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Percentages in the Footy Budget
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Sat Apr 04, 2009 5:36 pmby 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.
Re: Percentages in the Footy Budget
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Sat Apr 04, 2009 5:39 pmby spell_check
Harry the Horse wrote: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.
Re: Percentages in the Footy Budget
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Sat Apr 04, 2009 7:36 pmby bayman
spell_check wrote:Harry the Horse wrote: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
Re: Percentages in the Footy Budget
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Sat Apr 04, 2009 7:37 pmby NFC
AFL's % >>> SANFL.
Re: Percentages in the Footy Budget
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Sun Apr 05, 2009 10:53 amby MightyEagles
NFC wrote:AFL's % >>> SANFL.
How? please explain.
Re: Percentages in the Footy Budget
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Sun Apr 05, 2009 10:55 amby Wedgie
MightyEagles wrote:NFC wrote:AFL's % >>> SANFL.
How? please explain.
2 is greater than 1.
161 is greater than 56.
>>> = greater than
% = percentage
Re: Percentages in the Footy Budget
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Sun Apr 05, 2009 11:14 amby 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.
Re: Percentages in the Footy Budget
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Sun Apr 05, 2009 11:30 amby MightyEagles
Wedgie wrote:MightyEagles wrote:NFC wrote: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.
Re: Percentages in the Footy Budget
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Sun Apr 05, 2009 11:30 amby 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
Re: Percentages in the Footy Budget
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Sun Apr 05, 2009 12:59 pmby 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.
Re: Percentages in the Footy Budget
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Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:19 pmby Mr66
Both methods are perfectly acceptable.
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This has been dealt with a fair while ago on this forum.
Re: Percentages in the Footy Budget
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Sun Apr 05, 2009 10:09 pmby Pseudo
Mr66 wrote:Both methods are perfectly acceptable.
Both methods convey the same information but only the SA method is acceptable.
Re: Percentages in the Footy Budget
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Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:46 amby GWW
I agree. We've had the same method for all these years, changing it is ridiculous.
Re: Percentages in the Footy Budget
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Sat Apr 11, 2009 2:03 pmby doggies4eva
Adelaide Hawk wrote: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.
Re: Percentages in the Footy Budget
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Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:12 pmby 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!