Australian rules has been keeping records since 1897 — longer than the NBA or the NHL — inside a competition small enough that the same clubs meet each other every single year.
Read the full story ↓8 seats: RUCK · MID1 · MID2 · MID3 · FWD1 · FWD2 · DEF1 · DEF2. Eight seats: a ruck, three midfielders, two forwards and two defenders. The ruck is the seat with no equivalent elsewhere on this site, and the midfield is where the run is usually won or lost.
Each round opens one club in one era. There are few enough clubs that you will meet them all, across a history long enough that the same club appears a century apart.
23 games, then a 3-game playoff gauntlet at 18 wins — 26–0 for the sweep. Twenty-three home-and-away rounds and then three finals — twenty-six results. The home-and-away season forgives a flat week; September does not, and one final going wrong takes the flag and the record with it.
Records reach back to 1897 — longer than the NBA or the NHL — with 336 figures in the hall. The competition has had comparatively few clubs and a great many players, so the hall is a narrow gate, and a history that long means the same club can appear on the board a century apart from itself.
Umpires vote the Brownlow round by round through the whole season, which makes it a verdict on consistency rather than a highlight reel — exactly the quality an unbeaten run asks for. Australian rules also asks more of the body than any other code here: players cover more ground than in soccer and are tackled while doing it, so a side that stays available through twenty-six matches is doing something the raw talent on the card cannot tell you. How the ratings work · the full rulebook.
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A round opens one club in one era. You fill the ruck, the midfield, the forwards and the defence, then the home-and-away rounds and the finals play through.
Eight — a ruck, three midfielders, two forwards and two defenders. The ruck has no equivalent anywhere else on this site. Seats: RUCK · MID1 · MID2 · MID3 · FWD1 · FWD2 · DEF1 · DEF2.
Twenty-three home-and-away wins and three finals: twenty-six from twenty-six, with September unforgiving.
