Here’s a couple of footy teams from Matt Gately to think about. One a team of nominative determinism, Australian Rules style, and the second featuring players that augment and adorn the verbs.
Almanac Teams: Brownlow Medallists Who Went to Another Club
September 16, 2024 by 8 Comments
With the Brownlow Medal a week away, Rodney Boyd pulls together a team of past winners who left their clubs after achieving Brownlow glory.
Almanac Teams: The Eclectic Six (1980- )
February 20, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Rodney Boyd has returned with a deep dive into VFL/ AFL history, pulling out some forgotten names who happened to pull on the number six jumper at some stage in their career.
Almanac Teams: Three’s a charm (1980-)
December 21, 2020 by 2 Comments
In his last team for 2020, Rodney Boyd turns his attention to some of the more ‘out-there’ selections in the Number 3 jumper since 1980.
Almanac Teams: The Terrific 2s (1980-)
November 30, 2020 by 6 Comments
The schoolyard refrain ‘First is the worst, second is the best’ might not be entirely scientific in its reasoning, but Rodney Boyd has put forward another team based on the best players he’s seen in the Number 2 which could very well take it up to his Number 1s.
The 2020 Rabbit Hole Cup – Round 13
June 18, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Earl O’Neill runs his eyes over the teams that had the Round 13 bye and summarises the weekend results. Why believe in a footy season with 16 minute quarters, no crowds and a night Grand Final in summer asks Earl?
Almanac Teams: A Team of Footy Franks
July 6, 2019 by 30 Comments
Phil Dimitriadis continues his run of Funny Teams, this time with a Team of Franks. What do you call a collection of Franks?
Fantasy Footy with The Boys
July 11, 2018 by Leave a Comment
There’s plenty of reality to go with fantasy for Edward Olsen and ‘The Boys’ when they get together for their long-running group fantasy footy project.
Finally a solution to end all pub arguments…
February 7, 2018 by 10 Comments
Sam Harvey (with some help from a couple of mates) has trawled the AFL Tables records from 1965 to the present. They’ve compiled this comprehensive comparison of the best individual stats. Some surprising names are revealed.
Register for Footy Almanac Supercoach (last day of unlimited trades!)
March 23, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Join in the fantasy football fun with the Almanac Supercoach for 2017. Today is your last chance to use unlimited trades, so join up and have a play around to create the best team possible.
Footy Almanac Supercoach league
March 20, 2017 by 1 Comment
Get involved in the Footy Almanac Supercoach League.
Post Humanist Footy: the galactic game
April 5, 2016 by 3 Comments
If you thought next week’s tips were hard enough, imagine a world of post-humanist footy. DNA, robotics, football brain development farms… Rick Trewavas takes us to a possible future.
Modern Sport is a Fantasy
February 21, 2016 by 2 Comments
Dam identifies the true meaning of sport as he wades into the murky waters of fantasy footy. His locks may surprise – would recommend getting a hold of his league code
Is fantasy footy taking over the football universe as we know it?
March 11, 2014 by Leave a Comment
It seems fantasy footy is getting bigger. Check out this site – one of many to be ticking along.
Pharmakos/Pharmakon: The seduction of immortality
February 11, 2013 by 17 Comments
Phillip Dimitriadis believes that fans should take some responsibility for the sordid state of affairs in modern sport.
John Kingsmill’s Footy Diary
June 6, 2012 by 1 Comment
ROUND ELEVEN The dilemma of hope Three weeks of byes rips the supercoach teams to shreds. The balance of personal bias against common sense comes to the fore in the month of June. There’s no sense in backing a winning team in these comps if huge portions of them go surfing in Week Eleven, or [Read more]
Footy Tipping, Supercoach and its impact on traditional support.
February 3, 2012 by 10 Comments
As the cricket season dies a slow death in another meaningless One Day competition, like all Almanackers, I await the football with great anticipation. The discussion on this site in recent days about the winter game, coupled with membership drives, calls for Foxtel subscriptions, players talking up pre seasons (where everyone is ‘flying’ on the [Read more]
Doesn’t anyone know a Grand Final’s at stake?
September 6, 2011 by 2 Comments
For Tony Wilson and so many others, the resting of players in Round 24 had potentially dire consequences. Find out why by checking out Tony’s magnificent piece, “Doesn’t anyone know a Grand Final’s at stake?” on his website.
The Mighty Matadors
March 30, 2011 by 5 Comments
By Ged McMahon It has been a few years since my Fridays have been lazy enough to justify spending an hour fixing, pimping, bolstering and shuffling my Supercoach team. My debut season in 2007 was a steep learning curve. It wasn’t until about Round 7 that I discovered that you can actually substitute your players [Read more]
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