GOTE 2020 Progress Report (23 May 2021)

Preludes to Nothing  

The look on Hurley's face in 2020 says it all

What is a GOTE?

Introduction   GOTE 2019   GOTE 2020   GOTE 2021

A GOTE ("Greatest of the Era") is the Greatest VFL/AFL Team in an era that starts in Round 1 in any given year, and then keeps going for a while. Until, that is, every team has played every other team twice. This way, we get to see who “really” should have made the finals.

For more information, see our Introduction, or even better, GOTE 2019. But for now, suffice it to say that even before a regular home and away season commences, we know it is going to fail to supply us with enough games for a full and proper “GOTE” home and away season.

So, where are we going to find those extra games? Well, from the regular season finals series, for starters. We’ll bring those back into our GOTE home and away series. And then, we’ll grab any additional games we need on top of that from the year following and, if needs be, from the year following even that.

GOTE 2020 Progress Report for 23 May 2021

This below illustrates, we think, the Way of the GOTE. If 2020 had gone a bit longer than COVID had allowed, we might have seen Bulldogs and Melbourne start to climb the ladder and Collingwood and St Kilda start to slide? 

Team	Played	Points	For	Against	%
Port Adelaide	28	84	2046	1587	128.92%
Fitzroy / Brisbane	27	84	2033	1650	123.21%
Richmond	27	78	1863	1548	120.35%
Geelong	29	76	2187	1646	132.87%
Footscray / Bulldogs	27	72	2056	1706	120.52%
Melbourne	27	72	1966	1642	119.73%
West Coast	27	68	1988	1781	111.62%
St Kilda	27	60	1881	1809	103.98%
Greater Western Sydney	27	52	1824	1869	97.59%
Collingwood	28	50	1698	1768	96.04%
Fremantle	27	48	1645	1749	94.05%
Carlton	27	44	1882	1982	94.95%
Sth Melb / Sydney	27	44	1769	1865	94.85%
Essendon	27	42	1892	2094	90.35%
Gold Coast	27	34	1693	1897	89.25%
Hawthorn	27	28	1708	2130	80.19%
Adelaide	27	28	1641	2228	73.65%
North Melbourne	27	16	1469	2290	64.15%

It's always all right for some though

Sporty Monk, 26 April 2021