Young Burgess probably worth a look. Kicked 6 from 7 on the weekend including one from the right touchline. Has personally outscored 3 of the teams in the comp so far
If there was a stat for "made a half break, got tackled, and the team scored on the next play" he'd break the fantasy stat record.
Moreso players/positions than areas. I measure involvement (runs, passes, kick returns, etc.) - but weighted. (E.g. Diving on a loose ball isn't worth as much as a hit up) then map that across the field (roughly). I don’t consider myself a good coach unless I’m involving everyone. I’d rather win by 4 points with a contribution from everyone than win by 40 by riding my best 5 kids.
One big thing I am striving for is for the passing to be distributed between more than just 2-3 players. If you watch most community or school footy outside of the high-end teams, 80% of the passing is done by the 9 and the 7 - with the 6 chipping in every now and then. I hate that because it teaches the other ten players that footy is about waiting for your turn to run. I want all of my players passing the ball in game situations, and more importantly I want at least 4 (ideally 5) players passing the ball regularly enough that they consider it part of their job.
E.g. Game 1 below was a trial game where my best 3 passers were all out injured and 4 kids from the age group below filling in for us. This would be a standard look for a "normal" junior team. Hooker at dummy half on almost every play with the halfback almost always involved. I cringed for the entire game, but it was a necessary evil with so many kids missing.
Over time, we have gotten those 3 injured players back - 2 in game 2, and the other in game 4. This gives the team a very different look. Not because they are better players, but because they have been coached to play in a team where everyone passes the ball and it's not their job to be involved in every single play. There are lots of simple little ways you can make this happen (e.g. centre gets to dummy half when the winger is tackled near the sideline) - but this is not the norm for juniors and it actually takes time to teach kids that this is OK. Most teams the hooker is at dummy half 100% of the time unless he is the one being tackled.
For the purpose of this graph, Player 4 and Player 5 are the "next most frequent passers". This changes depending on personnel - but you could read this as them being the lock and fullback (which was the case for game 4).
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