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I am part way into a study to examine the influences on VFL/AFL Premiership coaches, to determine the extent of influence of participation in Premiership teams as player, coach or assistant coach as a predictor of coaching success.
The above chart records coaches and Premierships since 1960. Premierships are denoted by a magenta panel and Premiership coaches by a yellow panel. I alluded to this data in the previous Coaching Credentials posts.
Further information to be incorporated into the study is the playing careers of the coaches listed and their assistant coaching assignments at the elite level (including VFL/AFL Reserves level), correlated with Premierships won by clubs while the individual was part of their football department.
As can be imagined, this is a great deal of information to be gathered, so it may be some considerable time before a meaningful analysis can be announced.
The starting hypothesis is that significant exposure to Premiership-winning cultures is a useful predictor for a potential coach’s likelihood of Premiership contention. Of course there are many other factors: administration, playing list, financial capacity, and so on, but these cannot easily be quantified.
In the meantime, I am almost endlessly fascinated by this chart on its own. I hope Aussie Rules Blog readers may also while away a few spare minutes. Enjoy!
If anyone detects any errors in the data, I would be most grateful for your alert.
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