AFL scraps priority pick

[Scraggers]

AFL scraps priority pick

THE AFL has scrapped controversial priority draft picks, effective immediately.

The league will develop a "much stricter criteria" to help struggling clubs.

Under the priority pick system, clubs were handed extra selections at the top end of the draft for finishing with four or fewer wins in a season.

Nick Riewoldt (2000), Luke Hodge (2001), Adam Cooney (2003), Brett Deledio (2004), Marc Murphy (2005) and Dale Thomas (2005) were all recruited with priority picks.

Last year West Coast jumped up the ladder with the assistance of young forward Jack Darling, who was selected with a priority draft selection.

The system opened up the competition to talk of tanking - clubs deliberately losing matches to gain access to extra early draft picks.

The AFL has steadfastly denied tanking exists and made no mention of it in today's announcement.


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[LostDoggy]

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Well, it's too late isn't it -- half the teams in the comp have already had access to one (or more), so it's already a patently uneven comp for the next 10 years at least (teams who got PPs in the last few years will keep the advantage with no one else able to access the same advantage going forward.. good work if you can get it), unless the AFL are going to impose some sort of retrospective action to even out the unfairness of bringing a patently ridiculous rule in one year and then scraping it 10 years later when all the cheats have already gotten their hands on the advantage.

Better yet, admit tanking exists and punish offenders, but I may as well put wings on a ham and throw it off a high roof than expect that would ever happen.

(ps. The change in the rule without any retrospective corrective measure actually hurts the honest, successful clubs of the last 5 years who may well fall away over the next few years while ill-gotten PPs mature and start to star. I mean, it would have to happen just as we embark on our rebuild, doesn't it, just as the change in the F/S rule came in just in time to deny us any loophole advantage that previously existed and was exploited by the likes of Geelong etc. to pick up guns in the third round while we had to use our first rounders on Cordy and Wallis.)

[Sockeye Salmon]

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Nick Riewoldt (2000), Luke Hodge (2001), Adam Cooney (2003), Brett Deledio (2004), Marc Murphy (2005) and Dale Thomas (2005) were all recruited with priority picks.

This shits me. If there were no priority picks we still finished last and would still have had the number 1 pick and would have still picked Cooney. Farren Ray was our bonus pick.

Just like Koszitske was St. Kilda's and Tambling was Richmonds. I don't even know how Hodge got a mention because that pick was traded for Trent Croad *shakes head*.

[Dancin' Douggy]

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Now I'm more convinced than ever that we're gonna have a shocker of a year.
Right after they change the rules.

[azabob]

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So the AFL is not going to advise the new criteria?

[boydogs]

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So the AFL is not going to advise the new criteria?

From the article:

The new system, which is yet to be finalised, will take into account a number of factors.

They are: a club's premiership points over a period of years; its percentage over a period of years; any finals appearances in recent seasons; any premierships in recent seasons; and club injury rates in each relevant season.

[Sockeye Salmon]

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From the article:

Great, another Mickey Mouse policy. These clowns are really doing all of this on the run.


Just scrap all priority picks. If you are really crap your reward is the no. 1 pick. If you are really crap again you get the no. 1 pick again.

If you are still really crap, get a decent recruiter.

[Remi Moses]

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Wouldn't it be lovely if they went on premiership drought criteria?
Hmm they scrap a policy then create more greyness!!

[Ghost Dog]

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Wouldn't it be lovely if they went on premiership drought criteria?
Hmm they scrap a policy then create more greyness!!

Seems they are

Anderson said a formula would be developed that will take into account such factors as a club’s premiership points over a period of years (with greater weight to recent seasons), its percentage over a period of years as another indication of on-field competitiveness (with greater weight to recent seasons), any finals appearances in recent seasons, any premierships in recent seasons and club injury rates in each relevant season.

[hujsh]

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Seems they are

Anderson said a formula would be developed that will take into account such factors as a club’s premiership points over a period of years (with greater weight to recent seasons), its percentage over a period of years as another indication of on-field competitiveness (with greater weight to recent seasons), any finals appearances in recent seasons, any premierships in recent seasons and club injury rates in each relevant season.

That means points from winning games in the regular season, ie 40 points from winning 10 games.

[Ghost Dog]

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That means points from winning games in the regular season, ie 40 points from winning 10 games.

Howdy Hujsh

any finals appearances in recent seasons, any premierships in recent seasons

So we haven't had a finals appearance in a recent season and no premiership joy in recent seasons.

[LostDoggy]

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Seems they are

Anderson said a formula would be developed that will take into account such factors as a club’s premiership points over a period of years (with greater weight to recent seasons), its percentage over a period of years as another indication of on-field competitiveness (with greater weight to recent seasons), any finals appearances in recent seasons, any premierships in recent seasons and club injury rates in each relevant season.

I too am sick of the greyness - If the compensation pick system is anything to go by I'm not a fan.. How do you objectively measure a team's performance better than ladder position? It makes no sense to me and just opens up the league to even more criticism.

How do judge the impact of injuries between clubs... Much like Melbourne and Scully, will it be the team that bleats the most that gets the best compensation? Will the AFL be making a judgement call on who is tanking, even though they have suggested along that there is no evidence to suggest it has occured.

[Sockeye Salmon]

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I too am sick of the greyness - If the compensation pick system is anything to go by I'm not a fan.. How do you objectively measure a team's performance better than ladder position? It makes no sense to me and just opens up the league to even more criticism.

How do judge the impact of injuries between clubs... Much like Melbourne and Scully, will it be the team that bleats the most that gets the best compensation? Will the AFL be making a judgement call on who is tanking, even though they have suggested along that there is no evidence to suggest it has occured.

Of course not, the AFL will decide exactly the way they always have - and do precisely what the Herald-Sun tell them to.

[hujsh]

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any finals appearances in recent seasons, any premierships in recent seasons

I would think the recent premierships section would only be of interest if we were one of the 3-5 teams you could count as having a recent premiership. Our 'drought' would not be taken into account which is what Remi was wishing for.

So we haven't had a finals appearance in a recent season and no premiership joy in recent seasons.

Our 3 prelims in a row would count as a finals appearance.

As the highlighted section was about premiership points i assumed you had a brain fade and confused it with premierships.

[jazzadogs]

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I too am sick of the greyness - If the compensation pick system is anything to go by I'm not a fan.. How do you objectively measure a team's performance better than ladder position? It makes no sense to me and just opens up the league to even more criticism.

How do judge the impact of injuries between clubs... Much like Melbourne and Scully, will it be the team that bleats the most that gets the best compensation? Will the AFL be making a judgement call on who is tanking, even though they have suggested along that there is no evidence to suggest it has occured.

Will GWS get a priority pick this year, when they inevitably don't win many games?


They've removed a stupid rule, with no grey area, and replaced it with a seemingly better rule with a lot more grey areas. I'm not sure if it's really an improvement.