Percentages in the Footy Budget

[Harry the Horse]

They've been done the Victorian way ... F/A * 100.

This is a mistake, right? We haven't sold out, I hope.

[spell_check]

They've been done the Victorian way ... F/A * 100.

This is a mistake, right? We haven't sold out, I hope.

The SANFL website has the proper way; so I think it's another ballsup.

[bayman]

They've been done the Victorian way ... F/A * 100.

This is a mistake, right? We haven't sold out, I hope.

The SANFL website has the proper way; so I think it's another ballsup.

2 in the 1 week no wonder they're looking for a new editor or the like, perhaps a new proof reader would be better

[NFC]

AFL's % >>> SANFL.

[MightyEagles]

AFL's % >>> SANFL.

How? please explain.

[Wedgie]

AFL's % >>> SANFL.

How? please explain.

2 is greater than 1.
161 is greater than 56.

>>> = greater than
% = percentage

[am Bays]

Well in mathmatical terms the AFL method is a ratio (points for: points aginst - expressed as a percentage)

Where as the SANFL method is the percent of a teams points for against thier total points for and against.

I prefer our way.

[MightyEagles]

AFL's % >>> SANFL.

How? please explain.

2 is greater than 1.
161 is greater than 56.

>>> = greater than
% = percentage

I want to know how the AFL version is better then the SANFL version.

[stampy]

i look at it this way,

sanfl: if your team has 56% this means that out of every 100 points scored in a match you are kicking 56 of them

afl: if you have 110% this means for every 100 points the opposition score against you your team is kicking 110 points

[Adelaide Hawk]

Nobody is right or wrong. The SANFL measure % in terms of the number of points you kick per hundred in matches you play. The AFL measures % in terms of the number of points you kick per hundred your opposition kicks.

As % means "per hundred", both are correct. Which one you prefer is all a matter of personal taste I guess.

[Mr66]

Both methods are perfectly acceptable.
This has been dealt with a fair while ago on this forum.

[Pseudo]

Both methods are perfectly acceptable.

Both methods convey the same information but only the SA method is acceptable.

[GWW]

I agree. We've had the same method for all these years, changing it is ridiculous.

[doggies4eva]

Nobody is right or wrong. The SANFL measure % in terms of the number of points you kick per hundred in matches you play. The AFL measures % in terms of the number of points you kick per hundred your opposition kicks.

As % means "per hundred", both are correct. Which one you prefer is all a matter of personal taste I guess.

Discraceful comment. One of the unwritten rules of this site is that we must be parocial. Everything SA does is great and everything Vicoria does is shit.

Please memorise the above rule.

[Benchwarmer]

SA way > Victorian way

... and that comes from a former Victorian!

Do we really say "they score 113.45 pts for every hundred points we score"? No, more likely we would say something like "we score 43.5 points out of every 100 points in matches we play". That's percentage, the Mexican way is more of a ratio than a percentage!