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- Title
- An analysis of the AFL final eight system
- Author(s)
- Clarke, Stephen R.; Lowe, J.
- Abstract
- An extensive analysis into the new final eight system employed by the AFL was undertaken using ceetain criteria as a benchmark. An Excel spreadsheet was set up to fully examine every possible outcome. It was found that the new system failed on a number of important criteria such as the probability of a premiership decreasing for lower ranked teams, and the most likely scenario of the grand final being the top two ranked sides. This makes the new system more unjust than the previous McIntyre Final Eight system.
- Publication type
- Conference paper
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. School of Mathematical Sciences
- Source
- Proceedings of the 5th Australian Conference on Mathematics and Computers in Sport, 14-16 June 2000, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, pp. 135-142
- Publication year
- 2000
- Publisher
- UTS Printing Services
- ISBN
- 1 86365 535 2
- Publisher URL
- http://www.iacss.org/meetings/iacss_mcs05.html
- Copyright
- © 2000 Copyright J. Lowe & Stephen R. Clarke.
- Peer reviewed
