Toward the end of the 2011 home and away rounds, when there was the seemingly usual speculation about whether Richmond would finish ninth — again — we began thinking about looking at trends of teams’ home and away rounds finishing positions. The following charts covering the past quarter century are presented as much for information and casual glancing as for any hard-nosed analysis. We’ve refrained from making bleeding obvious comments, except for the afore-mentioned Tigers.
Comments and thoughtful analysis are encouraged.
Fitzroy
Having experienced a rampant Richmond in the late 60s and through the 70s, it’s quite difficult to feel anything resembling sympathy for those hordes of Tigers fans, yet AussieRulesBlog is moved to compassion by this chart of almost unremitting mediocrity. Interestingly, the Tiges have finished ninth on only six occasions in the last quarter century, somewhat destroying that fondly-held myth of their almost perpetual ninth-ness.
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Sydney seems like a pretty consistent club - not brilliant, but reasonably good each year. From their graph, it looks like the lowest they finished in the past decade is 12th and they've made finals for most other years.
Yes, Sydney have had a quite consistent decade.
Perhaps the most sustained power has been WCE through the 90s, closely followed by Nth Melbourne and Geelong through the same period
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