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Which team wins a final first?

  • Essendon

    Votes: 27 29.7%

  • Tasmania

    Votes: 64 70.3%
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KLo30 said:
What idiot wrote that! There are a defined number of possibilities, which get whittled down significantly with the marque games, venues, sold games, etc.
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Technically yes, but that defined number of possibilities is massive - something on the order of 1,000,000,000,000,000 options (based off similar calculations for the NFL, which has fewer games and fewer timeslots to fill in a given week). That's close to the number of grains of sand in the world.
 
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I've just had a silly thought, so of course I have to post it.
What if there was no uniform in AFL. How many mistakes would players make? Could it be a way for recruiters to get a better understanding of a players football IQ?
 
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freowho said:
WB vs Haw vs TISM?
Could catch the first half and then watch TISM.
AFL obviously don't understand the conundrum.
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What conundrum? ;)

No benefit received fron watching a meaningless match on the antiquated notion that consuming as much as possible will have a positive or any bearing on fantasy performance.

TISM all the way!
 
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freowho said:
I've just had a silly thought, so of course I have to post it.
What if there was no uniform in AFL. How many mistakes would players make? Could it be a way for recruiters to get a better understanding of a players football IQ?
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My keeper league team would be in all sorts, half of them have changed over since last year!
 
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KLo30 said:
What idiot wrote that! There are a defined number of possibilities, which get whittled down significantly with the marque games, venues, sold games, etc.
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Apologies but I have to defend the nerds amongst us (you know who you are). I have extensive fixturing experience, the perfect score scenarios I post are actually a bi-product of the knowledge I gained doing this. Even with those constraints you mention the number of combinations is massive and trying to find the one the best suits the requirements is a highly complex task.

The impression I get from the video is that they create all the the different combinations and then analyse them against the requirements. I have tried that sort of approach and it is generally impracticable because it would take years to even generate all the combinations using the normal sort of computer power I have access to. They must have some type of next gen super computer if they are doing that. They don’t mention it directly but I suspect they are actually using linear programming to develop the optimum solutions which could be described as “analysing all combinations”.

I found it interesting and would actually be very interested in learning more.
 
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Beg2Differ said:
Apologies but I have to defend the nerds amongst us (you know who you are). I have extensive fixturing experience, the perfect score scenarios I post are actually a bi-product of the knowledge I gained doing this. Even with those constraints you mention the number of combinations is massive and trying to find the one the best suits the requirements is a highly complex task.

The impression I get from the video is that they create all the the different combinations and then analyse them against the requirements. I have tried that sort of approach and it is generally impracticable because it would take years to even generate all the combinations using the normal sort of computer power I have access to. They must have some type of next gen super computer if they are doing that. They don’t mention it directly but I suspect they are actually using linear programming to develop the optimum solutions which could be described as “analysing all combinations”.

I found it interesting and would actually pay be very interested in learning more.
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Haha. I've got a Maths degree and was timetabler in 3 different schools. I'm well aware of the process, permutations and complexities. I'm a card carrying member of the nerd club.
 
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