they made the jump.
So "0 to 1" is how their average changed the first year after the jump. "0 to 2" is how their average compared to their jump year, but 2 seasons later, and then of course "1 to 2" refers to the change in average from the first season after the jump, to the second year after the jump.
Here is the results
DNP/YTP = Did not play the following season/Yet to play the following season.
0 to 1
19 of the 73 players dropped their average by 20 or more, the year after their jump. 8 of those 19 were 30+!!!
35 of the 73 dropped by 10 or more. A further 16 dropped by 3 to 10 points. So 51 out of 73 dropped by over 3 points.
7 of the 73 made small progress of 1 to 6 points on their average, while Ablett and Gawn made a +18.0 and + 16.4.
Of the 9 players that "beat the curse",
6 of them did it from when their jump landed them in the 102 to 108 area, so still had plenty of room for improvement. 2 were 111 to 114, and 2 were 123 to 127. All 4 of those made only very small improvements.
0 to 2
Funnily enough, looking at the second season after their jump, and comparing it to their jump season, 22 players fell by 20 or more, a worse result than the first season after! 8 of those 22 were 30+ drops. 45 of the 73 dropped by 3 or more. 11 made a small loss or gain. Only 7 had a decent increase, when comparing their second season after their jump, to their jump season. 10 didn't play that season, or are yet to play that second season after the jump.
1 to 2
Around half, 35 of 73, had a drop from the first season after the jump, to the second season after the jump. 28 had some sort of recovery, to a decent recovery.