anthak wrote: anthak wrote: Regarding the finals series, the FIXture committee has decided to run the same system as last season's finals series. We forgot to mention that until now, but the decision was made months ago. Even though we understand the matter is somewhat contentious, we decided it was not appropriate or fair to thrash it out year after year, when the final decision has always been the same. Last season, it was especially difficult to determine the best outcome, but we felt we did the best we could with the extensive and varied feedback that had been presented at the time. During last season, it became evident that some people were growing tired of the debate, and it would not be fair to expect everyone to once again present their arguments just 1 season later. We've decided to give the same format another go this season, and we'll see how it goes. This is from last season: anthak wrote: anthak wrote: Finals format. Week 1 (AFL round 21); 15/8 - 17/8. Top 3 teams select their opponent from teams ranked 5-8. Highest ranked team gets first preference and 2nd ranked team gets 2nd preference. The 4 winners progress to week 2. Week 2 (AFL round 22); 22/8 - 24/8. Highest ranked team (from regular season) selects opponent. The 2 winners progress to Grand Final. Week 3 (AFL round 23); 28/8 - 31/8. Grand Final. <p id='radePasteHelper' style='position: absolute; left: -10000px; border: 0px solid red; top: 4466px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;][span style='font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;]Darraweit Guim <p id='radePasteHelper' style='position: absolute; left: -10000px; border: 0px solid red; top: 4466px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;][span style='font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;]Mount Beauty v <p id='radePasteHelper' style='position: absolute; left: -10000px; border: 0px solid red; top: 4584px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;][span style='font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;]Wagga Wagga <p id='radePasteHelper' style='position: absolute; left: -10000px; border: 0px solid red; top: 4584px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;][span style='font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;]Gundagai v <p id='radePasteHelper' style='position: absolute; left: -10000px; border: 0px solid red; top: 4650px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;][span style='font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;]Mount Beauty <p id='radePasteHelper' style='position: absolute; left: -10000px; border: 0px solid red; top: 4650px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;][span style='font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;]Whitsunday v Can the coaches of the top 3 or 4 teams please PM me their preferences of who they wish to play. Thanks. The deadline last season was 10am Thursday morning, but i am busy Thursday with a funeral to go to. Id like to propose the deadline as 8pm Wednesday for the top 3 to pm me their preferences. How does that sound? Please let us know if thats not ok? Cheers
LADDER Pos Club P W L D F A % Form pts 1 Foul Bay Chickens 17 14 2 1 21769 19703 110.49% WWWWW 58 2 Powlett Plains Packers 17 12 4 1 19863 18537 107.15% WLWWW 50 3 Venus Bay Vultures 17 11 5 1 21412 19431 110.20% LLWWL 46 4 Iron Knob Codpieces 17 11 5 1 20987 19632 106.90% WWLWW 46 5 Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles 17 11 5 1 19852 18750 105.88% LWWLW 46 6 Darraweit Guim Dirigibles 17 10 6 1 20164 19579 102.99% LLLWW 42 7 Birdsville Battlers 17 10 6 1 19976 19445 102.73% WWLLL 42 8 Larrikin Lagoon Lefties 17 9 7 1 20730 19648 105.51% WWWWL 38
<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 10px; background: transparent;][/b]2015 Finals format.[/b] <p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 10px; background: transparent;][/b] [/b] <p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 10px; background: transparent;][/b]Week 1 (AFL round 21); 21/8 - 23/8.[/b]Top 3 teams select their opponent from teams ranked 5-8. Highest ranked team gets first preference and 2nd ranked team gets 2nd preference. The 4 winners progress to week 2. <p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 10px; background: transparent;] <p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 10px; background: transparent;][/b]Week 2 (AFL round 22); 28/8 - 30/8.[/b]Highest ranked team (from regular season) selects opponent. The 2 winners progress to Grand Final. <p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 10px; background: transparent;] <p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 10px; background: transparent;][/b]Week 3 (AFL round 23); 04/9 - 06/9.[/b]Grand Final. Could CR, Prap, and Fitzy please pm me your preferences for your week 1 opponent Thanks
ORFFA Finals week 1 schedule: Foul Bay vs Waikikamoocow Powlett Plains vs Birdsville Venus Bay vs Darraweit Guim Iron Knob vs Larrikin Lagoon
anthak wrote: ORFFA Finals week 1 schedule: Foul Bay vs Waikikamoocow Powlett Plains vs Birdsville Venus Bay vs Darraweit Guim Iron Knob vs Larrikin Lagoon Ant if you are sending them to Les would you mind sending him the plate matchups also?
anthak wrote: ORFFA Finals week 1 schedule: Foul Bay vs Waikikamoocow Powlett Plains vs Birdsville Venus Bay vs Darraweit Guim Iron Knob vs Larrikin Lagoon Ahhh, c'mon guys! Where's your sense of adventure?
grav wrote: anthak wrote: ORFFA Finals week 1 schedule: Foul Bay vs Waikikamoocow Powlett Plains vs Birdsville Venus Bay vs Darraweit Guim Iron Knob vs Larrikin Lagoon Ahhh, c'mon guys! Where's your sense of adventure? Yeah, it ended up just being chosen in order of total points scored
Len wrote: anthak wrote: ORFFA Finals week 1 schedule: Foul Bay vs Waikikamoocow Powlett Plains vs Birdsville Venus Bay vs Darraweit Guim Iron Knob vs Larrikin Lagoon Ant if you are sending them to Les would you mind sending him the plate matchups also? Yes i can do that
anthak wrote: Len wrote: anthak wrote: ORFFA Finals week 1 schedule: Foul Bay vs Waikikamoocow Powlett Plains vs Birdsville Venus Bay vs Darraweit Guim Iron Knob vs Larrikin Lagoon Ant if you are sending them to Les would you mind sending him the plate matchups also? Yes i can do that ty sire
anthak wrote: ORFFA Finals week 1 schedule: Foul Bay vs Waikikamoocow Powlett Plains vs Birdsville Venus Bay vs Darraweit Guim Iron Knob vs Larrikin Lagoon That'd be right. Fitzy now knows to put Lachie Hunter on the field and he'll score 150 just to spite me. Shoulda kept my mouth shut
Ah CR, ever the punter. Trying to pick off the Cows while they are down to 12 or 13 players (as we have been for the last fair while). I think it is a good bet chief (see what I did there?). Intriguing that our pre-season trade of Ziebell for Harwood is irrelevant this round with Jack suspended and Ryan out after surgery. Selection on Thursday night could well have a bearing on this tussle, I reckon we will both be going through the Ins and Outs with a little trepidation. Best of luck amigo, hope it is close but not too close. Don't want to put too much pressure on the old jam tart.
Always an interesting bit of lottery to have to name your opponents before team selection on a Thursday night. Could make for some fun and games.
chris88 wrote: Always an interesting bit of lottery to have to name your opponents before team selection on a Thursday night. Could make for some fun and games. IMO, it is a feature that makes the play-offs really interesting. For mine I would like to see the selection of the opponent bought forward to a Monday deadline so that Tribunal decisions were still unknown. Mind you finishing outside the top 4 has created that view. In the last two years when we were top 4 I was a fan of midday Friday. It would be good to have a full discussion of this over summer, albeit I suspect an individual's preference would reflect how that person viewed their chances of a premiership in the next couple of years. Good old human nature - you cannot beat it.
Len wrote: anthak wrote: Len wrote: anthak wrote: ORFFA Finals week 1 schedule: Foul Bay vs Waikikamoocow Powlett Plains vs Birdsville Venus Bay vs Darraweit Guim Iron Knob vs Larrikin Lagoon Ant if you are sending them to Les would you mind sending him the plate matchups also? Yes i can do that ty sire Done. Its loaded in tsLeagues
anthak wrote: ORFFA Finals week 1 schedule: Foul Bay vs Waikikamoocow Powlett Plains vs Birdsville Venus Bay vs Darraweit Guim Iron Knob vs Larrikin Lagoon None of the top 3 wanted to pick me?! boo! Looking forward to it, good luck to all.
jimbowan wrote: anthak wrote: ORFFA Finals week 1 schedule: Foul Bay vs Waikikamoocow Powlett Plains vs Birdsville Venus Bay vs Darraweit Guim Iron Knob vs Larrikin Lagoon None of the top 3 wanted to pick me?! boo! Looking forward to it, good luck to all. The rules actually say they gotta pick from teams placed 5-8
anthak wrote: jimbowan wrote: anthak wrote: ORFFA Finals week 1 schedule: Foul Bay vs Waikikamoocow Powlett Plains vs Birdsville Venus Bay vs Darraweit Guim Iron Knob vs Larrikin Lagoon None of the top 3 wanted to pick me?! boo! Looking forward to it, good luck to all. The rules actually say they gotta pick from teams placed 5-8 Very sure jimbo is aware of the rules ant. He was playing the psyche game after chief nominated that with a free choice he would probably choose to play jimbo in round one. Those two boys do not miss a trick to wind each other up, which is just another terrific part of the finals series.
Haha, Jimbo knows (I hope) that me saying that I wanted to pick him if he finished in the bottom half was a mark of [span style='text-decoration: line-through;]fear respect for him as a side. The decision was a tough one to pick the Cows, but as their leader has correctly surmised, in the end it came down to the possibility that they might be playing short. Despite this fact, I still nearly went elsewhere with my selection out of fear of what the Cows midfield could do, heck, they averaged over 100 last week as a team playing with only 13 players. Especially worrying is the form of Robbo, the Swans contingent playing for top 4 against GWS and Fyfe coming back after a loss. No Ziebell is a big loss for me as it means having to play someone like a Jordan Murdoch on ground. To a lesser extent, the injury to James Kelly also hurts, because even if he does play he is a massive green vest risk. Plus, it seems as though Nicholls injury isn't as bad as first thought so my hopes of having Zac Smith play aren't as high as I would like them to be. Menzel could debut and Matty Wright played well in the 2's last week so that might very well mean 15 warm bodies (or 14.5) for the Cows which would make it an even money bet down at ChiefBet. I'm certainly not confident... As for the other fixtures, things played out like I thought they would. And it probably means the four most even finals that could have been scheduled. A bold prediction perhaps, but I could totally see all four finals being decided by 20 points or less.