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59:. Priority draft picks are additional draft picks, located at or near the start of the draft, which are given only to the poorest performing teams, to provide additional help for those teams to improve on-field performances in future years. Prior to 2012, a team automatically received a priority draft pick if its win–loss record met pre-defined eligibility criteria; since 2012, priority draft picks will be awarded on a discretionary basis by the AFL commission.
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In late 2012 and early 2013, Melbourne was thoroughly investigated for its conduct in this and other games which occurred in late 2009. The club was found not guilty of tanking, but were found guilty of bringing the game into disrepute and fined $ 500,000, with Bailey (who was fired as coach in 2011)
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made similar statements in 2008, when he claimed that he felt like "winning wasn't the be all and end all" when
Carlton received a priority pick in 2007, but he also said that he'd never seen anything to suggest that players were deliberately losing matches. In both cases, the statements were seen as
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While all of these behaviouurs can be interpreted as an attempt to avoid winning matches, all but the first point can also be justified as a sensible player management and development strategy for a team with no chance of playing finals, which complicates the debate about tanking. Another sign cited
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By shifting the
Priority Round from before to after the First Round in 2006, the AFL reduced the incentive to tank, but did not eliminate it; the incentive was reduced further with the 2012 reform. The AFL has the endorsement of the Victorian Commission for Gambling Regulation that the integrity of
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The stakes were particularly high in
Carlton's case, because the club had also received a priority pick in the 2006 season; as such, if it lost this match, it would receive the No. 1 draft pick as its priority pick. In Melbourne's case, the priority pick it could have received would be the No. 18
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The legal implications of tanking on sports betting is also a significant problem, and in 2009 a betting agency temporarily suspended betting on the wooden spoon when it became concerned about the potential legal ramifications if tanking or other corruption were ever proven. The penalty for any
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There was annual speculation that poorly performing teams manipulated their results after they were eliminated from finals contention in order to ensure they remained below the eligibility criterion and received a priority pick under the 1993-2011 format; this was referred to as
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It became clear, however, that a team with reasonable prospects could finish with five wins and receive a roster boosting priority draft pick as a result of an isolated poor season due to key players suffering injuries, internal dissent and/or other off-field trouble.
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In the 2012 pre-season, the AFL Commission, with the unanimous support of the 18 clubs, removed all provision for priority picks automatically based upon finishing results, with the
Commission retaining the power to award priority picks on a discretionary basis.
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Another way to describe this is that in a sequence of consecutive poor seasons, the priority draft pick in the first season would be taken after the first round, and any second or subsequent priority draft picks would be taken before the first round.
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Melbourne entered the match with a record of 3–14. Because it had received a priority draft pick in 2008, it had the potential to receive a priority draft pick at the start of the draft if won no more than one of its final five matches.
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later accused
Melbourne coach Dean Bailey of making positional changes in the final quarter which were so nonsensical that they could only have been designed to ensure Richmond would make a comeback: this included moving key defenders
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National
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coach Dean Bailey stated that he coached to "ensure the club was well placed for draft picks" in 2008 and 2009, and admitted to playing players in unusual positions, but he never claimed that the team had deliberately lost matches.
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as evidence of tanking is the practice of fans openly supporting their clubs' opponents on game day; however, this can also be justified as a sign of fan dissatisfaction at the club's poor performance and/or its administration.
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78:: the National Draft, the Pre-Season Draft and the Rookie Draft. The National Draft is the most important of the drafts, as it is the primary recruitment method for prospective young players once they reach the age of 18.
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A formula which will assist with determining whether or not a team receives a priority draft pick, and at which round in the draft that pick will be taken, has been developed that takes into account such factors as:
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an admission of guilt to tanking by some, but in the absence of an explicit directive to deliberately lose, acceptable by others, and the AFL was satisfied that neither team had broken its tanking rules.
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said he personally thought it was wrong to play younger players in place of senior players whose niggling injuries would not be bad enough to force their omission if the team were playing finals, and
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By 1992, some of the weakest teams (e.g. Sydney Swans, Brisbane Bears and
Richmond) were still enduring prolonged periods of poor performance, so the priority draft pick was introduced in the
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of the priority pick, which was to assist consistently poor teams with minimal or no prospects to rebuild: as such, AFL made further amendments to the priority pick rules in 2006.
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In the draft, the selections are arranged into rounds, with each team having one selection per round. Selections in each round are arranged in reverse ladder position order.
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From the 2006 draft, a club became eligible for a priority draft pick in the
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a club's percentage (points for/points against x 100) over a period of years (another indication of on-field competitiveness, with greater weight to recent seasons),
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The match was close for much of the game, but
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had secured it with a final record of 3–18–1. Overall, this meant that there was no benefit for either club to win, but a significant benefit to losing.
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player or club official found to have been involved in tanking is a possible lifetime suspension and/or a fine of up to $ 100,000 for each offence.
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pick; the No. 1 pick would go to wooden spooners Richmond if Melbourne lost the match. The match became known as the Kreuzer Cup, named after
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being suspended for 16 matches and football operations manager Chris Connelly being suspended for 12 months (22 matches).
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Gold Coast assistance package - 2019 #1, #20; 2020 Mid 1st Round + Pre Draft Selections, 2021 first pick in 2nd round.
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because he disagreed with similar strategies in the lead-up to Melbourne's 2009 priority draft pick.
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1744:"AFL 2019: Gold Coast, Melbourne to present to AFL Commission next week"
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1895:"AFL bosses throw draft-pick lifeline to floundering Gold Coast Suns"
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1696:"Swans land top-10 selection after late pick swaps with Power"
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the game is sufficiently protected under the priority system.
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any finals appearances that a club has made in recent seasons,
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This situation was both unfair and counterproductive to the
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into the forward-line, resting key midfielders, and using
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1663:"AFL grants struggling Lions a priority pick"
1414:'s 2007 priority draft pick, assistant coach
965:Essendon finished 15th with 3 wins on %
441:Brisbane finished 13th on % with 4 wins
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2145:. Sportal. 29 October 2010. Archived from
2036:Hayes, Mark; Timms, Daryl (31 July 2012).
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1818:"A look at Gold Coast's AFL draft history"
737:Western Bulldogs finished 16th with 1 win
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1766:"League to strip Carlton of prized picks"
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1792:"AFL toughens priority draft pick rules"
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2012:"Experimentation not tanking: Worsfold"
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1746:. Fox Sports Australia. 22 August 2019
1559:Round 18, 2009 – Melbourne vs Richmond
1283:Gold Coast finished 18th with 3 wins.
884:Collingwood finished 15th with 5 wins
588:Collingwood finished 16th with 4 wins
2538:Australian rules football terminology
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1481:Round 22, 2007 – Melbourne vs Carlton
1476:Notable matches in the tanking debate
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567:Melbourne finished 16th with 4 wins
51:is a type of draft selection in the
1962:Do Blues need a win, or a Riewoldt?
1870:"AFL draft priority pick explained"
1493:, which was expected to be used on
1406:'s 2010 priority draft pick, coach
1028:Melbourne finished 16th win 3 wins
1007:Richmond finished 16th with 3 wins
905:Hawthorn finished 14th with 5 wins
821:Hawthorn finished 15th with 4 wins
800:Richmond finished 16th with 4 wins
676:St Kilda finished 15th with 2 wins
462:Richmond finished 14th with 4 wins
399:Brisbane finished 14th with 4 wins
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863:Carlton finished 16th with 4 wins
758:Carlton finished 15th with 4 wins
630:St Kilda finished 16th with 1 win
546:Fitzroy finished 16th with 2 wins
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2116:Cooper, Adam (20 February 2013).
2064:"Legal risk over tank admissions"
2010:Schmook, Nathan (3 August 2011).
525:Sydney finished 15th with 4 wins
504:Sydney finished 15th with 4 wins
2533:Australian Football League draft
2143:"Demons finish season on a high"
2087:Lane, Samantha (6 August 2011).
1694:King, Travis (20 October 2016).
483:Sydney finished 15th with 1 win
420:Sydney finished 15th with 1 win
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2170:"How Melbourne tanked in 2009"
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1661:Ryan, Peter (6 October 2016).
1632:Paton, Al (21 February 2012).
1458:Statements alluding to tanking
153:First priority round amendment
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2089:"Club chiefs 'happy to tank'"
2062:Pierik, Jon (3 August 2011),
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1218:Priority Pick Rule Adjustment
922:Priority Pick Rule Adjustment
192:2006 priority round amendment
2168:Ralph, Jon (3 August 2011),
1989:"Carlton tanked: Liberatore"
1959:Lyon, Garry (31 July 2007),
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2118:"Integrity intact: Demons"
1634:"AFL scraps priority pick"
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1796:The Sydney Morning Herald
216:2012 priority pick reform
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85:Priority draft pick rules
2378:Deliberate out of bounds
1991:. ABC News. 15 July 2014
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1718:"Pick 21: Will Hayward"
1452:AFL Players Association
1424:Melbourne Football Club
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2426:coast-to-coast goal
2340:chicken wing tackle
2014:. West Coast Eagles
1901:. 30 September 2019
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49:priority draft pick
1850:. 10 November 2011
1824:. 18 November 2014
1822:goldcoastfc.com.au
1798:. 17 November 2005
1772:. 13 November 2002
1724:. 25 November 2016
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1573:Jordan McMahon
1561:
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1542:2007 AFL Draft
1508:match between
1506:Round 22, 2007
1491:2007 AFL draft
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1138:Sam Kerridge
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1099:Jack Darling
1085:
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833:Ryan Griffen
770:Colin Sylvia
600:Paul Hasleby
474:Glenn Gorman
432:Nigel Lappin
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229:Sydney Swans
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123:Sydney Swans
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2497:Rookie list
2225:terminology
2180:10 November
2153:10 November
2127:20 February
2073:11 November
2018:25 February
1995:10 November
1969:25 February
1643:21 February
1592:Brad Miller
1518:Kreuzer Cup
956:Leroy Jetta
880:Collingwood
875:Dale Thomas
854:Marc Murphy
728:Adam Cooney
584:Collingwood
579:Josh Fraser
237:Grand Final
131:Grand Final
2527:Categories
2512:Footy gods
2434:super goal
2373:Coathanger
2360:Free kicks
2272:place kick
2174:Herald Sun
2042:Herald Sun
1848:Fox Sports
1702:20 October
1667:AFL.com.au
1638:Herald Sun
1614:References
1578:Herald Sun
1536:' ruckman
1440:Herald Sun
1404:West Coast
1358:Gold Coast
1331:pick from
1329:Gold Coast
1304:Gold Coast
1279:Gold Coast
1168:West Coast
1147:Gold Coast
1104:West Coast
1061:Tom Scully
1045:West Coast
1040:Luke Shuey
1019:Sam Blease
998:Alex Rance
693:West Coast
688:Chris Judd
642:Luke Hodge
324:West Coast
233:2016 draft
76:AFL drafts
2487:Positions
2264:drop punt
2260:drop kick
1905:1 October
1879:1 October
1854:1 October
1828:1 October
1802:1 October
1776:1 October
1750:23 August
1676:6 October
1510:Melbourne
1464:Melbourne
1354:Fremantle
1193:Fremantle
1066:Melbourne
1024:Melbourne
775:Melbourne
667:Luke Ball
651:Fremantle
605:Fremantle
563:Melbourne
70:AFL draft
57:AFL Draft
2472:Guernsey
2467:Flooding
2344:fend-off
2330:Shepherd
2280:set shot
2244:Handball
1899:ABC News
1874:The Roar
1728:16 April
1602:See also
1526:Richmond
1143:Adelaide
1003:Richmond
961:Essendon
901:Hawthorn
817:Hawthorn
796:Richmond
672:St Kilda
647:Hawthorn
626:St Kilda
458:Richmond
370:Essendon
2502:Time-on
2452:Ball-up
2402:Scoring
2299:Kick-in
2268:grubber
2239:Clanger
2122:The Age
2098:15 July
2093:The Age
2068:The Age
2047:31 July
1942:15 July
1770:The Age
1671:Bigpond
1514:Carlton
1412:Carlton
1376:tanking
1369:Tanking
1333:Geelong
982:Carlton
940:Carlton
859:Carlton
754:Carlton
712:Carlton
542:Fitzroy
299:Player
231:in the
64:tanking
2507:Umpire
2457:Banner
2409:Behind
2335:Tackle
2232:Skills
1236:Sydney
521:Sydney
500:Sydney
479:Sydney
416:Sydney
374:Sydney
328:Sydney
280:Sydney
204:Draft.
147:zoning
121:, the
2482:Names
2445:Other
2248:Kick
1524:, as
1342:2021
1313:2020
1288:2019
1267:2019
1224:2016
1181:2011
1156:2011
1131:2011
1092:2010
1054:2009
1033:2008
1012:2008
991:2007
970:2007
949:2006
928:2006
889:2005
868:2005
847:2005
826:2004
805:2004
784:2004
763:2003
742:2003
721:2003
702:2002
681:2001
660:2001
635:2001
614:2000
593:1999
572:1999
551:1997
530:1995
509:1994
488:1994
467:1993
446:1993
425:1993
404:1993
383:1992
358:1992
337:1992
312:1992
296:Pick
293:Year
2477:Laws
2421:Goal
2304:Mark
2284:snap
2276:punt
2182:2011
2155:2011
2129:2013
2100:2014
2075:2011
2049:2012
2020:2015
1997:2011
1971:2015
1944:2014
1907:2023
1881:2023
1856:2023
1830:2023
1804:2023
1778:2023
1752:2019
1730:2017
1704:2016
1678:2016
1645:2012
1586:and
1512:and
1504:The
1250:2019
1207:2012
1114:2011
1075:2010
911:2006
708:N/A
705:N/A
303:Club
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