Most points in an #AFLW final: 1. Adelaide 23 SF v Syd: 82 2. Fremantle 20 FW1 v GCS: 80 3. Carlton 25 SF v Haw: 79

Essendon have just gone 1.2 (8) up to the Kangaroos' 0 points. This is the biggest deficit the Roos have faced this season, breaking the previous best of 6 points held by Geelong. #AFLW

Here are the Koper #WorldClimbing final projections. Jakob Schubert has come roaring back to competition and he's the firm favourite. Anraku, Roberts, Ginés López and Ondra are all good chances of taking the title as well.

IFSC Koper is about to kick off! Here's what I've got for results. Anraku, Ginés López and Roberts are the favourites for the men's lead. Suzuki and Yoshida aren't far behind either. #WorldClimbing

Most goals in an #AFLW game while leading hitouts: 1. M Scholz, 4 (PA, Rd 3 2025) =2. E King, 3 (NM, Rd 4 2019) =2. E King, 3 (NM, Rd 1 2021) =2. M Scholz, 3 (PA, Rd 10 2023 =5. 9 players, 2

Jas Grierson has just kicked her second career goal, for Sydney. Her first goal was Melbourne's first goal in the #AFLW way back in round 1 2017.

#AFL Benchwarmers of the Year 1. Angus Sheldrick (SY), estimated 17h 50m spent on the bench 2. Harry Sharp (ME) 17h 49m 3. Cooper Lord (CA) 16h 30m 4. Jacob Konstanty (NM) 14h 56m 5. Josh Sinn (PA) 14h 34m

Highest point total cleared by two teams in one #AFLW round: 103: Sydney & Brisbane (Rd 2, 2025)* 99: Gold Coast & Melbourne (Rd 2, 2023) 87: Adelaide & North Melbourne (Rd 7, 2024) 83: Brisbane & Melbourne (Rd 3, 2023) 82: Essendon & Brisbane (Rd 3, S7) and North Melbourne & Melbourne (Rd 7, 2023)

Biggest single match goal hauls in #AFLW: B Lochland (WB, 2018 Rd 4) - 7.3 C Molloy (SY, 2025 Rd 2) - 7.3 J Stanton (GC, 2023 Rd 2) - 6.2 G Bodey (HW, 2024 Wk 4) - 6.0 A Moloney (GE, 2024 Wk 9) - 6.0

Lucia Painter is now only the 4th AFLW player to kick 3 goal on debut and the first since 2019. Darcy Vescio (2017) and Courteney Munn (2019) kicked 4, Erin Phillips (2017) kicked 3 in their first games. #AFLWEaglesSuns

Highest disposal counts in the 2025 #AFLW practice matches: 40: Georgie Prespakis (GE) 35: Laura Gardiner (SY) 33: Ash Riddell (NM) 31: Ebony Marinoff (AD) 30: Alyce Parker (GW) 28: Eliza McNamara (ME) 27: Kiara Bowers (FR), Madeleine Guerin (CA), Anne Hatchard (AD)

Most disposals by players with at least 20 hitouts in a match 1. Graham Farmer, 43 (1966 Rd 9 vs. Fitzroy) 2. Gary Dempsey, 40 (1980 Rd 20 vs. Essendon) 3. Brodie Grundy, 39 (2025 Rd 21 vs. Essendon) #AFL

With 2 matches left to be played, round 20 already has the 11th biggest sum of margins for a round in the 21st century. 1st. Round 18, 2012: 572 points (margins of 120, 98, 94, 76, 72, 54, 27, 27, 4) --- 11th. Round 20, 2025: 475 points (101, 98, 93, 66, 49, 44, 24, ?, ?)

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IFSC Wujiang heads into finals and not a lot changed from yesterday in the women's. Seo Chaehyun is still expected to win with Rogora and Sanders completing the podium. Apel wasn't given much of a chance to make it this far, so good on her.

I don't think there's much of a sport climbing scene on bsky but hey, why not. IFSC Wujiang 2025 Qualis are over and I figured I'd sim the rest of the tournament. For women's, McNeice & Mackenzie have shot up the standings while Kotake has shockingly fallen before semis.

For the footy nerds. I've been slowly building up this playlist over the last month or so. Give it a crack!

STaRS has already reduced the finals contenders to 11 teams which feels a little premature. I really need to work on the projection code because it's not working for me right now. Oh well! stattraction.au/afl-round-5-...

Adelaide are the number 1 attacking team in the competition per STaRS, and it's not even particularly close. The post for the week is up here: stattraction.au/afl-round-4-...

I have a feeling my model is going to do quite poorly this year if it doesn't stop backing in Essendon. Anyway, my round 3 post is up, the site is updated, and the data I send to Squiggle is updated. stattraction.au/afl-round-3-...

Using free kick counts as a substitute for actual reasoning in the umpire debate has always been extremely silly, but I'll indulge it for a moment.

You know projecting the AFL season this early in the year is a fruitless endeavour when you get this garbage happening. Teams are jumping everywhere all over the ladder. Anyway, this round's post is up. stattraction.au/afl-round-2-...

It's taken a bit of elbow grease, but I've finally got a new website up and I'll be archiving my old one. To new beginnings 🎉 stattraction.au

Thanks to @stattraction.bsky.social, AFLW B&F votes are available on the player stats page back to 2017: www.wheeloratings.com/afl_stats.ht... #AFL #AFLW

Here are the new career AFLW B&F vote leaders after tonight's count. As I not-so-boldly predicted yesterday, Marinoff has taken first with a small gap to Conti. Prespakis has jumped up to third from equal sixth after a great count for her.

Heading into tomorrow, here are the top 12 career vote getters in the AFLW league B&F so far. Mon Conti holds a narrow lead in front of Ellie Blackburn and Ebony Marinoff. If things fall as expected tomorrow night, Noffy might become the new number 1.

Biggest inside 50 deficit to win the match anyway, AFLW: 1. -23, Kangaroos (16) def. Cats (14), S7 EF 2. ***-22, Power (50) def. Hawks (49), 2024 SF*** =3. -20, Lions (38) def. Crows (20), 2021 GF =3. -20, Lions (33) def. Kangaroos (26), S7 Rd7 5. -19, Bulldogs (37) def. Demons (24), 2021 Rd4

Here's my findings for the AFL Men's 2025 fixture difficulty with my 2024 model. So funny story: I've been using Excel for all my usual vis for the last two years and it's been great. I lost access to Excel today, and this scuffed table is the best I can do right now.

I *will* be doing my usual brand of AFLM fixture analysis today when that comes out, just with my 2024 model because I haven't had time to update it yet.

Most total points scored in AFLW finals 1. 120, PORT ADELAIDE (72) v RICHMOND (48) 2024 EF 2. 112, Richmond (38) v Kangaroos (74) S7 SF 3. 100, Kangaroos (31) v Fremantle (69) S6 QF 4. 99, Gold Coast (41) v Sydney (58) 2023 EF 5. 97, Adelaide (82) v Sydney (15) 2023 SF

Most hitouts in an AFLW match: 1. Mim Strom 56 (24 FW1) 2. Mim Strom 48 (24 R1) Jessica Allan 48 (24 R7) Mim Strom 48 (24 R8) 5. Erin McKinnon 47 (S6 R10) Jessica Allan 47 (24 R4) Mim Strom 47 (24 R7) 8. Breann Moody 46 (23 R8) 9. Jessica Allan 44 (24 FW1) 10. Lucy Wales 43 (24 R6)