Club site says Reid, Sinclair & McCartin all possibilities for Saturday.
Nice fact checking!
This chart took longer to make than I'd hoped - and may not be 100% accurate - but I believe there were 9 games last season with an average age less than the Tigers game this year, with 7 of those less than 24 years average.
Take away last season and the team is indeed the lowest average age since around 1997, so perhaps whoever supplied the data missed 2019 by mistake.
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The Swans tweeted it earlier before the press conference, so I suspect Horse was fed the wrong info.
No, I can see why that chart took a while to make. Which makes me slightly hesitant to ask, but since I know that you love your stats: do you think that you could do a version where each of our grand finals are green dots? Just to see if they fall into some sort goldilocks zone. Assuming that there's a goldilocks zone. And assuming that each data point is a game.
And it's interesting from that chart, just how much experience we lost in 90/91, but the average age in our grand final year of 96, wasn't that much more than 92.
Pretty bleak news on the injury front now that JPK and Heeney have gone down. I thought Clarke worked really hard against Richmond so i'm happy for him to keep his spot. Also happy for Warner, Stodart and Stevens to retain their spots. Not sure about Sam Gray.
Outs: Kennedy, Heeney, Gray
Ins: McInerney, Aliir, Sinclair (if fit), Reid (if fit), McCartin (if fit) ????
Yes, that event alone lowered the average team age from 24.1 years to 23.8 !
Couple of thoughts on age. First, games played is probably a better metric. There's a relationship between the two of course, but some young players play more games than others, some old players have played less than expected.
Relative age/experience compared with the opposition would be an interesting study too. Quite tricky to compile the data for that, but I know some of the stats experts online have done it.
Last edited by neilfws; 15th July 2020 at 04:00 PM.
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