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Australia
Joined February 2010
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Drip-feeding the following season's men's AFL fixture over the course of a few weeks around October each year - thoughts?
17%It heightens interest
28%It's meh
55%It looks amateurish
53 votes • Final results
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Last chance
Drip-feeding the following season's men's AFL fixture over the course of a few weeks around October each year - thoughts?
17%It heightens interest
28%It's meh
55%It looks amateurish
53 votes • Final results
234
Last call for votes
Drip-feeding the following season's men's AFL fixture over the course of a few weeks around October each year - thoughts?
17%It heightens interest
28%It's meh
55%It looks amateurish
53 votes • Final results
214
Grammarians: isn't the use of "they" and "its" a pronoun-antecedent breach? The Pies have - plural they - plural its - singular
The Pies have announced they will commission an external review into its AFLW program. @_sjblack has the details: afl.com.au/aflw/news/1636502
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4
1,010
** NEW COUNTRY ALERT ** MoS Welcomes Its First Ever Visitor from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines! That's two new countries this month Just 27 "countries" now missing
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345
With all the debate about whether cricket has analytics (compared to baseball), I have a short podcast episode with Jarrod coming out this week where we discuss why advanced analytics hasn't become more common in cricket.
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7
239
11,848
It turns out that FMI Play AFLW scoring is intransitive in that it is possible, using the same forecasts and results, that Player A beats Player B, Player B beats Player C, but Player C beats Player A. There have been 1,227 example of this in the all-plays-all data this season
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377
... and if you include weakly intransitive examples (ie involving one or more draws), there are over 16,000 examples
178
Your country might be great but does it follow Australia’s lead by colour-coordinating its currency with the nation’s favourite snack foods?
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5,417
158,374
Lucky or unlucky in FMI AFLW?
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315
Tony Corke retweeted
this answer about what issues matter to him from a college student waiting in line at the Trump rally wasn't what the Fox correspondent expected to hear. She moved on with swiftness
472
2,883
343
43,489
9,311,000
With one to play in FMI AFLW
244
Records for teams leading by 12 points or more in the AFLW this season so far: At QT: 26-3 At HT: 51-6 At 3QT: 62-1
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389
Biggest deficits overcome in the AFLW this season so far: At QT: 17 points At HT: 24 points At 3QT: 12 points
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399
After Game 2 of FMI AFLW
274
FMI AFLW after Game 1
252