2011 Round 6: Back So Soon?

It feels like, well, only yesterday that I was writing up the results for Round 5 and here we are, talking about the wagers for Round 6. This week, the AFL's only managed to drag the round's seven games out over four days, but we start again on Thursday night so, come Sunday, that means there'll have been an AFL game on somewhere in the country on nine of the preceding eleven days. On current form, I'm not sure Investors can afford that rate of activity.

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2011 MARS Ratings After Round 5

There were no major moves on MARS Ratings this weekends.

The teams at the opposite ends of the MARS Ratings ladder enjoyed the largest gains, with Richmond (17th) rising by 1.6 Ratings Points, Collingwood (1st) rising by 1.4 Ratings Points, and Geelong (2nd) rising by 1.3 Ratings Points.

In terms of positions, Carlton and Hawthorn swapped 4th and 5th, Adelaide and Essendon swapped 9th and 10th, and the Gold Coast and the Lions swapped 14th and 15th, with the Gold Coast rising instead of falling precipitously for the first time the season (barring the bye).

2011 Round 5 Results: Can Tip, Can't Punt

It's just not happening for the Funds at the moment. When the Dons almost drew level with the Pies in the 3rd term on Anzac Day it looked, however briefly, that the Head-to-Head Fund might be about to drag itself back into profitability, but the Pies soon made that unlikely, then improbable, and ultimately impossible as they kicked clear to eventually win by 30 points. Thankfully that meant the Pies covered the spread - by just a point and a half - so all was not entirely lost for Investors as this ensured that the other, smaller Line Fund wager was successful. In total, though, the Dons v Pies game represented a net loss. Three other games yielded profits. Freo did the right thing by Investors in limiting their victory margin to just 7 points, allowing the Dogs to get up by half a point on Line betting; Gold Coast did a lot more than just protect their 63.5 points start, winning outright; and Carlton were victorious, though not by as large a margin as we'd hoped.

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2011 Round 5: Seven Games, Six Days

Well the AFL have certainly made the most of this week's longest of long-weekend by stretching the Round's seven fixtures across Thursday to Tuesday, preserving the tradition of scheduling no game on Good Friday.

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2011 MARS Ratings After Round 4

Last week was a week that saw the Pies and the Cats put some more distance between themselves and the rest as their MARS Ratings rose by a few points while the Ratings of the teams directly below them either stagnated, due to byes, or fell because of performances that were below expectations.

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