The Mighty Ninthmond

A question was asked on twitter

“what % of games have the tigers won post rnd 11 in the past 10 years #winwhenitdoesntmatter”

which is a great question since the Mighty Tigers once again have set themselves up for another Ninth place finish.

After a bit of research (from Wikipedia and the great AFL Stats website), I responded with the following tweet sent out...

- Last 11 games: 2011 3wins, 10 5w, 09 3w 1d, 08 8w, 07 3w, 06 5w, 05 3w, 04 0w, 03 1w, 02 3w #winwhenitdoesntmatter

Which really looks like a pile of gibberish, so I produced this table instead.

* 2011 has 1 game to play at time of posting.

Which does show that the wet sail gets deployed every once in a while, ‘when it doesn’t matter’. That said, with developing kids, you can get the squad gelling better with more games into them and teamwork developed.

It also shows that Richmond are less 'Ninthmond' in the last decade than people would know.

A Return, Of Sorts

After a few years of blogging hiatus, lets return again to the fray of writing, posting and being ignored… all over again.

As before*, expect neither insightful comment, intelligent analysis or ground-breaking research.

As always, if you derive any humour then you have my sympathy as it will purely be a random and inadvertent occurrence.

Now, the hard part… finding content to fill these posts.

* I once blogged of small events from my life in Tokyo that was largely, and rightfully ignored. I did have a few good commenters (which I thank again for their support and acknowledgement of my existence) and the inevitable p0rn bots that dropped evil links into their comments. Even though it was largely ignored, as the vast (‘vast’) majority of blogs are, it was still a most worthwhile project. I blogged the entirety of it using a smart-phone, my much loved and still longed-for Sharp SH-04A. It also filled in the hours on the Tokyo public transport network – efficient and mind-numbing as it is.