For all you people who would like to see something - how about doing it yourself!! Some people have used their free time to post some interesting stats, and all you do is say what they SHOULD do....

thanks for clarifying that stats......geeezzz

Looking at the stats:

- Congratulations to Woodville on their improvement - particularly in the girls side. A massive upgrade over just a couple of years ago. Well done to all - I guess Lynn in particular. In fact the Woodville girs seem to have overtaken the West girls, who were traditionally very strong.

- how bad is South's percentages? Wow. Do they have a new coaching director yet? At least they have a quality U18 boys team - a just reward for their coach (Chaz?) who seems like a good coach who's had to put up with some pretty average groups, who always play hard.

- for those against promotion/relegation under the "the rich get richer" piece - the rich aren't getting any poorer now! Sturt are killing (90% wins?!?!)- and I'd assume most of their losses have come from their terrible U20s mens team who'll be "off the books" in a year or two. And their div 2s all seem strong, again particularly in the boys - suggesting the "they'll leave to play div 1 somewhere else" dream is just that.

- Eastern seem to be struggling in a big way. Some of their groups look alright though - 12 and 14 boys, 18 girls.

- North girls and West boys strong as always.

They dont mean anything if your club isn't doing very well!

only the U20's div 1 team for sturt is bad the div two site has only lost one game.

Just like your whinging is a big waste of everyones time....

As if u have this much spare time to do these stat's. my goodness me u must have a really exciting social life.

Funny that the main push for the no approaching juniors comes from the weaker club complaining about their players moving to the strongewr clubs. Do you really think that parents can't work out for themselves that they kid would play div 1 at other clubs when they beat them in tournaments playing in div 2 teams.

And if the approach rule was withdraw the best players from the weaker clubs would go to the better clubs, so the divide would probably increase. Considering that the bette clubs already do a better job of recruiting country players and showing better results in player development.

Plus we would be teaching our players that loyalty count's for nothing!

Basketball is more about improving a person than whether they can play div 1 or not.

has anyone told Sturt or Forestville about the approach rule?

I know Forestville for a fact have approached players

Another Sturt/Forestville bash - yawn!

And anon - back up your "fact". State your name, and who from Forestville approached who. Or else you just look like a petty jealous fool with a chip.

Generally they don't need to approach players, players approach them.

I have a Masters degree in Stat's and have put something together that might reflect on the performance of the clubs... but only by stat's. This was done only from div 1 and it was worked out as follow's. 10 clubs in the comp, the team on top was awarded 10pts, 2nd 9pts, 3rd 8pts and so on. Any team who did not have a team in the comp got awarded 0 pts. Seperated into gender and max any club could score per gender was 60. Total score/60 = % for the club.

Girls
Sturt - 45pt - 75%
Eagles - 44pts - 73%
North - 43pts - 72%
Norwood - 42pts - 70%
Southern - 35pts - 58%
Woodville - 33pts - 55%
South - 30pts - 50%
West - 24pts - 40%
Easterns - 15pts - 25%
Centrals - 6pts - 10%

Boys
Sturt - 50pts - 83%
Norwood - 42pts - 70%
West - 40pts - 67%
Forestville - 36pts - 60%
North - 34 pts - 57%
South - 34 pts - 57%
Southern - 33pts - 55%
Woodville - 22pts - 37%
Easterns - 19pts - 32%
Centrals - 12pts - 20%

Overall
Sturt - 79%
Norwood - 72%
Forestville - 66%
North - 63%
West - 63%
Southern - 55%
South - 53%
Woodville - 30%
Easterns - 28%
Centrals - 15%

Outstanding perforamce would be a percentage above 80. Anything above 60% is a good performance. Anything below 40% often results in a club who is struggling to field teams or has a poor performance.

It took me less then 10 minutes to work this out on computer and almost 20 minutes to enter this on the forum.

well bugga me