HOME GROUND ADVANTAGE VIA UMPIRES
“Gutless umpire!” Fact or Fiction? For about 20 years now I have been keeping stats on how umpire bias plays out with home ground advantage. The AFL and other stats sites began to do this […]
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HOME TOWN UMPIRING 2019
An amazing thing happened this year as the season passed the half-way point and pressure built with many teams jostling for a place in the top four or top eight, the players on AWAY sides […]
HOME TOWN UMPIRING VOL XV1
Okay it’s now about 15 years since I started to check out stats on home town umpiring and about 10 since I did some assiduous stats work on it. Those of you who have followed […]
CLUB OF ORIGIN
An idea of mine back in the mid-90s when East Fremantle were supplying top footballers across the land. I’d still like to see it – a Club of Origin style FA Cup. No it won’t […]
NOTHING CHANGES – UMPIRES STILL BIASED TO HOME SIDES AND VICTORIAN SIDES MOST
Every year I dutifully do my analysis of the relative bias of home-town umpiring and it seems every year it throws up pretty much the same result – certainly for the last six years. I […]
DESPITE THE EAGLES VIC CLUBS STILL DO BETTER FROM BIASED UMPIRING
As we approach the half-way point of the AFL season, I like to do my annual on Home Town Umpiring Bias stats and see if the usual trends continue – and YES they do: UMPIRES […]
DAVE WARNER ODE TO FOOTY 2017
Whenever I can I try and do a poem that encapsulates the AFL footy year up to the point of the finals. In case you missed it on my You-Tube Channel (Dave Warner’s from the […]
THE SCOURGE OF FOOTY IS NOT THE BUMP #4
Every time a player who chooses to bump knocks down his opponent, hysteria is unleashed. Switchboards light up and everybody from famous ex-players to cab drivers from Templestowe have their say. The vision is shown […]