Discussion 2022 AFL: Practice Matches & AAMI Community Series Discussion

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Anybody know any $78k players out there? Maybe someone who has retired that gets another go.

Need one for the bench so I can fit in Rowell :ROFLMAO::rolleyes:
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WCE might add him to the list, only 24 fit players on the list currently. With Barrass being played up fwd with Darling out, we need a fullback to fill that void :p
 
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Rowell 118 from 18 disposals and 7 tackles is more like his scoring in his first 4 games rather than his scoring from second half last year. Turning in big scores from stats that might not suggest it
Without seeing full stats can only assume they were mainly contested and high clearance numbers.
If he does it again this week it throws a spanner in the works as I’d locked in berry and having both would change structures
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Why would you trust preseason SC scores over your own eye? Preseason scores are notoriously dodgy. The extra players and limited TOG throws scores way out. Players who were decent get scaled into the stratosphere.
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.
 
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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.
 
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