2010 Rate the Season: #38 Mike Pyke

[aardvark]

My apologies.....those guys you listed are clearly only 7.8/10 ruckmen

You are forgiven...

[Velour&Ruffles]

If you guys objectively think Pyke's 2010 was an 8 then you must be enjoying Jamaica's latest shipment.

The guy showed something yes, but he would not make the top 300 players in the AFL.

Hmmm, what a frightfully earnest post. At the risk of stating the obvious, these sorts of scores must always involve a judgement not only about about the player's performance, but also expectations about that player, their potential and stage of development. If it was all totally based on ruthlessly objective cross-AFL standards, then for midfielders you'd give Dane Swan a 9 (because of course there is no such thing as absolute perfection) and most other midfielders would therefore be lucky to crack a 7-8. But of course we are all happy to give Kizza an 8- 9 as well for last year, even though he is not yet that close to Swan. For the same reason, I'm very comfortable giving the big Pyke an 8. He played far beyond expectations and did some great things for a guy of 2 season's experience. But if he plays the same this season as he did in 2010 he would probably only get a 6.
Lighten up.