Twenty-three home-and-away wins, three finals, the flag, zero losses. Draft the all-time side that could.
Twenty-three home-and-away wins, three finals, the flag, zero losses. Draft the all-time side that could.
Draft an all-time AFL side — ruck, midfield, forwards, defenders — and win every game to the flag: 23 home-and-away, 3 finals, zero losses.
Yes, but most boards fall short. The whole side contributes across the home-and-away season and finals.
People say both out loud, and the maths settles it: a modern AFL season is 23 home-and-away games, and the shortest run to the flag from there is 3 finals — so the perfect year reads 26-0, not 24 and 0. Whichever number you searched, the dare is this board: draft an all-time side and lose nothing between the first bounce and the premiership.
Not once, through a complete season. Collingwood swept the 1929 home-and-away season 18-0 and won the flag, but lost a final along the way. The best full-season record belongs to Essendon in 2000 at 24-1.
Each round spins one era and lays out the players who actually played it, real season statistics on every card. You fill the ruck, the midfield, the forward line and the defence — one weak post and a loaded side drops games it should win.
It is the all-time version of one. A rebuild lives and dies on the draft, and this board hands you nothing else — every seat is filled from real drafted eras, list build by pure selection, no trades to lean on. The difference is the clock: the payoff arrives across one simulated season instead of five winters.
Yes, free and login-free. The game runs in the browser and your sides stay saved locally.
Every era of the VFL/AFL, with real players rated against their own time. Each club chapter is identified by its city and years, which fixes the era for the spin.
A few minutes. The ruck, midfield, forward line and defence get filled from the eras you spin, and then the home-and-away rounds and the finals resolve together in one pass.
Any loss across the twenty-six. The home-and-away season is forgiving enough that a strong side survives a flat week; September is not, and one final going wrong takes the flag and the perfect record with it.
Because the home-and-away season is only part of it. Twenty-three rounds gets a side to September, and three more wins gets the flag — 26-0 means taking every one of them.
You can — the AFL career game drafts one player young and plays out his home-and-away years and his Septembers, drawn from the same century of league footy that stocks this board.
Australian rules has been keeping records since 1897 — longer than the NBA or the NHL — inside a competition small enough that the same club recurs across a century of it.
22 clubs, few enough that you will meet them all, split into eras that can sit ninety years apart.
The Brownlow, the Coleman, the Norm Smith and All-Australian selection. Umpires vote the Brownlow round by round through the whole season, which makes it the rare award describing consistency rather than a highlight — the exact quality twenty-six straight wins asks for.
336 names are recorded, and all of them are draftable — but a spin hands you a club era, not a career. A legend's twelfth season and his third are separate players here, and you take whichever one the era gives you.
