Draft:AFL Era Statistics

In 1990, the Victorian Football League was renamed as the Australian Football League (AFL) due to its national expansion, incorporating teams from states other than Victoria to become a national competition. 1990 saw the inclusion of teams from Sydney, Brisbane and the West Coast. The following year included Adelaide, marking all five mainland Australian states represented in the competition. This also coincided with the more equitable approaches to team development, such as the AFL Draft (introduced in 1986), Salary Cap (introduced in 1987), a revamped finals system and abolition of the existing zone-based recruiting that had created vastly unbalanced periods of competition and disproportionate wealth and success amongst the clubs.^[1] As a result, there has been an increase in public and media attention to the relevancy and fairness of AFL-era statistics for over a decade,^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]} in preference over the inherent historic nepotism of state-based leagues.^[12]

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Submission declined on 20 April 2025 by NeoGaze (talk). This draft does not have sufficient content to warrant a standalone article of its own, but it could be merged into the existing article at Australian Football League. Edit the existing article to include your text and citations into an appropriate section. If the article is protected and you cannot edit it, propose your changes on the article's Talk page. Declined by NeoGaze 11 months ago.

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Submission declined on 13 December 2024 by Tesleemah (talk). Article needs more references for verification, statistics about Australian football league should be a subtopic under AFL if there are no other references available Declined by Tesleemah 16 months ago.

• Comment: This article should continue to be rejected for the mainspace. The "AFL era" is an unofficial and unrecognised statistical delineation, and all official and reliable statistical sources combine VFL/AFL statistics without delineation. Unless or until that changes in an official or less-fringe capacity, an article on this subject is destined to be largely OR, or compiled from sources which are either unreliable or serve more as opinion pieces. It's clear even from the proposed lead section wording that the whole concept's purpose is an attempt to WP:RGW. Aspirex (talk) 21:22, 3 July 2025 (UTC)

• Comment: Requested additional feedback here from the WikiProject. CNMall41 (talk) 19:10, 3 July 2025 (UTC)

• Comment: You, the creating editor, know what this is about. You have replied to a reviewer comment. Regrettably that still leaves me asking "What is this about?" thus the context is absent.
  The sourcing doesn't help the reader understand 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 20:54, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

• Comment: This draft is neutral in tone, references are okay, but is not substantial enough to have a full article on its own (at least not yet). I think it would be better suited for the content of this draft to be part of the Australian Football League article. NeoGaze (talk) 18:57, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

• Comment: Please give a introduction about these tallies.
  Citations are usually not on the subtitle, instead, they are at the end of each sentences. -Lemonaka 07:59, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi NeoGaze

Thanks for your feedback! I have looked extensively at the AFL wiki and I can't find a place for it to fit. It's an emerging (and somewhat contentious) agenda, but has seen a significant increase in favour in younger fans of the sport, given its intrinsically novel and inclusive nature. The purpose for this particular article is that it would be contributed to and developed over time - from people with greater access and resources than I. The VFL exists as a completely separate historical competition when considering the additions of teams from other states and leagues, each with their own history. There is an inherent bias and exclusion - an example being the success of a team, such as Port Adelaide, which has won 36 premierships in the SANFL, but that history is ignored because of the Victorian bias to only include premierships from the VFL.

I believe this page needs its standalone space to give some equity to what the competition is - national and inclusive

Thanks!