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Question 1 Present AFL Players Who Have Played 300 AFL Question 1 Present AFL players who have played 300 AFL games or more. 1. Look at the table and fill in the missing information: Player Total Games Played Teams Games Played 1. Port Adelaide 157 Shaun Burgoyne 333 2. Hawthorn Nick Riewoldt 330 1. St Kilda 330 1. North Melbourne Drew Petrie 322 2. West Coast 6 1. Hawthorn Sam Mitchell 320 2. West Coast 13 1. Melbourne 39 Scott Thompson 307 2. Adelaide Robert Murphy 305 1. Western Bulldogs 305 1. Geelong 273 James Kelly 305 2. Essendon 1. St. Kilda 205 Brendon Goddard 303 2. Essendon 1. Geelong Gary Ablett Jr 300 2. Gold Coast 108 In this list of 300 game players what players have played their entire football career with the one club? Question 2 At the end of the game the stands were quiet. A draw. Each team gets 2 Premiership points . 3 teams have drawn matches is 2017 Team Played Won Points Geelong 16 11 46 GWS 16 10 44 Hawthorn 16 6 26 In Round 15. GWS played Geelong this was a top of the tables clash and an interesting result happened. Fill in the table to work out the scores: GWS GEELONG Goal Behind Goal Behind Winner Score 10 8 Score 10 8 10x6 8x1 Winning Total Total Margin In Round 16, GWS (a team at the top of the ladder) played Hawthorn (a team at the bottom of the ladder). Fill in the table to work out the scores: GWS Hawthorn Goal Behind Goal Behind Winner Score 15 7 Score 14 13 Winning Total Total Margin Kicking efficiency is calculated by looking at the number of the goals score divided by the number of shots for goal a team had. See the example of Team A: Team A Goals Behinds Total 8 2 10 8/10 .8 or 80% In Round 15 both GWS and Geelong had the same kicking for goal efficiency 10 goals out of 18 shots. So their goal kicking efficiency would be 10/18 = 0.555 or 56% . Team A Goals Behinds Total 10 18 18 10/18 0.55 or 56% See if you can work out the goal kicking efficiency of GWS and Hawthorn in Round 16 GWS Hawthorn Goals Behinds Total Goals Behinds Total 15 7 14 13 As you can see GWS had two consecutive draws in Round 15 and Round 16 . The last time this has happened in the AFL/VFL competition was in 1921. How many years ago did this happen? Question 3 What has happened to team’s positions in the Ladder between Rounds 11 and Round 17 POSITION Round 11 Round 17 Position Change 1st GWS ADELAIDE -3 2nd ADELAIDE GEELONG 3rd GEELONG GWS 4th RICHMOND PORT ADELAIDE 5th PORT ADELAIDE RICHMOND 6th WESTERN BULLDOGS SYDNEY 7th WEST COAST MELBOURNE 8th FREMANTLE WEST COAST 9th MELBOURNE ST KILDA 10th COLLINGWOOD ESSENDON 11th ST KILDA WESTERN BULLDOGS 12th ESSENDON FREMANTLE 13th NORTH MELBOURNE HAWTHORN 14th GOLD COAST COLLINGWOOD 15th HAWTHORN GOLD COAST 16th SYDNEY CARLTON 17th CARLTON NORTH MELBOURNE 18th BRISBANE BRISBANE (a) Which team has made the greatest improvement between Rounds 11 and Rounds 17? (b) Which team has dropped the greatest number of positions between rounds 11 and Rounds 17 ? Question 4: In Round 15 Hawthorn scored 18.10 and in Round 16 Sydney scored 17.16. What can you say about these two scores? Hawthorn Sydney Goal Behind Goal Behind Winner Score 18 10 Score 17 16 Winning Total Total Margin In Round 14 St Kilda scored 14.19 and in Round 17 Collingwood scored 15.13. What can you say about these two scores? St Kilda Collingwood Goal Behind Goal Behind Winner Score 14 19 Score 15 13 Winning Total Total Margin Calculate the total scores and then order the teams from greatest score (1) to the lowest score (7) Round Team Score Total Order 11 GWS 18.9 12 Adelaide 16.15 13 Port Adelaide 18.13 2 14 Western Bulldogs 15.17 15 Gold Coast 18.10 16 Geelong 25.13 163 1 17 Richmond 16.16 Question 5: Leading goal scorers. Calculated their goal kicking efficiency. No of Player Team Total Score Total shots Efficiency Games Lance Franklin Sydney 16 47.45 92 47/92= 0.51 or 51% Joe Daniher Essendon 16 45.26 Ben Brown Nth Melb 16 41.20 Jamie Cameron GWS 15 41.20 Eddie Betts Adelaide 16 41.20 Taylor Walker Adelaide 15 41.26 Robbie Grey Pt Adelaide 16 40.23 Jack Riewoldt Richmond 16 40.26 Tom Lynch Gold Coast 16 37.23 Josh Kennedy West Coast 11 37.24 .
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