No doubt all the excuses will now come pouring out of the tosser fans:
"but but It was your opening game".....well it beat the NRL's opening game as well, despite the NRL having no AFL opposition in the first 3 rounds
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"but but you only play your best teams on Friday".......except the NRL's game was the GF replay, so last year's 1st v 2nd. While the AFL's game was last year's 1st v 16th, an expected blowout
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In fact to dispel this lame excuse I'm going to produce a 'ladder factor' for each game which averages the ladder positions of each game's participants. Last night the NRL's ladder factor was 1.5 ((1+2)/2)because the game was between last year's 1st v 2nd. While the AFL's ladder factor was 8.5 ((1+16)/2). I'll average this over the year so we can see which comp, on average, had games with the better teams. For the first 11 rounds it will be for last year's ladder since this year is only starting, and for the remaining rounds it will be for this year's ladder