AFL: The AFL will stick with its Opening Round concept with Queensland and New South Wales to once again host all four games.
, it’s just not practical - playing everyone once is too few games, and playing everyone twice is way too many.
There used to be hard-and-fast rules around this top six/middle six/bottom six designation and draw design, but the lines have been smudged thanks to the addition of Gather Round and an extra game. Still, we can analyse the decisions that have been made, because they have a major impact on team performance.
Where things get a bit funny is what we’ll call the zone of mediocrity - around 13th or 14th, where you weren’t so bad to make the bottom four, and maybe it was just a few injuries that took you out of finals contention, but you end up in the bottom six bracket for fixture purposes and you can make a sudden jump.
We know Brisbane can win a flag from outside the top four because they just did it, but with this draw, they may have to take the harder path again.Last year there were three truly bad teams - West Coast, North Melbourne and Richmond - who lost a combined 59 games.
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