2011 Round 23 Results: Bird Eats Cat

It's a fraught time of year to be wagering on teams whose places in the finals have largely been determined and I can't but help feel that Investors were bitten by this fact over the weekend with the Cats perhaps 1% off their game and consequently going down to a determined Swans team playing finals footy, and the Dons doing just enough to beat Port Adelaide but nowhere near enough to cover a 70.5 points spread.

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2011 : Impact of the Unbalanced Draw

I've railed in the past about the iniquity of the so-called "unbalanced draw", that is, the fact that teams don't get a chance to play every other team at home and away over the course of the season. Here on MAFL, railing requires empirical justification, so it's time I estimated the likely impact of this imbalance.

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2011 Round 23: Negatively Marked

I can acknowledge the beauty in them but I find it difficult to watch Olympic events such as the Ice-Skating, Gymnastics and the Diving, where the final marks are essentially deductions from perfection rather than accumulations from zero. It's for similar reasons that I loathe wagering weekends like the one we Investors are facing this week where success is largely about avoiding losses rather than about totting up gains.

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2011 MARS Ratings After Round 22

More ripples rather than ructions on the MARS Ratings Leaderboard this week, as the West Coast and St Kilda, the Roos and the Swans, and the Lions and the Tigers traded places.

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2011 Round 22 Results: Not Quite

The weekend's perfect 3 from 3 wagering performance by the Head-to-Head Fund wasn't enough to overcome the 0 and 3 performance from the Line Fund, resulting in a 5.5c decline in the Portfolio price, sending it to 92c.

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