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What is a GOTE?
Introduction GOTE 2019 GOTE 2020 GOTE 2021
A GOTE (“Greatest of the Era”) is a measure of the Greatest VFL/AFL Team in any given year. Well, in any given “era”, as we shall see. But where a “GOTE Season” differs from a regular AFL season is that it recognises that the AFL has abandoned all pretext of the idea that a Home and Away Season should fair. And not only because it’s no longer possible for teams to play each other twice, but also because of fixturing for profit.
So, what we do here at The Way of the GOTE is to keep a Home and Away Season going even after the AFL declares it finished. To illustrate how this plays out, note that by the end of the regular 2019 Home and Away Season, Brisbane and Geelong had played each other only once. But we needed them to play TWICE before “we” would play “our” finals series. So, we kept an eye on the regular 2019 Finals Series, to see if Brisbane and Geelong would meet there and supply us with our all-important second game in “GOTE 2019”, to use our terminology. But that game never came. So, we watched some cricket and waited for 2020 to roll around. And finally, it happened. Brisbane and Geelong met each other in Round 6, 2020.
Eventually, sometime during the regular 2020 season, it came to pass that every team had played each other twice since the start of 2019, and we were finally ready to play our GOTE 2019 Finals Series.
And as luck would have it, we saw that Brisbane and Geelong needed to play each other in the first week of “our” finals series. See below.
Elimination Final 1 | Qualifying Final 1 | ||
Port Adelaide | Richmond | ||
Greater Western Sydney | Collingwood | ||
Elimination Final 2 | Qualifying Final 2 | ||
West Coast | Fitzroy / Brisbane | ||
Footscray / Bulldogs | Geelong | ||
So, once again we had to wait. (As Mick Malthouse says: the ox is slow, but the GOTE is patient.) And finally, once again, it happened. Brisbane and Geelong next met each other in the one of the real-time preliminary finals for 2020. And that game became Qualifying Final 2 in the GOTE 2019 Finals Series, with Geelong the winner.
And that … is what is … The Way of the GOTE. For more information, see our Introduction.
GOTE 2019 Progress Report for 26 April 2021
The games for the GOTE 2019 Home and Away Series (see below) come from real-time 2019 but also from 2020, given every team must play every other team twice.
|
GOTE 2019 Home and Away Series |
Played |
Points |
For |
Against |
% |
|
Richmond |
34 |
104 |
2743 |
2273 |
120.68% |
|
Fitzroy / Brisbane |
34 |
100 |
2820 |
2382 |
118.39% |
|
Geelong |
34 |
96 |
2888 |
2125 |
135.91% |
|
Collingwood |
34 |
92 |
2583 |
2144 |
120.48% |
|
Port Adelaide |
34 |
84 |
2592 |
2308 |
112.31% |
|
West Coast |
34 |
84 |
2649 |
2456 |
107.86% |
|
Footscray / Bulldogs |
34 |
80 |
2750 |
2523 |
109.00% |
|
Greater Western Sydney |
34 |
76 |
2728 |
2445 |
111.57% |
|
St Kilda |
34 |
64 |
2453 |
2643 |
92.81% |
|
Fremantle |
34 |
60 |
2192 |
2300 |
95.30% |
|
Essendon |
34 |
58 |
2329 |
2735 |
85.16% |
|
Hawthorn |
34 |
56 |
2453 |
2408 |
101.87% |
|
Adelaide |
34 |
52 |
2412 |
2642 |
91.29% |
|
North Melbourne |
34 |
52 |
2424 |
2693 |
90.01% |
|
Melbourne |
34 |
48 |
2331 |
2664 |
87.50% |
|
Sth Melb / Sydney |
34 |
44 |
2275 |
2547 |
89.32% |
|
Carlton |
34 |
44 |
2270 |
2675 |
84.86% |
|
Gold Coast |
34 |
30 |
2086 |
3015 |
69.19% |
The GOTE 2019 Home and Away Series is complete (the 18 teams have played each other twice each for a total of 17 games). So, we can get started on the GOTE 2019 Finals Series. And for that, we are waiting for two games later in the current year in real time. (Yes, we are well into 2021 and “still” we haven’t had enough games played in real time … COVID wouldn’t be helping.) And those two games are:
- Richmond v. Collingwood, scheduled for Round 17 in the regular 2021 season; and
- Port v. GWS, scheduled for Round 20 in the regular 2021 season.
See below.
|
Elimination
Final 1 |
Qualifying
Final 1 |
||
|
Port
Adelaide |
|
Richmond |
36 |
|
Greater
Western Sydney |
|
Collingwood |
36 |
|
Elimination
Final 2 |
Qualifying
Final 2 |
||
|
West
Coast |
93 |
Fitzroy
/ Brisbane |
42 |
|
Footscray
/ Bulldogs |
100 |
Geelong |
82 |
Some key things to note:
- West Coast has been eliminated for GOTE 2019, the first team in the GOTE 2019 Eight to bow out.
- Bulldogs will be playing Brisbane in GOTE Semi Final 2.
- Geelong is through to GOTE Preliminary Final 2.
Sporty Monk, 26 April 2021
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