We're back for Round 4 of Zero Hanger’s new weekly ‘five useless stats’ series.
Every week Aaron Delaporte from Useless AFL Stats will take a look at the top five most useless, but captivating, statistics from the weekend.
Round 4 was another beauty so here are the, well, quite frankly, useless talking points stats wise.
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5. Fyfe fails to kick a major
Fremantle’s Nathan Fyfe produced one of the more remarkable inaccurate displays of goal kicking, with his 0.6 effort amongst the worse in recent times. Fyfe went back out after the game to practice his goal kicking.
However, Dockers coach Justin Longmuir played down the inaccuracy, stating "I think it’s going to be one of those things that just clicks for him, I really do. I think his technique is pretty sound, and once he gets one away he’ll be right."
Perhaps Longmuir reflected on his own career - which included an effort of 0.7 in Round 20 2003 against the Western Bulldogs. From that point forward, Longmuir kicked 53-37 which was clearly an improvement.
Surprisingly, the combined effort of 0.13 by Fyfe/Longmuir is not the worse player/coach goalkicking in VFL/AFL history. Melbourne’s Stuart Spencer's 0.11 combined with the legendary Norm Smith's 0.7 makes for a hard reading 0.18 and a seemingly impossible record to beat.
