2011 Final MARS Ratings and End-of-Season Ratings History


It's fitting that Geelong, after defeating the Pies by 38 points on Saturday, should finish the season with the highest MARS Rating.

It's fitting that Geelong, after defeating the Pies by 38 points on Saturday, should finish the season with the highest MARS Rating.
Most of the cats I've known have treated water as something profoundly repugnant while many of the birds of my acquaintance have been quite fond of it, but on a dampened and at times sodden MCG on Saturday it was the Geelong Cats who revelled in the conditions and eventually accounted for a dispirited Collingwood Magpies by over 6 goals.
The Pies have spent most of this week on the TAB doing what handwritten correspondence and nuanced political debate has been doing over the past few decades: going slowly out of favour.
The 2011 Grand Final will, for the only time during which MARS Ratings have been calculated, pit two teams that are each rated over 1,050.
Some will, I'm sure, disagree but on MARS Ratings the Eagles will now finish the season in 6th, with Carlton in 4th and St Kilda in 5th. That's the upshot of this week's Preliminary Final results, which saw the Cats snatch 2.7 Ratings Points from the Eagles and Collingwood, despite winning, surrender 0.8 Ratings Points to the Hawks, such was the unexpected narrowness of their victory.