How Did the AFL National Draft Mitigate Perverse Incentives?

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-151
Author(s):  
Jemuel Chandrakumaran
Keyword(s):  
National Basketball Association ◽  
Reverse Order ◽  
National Hockey League ◽  
Australian Football League ◽  
Australian Football ◽  
Perverse Incentives

Similar to the National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League, the reverse-order nature of the Australian Football League (AFL) national player draft has often times been speculated to induce tanking. However, a prior study found that there is no evidence of tanking within the AFL. This study tests this assumption under four periods, namely, pre-2006, 2006-2011, 2012-2014, and post-2014, to reflect the changes in rules. While the results concur with the previous study, the behavior of teams in the priority pick era of the draft finds evidence to the contrary.

scholarly journals PROFESSIONAL SPORT AND MARKET RESTRICTIONS: IS THE PLAYER POINTS SYSTEM IN THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL BASKETBALL LEAGUE AN UNFAIR RESTRAINT OF TRADE?

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
National Basketball Association ◽  
Professional Sport ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Free Agency ◽  
Australian Football League ◽  
Effective System ◽  
Australian Football ◽  
Sport Clubs ◽  
Restraint Of Trade

This article analyses the Australian National Basketball League’s ‘Player Points System’ to ascertain the real impact of the system on the sport, clubs and athletes. It argues that the system works against the best interests of the sport and is an unreasonable restraint on the trade of the athletes. Ultimately, this article calls for the Player Points System to be abandoned and replaced by a more effective system such as the Restricted Free Agency labour market restraint model that is used in the Australian Football League and American National Basketball Association. It concludes that this system could more adequately promote the best interests of the National Basketball League and the players without constituting an unreasonable restraint of trade.

Distal Musculotendinous T Junction Injuries of the Biceps Femoris: Time to Return to Play in Professional Australian Football League Players

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Entwisle ◽  
P. Marovic ◽  
M. Schneider ◽  
B. Carey ◽  
D. Connell
Keyword(s):  
Biceps Femoris ◽  
Return To Play ◽  
Australian Football League ◽  
Australian Football

Classifying player positions in second-tier Australian football competitions using technical skill indicators

2021 ◽  
pp. 174795412110102
Author(s):  
Adrian J Barake ◽  
Heather Mitchell ◽  
Constantino Stavros ◽  
Mark F Stewart ◽  
Preety Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Positional Information ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Model ◽  
Sports Science ◽  
Lower Tier ◽  
Australian Football League ◽  
Australian Football ◽  
Second Tier ◽  
Performance Statistics ◽  
Player Performance ◽  
Player Positions

Efficient recruitment to Australia’s most popular professional sporting competition, the Australian Football League (AFL), requires evaluators to assess athlete performances in many lower tier leagues that serve as pathways. These competitions and their games are frequent, widespread, and challenging to track. Therefore, independent, and reliable player performance statistics from these leagues are paramount. This data, however, is only meaningful to recruiters from AFL teams if accurate player positions are known, which was not the case for the competitions from which most players were recruited. This paper explains how this problem was recently solved, demonstrating a process of knowledge translation from academia to industry, that bridged an important gap between sports science, coaching and recruiting. Positional information which is only available from the AFL competition was used to benchmark and develop scientific classification methods using only predictor variables that are also measured in lower tier competitions. Specifically, a Multinomial Logistic model was constructed to allocate players into four primary positions, followed by a Binary Logit model for further refinement. This novel technique of using more complete data from top tier competitions to help fill informational deficiencies in lower leagues could be extended to other sports that face similar issues.

A prospective study of risk factors for hamstring injury in Australian football league players

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Nigel A. Smith ◽  
Melinda M. Franettovich Smith ◽  
Matthew N. Bourne ◽  
Rod S. Barrett ◽  
Julie A. Hides
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Prospective Study ◽  
Hamstring Injury ◽  
Australian Football League ◽  
Australian Football ◽  
A Prospective Study

Like Father, Like Son: Analyzing Australian Football’s Unique Recruitment Process

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 672-688 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark F. Stewart ◽  
Constantino Stavros ◽  
Pamm Phillips ◽  
Heather Mitchell ◽  
Adrian J. Barake
Keyword(s):  
Marketing Communications ◽  
Recruitment Process ◽  
Australian Football League ◽  
Minimum Number ◽  
Australian Football ◽  
Communications Strategies

In 1949 the Australian Football League (AFL) introduced a distinctive father–son rule, which allows its member teams to prioritize the recruitment of the sons of former players who had played in a minimum number of games with that team. This paper reveals that some teams have been able to access a statistically significant advantage via this rule, confirming and quantifying that this unique exception compromised the AFL’s reverseorder player draft. In more recent times, through complex reforms, this advantage has been significantly dissipated. Discussion presents this rule as a conundrum for managers as despite potentially compromising the draft, it provides opportunities for off-field marketing communications strategies.

Professional identity in the global sports entertainment industry

2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Kelly ◽  
Christopher Hickey
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Young Men ◽  
The Body ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
Body Contact ◽  
Australian Football League ◽  
Australian Football ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
Professional Footballer

In this article we discuss the ways in which the professional identity of Australian Football League (AFL) footballers — in a physical, high body contact sport — is shaped by concerns to develop different aspects of the body, mind and soul of the young men who want to become AFL footballers. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s later work on the care of the self we argue that narratives of identity necessarily involve a struggle for the body, mind and soul of these young men. Foucault’s work enables us to identify and analyse how relations of power, forms of regulation and arts of governing interact in ongoing attempts to develop the professional footballer. The article explores these issues via an analysis of the rationalities and techniques that inform talent identification and player management practices; and risk management in relation to these practices and processes in the AFL.

scholarly journals Should females play Australian football? You’re asking the wrong question…

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Fox ◽  
Jason Bonacci ◽  
Samantha Hoffmann ◽  
Sophia Nimphius ◽  
Natalie Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Cruciate Ligament ◽  
Acl Injury ◽  
Early Years ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
Acl Injuries ◽  
Sports Science ◽  
Australian Football League ◽  
Australian Football

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries have been a rising concern in the early years of the women’s Australian Football League (AFLW) – eliciting headlines of a “knee crisis” surrounding the league. There has been a focus on female biology as the primary factor driving the high rate of ACL injuries in the AFLW. Emphasising Australian football as being dangerous for females due to their biology may be misrepresenting a root cause of the ACL injury problem, perpetuating gender stereotypes that can restrict physical development and participation of females in the sport. We propose that that a framework addressing environmental and sociocultural factors, along with biological determinants, is required to truly challenge the ACL injury problem in the AFLW. Sports science and medicine must therefore strive to understand the whole system of female Australian football, and question how to address inequities for the benefit of the athletes.

Determining the Problem of Order in the Australian Football League

1993 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Shilbury
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Pure Form ◽  
Industrial Democracy ◽  
Australian Football League ◽  
Australian Football

This paper examines the means available to management to establish order within organizations. Three variables, bureaucracy, industrial democracy, and corporate culture, are examined in relation to Australia's largest professional sporting organization, the Australian Football League. The paper traces how the organization of sport in Australia emanated from a pure form of democracy that in the early 1980s impeded the Australian Football League's progress toward a professional competition. Establishing order within the league is complicated by the trichotomy formed between the league, the clubs, and the players.

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