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Which team wins a final first?

  • Essendon

    Votes: 27 29.7%

  • Tasmania

    Votes: 64 70.3%
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Vicwood said:
So if i understand the AFL correctly "which isnt easy" friday night games start 10 minutes earlier to get families home earlier and Thursday night games start 10 minutues later to get families home later.

Does 10 minutes really make a difference.??

Honestly, the AFL is a clown show.
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You are not supposed to take football seriously. It’s a sport where the winner is determined by who misses the most. Need to remember the target market they pander to and how these types of things will be framed internally and in press releases. etc as positives.
 
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Connoisseur said:
You are not supposed to take football seriously. It’s a sport where the winner is determined by who misses the most. Need to remember the target market they pander to and how these types of things will be framed internally and in press releases. etc as positives.
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In todays clikbait society, anything goes to get traffic onto your website or social media platforms.
 
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Miss_Brightside said:
Serious question, shouldn't 'double up' games (teams you play twice) be completely randomised for fairness?
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Then sides would whinge and moan that they have to play the best sides and if it happens to occur for two or three years in a row, it is bias, rigged etc and thus not fair. Michael Prior is a great example.
 
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Miss_Brightside said:
Serious question, shouldn't 'double up' games (teams you play twice) be completely randomised for fairness?
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I guess it’s how you define fairness? If a randomised draw gave 18th the top 6 as double ups and the 1st the bottom 6, would that be more or less fair? A team could make finals based on a too skewed set of doubles or miss for the opposite reason.

That said, no system that relies on 6 doubles will ever be fair no matter what they do. Teams fluctuate in ability too much to purely peg it to the previous years ladder, and there is too much variance in home vs away fixtures (plus many other things).

Also the doubles are often compromised further by the afl chasing as many marquee fixtures as possible.

In short, degrees of fairness with the afl fixture is like saying “being shot is better than drowning”. Either way you’re still dead!
 
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