Stats Amazing!

[Austinnn]

Courtesy of AFL.com stats page.

St Kilda Stats 2011

Stat - StKPosition - StKAverage - LeaderClub - LeaderClubAverage - Next 2 Clubs

Clearances..................17 35 - Swans 42 - Blues Pies
Disposals......................5 368 - Hawks 398 - Cats Pies
Contested Possesions...17 134 - Pies 157 - Swans Dons
Uncontested Possesions..3 235 - Hawks 251 - Cats Us
Tackles..........................4 72 - Swans 79 - Freo Blues

Marks...........................5 94 - Hawks 107 - Cats Blues
Contested Marks..........11 12 - Cats 15 - Pies Freo

Inside50s....................12 49 - Pies 63 - Cats Blues
Marks Inside50............13 11 - Cats 16 - Pies Blues
Goals..........................14 12 - Pies 18 - Cats Hawks
Behinds.......................12 11 - Pies 14 - Pies Eagles



St Kilda club average 2009

Stat - StKPosition - StKAverage - LeaderClub* - LeaderClubAverage* - Next 2 Clubs

(*when it's not us, obviously)

Clearances....................1 37 - Port Swans
Disposals.......................4 392 - Cats 418 - Dogs Crows
Contested Possesions.....4 129 - Cats 133 - Eagles Dogs
Uncontested Possesions..4 260 - Cats 283 - Crows Dogs
Tackles..........................1 73 - North Swans

Marks............................1 108 - Dogs Cats
Contested Marks............3 11 - Cats 12 - Swans Dogs

Inside50s......................3 52 - Dogs 55 - Cats Us
Marks Inside50..............3 14 - Cats 16 - Pies Us
Goals............................5 14 - Dogs 15 - Cats Blues
Behinds.........................5 12 - Cats 13 - Pies Dogs

So this doesn't really tell us anything we didn't already know, perhaps it just lays it out a bit clearer. The game is higher scoring and more contested than it was 2 years ago; With our clearances, we've stayed more or less the same and ALL the other teams have gone past us. Pies are averaging over 20 Contested possessions than us now and every team has gone past us, even Port and Suns!

It's pretty much the same for Contested Marks, Inside 50s, Marks inside 50...

Why have we stayed the same? Tiredness? Reached our limit? Injuries to better players? All of the above?

Assuming the coaching team know this information, what do you think they are doing about it?

Please no doomsday merchants (ie "We're finished sadface"), just constructive ideas please. By all means be negative, but in a constructive way!

[dcstkfc]

Lenny helps.

Awful stats. Sickening.

[Austinnn]

Thinking about this a bit more.

If our contested possessions are lowest in the league and our uncontested possessions are 3rd highest, that confirms the oft-repeated idea that St Kilda are too indirect.

It's great that we're able to find space, but that is because our players are in the areas that the opposition consider "safe". Our players are either unwilling (or haven't been instructed) to go into the danger zones (cue Kenny Loggins) that are being protected or they are going into there and losing the contest. If it's the former then the mentality/tactic MUST change, if it's the latter, we need to get better at contesting. Stronger bodies, faster brains.

By the looks of the Inside 50 stats, we need forwards. Fast, tall and strong. People that midfielders love kicking to. Time for Ross to give us what he promised us this year, a higher emphasis on attack. Drag a utility or two and put in some TARGET MEN! Bring Goddard and Ray up, or Raph. Instead of loading the defense, load the offence.

Or not, I don't know. What do YOU think?

[InkerSaint]

I think there's not much to learn by assessing the season as a whole. Give me the stats from round 9 onwards and I'll bet there's a different story.

[Austinnn]

fair enough