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saintsRrising wrote:And what precisely is this pretty meaningnless table meant to indicate?????
Games played in itself is a not a measure of success....nor of quality.
In the H & A each team plays 22 games with 22 players.
You have to field a team of 22 each week......and indeed when you have appalling injury and player conditioning management you are going to give lots of players games.
I think the number of AFL games for which a player is selected is the only possible objective way of measuring the level of their value to the club. Statistics? Hard to compare apples and apples when players at some clubs that flood like the Nile are regularly picking up bucketloads of possessions and marks each game. Brownlow votes? Too subjective and too inconsistently distributed. Market value? The public is not privy to that information.
Where I do have some problems with the table is that the numbers of games are presented in absolute terms, rather than averaged across the numbers of seasons played by each player. If JD could do that, I think we'd have a pretty good way of measuring the value of a drafted player to a club.
"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
- Jonathan Swift
its not a perfect analysis. but it is a good general indicator. i mean if you are a complete muppet - you arent likely to play more than 20 games. you will get the ass.
If you restricted this analysis to the last 3 years (2005-07) saints would look bad. we havent had many games out of our recruits in that time.
Christopher Egan (1-10) - 25 games
Sean Rusling (2-23) - 15 games (injury robbing him more)
Travis Cloke (3-39 F/S) - 54 games (would have been a 1st rounder)
Adam Iacobucci (4-55) - 4 games (delisted)
