Re: Post Game Passion; AFL Rd 20: Carlton vs St Kilda
Reply #117 –
They have been qualified. He has had more one on one contests than anyone and won a higher percentage than anyone.
For a guy that always asks for data why do you always question it?
I question it because I have bothered to check what the statisticians call a contested mark, a contested mark is not what fans think of as contested.
If an opponent is travelling to the ball within 2 or 3m of the player marking it's a contested mark, there doesn't even have to be physical contact, it can just be inferred pressure.
When someone like Hawkins pushes off a defender and takes a mark without contact 2 or 3m clear of the defender that is a contested mark.
If Jones floats across the front of two players wrestling at the fall of the ball and takes a mark without any physical contact, a metre or 2m clear of the others, that is a contested mark.
We've covered this over and over again here on this very forum. You cannot even make direct comparisons between Champion Data, the AFL statistics, and other data sources because they are all free to apply their own definitions and weigh the aspects of play differently.