Finals time is here and that means every man and their dog will have their 2018 AFL Finals Predictions, and so why wouldn’t we. offer up ours. Including tips from our dog no less. We’ve done it for the NRL Final Series, so why wouldn’t we extend our “expertise” to the AFL.
But as ever, like our “popular” EPL previews, we won’t just offer up our 2018 AFL Finals Predictions, but we will also offer up some alternatives. These could be based on in-season statistics, or something a little bit absurd. Just the way we like it. And few others.
So read on for the Nine Different Ways to make your 2018 AFL Finals Predictions, see if we or you can beat them.
2018 AFL Finals Predictions – Our Tips
This one is simple – these are our tips. Despite not following the AFL as close as we like, we are reasonably competitive in AFL Tipping.
WK1 – RICHMOND (Hawthorn), MELBOURNE (Geelong), SYDNEY (GWS), WEST COAST (Collingwood)
WK2 – MELBOURNE (Hawthorn), COLLINGWOOD (Sydney)
WK3 – RICHMOND (Collingwood), MELBOURNE (West Coast)
GRAND FINAL – MELBOURNE (Richmond)
2018 AFL Finals Predictions – The Dog
Since it is every person and their dog, here are our muttley selections. Tips based on the favoured snack we were offering to our dog. Much like the various Football World Cup animals tipsters, except like one unlucky Octopus after this World Cup, our dog won’t be eaten a week later.
WK1 – HAWTHORN (Richmond), MELBOURNE (Geelong), GWS (Sydney), WEST COAST (Collingwood)
WK2 – MELBOURNE (Richmond), GWS (Collingwood)
WK3 – GWS (Hawthorn), MELBOURNE (West Coast)
GRAND FINAL – GWS (Melbourne)
2018 AFL Finals Predictions – Our AFL Expert
With no offence to ourselves or the Dog, it is about time we got some decent 2018 AFL Finals Series Predictions tipping on board.
Our resident AFL man Julio Autentico has his say on who will win all the way to Grand Final day and beyond.
He supports Fremantle, and assures us of zero bias in his tips.
WK1 – RICHMOND (Hawthorn), GEELONG (Melbourne), GWS (Sydney), WEST COAST (Collingwood)
WK2 – HAWTHORN (Geelong) , COLLINGWOOD (GWS)
WK3 – RICHMOND (Collingwood), WEST COAST (Hawthorn)
GRAND FINAL – RICHMOND (West Coast)
2018 AFL Finals Predictions – Head to Head
Time to get into some statistic based tipping, so we start off with the various head to heads for the season. Best record gets the tip all the way through to the Grand Final.
WK1 – RICHMOND (Hawthorn), GEELONG (Melbourne), SYDNEY (GWS), WEST COAST (Collingwood)
WK2 – HAWTHORN (Geelong), SYDNEY (Collingwood)
WK3 – RICHMOND (Sydney), WEST COAST (Hawthorn)
GRAND FINAL – WEST COAST (Richmond)
2018 AFL Finals Predictions – Premiership Quarter
They say that the 3rd Quarter is the Premiership Quarter. So let’s do some tips on which team has the best 3rd Quarter record.
WK1 – HAWTHORN (Richmond), MELBOURNE (Geelong), SYDNEY (GWS), COLLINGWOOD (West Coast)
WK2 – MELBOURNE (Richmond), WEST COAST (Sydney)
WK3 – MELBOURNE (Collingwood), WEST COAST (Hawthorn)
GRAND FINAL – MELBOURNE (West Coast)
2018 AFL Finals Predictions – Last 6 Form
Sometimes the team that has been best all season isn’t necessarily the team that wins the Grand Final, momentum can be a big thing heading into the Finals Series. So the next 2018 AFL Finals Series Predictions are made based on best points haul and for and against from the last 6 games.
WK1 – RICHMOND (Hawthorn), GEELONG (Melbourne), GWS (Sydney), COLLINGWOOD (West Coast)
WK2 – HAWTHORN (Geelong), GWS (Collingwood)
WK3 – RICHMOND (GWS), HAWTHORN (Collingwood)
GRAND FINAL – RICHMOND (Hawthorn)
2018 AFL Finals Predictions – MCG
The Grand Final day is played is at the MCG, so we thought we should check if one team has an advantage or not. And base some tips from that of course.
Of course some teams play a lot more there than others, so we are using the average competition points earned across the season.
Six teams didn’t register a point on the MCG this year, but two of the top three best at the MCG this season are from out of town., and have perfect records.
So who is the boss of the MCG and gets the 2018 AFL Finals Predictions tick of approval? Find out below.
WK1 – RICHMOND (Hawthorn), MELBOURNE (Geelong), SYDNEY (GWS), WEST COAST (Collingwood)
WK2 – MELBOURNE (Hawthorn), SYDNEY (Collingwood)
WK3 – RICHMOND (Sydney), WEST COAST (Melbourne)
GRAND FINAL – RICHMOND (West Coast)
2018 AFL Finals Predictions – Daytime Doyens
The AFL are great, unlike the NRL they have resisted the pressure to move their Grand Final to a TV friendly timeslot.
Why? Because they run their game, not the TV, or a hopeless CEO, or a Chairman who can’t tell Barcelona or Newcastle apart and sell the biggest games (Origin) to states who couldn’t really give a toss.
Rant over, back to the tips now.
Since the AFL Grand Final is played during the day, why not see if there is a trend for club who play in the day shift. So we have isolated the day games and have some 2018 AFL Finals Predictions based on who’s best before dark.
Note: is based on average competition points earned for day games.
WK1 – RICHMOND (Hawthorn), MELBOURNE (Geelong), SYDNEY (GWS), WEST COAST (Collingwood)
WK2 – MELBOURNE (Hawthorn), SYDNEY (Collingwood)
WK3 – RICHMOND (Sydney), WEST COAST (Melbourne)
GRAND FINAL – RICHMOND (West Coast)
2018 AFL Finals Predictions – Best Club Song
About time we have a slightly stupid tipping method for our 2018 AFL Finals Predictions.
AFL Club songs are great, much better than the NRL, with the exception of Let’s Go Broncos by Mark “Show No Mercy” Williams. So we found an article that ranked all of the tunes, and we will make some 2018 AFL Finals predictions based on that.
Interestingly, seven of the top eight teams feature in the top eight team songs. Merely a coincidence?
WK1 – RICHMOND (Hawthorn), MELBOURNE (Geelong), GWS (Sydney), Collingwood (West Coast)
WK2 – MELBOURNE (Hawthorn), GWS (West Coast)
WK3 – RICHMOND (GWS), COLLINGWOOD (Melbourne)
GRAND FINAL – RICHMOND (Collingwood)
